"BERT LAHR The Funniest, Most Imitated Man on Stage or Screen Charlotte Greenwood The Longest Laugh in Pictures." 14 November 1931 Comedy, Music, Romance 80 mins
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
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Bert Lahr as Emil 'Rusty' Krouse
Charlotte Greenwood as Pansy Potts
Pat O’Brien as Sport Wardell
Kathryn Crawford as Eileen Smith
Charles Winninger as Dr. Brown
Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Smith
Guy Kibbee as Fred Smith
Herbert Braggiotti as Gordon
Gus Arnheim as Himself - the Orchestra Leader
Loretta Andrews as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Richard Carle as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Nick Copeland as Aviator with the Jokester (uncredited)
Mildred Dixon as Miss Dixon / Dancer (uncredited)
James Durkin as Mr. Rankin - Detective (uncredited)
Ruth Eddings as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Bud Geary as Dance Floor Extra (uncredited)
Buddy G. DeSylva Book
Lew Brown Book
Ray Henderson Book
John McGowan Book
Dorothy Fields Original Music Composer
Jimmy McHugh Original Music Composer
Busby Berkeley Choreographer
Charles Reisner Director
A.P. Younger Screenplay
Charles Reisner Adaptation
George White Producer
William S. Gray Editor
Cedric Gibbons Art Direction
Adrian Costume Design
Douglas Shearer Sound Director
Merritt B. Gerstad Director of Photography
United States 14 November 1931
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Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
09 August 1935
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29 January 1925
Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town.
10 January 1931
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years.
19 January 1929
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy.
08 October 1942
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II.
05 November 2009
Aviator Marie Vallières de Beaumont goes on a journey to find her lover Bill Lancaster after his plane disappears in the Sahara.
26 May 1923
Snub gets a job helping an auctioneer. He’s instructed to sell off a household estate, but goes to the wrong house.
22 October 2009
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01 April 1957
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
23 May 1945
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
28 December 1934
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
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27 January 1931
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16 April 1931
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who resembles him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
10 April 1931
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.
24 November 1931
Jeremy Wales, a crook who stays on the safe side of the law but bends it whenever possible,has tricked short-sighted John 'Dad" Saunders to sign a note for ten thousand dollars instead of the one thousand that Saunders borrowed to work his "Rose o' My Heart" mine.
27 January 1931
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to.
09 March 1931
A smart young manicurist works in a hotel where she earns big money by tricking businessmen by persuading them to do certain deals where she has a commission.
11 October 1931
Billy takes a trip to the the zoo with his wife and two sons. He is proud to show his knowledge about wild animals to his older son, who is preparing for an exam.
30 June 1931
A carefree aristocrat becomes involved with a woman suspected of murder, and assists her in proving her innocence.
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