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1. Many Unhappy Returns (1937)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy
Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles E. Roberts | Stars: Ford Sterling, Velma Wayne, Barbara Pepper, Richard Lane
Votes: 11
2. Bridal Griefs (1937)
Short, Comedy
Director: Charles E. Roberts | Stars: Diana Gibson, Katharine Marlow, Myra Marsh, George Meeker
3. All Business (1936)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Comedy
A henpecked jewelry salesman gets into hot water when he visits a pretty young woman's hotel apartment to make a sale of his jewelry line.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Ford Sterling, Josephine Whittell, Kitty McHugh, Edgar Dearing
4. Framing Father (1936)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
Hosiery manufacturer, Sterling, objects to his son marrying. By a bit of smart trickery by his son and his sweetheart, will they manage to obtain his consent?
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Ford Sterling, Marjorie Gateson, Kenneth Howell, Dorothea Kent
5. The Headline Woman (1935)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Heather Angel, Roger Pryor, Jack La Rue, Ford Sterling
Votes: 141
6. Keystone Hotel (1935)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigeous beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Ford Sterling, Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin, Marie Prevost
Votes: 121
7. Black Sheep (1935)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
On a cruise ship a professional gambler comes to the aid of a young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Claire Trevor, Tom Brown, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 401
8. Behind the Green Lights (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
Dave Britten, a bright young detective in the police force, captures one of J. C. Owen's henchmen and charges him with robbery. Owen then hires Raymond Cortell, a crooked lawyer, to act as ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Norman Foster, Judith Allen, Sidney Blackmer, Purnell Pratt
Votes: 84
9. A Quiet Fourth (1935)
Approved | 15 min | Short, Comedy
A mother makes plans of a 4th July picnic for her daughter and the rich wastrel she wants her offspring to marry, totally unaware that her progeny has just wedded the man she loves.
Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: Betty Grable, Edgar Dearing, Jack Rice, Margaret Armstrong
Votes: 12
10. A Returned Engagement (1935)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy
In an attempt to prevent his son from marrying a manicurist, Ford confronts the girl who he discovers to be an old flame of his. He endeavors to hide her in his hotel room but gets in a jam with his wife and the hotel detective.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Ford Sterling, Marjorie Gateson, Tom Kennedy, Dorothea Kent
11. Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.
Directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Gary Cooper
Votes: 2,620
12. Playthings of Desire (1933)
50 min | Drama
Director: George Melford | Stars: Linda Watkins, James Kirkwood, Reed Howes, Josephine Dunn
Votes: 23
13. Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (1931)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy
This Masquers short (the first of the series) is a parody of every old-time melodrama that trod the stages or graced the silver screen...Our Nell...the Old Folks at Home...the Old Homestead... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Frank Fay, Lew Cody, Laura La Plante, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 35
14. Her Majesty, Love (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Wealthy man falls in love with a poor girl and proposes to her, going against the wishes of his family.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Marilyn Miller, Ben Lyon, W.C. Fields, Leon Errol
Votes: 223
15. Come to Papa! (1931)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Director: William Watson | Stars: Ford Sterling, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Duffy, Eddie Baker
17. Trouble from Abroad (1931)
20 min | Short, Comedy
In "Trouble from Abroad" Ford Sterling and Lucien Littlefield get a load of trouble from a broad who is indeed from abroad. They slip away from their wives to attend a reunion with their ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Ford Sterling, Lucien Littlefield, James Finlayson, Cecil Cunningham
18. The Foolish Forties (1931)
21 min | Short, Comedy
Director: William Watson | Stars: Ford Sterling, June MacCloy, Alyce McCormick, Stella Adams
19. Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth-talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural and ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet, Ford Sterling
Votes: 407
20. Bride of the Regiment (1930)
79 min | Musical, Romance
Filmed operetta in Technicolor based on hit play/book that opened on Broadway in 1922 and ran 232 performances.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Vivienne Segal, Allan Prior, Walter Pidgeon, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 42
21. Kismet (1930)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Musical
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 84
22. Spring Is Here (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Betty a young woman is going steady with Terry but falls for an exciting new comer to town Steve. Betty's father wants her to marry Terry but she doesn't see that she actually is in love ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Lawrence Gray, Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 313
23. Our Nagging Wives (1930)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Director: Arvid E. Gillstrom | Stars: Ford Sterling, Eleanor Hunt
24. Sally (1929)
Passed | 103 min | Musical
Sally was an orphan who got her name from the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing and has been practicing since. ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray, Joe E. Brown, T. Roy Barnes
Votes: 416
25. The Girl in the Show (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Bessie Love, Raymond Hackett, Edward J. Nugent, Mary Doran
Votes: 138
26. The Fall of Eve (1929)
67 min | Comedy
Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists Eve to entertain out-of-town buyer Mr. Mack. When Mack's wife insists on joining the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Ford Sterling, Gertrude Astor, Arthur Rankin
27. The Fatal Forceps (1929)
Passed | 18 min | Comedy, Short
A nervous, easily distracted dentist, Ford Sterling, is easily driven to distraction by a saxophone player, Bert Roach, in his building. But he gets focused when the saxophone player, ... See full summary »
Director: William Watson | Stars: Ford Sterling, Bert Roach, Will King, Natalie Joyce
28. Chicken a La King (1928)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Nancy Carroll, George Meeker, Ford Sterling, Arthur Stone
29. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
75 min | Comedy, Romance
Gold-digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Ruth Taylor, Alice White, Ford Sterling, Holmes Herbert
30. Oh Kay! (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
A silent film version of the famed Gershwin musical.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Colleen Moore, Lawrence Gray, Alan Hale, Ford Sterling
Votes: 36
31. Wife Savers (1928)
57 min | Comedy
Louis Hozenozzle and 2d Lieut. Rodney Ramsbottom, two American soldiers, are stationed in Switzerland after World War I. Ramsbottom is in love with Colette, a pretty Swiss girl, and when he... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Zasu Pitts, Sally Blane
32. Sporting Goods (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Richard Dix, Ford Sterling, Gertrude Olmstead, Philip Strange
33. Dreary House (1928)
75 min | Mystery
On the day of her wedding to Paul, Mary Wheeler is given the deed to a mysterious old house that is occupied by a strange housekeeper named Nancy Crowl. Sometime later, Marc Reed, one of ... See full summary »
Directors: Andrew Marton, Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Edith Roberts, Margaret Livingston, Ford Sterling, Noah Beery
34. For the Love of Mike (1927)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Three men join forces to raise an adopted son.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ben Lyon, George Sidney, Ford Sterling
Votes: 83
35. Casey at the Bat (1927)
Passed | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Sport
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his ... See full summary »
Director: Monte Brice | Stars: Wallace Beery, Zasu Pitts, Ford Sterling, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 38 | Gross: $0.43M
36. Drums of the Desert (1927)
60 min | Western
Chief Brave Bear and his people gather at the Navajo reservation to confront a problem: A group of men, headed by Will Newton, seeks to force them off their lands. Desert rats Perkins and ... See full summary »
Director: John Waters | Stars: Warner Baxter, Marietta Millner, Ford Sterling, Wallace MacDonald
37. Figures Don't Lie (1927)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
Janet Wells is the secretary to boss "Howdy" Jones, but finds it increasingly problematic to get any work done because of her boss' insanely jealous wife, who just "knows" that the ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Esther Ralston, Richard Arlen, Ford Sterling, Doris Hill
38. The American Venus (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Esther Ralston, Lawrence Gray, Ford Sterling, Fay Lanphier
Votes: 54
39. The Show-Off (1926)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive but is really just a $30-a-week clerk catches a young bride, then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson, Louise Brooks, Gregory Kelly
Votes: 328
40. The Road to Glory (1926)
93 min | Drama
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: May McAvoy, Leslie Fenton, Ford Sterling, Rockliffe Fellowes
Votes: 58
41. Mike (1926)
70 min | Drama
Mike, the daughter of a railroad section boss, lives with her father and three other children in a remodeled boxcar attached to a railroad work train. Harlan, a section hand, saves the life... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Sally O'Neil, William Haines, Charles Murray, Ned Sparks
Gross: $0.25M
42. Miss Brewster's Millions (1926)
72 min | Comedy, Drama
Polly Brewster, a penniless Hollywood model/movie extra inherits one million dollars. But her new lawyer, Tom Hancock, informs her that she has to spend it all within 30 days to inherit $5 ... See full summary »
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Warner Baxter, Ford Sterling, George Beranger
Votes: 24
43. Everybody's Acting (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San ... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Betty Bronson, Ford Sterling, Louise Dresser, Lawrence Gray
44. Good and Naughty (1926)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
Germaine Morris, considered an ugly duckling, is in love with her employer, Gerald Gray, an interior decorator who caters to the smart set, and is concerned over his affair with Claire ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Pola Negri, Tom Moore, Ford Sterling, Miss DuPont
45. The Trunk Mystery (1926)
50 min | Mystery
Director: Frank Hall Crane | Stars: Charles Hutchison, Alice Calhoun, Richard Neill, Ben Walker
46. Stranded in Paris (1926)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
American shop-girl Julie McFadden wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, who must kiss her when she loses a sack race. In Paris, Julie finds her proposed residence... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, Ford Sterling, Iris Stuart
47. Stage Struck (1925)
70 min | Comedy
A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor, Oliver Sandys
Votes: 1,066 | Gross: $0.24M
48. 1925 Studio Tour (1925)
Unrated | 32 min | Documentary, Short
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 is given to meet the people who make the movies there and see how movies are made.
Stars: Mrs. M.F. Lee, Carey Wilson, Howard Hawks, Agnes Christine Johnston
Votes: 429
49. Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925)
60 min | Drama
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he foregoes his artistic calling and draws ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Alice Joyce, Percy Marmont, Virginia Marshall, Helena D'Algy
Votes: 20
50. My Lady's Lips (1925)
70 min | Crime, Drama
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female ... See full summary »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Alyce Mills, William Powell, Clara Bow, Frank Keenan
Votes: 24