Frank Fay

An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.

"If you want to live, you must follow the tranquil existence of an oyster," the eminent cardiologist warns his terrified patient. "No excitement and no women. One kiss and you die!" Mon Dieu! No kissing? That's the kiss of death for ladies' man Toto Duryea. And especially now, when he's found the woman who has won his heart forever. Too bad that heart is one sick ticker. Vaudeville and stage star Frank Fay portrays Toto in this jaunty pre-Code bedroom farce set in Paris and directed by the legendary Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Life With Father). Vivacious kewpie doll Joan Blondell and flapper femme fatale Louise Brooks are among former lovers who rush to Toto's bedside eager to provide comfort. But he rejects them all for a hard-to-get American beauty (Laura LaPlante) whose lips have touched his only once. And oh how he longs to repeat the experience. Will Toto give his life for one more heavenly smooch?

A serviceman thinks he is returning home for a blissful reunion with his wife. Instead he finds that she has bought a run-down apartment building, and along with it, a long list of expensive repairs and crazy tenants.

Una mujer se entera de que no se está muriendo de intoxicación por radiacion, pero finge estar enferma para aparecer en un reportaje.

Orphaned at 4, Stanwyck was a Ziegfeld Girl by 17. From a bit part on Broadway, she went on to a rich Hollywood career, starring in over 80 films.