Ted Healy

The Rube Goldberg-penned farce features a cameo by the artist and inventor himself and is the film debut of the original members of the Three Stooges.

After his three boys wake up, a father tells them bedtime stories to help them sleep, but they have other things in mind instead of rest.

When Parisian actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake) announces that she is leaving the stage to be a full-time wife to her concert pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive), brilliant surgeon Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre), who is obsessed with Yvonne, is crushed. So when Stephen loses his hands in a train wreck, Gogol agrees to Yvonne's request to graft another pair of hands onto Stephen. But before long, Stephen realizes that his hands seem to have a mind of their own. He can no longer play the piano -- but he can throw knives with deadly accuracy! It turns out the hands belonged to an executed murderer, and they never lost the desire to kill. As Stephen slowly goes insane, Gogol professes his love for Yvonne, but she rejects him. Gogol vows to hasten Stephen's demise to drive Yvonne into his own arms.

If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie (Dick Powell) caught between a spoiled star (Lola Lane) and her likeable look-alike (Lola's look-alike sister Rosemary Lane). But the movie's about Busby Berkeley's ace direction – and music, music, music. The film opens with the jubilant debut of Tinseltown's unofficial anthem Hooray for Hollywood. The jaunty Let That Be a Lesson to You shows off Berkeley's snazzy-jazzy mastery of editing and camera angles. And Benny Goodman and His Orchestra – including Harry James on trumpet and Gene Krupa on drums – swing, swing, swing into Sing, Sing, Sing. Hooray for Hollywood Hotel!

Jean Harlow stars as an ambitious showgirl loved by two very different men in the dramatic musical Reckless. Theatrical promoter Bob Harrison (Franchot Tone) loves Mona (Harlow), but he cannot compete with wealthy socialite Ned Riley (William Powell) when Riley buys every seat in the theater to be able to watch Mona's performance alone. Ned and Mona wed, but Ned's family rejects Mona as a shameless gold digger. Torn between his family's rejection and his love for Mona, Ned commits suicide--leaving Mona to put her life and career back together. Featuring songs by Jerome Kern, Jack King and Burton Lane.

A nightclub singer whose crazy agent gets her involved in schemes to advance her career. One wild scheme finally results in a radio contract.

Things really get shaken up when an aspiring opera singer becomes involved with a bawdy saloon owner and his high-society rival during the devastating earthquake of 1906.