Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "hollywood", "stock-footage"

1. Ed Wood (1994)

R | 127 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette

Votes: 183,931 | Gross: $5.89M

2. The Patsy (1964)

Approved | 101 min | Comedy

An incompetent bellhop is recruited to fill in for a deceased comedian.

Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris

Votes: 2,566

3. Hollywood Uncensored (1987)

Unrated | 75 min | Documentary

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and later in the movie Peter Fonda narrate the story about the censorship, exploitation and sex in Hollywood movies from the 1930s and the Hays' Motion Picture Production Code to the present day era.

Director: James Forsher | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Peter Fonda, Carroll Baker, Ira Barmak

Votes: 194

4. The Death Kiss (1932)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray

Votes: 1,418

5. Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)

PG | 103 min | Documentary

A nostalgic look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips picturing James Cagney as an American Everyman.

Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Patty Andrews, Fred Astaire

Votes: 416

6. Make Me a Star (1932)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Merton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Actress Flips gives him a ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts, Ben Turpin

Votes: 645

7. Second Fiddle (1939)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A studio publicist discovers a Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver

Votes: 542

8. The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A public relations man for a movie studio uses an early form of television to help solve a murder.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Frances Drake, Reginald Denny, Gail Patrick, George Barbier

Votes: 305

9. Hollywood Boulevard (1936)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance

With a full Hollywood background and settings, but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon

Votes: 130

10. Watch the Birdie (1950)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A cameraman helps an heiress to get rid of her financial adviser, who wants to get her money.

Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames

Votes: 418

11. Hollywood and Vine (1945)

Approved | 58 min | Comedy, Drama

A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies, but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of... See full summary »

Director: Alexis Thurn-Taxis | Stars: James Ellison, Wanda McKay, Franklin Pangborn, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 186

12. Mexicana (1945)

Approved | 83 min | Music, Romance

In order to dissuade teenage girls from mauling him at concerts, a Mexican "Frank Sinatra" pretends an American soprano is his wife, and even persuades her to pose as such.

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Tito Guízar, Constance Moore, Leo Carrillo, Estelita Rodriguez

Votes: 31

13. That's Right - You're Wrong (1939)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Radio sensation Kay Kyser and his band are lured to Hollywood to make a movie, but the screenwriters assigned to the project have difficulty tailoring a script to Kyser's persona.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Lucille Ball

Votes: 373

14. Million Dollar Baby (1934)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Arline Judge, Ray Walker, Jimmy Fay, George E. Stone

Votes: 23

15. The Unwritten Law (1932)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.

Directors: Christy Cabanne, Wilfred Lucas | Stars: Greta Nissen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Mary Brian, Lew Cody

Votes: 9

16. Lucky Devils (1933)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance

They smash through skylights, tumble down staircases, drop from a high rooftop into a waiting convertible - the only fall Skipper Clark and his pals won't take is to fall in love.

Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: William Boyd, Dorothy Wilson, William Gargan, Bob Rose

Votes: 225

17. Cuban Fireball (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Estelita is an entertainer in a Cuban cigar-factory and gets into trouble for mimicking her employer, but is fawned over after she inherits $20,000,000. On her way to Los Angelese to ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Estelita Rodriguez, Warren Douglas, Mimi Aguglia, Leon Belasco

Votes: 22

18. The Windjammer (1945)

Approved | 56 min | Comedy, Music

Scott Elliott, a discharged WWII Navy officer and a film executive in civilian life, passes through a small Arkansas town, and meets Bob Burns, a farmer, and his daughter. As a film ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bob Burns, Gale Robbins, Scott Elliott, Kenneth MacDonald

19. Cool and Groovy (1956)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Music

On many of the musical featurettes from the mid-50's on, until they closed the Shorts department for good, Universal resorted to just sticking an editor in a room, and having him scalp ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Anita O'Day, Buddy DeFranco, Buddy DeFranco Quartet, Conley Graves

20. Dance Demons (1957)

Approved | 14 min | Short, Music

Les Brown and his Orchestra provide the music while Jo Ann Greer and 'Butch Stone' sing one each, and Stone and Stumpy Brown do a comic dance, while Lois Ray solos a dance, and 'Page and ... See full summary »

Director: George Robinson | Stars: Les Brown, Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Jo Ann Greer, Butch Stone

21. Universal Musical Short 3655: Singin' and Swingin' (1950)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Music

This Universal musical featurette headlines Maynard Ferguson and His Orchestra wailing on "Wailing Boat"; Peggy Ryan and 'Ray MacDonald' dancing two numbers (which may have been 'borrowed' ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Maynard Ferguson, Maynard Ferguson and His Orchestra, Peggy Ryan, Ray McDonald

22. Unusual Occupations (1939)

Approved | 11 min | Documentary, Short

Actor Lucien Little field designs rubber prosthesis make-up; western star Buck Jones collects antique autos & designs his own. Also, royal newsboy; string saver; baton twirling school; artificial flower maker.

Stars: Ken Carpenter, Ronnie Bowen, Buck Jones, Lucien Littlefield

23. Spills for Thrills (1940)

Approved | 18 min | Short, Action, Adventure

Warner Bros. short about stuntmen and stuntwomen and how they do their work, featuring real-life stunt artists Harvey Parry, Mary Wiggins, and Allen Pomeroy.

Director: De Leon Anthony | Stars: Harvey Parry, Mary Wiggins, Allen Pomeroy, Knox Manning

Votes: 83

24. Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Party (1948)

Approved | 9 min | Short

Stacking archive-footage on top of archive-footage, some of it third and fourth generation in use by Screen Snapshots, past-and-present Hollywood stars are present and shown at some of ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Ralph Staub, Joan Bennett, Dane Clark, Marie Dressler

25. The Mills Brothers on Parade (1956)

Approved | 16 min | Short, Music

Part stock footage from other Universal shorts and some new footage in which the Mills Brothers are highlighted singing "Paper Doll," "Say Si Si" and "Opus One." Jana Mason sings "A Diamond... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: The Mills Brothers, Donald Mills, Harry Mills, Herbert Mills

26. Riot in Rhythm (1957)

Approved | 16 min | Short, Music

This Musical Featurette has six musical selections; two by Harry James and His Orchestra, a voice-and-guitar number by Johnny O'Neill; two songs by 'The DeCastro Sisters', and a dance number by Ralph & Lorraine.

Director: George Robinson | Stars: Harry James and His Orchestra, John O'Neill, The De Castro Sisters, Ralph & Lorraine

27. Screen Snapshots: Smiles and Styles (1948)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Sport

Columbia Pictures production number 9857. Film and radio stars are shown vacationing, golfing and attending style shows, showing the latest fashions in "new-look" bathing suits, at ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Barbara Jo Allen, Cathy Carter, Andy Clyde, Jerry Colonna

28. Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 7 (1942)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy

Opens with Janet Blair and a squadron of Air Corps men singing "Nothing Can Stop the Army, Now." Then cuts to a burlesque court-martial scene of Charlie McCarthy, who is being defended by ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: James Stewart, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd

Votes: 9

29. Mirth and Melody (1956)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Music

Features singers Guy Mitchell and Dolores Hawkins, the Four Freshmen and Jerry Gray and His Orchestra. Numbers and songs include "She Wears Red Feathers" - "Crew Cut" - "Day by Day" - "The ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Guy Mitchell, Dolores Hawkins, Four Freshmen, Jerry Gray

30. Screen Snapshots: Hawaii in Hollywood (1948)

Approved | 10 min | Short

Many Hollywood celebrities are on hand to brighten the occasion which is a Hawaiian-style party hosted by Don the Beachcomber, who was famous mostly for hosting parties and having movie ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Jud Allen, Don the Beachcomber, Lee Bowman, Georgia Carroll

31. Screen Snapshots: The Walter Winchell Party (1957)

Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short

Columbia production number 1854: A party is given in Hollywood to honor newspaper reporter (aand newspaper/radio-television gossip columnist) Walter Winchell. Film capital names and stars ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Ralph Staub, Walter Winchell, Bob Hope, Jack Benny

32. Creative Tuesday (2017–2020)
Episode: This Is My Biggest Inspiration (2017)

6 min | Documentary, Reality-TV

Jordy Vandeput shares his greatest sources of inspiration as a filmmaker and videographer.

Director: Jordy Vandeput | Stars: Jordy Vandeput, Sigur Rós, Jay Malone, Yannick Theunissen