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- DirectorGeorge D. BakerStarsMarion DaviesNorman KerryAnders RandolfStrung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsMarion DaviesForrest StanleyEdith ShayneThe frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGloria SwansonRalph GravesVera ReynoldsElinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper set. Lester Hodges, a songwriter, is enamored of Marjory, while Garside, who runs a card room, is interested in Swifty. While gambling at Garside's place, Swifty meets Roger Corbin, who works as an engineer at her father's business. Corbin falls in love with Swifty. When Mr. Forbes protests against both his daughters' behavior, they move out. Marjory marries Hodges, but eventually leaves him and returns to her parents. Swifty, who has gambled herself into debt, agrees to marry Garside. But when the couple are together in a café, prohibition agents raid the place. Corbin, who has been searching for Swifty, helps her escape, and the two are united.
- DirectorKenneth S. WebbStarsConstance BinneyEdmund BreeseRichard ThorpeImpulsive flapper Elizabeth Winthrop, rebels against her parents and moves to New York after breaking with her fiance, Clayton Webster. Hugo Von Strohm, a wealthy playboy, procures Elizabeth a job as a chorus dancer and secretly pays her salary. After he tries to seduce her, Elizabeth sees through his kindnesses and returns to her parents and Clayton.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCorinne GriffithConway TearleTom RickettsA Manhattan playboy falls in love with a mysterious European woman whom he notices as an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first, he thinks it's just pure coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's currently romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished years before, but he soon starts to believe that it's not such a coincidence after all.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerSam TaylorStarsHarold LloydJobyna RalstonRichard DanielsA shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsColleen MooreSyd ChaplinPhyllis HaverBecause she is modest and relatively old-fashioned, young debutante Tommie Lou finds herself unpopular at her coming-out party. Resorting to unconventional jazz attitudes, she becomes a great success at the cost of provoking a quarrel and a divorce suit between a married couple. When she falls in love with the wife's lawyer, however, the divorce case is forgotten, and she reforms.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsAdolphe MenjouEleanor BoardmanConrad NagelAging roué Arthur Merrill meets flapper Penelope Stevens on an ocean liner and decides to undergo rejuvenation surgery to enjoy life again. Transformed, he attends a wild jazz party given by Penelope and persuades her to visit his apartment, but he finds that she is a "good girl" and only flirting. After he gives Penelope a scare and a lecture, her old beau Brock Farley enters with a letter to Arthur that reveals that Brock is his son. Arthur gladly steps aside, renounces his wild living, and returns to a simple life. - Motion Picture News 1924.
- DirectorJohn GormanStarsJames KirkwoodPauline GaronCrauford KentA socially-ambitious mother is pushing her younger daughter into a life-style that will satisfy the desires of the mother but the older daughter, having tasted the consequences of such a life, determines to save her younger sister from the same mistakes.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsReed HowesEthel ShannonWilfred Lucas
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsHope HamptonHarrison FordArthur Edmund CareweKenneth Bellwood, an unscrupulous broker, discovers that hated business rival Robert Casson has secured a valuable option in Brazil and quickly determines to keep Robert in New York until it expires, arranging with Grace Barrows (a cabaret dancer who needs money to help her sick mother) to use her wiles to keep Robert at home. Robert quickly falls under her spell, and Grace increasingly regrets her duplicity. Grace's innocent young sister, Alice, comes to New York and falls under Bellwood's influence. Learning that Alice is going to visit Bellwood's apartment, Grace goes there herself, accompanied by Evelyn Dolores, Bellwood's former mistress. Grace leaves, Evelyn kills Bellwood, and Alice is accused of the crime. Evelyn commits suicide, leaving a note confessing to the crime. Robert forgives Grace, and Alice is sent home.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsMay McAvoyJack MulhallMyrtle StedmanA teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsAlla NazimovaJack PickfordHobart BosworthA small town boy steals for the sake of running away with a visiting society woman's daughter. His shocked mother is determined to stop him.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsLewis StoneShirley MasonEthel Grey TerryJoseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a prim-and-proper secretary, Jenny McFarlan, who takes dictation during working hours and, at night, minus her eyeglasses, serves as his nightclub companion and mistress. Then his daughter,Beatrice, whom he has never seen, shows up and moves in with him. Beatrice is a grown-up flapper who loves jazz, pool parties, flaunting prohibition and carrying-on in general. Most of her carrying-on is with the family chauffeur and her father does not approve, says so, and fires the chauffeur. His parental-guidance technique backfires as Beatrice ups and elopes with the chauffeur. Later, the father has some problems with his business associates and loses his business and most of his fixtures and disappears. But Beatrice locates him and there is a happy reunion between father and daughter, especially since daughter has brought along Jenny to cheer him up.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsCorinne GriffithJack MulhallWard CraneBabs Comet, is employed by the classified ad department of the daily paper, and she uses her looks and position to get a husband.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsMarie PrevostKenneth HarlanLouise FazendaConnemara Moore, heiress to millions, cannot decide between two suitors: one wants her to get her hair bobbed; the other does not. Furthermore, her wealthy aunt will disown her if she bobs her hair. Running away from it all, she gets into a car driven by David Lacy, and, in short succession, becomes involved with bootleggers, wild parties, fights, and love. Connemara marries David, thereby solving her dilemma.
- DirectorFred WindemereStarsKenneth HarlanVivian MartinMildred HarrisChorus girl Mary Brown promises to give herself to playboy cad John Duane in exchange for $2500 so she can pay back a theft her brother made from his employers. Her sweetheart, race-car driver Jimmie, learns about it and gives her a check for $2500, but the check is worthless unless he can win the Big Race that afternoon. He leads through every lap but blows a tire on the last lap and finishes fourth. It appears that Duane will soon be hugging sweet Mary, unless Jimmie can find a buyer for a race-car with a flat tire.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsDorothy MackaillJack MulhallPaul NicholsonJoanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollars in cash. She falls in love with John Wilmore, a guy who hasn't got a dime nor a pot to put it in if he had a dime. There are those who object. Especially the crowd of gold-digging gigolos and hustlers she knows.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsDonald KeithClara BowMary AldenHugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and his athletic training, and soon the two face some difficult decisions.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsRichard DixEsther RalstonEdmund BreeseBill Dana, a New York City playboy, can resist the flaming flapper and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
- DirectorVictor HalperinStarsMarjorie DawNiles WelchWheeler OakmanMildred Grantley, a penniless society girl who wants to be an actress, passes herself off as the Countess D'Autreval. Through a mutual friend, Mildred gets to know the wealthy Dean family, falling in love with Philip Dean, a handsome young bachelor. A woman claiming to be the real countess shows up and persuades Mildred to introduce her to the Deans. Mrs. Dean smells a rat, however, and hires a detective who exposes the woman as a famous international crook. The honest-to-goodness countess finally shows up, and Mildred and Philip enter that haven of happiness open only to true lovers.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsEvelyn BrentLawrence GrayLouise BrooksThe tale of two sisters with the older one pledged to look after the younger one that transpires between a department store, NYC's Central Park and a boarding house. THe older one is the sweet, old-fashioned type and the younger is a jazz-age flapper who takes whatever falls her way. Mame, the older, goes on vacation and returns home to find that her kid sister, Janie, has vamped her way into the arms of Mame's intended.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsBilly SullivanVirginia Brown FaireJack HerrickAfter winning the lightweight championship, Billy Brooks is rushed into the bright lights of Broadway;s Great White Way, along with his flighty wife, Phyllis. Ace O'Brien, the manager of Billy's next opponent, tries to weaken Brooks by getting him into all kinds of parties and also by trying to break up his love for Phyllis. He employs delightful Deloari, Broadway vamp-for-hire, to aid him and Delorai does her work so well that Brooks loses the fight. He, his manager and his trainer go to the Brooks apartment where Phyllis is throwing a big party, and the angry Brooks poops on the party and throws all attendees out. Phyllis leaves him. On the night of his comeback fight, Phyllis is injured in an automobile accident and taken to a hospital where her condition is diagnosed as serious. Brooks is kept from knowing about it until just before his fight. When he is told that Phyllis is listening to the fight on the radio, Brooks quickly dispatches his opponent and heads for a reconciliation with Phyllis.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsDorothy MackaillJack MulhallCharles MurraySadie Hermann, employed in a big New York fur store, dreams of escaping from the early-morning alarm clock and the twice-a-day subway crush. One night in a subway jam she is catapulted into the arms of Herbert McCarthy, a subway guard. It is love at first sight and Herb asks her to marry him. Then her boss announces she is going to be sent to Paris for a fashion show. Sadie has a problem...marriage or Paris?
- DirectorAlbert H. KelleyStarsHelene ChadwickForrest StanleyGloria GordonDespite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for her winsome wiles and ways. Ralph's wife, Alice, becomes suspicious when she sees them together at lunch one day. He asks for a divorce but Alice says she wants to keep the marriage going for at least a year, for appearances sake, and says she will agree to a divorce then if he still wants it. Alive stays home alone for three months while Ralph is living it up as a full member of the Jazz Age. He gets sick and Alice invites Lillian to come over and help get him well. Lillian decides that lots of saxophone playing and wild dancing is the best cure. Alice takes all she can stand, leaves a note for Ralph and departs the premises. Ralph also takes his own departure, after leaving a note for Alice. Lillian keeps on partying. Alice and Ralph, driving their respective cars into an intersection, have a collision. They regain consciousness and find themselves together on the same bed in a near-by farm house. Ralph decides he no longer wants a divorce. Lillian decides she will a Marine Captain.