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- Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
- A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
- An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
- The story revolves around a lost baby, for the finding of whom a large reward is offered - a reward which the Hallroom Boys set out to secure. They attempt to return twelve different youngsters to the advertisers of the reward.
- A wife suspects her husband is cheating when seen on the street talking to an attractive young woman. She believes she has caught him his mistress. A dancing butler, a game-playing dog and an accommodating burglar complicate things.
- A satire skewering Beverly Hills society with a look at the city's most fashionable hot spots.
- A young newspaper reporter is assigned to investigate mysterious goings-on in a coastal resort town. He discovers the existence of a gang of vicious liquor hijackers. He sets out to expose the ring and help federal agents break it up.
- In the first of eleven screen comedies based on C.W. Kahles' comic strip, Earl McCarthy is Hairbreadth Harry, forever tasked with rescuing Beautiful Belinda (Charlotte Merriam) from peril. She's introduced as being "so warm-hearted she had to wear asbestos lingerie," and proves it by kicking up a flapper storm in the middle of a public park. This revelry is short-lived however, as the lady is soon held hostage for her father's "secret formula" by Relentless Rudolph (John J. Richardson) and his henchmen in a hideout tricked out with haunted-house trap doors and other frights, even a mummy. - Dennis Harvey
- A travelogue of unusual Hollywood architecture.
- A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
- The gang is taken from an orphanage & adopted by society matrons.
- A man tries passing off a socially awkward fellow as a Casanova in the hopes of marrying off his would be sister-in-law.
- When Sally (Charlotte Greenwood) and Eve (Leila Hyams) take a vacation together to make their rich husbands miss them, the boys (Reginald Denny and Harry Stubbs) promptly invite over two gold digging actresses (Lilian Bonds and Merna Kennedy) for an after hours "audition." But when the girls return expectedly and catch the lads in the act, they clean out their bank accounts, pick up two lugs (Cliff Edwards and Kane Richmond) and proceed to teach their spouses a lesson. Based on a play by Elmer Harris (Johnny Belinda) and co-adapted by the author himself, Stepping Out stars zany second banana Charlotte Greenwood in a rare, top-billed performance. Renowned for her legendary high-kick, Greenwood performs the long-legged shtick that made her famous as well as a charming duet with fellow vaudevillian Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards, who later gained screen immortality as the voice of Jiminy Cricket.
- A war officer who is thought dead returns to the woman he loves, only to find she has remarried.
- Two war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.
- Stan and Ollie do battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at the sawmill.
- After being fired from their jobs, three friends decide to enter an amateur contest at a radio station.
- An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
- Singing star loses his voice, recuperates in the country, meets aspiring playwright and her daughter.
- A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
- A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.
- A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.
- As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarship to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.
- Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden pary and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
- Marvels of technology: a mobile police command post; gymnasium with retractable floor; U.S. military landing barges and PT boats.
- Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast, but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.
- The first story shows how American ingenuity dealt with the lack of nylon stockings during World War II (virtually all nylon was used for the war effort). By using a special bar of soap, a woman could have a tan on her legs that looked just like nylon hosiery. In the next story, women economize by wearing reversible garments. In Beverly Hills, California, inventor Glen Cook demonstrates the "pumpola". By pressing the device's foot pedals, a person can play chords on the piano, leaving the hands free to play a second instrument (in Mr. Cook's case, a violin). Lastly, we visit the headquarters of the Troop Carrier Command in Grenada, Mississippi.
- Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
- During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.
- Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
- Dr. Ordway investigates the death of man whose first two wives were murdered.
- An ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife.
- En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.
- Documentary about an unusual Beverly Hills shop called the Patio Shop, run by former film director Harry Lachman.
- A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
- Drama about former WW2 Marines readjusting to civilian life and dealing with their mental and physical traumas.
- The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
- A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
- An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
- A Los Angeles socialite kills a man while home alone one night and claims he was an intruder she did not know. It seems like a clear case of self defense until the story hits the papers and people connected to the dead man come forward.
- This Traveltalks tour concentrates on Southern California and visits locations that resemble the geography, architecture, and culture of various spots around the globe.
- A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.
- In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
- An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
- A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
- During a conference-trip to L.A., an academic runs into an old-flame and into trouble with the police when she disappears, presumed murdered.
- Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double cross them.
- Eddy Arnold (Eddy Arnold), singing star of the Ace Lucky (Kirby Grant) radio program gets involved when Ace's equipment for a television program is destroyed by a fire. Aces accepts the sponsorship of social-climber Lucille Upperworth Isabel Randolph), who tries to revamp the western/hillbilly music format to classical music.