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- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsJack OakieAnn SothernEduardo CiannelliAn actor who plays a detective in films soon finds himself out of his depth when he tries to investigate a real crime.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsTom ConwayBarbara HaleVeda Ann BorgThe Falcon investigates the murder of an actor on a Hollywood backlot.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsRichard ConteJulie AdamsRichard EganAn independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloFred ClarkHarry and Willie buy the Edison Movie Studio in the year 1912 from Joseph Gorman, a confidence man. They follow Gorman to Hollywood where, as stunt men, they find him directing movies as Sergei Trumanoff and stealing the studio payroll.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLeslie HowardHumphrey BogartJoan BlondellA New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffLew LandersStarsJack OakieLucille BallRuth DonnellyA Hollywood press agent lands his client in hot water with his zany publicity stunts.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsJack OakieLucille BallRuth DonnellyMovie star Annabel Allison has further comic adventures with her wacky publicity agent.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDoris DayDennis MorganJack CarsonA waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when two actors agree to help her.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsJudy CanovaRoss HunterRichard LaneTwo con men dupe a country bumpkin into giving them all of her money under the pretense that they'll make her a movie star. She and her family eventually track them in Hollywood, still unaware they're being taken. The crooked pair enlist the help of a bellboy posing as a director and arrange for a fake screen test for the girl.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsJudy CanovaAlan MowbrayRuth DonnellyEddie MacIntyre is a press agent, talent scout and right-hand man to J.R.Russell, Producer/Director of Perfection Pictures, is planning a scheme in which he will "plant" his girl friend, actress Esther Harrington in the Ozark mountains and then "discover" her for the role of "Ruthybelle" in Perfection's upcoming production, "Thunder Over the Ozarks." With the full approval of Nicholas Raptis, Goldwynian president of Perfection Pictures, Eddie farms Esther out to a hillbilly family where she is to remain until she is "discovered"---a discovery to be accompanied by fanfare and publicity. Russell has heard a recording or Esther's voice, but he has never seen her, and when he arrives in the Ozarks he "discovers" the wrong girl and signs up Judy Hull, daughter of the hillbilly family, instead of Esther. The mistake is not discovered until Judy and her Pappy arrive in Hollywood, and she becomes Perfection's Public Problem Number One. Because there are no loopholes in her contract, Perfection is obligated to use her, but if they do her hillbilly antics will make them the laughing stock of the industry. Or so they think. But they finally discover a loophole that reads her contract is null and void if she marries before the film is produced. Russell informs Eddie that it is up to him to court and marry Judy so the contract can be voided. But Eddie's plan is to hire Professor De Lemma, a specialist in mind transference, to persuade Judy that she doesn't want to be a movie star and wants to return home to her cows, pigs and chickens. But Judy does want to be a movie star, and Pappy has sold the farm, become a part of the Hollywood colony and is playing polo with producers named Darrell.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsSpencer TracyPat PatersonJohn BolesPromoter Smoothie King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsRoss AlexanderGlenda FarrellAnne NagelKent Carter is just a regular Joe who works at a movie studio and observes interesting behavior concerning actors. He uses the info to become a hard driven gossip reporter and bring down a star with a mean streak.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsDonald WoodsJeanne MaddenFred LawrenceA Hollywood playboy helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsCarl 'Alfalfa' SwitzerBenny BartlettRudy WisslerThe Gas House Kids go to Hollywood, where they become entangled with a mad scientist while attempting to find a lost treasure in a haunted house.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsJohn SheltonGale StormIvan LebedeffHollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellRosemary LaneLola LaneRonny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use a double for her: Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as a singing waiter in a drive-in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for a leading actor in a musical. After the first screening Louella Parsons invites him to sing on her program, "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, not knowing that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsEddie Foy Jr.Peggy MillerJack NortonA Hollywood producer mistakes Eddie, a down on his luck actor, for a famous masseuse.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsRichard DixFay WrayVictor KilianWhile hospitalized young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart's career. Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsFritz FeldKathryn KaneJohn CarrollIn this musical short, a director named Nitvitch, unhappy with the lead actress in his Western, makes an unexpected discovery in the studio cafe where some big stars are being served by a bevy of beautiful singing, dancing waitresses.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsJack HaleyRosina LawrencePatsy KellyA Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsWallace FordBrian DonlevyPhyllis BrooksOn the run from the New York police on a murder charge, gangster Broken Nose Dawson undergoes plastic surgery to change his appearance, then goes to Hollywood. Posing as millionaire playboy Spencer Dutro III, he manages to snag a part as a gangster in a movie from Zenith Studios. The studio's ambitious publicity director decides to make a star out of "Spencer", seeing that as a way to become a producer and not knowing who "Spencer" really is. Complications ensue.
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsKent TaylorLinda HayesHoward Da SilvaSteve Bennett is a daring flier who crashes airplanes for the movies, and Laura Marley is an arrogant movie star who is transformed into a very likable woman when she marries Steve. But she, fearing for his life, at her insistence Steve abandons his risky profession and seeks a less-hazardous livelihood...but can't find one. And since he's not the type to depend on his wife to support him, their marriage goes aground.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsJames DunnAlice FayeFrank MitchellDown-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsJack OakieJack HaleyGinger RogersChick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune, joined by lunch-wagon proprietor Dorothy.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsGeorge BrentJoan BlondellAdele JergensAfter a dead body turns up in the home of a famous actress, two reporters (who also happen to be in love with one another) compete to get the real scoop.