Sheldon Jett

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying...

Release : 1942.08.28
Popularity : 6.057

This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspire French physician Rene Laennec to invent the...

Release : 1945.05.05
Popularity : 1.302

The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief...

Release : 1950.06.23
Popularity : 14.43

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

Release : 1942.07.14
Popularity : 28.784

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...

Release : 1937.07.16
Popularity : 12.907

Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.

Release : 1939.04.03
Popularity : 1.887

An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

Release : 1935.01.15
Popularity : 2.168

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice....

Release : 1939.04.04
Popularity : 3.358

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she...

Release : 1940.09.27
Popularity : 3.458

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Release : 1937.03.06
Popularity : 3.463

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean...

Release : 1941.02.25
Popularity : 8.921

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he...

Release : 1952.04.11
Popularity : 3.772

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Release : 1944.10.25
Popularity : 8.643

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

Release : 1940.08.30
Popularity : 5.319

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife,...

Release : 1935.10.10
Popularity : 2.323

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

Release : 1941.10.23
Popularity : 1.658

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

Release : 1943.10.16
Popularity : 0.566

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a...

Release : 1950.03.31
Popularity : 2.738

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.

Release : 1935.08.20
Popularity : 0.692

Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.

Release : 1951.08.13
Popularity : 5.955

In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver...

Release : 1947.10.17
Popularity : 1.764

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along...

Release : 1941.10.24
Popularity : 7.841

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters,...

Release : 1947.11.11
Popularity : 10.657

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.

Release : 1944.07.15
Popularity : 0.168

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house...

Release : 1946.06.06
Popularity : 1.838

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get...

Release : 1942.12.25
Popularity : 8.124

In a meeting with the leaders of his vice syndicate, gangster boss James "Lucky" Lombardo complains that his profits are down. He demands that his...

Release : 1937.01.01
Popularity : 0.883