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- Twenty-two songs from the opera Faust, presented in twenty-two reels, each about three minutes in duration. Images were synchronized with a recorded soundtracks using the Chronophone sound-on-disc system.
- A shepherdess becomes an opera star. A shepherd becomes a sculptor.
- A gimmick film in which actors miming musical numbers, including popular songs, opera, and instrumental performances appear on film, while actual singers and musicians perform behind the screen. Enrico Caruso performed his own singing behind the screen (but was NOT seen in the film) at the premiere performance.
- Early Hungarian silent version of Franz Lehar operetta about a soldier ordered to return a rich widow to her native country, in order to protect its economy. Through a case of mistaken identity, he soldier falls in love with the widow, unaware that she is the woman he is supposed to bring back.
- After Tommy Breen, a virtuoso violinist, loses his factory job because the employees have extended their lunch hour listening to him, June Norton, a cigarette girl who lives in the same boardinghouse as Tommy, sympathizes with him and becomes the inspiration for his song, "When You Smile with Your Eyes in Mine." Song publisher Simon Berg signs Tommy, and after the song becomes a great success, Tommy forgets June as he surrounds himself with Broadway lowlife, spends extravagantly, and becomes infatuated with Mona Merwin, a musical comedy performer. When Berg tells Tommy to write a song about home, Tommy, never having had one, fails. After June asks Berg to help her save Tommy from himself, he decreases Tommy's royalty checks. Tommy's Broadway friends desert him when the checks stop coming, and Tommy becomes destitute until Berg sends him to a country cottage he has purchased in Flatbush, where Tommy finds June waiting to marry him. Now inspired, Tommy writes a hit song about home.
- The matriarch of a poor Jewish family nurtures her talented son's dream of being a great violinist, but as an adult, global events call for him to postpone his dream.
- A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
- The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
- A gangster frames two bootleggers for the shooting of a police officer in New York during the prohibition.
- A stage-actress mother and her daughter wage a battle of wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
- Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others how good he is, but seldom shows them. Kitty Mayo, an old-time burlesque queen, who is with the McNary Vaudeville Company, advises Eddie to get himself a partner, as his solo abilities can only be stretched so far. He decides to follow her advice and, while in a theatrical supply shop, he sees Rita Carey rehearsing her dancing act that includes a trained duck. Eddie tells Rita he is a good friend of McNary's, and, with him as her partner, her future in show business will be secured. She agrees to join him and Eddie promptly names the act "Eddie Kehoe and Partner". Despite his conceit, Rita likes Eddie, as do others in the troupe, including Cleo a little gold-digger.
- The story takes place in old Mexico, where a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against her father's wishes. When she leaves with him, her father sends his gang in a chase after the two lovers.
- A family of down-and-out vaudevillians discover that they are the last of the Van Revels, heirs to a Southern plantation and a blood feud with the Carstairs family that began 60 years earlier over a game of croquet. After Eddie falls in love with the neighbors' daughter, a mountaineer branch of the Carstairs clan resumes the feud with the intent of annihilating the Van Revels.
- This is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a dashing millionaire comes around and begins wooing the female partner.
- A carefree South Seas native falls for the half-caste ward of a religious white man who desires her for himself.
- The activities of Nubi (Myrna Loy), a minx-like, Hungarian gypsy girl who, while on the run from her abusive husband, takes shelter in a farmhouse, where she seduces and holds in thrall all the male members of the family.
- In a cantina across the border, Bob Hamlin shoots a man that threatens his friend. He and his pals escape but return that night for the dance as Bob is attracted to Conchita. Running once more from the Rurales, Bob takes Conchita. They escape again only to find themselves pinned down when Buck and his gang of horse thieves attack.
- A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
- A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.
- An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
- A pretty young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected.
- Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
- Jim, a Maine Fisherman, marries Dora on the rebound after his sweetheart, Eve, leaves him to pursue a singing career. Years later, Eve proves to be genuinely in love with Jim, but acts indifferent for Dora's sake.
- A vaudeville magician and his lady assistant break up their team, when he becomes infatuated with a socialite, only to get back together when she is almost killed in her new act gone wrong.
- The father of three grown daughters tries to keep his sanity, even after his free-spirited middle daughter rebelliously marries a poor plumber.
- This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
- A chorus girl inherits a men's college where her boyfriend is a star football player.
- A Southern songwriter brings his piano to New York and meets a girl who works on Tin Pan Alley
- "The Mississippi Gambler" is a 1929 film made by Universal Pictures, directed by Reginald Barker, and starring Joseph Schildkraut and Joan Bennett.
- Cohan comedy about a jockey.
- The story of Mamie Hudler, aka Rodeo West (Billie Dove), from her days as a New Orleans singer to a California Western movie cowgirl star to the queen of the New York City nightclubs and speakeasies with Oldfield (George MacFarlane) as the man she doesn't love and Brood (Edmund Lowe) as the man she does love. In short, the semi-close story of the real-life Texas Guinan, despite the disclaimers.
- Schlock-movie producer J. Pierpont Ginsburg, after declaring, in a Yiddish accent, that "talking pictures are in their infantry," decides to put all of his savings into a big-budgeted musical, starring the sensation of Paris (with a bad French accent), Adore Renee, and a swishy leading man, Reginald Whitlock. Meanwhile, his daughter, Judy Ginsburg, gets involved in a romance with Ginsburg's Gentile lawyer, John Applegate. His efforts aren't helped any by the projectionist who mixes up the sound-disc reels, with the images not matching the dialogue and sound effects, during a showing for prospective film buyers and exhibitors.
- A dance-trophy-winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe that he's in love with her.
- While taking a vacation in the country Broadway star Adele (Marie Saxon) inadvertently as a prank finds herself auditioning for a chorus job in the midwest Gay GIrlies Burlesque touring show. Bobby (Jack Egan), the writer, director and star of the upcoming show, who, unaware that Adele is a New York celebrity, is so impressed with her dancing that he not only gives her a job but makes her a featured player in his show. He also becomes romantically attached to Adele. So, when Adele's maid, Jane (Louise Fazenda), reveals Adele's prank, Bobby is not amused by her deception and fires her A short time passes and Adele is back on Broadway and Bobby is about to make his east coast appearance in a night club. He spots Adele in the audience, forgets a routine, and is rescued by Adele when she hops onto the stage and assists him in one of the burlesque they had previously rehearsed together. He forgives her and they live happily ever after...unless they had their money invested in the stock market.
- A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
- A Bonapartist falls for a Royalist.
- A chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster.