Jed Prouty

A singer (Venable) believes her marine pilot husband, accused of treason, has died in the Pacific. She decides to take a singing job in Shanghai, and finds a man who looks exactly like her husband dancing in a club act. Realizing it is her husband, and thinking he must have amnesia, she sets out to help him recover his memory and clear his name.

A traveling Tom show is stranded in Kansas when the manager flees with the loot and an actress marries a local undertaker to keep the troupe afloat.

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies.

Jimmy, a failed music shop owner, goes to work with his uncle. Before getting there, he befriends an Irish family, his uncle's worst enemy.

In New York City, ex-cop Max Thursday, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, exists in an alcoholic haze until his ex-wife appears with news of his son’s disappearance. So, Thursday stumbles through the city’s sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.

A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.