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Sandra (1924)
Director: Arthur H. Sawyer. Torn between her dual personalities of a home-loving wife and a romance-seeking adventuress, Sandra Waring succumbs to the latter influence and makes a bargain with Stephen Winslow to help her husband, David, who faces financial ruin. This arrangement leads Sandra to a glamorous life in European capitals; a sojourn on the Riviera with François Molyneaux, who proves to be a crooked gambler using her as bait; and an affair with banker Henri La Flamme, who is arrested for embezzlement. Disillusionment follows disillusionment, and finally a contrite Sandra returns home believing David to be in love with Mait Stanley and resolved to end her own life. Wandering into a church, she is found by David's friend, the Reverend Hapgood, and is reunited with her forgiving husband. Leila's role: Mait Stanley

Dancing Mothers (1926)
Director: Herbert Brenon. Ethel Westcourt discovers that her husband is having an affair with another woman and that her daughter, Kittens, is seeing too much of Jerry Naughton. In an effort to break up the relationship between Naughton and Kittens, Ethel goes to see Naughton at his apartment and falls in love with him. Her husband discovers Ethel's new love and begs her to return to him. Ethel refuses and takes a boat to Paris, intending to start a new life there. Leila's role: Birdie Courtney

The Kick-Off (1926)
Director: Wesley Ruggles. Tom Stephens, a well-known athlete at a smalltown college, transfers to Farnsworth University, where he becomes reacquainted with the landlady's daughter, Marilyn--a girl he earlier rescued from the manhandling of collegian Frank Preston. Frank assures his friends that the country "hick" will never make varsity quarterback, and at a school dance Frank makes fun of Tom's poor dancing, though this ridicule does not weaken Tom's popularity with Marilyn and her flirtatious friend Ruth. Soon Tom becomes first choice for varsity quarterback, and Frank inflicts an injury on Tom during practice, then plants liquor in Tom's locker, causing him to be disqualified; but he is reprieved in time to participate in the game. As the result of a trick instigated by Frank, Tom fails to appear initially, but he does arrive in time to tie the score. After recovery from a knockout, he leads the team to victory and is happily united with Mary and his mother. Leila's role: Marilyn Spencer

Summer Bachelors (1926)
Director: Allan Dwan. Derry Thomas, a secretary who is averse to marriage because of the unfortunate experience of her sisters with men, organizes a club for summer bachelors--flirtatious husbands who step out with single girls while their wives are away for the summer. A department store flirtation leads her to invite Tony Landor, whom she believes to be married, to the club meeting; and she falls madly in love with him. After learning he is still single, she hesitates. A professor puts her in a trance with a hypnotizing crystal; and when she confesses her love for Tony, a judge who is a club member marries them. Though at first displeased, Derry is finally reconciled to her fate. Leila's role: Willowdean French

The Brute (1927)
Director: Irving Cummings. "Easy Going" Martin, a Texas cowhand, saves Jennifer Duan from a poisoned spring in the desert, becomes infatuated with her, but is stunned to find she works for Felton, a corrupt saloon owner. The local community turns against Martin when he is robbed and fails to buy out Felton. Later, in an oil town owned by Felton, Martin accepts an offer to cap a wild gas well. Martin has shielded Little Phil, a fugitive who has attempted to kill Felton; they meet Oklahoma Red, a former pal of Martin's, who pays off an old debt. With the money Martin bargains with Felton for Jennifer, so as to test her character. After a deal is made, she is thrown into the street; in a showdown with Felton and Martin, Oklahoma Red kills the villain, and Martin is united with the girl. Leila's role: Jennifer Duan

White Pants Willie (1927)
Director: Charles Hines. Even though he works in a garage and is bullied by his boss, Mock Epply, Willie Bascom sports a pair of fashionable white trousers that get him into considerable difficulty. Willie meets Helen Charters, daughter of an automobile manufacturer, when they stop on their way to a summer resort. Charters takes an interest in a magnetic bumper device invented by Willie, who gets an opportunity to repair a car and deliver it to the resort, dressed in his white pants and with Wong, a Chinese laundryman, as his chauffeur. Willie is mistaken for a crack polo player, and by bluffing he manages to win a polo game, the admiration of Helen, and Charters' support in promoting his invention. Leila's role: Helen Charters

The Bush Leaguer (1927)
Director: Howard Bretherton. Thomas Buchanan "Specs" White, a garage-owner in an Idaho village and star pitcher on the local ball team, devotes his spare time to the development of an improved gasoline pump. "Lefty" Murphy, a league scout from Los Angeles, offers Specs a position as pitcher, and Specs accepts. Though at first discouraged, Specs is spurred to success by a picture of the girl of his dreams in the newspaper, and manager Gilroy centers his hopes on the rookie pitcher. At his first game Specs suffers from "crowd fright," but the discovery that his girl is Alice Hobbs, owner of the club, adds impetus to his playing. She becomes disillusioned, thinking that Specs has surrendered to the proposal of some rival promoters, but at the last minute he proves his loyalty by blasting a home run. Leila's role: Alice Hobbs

One-Round Hogan (1927)
Director: Howard Bretherton. Robert Emmet Hogan, son of Tim Hogan, a great pugilist, battles his way to light heavyweight championship of the world. Ed Davis, his closest friend, who worships Hogan and aspires to a career of his own, introduces the fighter to Helen, his sister, who despises the ring and its followers. Hogan, at the insistence of his ambitious manager, "Big Joe" Morgan, is matched to fight a leading contender, but at the last minute Ed is persuaded to substitute for the contender; Hogan agrees to fight Ed if he will abandon his plans for a career; Hogan scores a knockout, and Morgan strikes Ed in a fury, killing him. Hogan, though found innocent of manslaughter, swears to quit the ring. Taunted by Morgan's accusation of cowardice, Hogan challenges him in the ring. The Texas Kid divulges the secret of Davis' murder to Helen; learning the truth from Helen, Hogan wins the fight and Helen's confidence. Leila's role: Helen Davis

The Wizard (1927)
Director: Richard Rosson. Dr. Coriolos, whose son was convicted and electrocuted for murder, trains an ape to overpower those whom its master seeks to destroy. Stanley Gordon, newspaper reporter, seeking a new angle on the murder of Palmer, stumbles onto the secret of Dr. Coriolos and saves two intended victims, Judge Webster and the latter's daughter, with whom Stanley is in love. Leila's role: Anne Webster

The Branded Sombrero (1928)
Director: Lambert Hillyer. A ranchowner, on his deathbed, confesses to his two sons that he rustled cattle in his youth, with the number of head stolen from each outfit "branded" on his sombrero. The elder son repays each outfit and saves his weaker brother from prison. Leila's role: Connie Marsh

A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Director: Howard Hawks. Sailor Spike Madden, a happy-go-lucky Lothario, finds that another sailor is a rival for his girl friends in various ports of call. He finally overtakes Salami, the other sailor, and they become fast friends. Spike believes he has fallen in love with Marie, an especially attractive gold digger in France, but his friend dissuades him and they continue their merry way. Leila's role: Sailor's wife

The Crimson City (1928)
Director: Archie Mayo. Young English aristocrat Gregory Kent is wrongfully wanted for embezzlement, but unable to prove his innocence he flees to China. There fear prevents his seeking out Nadine Howells, the girl he loves, who with her father is staying with oil magnate Richard Brand. When papers proving Kent's innocence arrive from England, Brand, who has been courting Nadine, makes a deal with Ronald Foo, owner of a notorious waterfront den, to steal them. Unaware of the contents, Kent offers to steal the documents if Foo will free Onoto, a Chinese girl about to be sold into slavery. Onoto, who has grown to love Kent, discovers the nature of the papers. Realizing that she may lose him, she switches the contents, replacing a blank paper for the pardon. When Kent discovers that he has stolen his own ticket to freedom, he recovers from Foo what he believes to be his pardon and goes to Brand's house to prove his innocence to Nadine's father. The envelope he presents to Major Howells contains only blank paper. Onoto arrives, and seeing the futility of her love for Kent, she hands the authentic papers over to Nadine. Leila's role: Nadine Howells

Honor Bound (1928)
Director: Alfred E. Green. Evelyn accidentally kills her husband, whom she hated. A self-sacrificing youth (John Ogletree) takes the blame and goes to prison. Evelyn marries mineowner Mortimer and gets Ogletree, who is imprisoned nearby, bound over to be her chauffeur. Her husband discovers their affair, mistreats Ogletree, and sends him down into the mines. After Mortimer attempts to kill him, Ogletree escapes to the governor and is pardoned after revealing information about corruption in the prison. The guilty persons are apprehended. Leila's role: Selma Ritchie

Land of the Silver Fox (1928)
Director: Ray Enright. Smooth-faced, villainous James Crawford cruelly beats his handsome police dog, Rinty, and Carroll Blackton, a fur trader, buys the dog from him. Crawford later sends Carroll out with a sled-load of furs and hires Butch Nelson to kill him. Nelson robs Carroll and leaves him for dead, but Rinty saves his new master's life and cares for his wounds. When Carroll returns to civilization, he is accused of the robbery of the furs and arrested by the Mounties. Rinty forces Nelson to confess, however, and Crawford and Nelson are arrested. Leila's role: Marie du Fronque

Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
Director: Jack Conway. Safecracker Jimmy Valentine and his pal Swede are in the process of planning a "bank job" with Avery and other thieves, but Jimmy falls in love with Rose. Deciding to go straight under the name of Randall, he retires to the small town where she lives with her father. His cohorts try to dissuade him, and Doyle, a police detective who suspects his motives, tracks him down; but finding him on the level and about to marry Rose, Doyle relents. When Jimmy risks suspicion by opening his employer's safe to rescue a child, Doyle is certain he has reformed. Leila's role: Rose

Spite Marriage (1929)
Director: Edward Sedgwick. Elmer, a pants-presser, falls in love with Trilby Drew, the star of a legitimate show, and attends every performance. Trilby is then jilted by her leading man, Lionel Denmore, and marries Elmer out of spite. She becomes intoxicated on their wedding night, and Elmer, realizing the reason for the marriage, leaves her and finds work as a sailor on a rumrunner's boat. Elmer later transfers at sea to a yacht on which Trilby is a passenger and proves his love and courage during a series of disasters. Trilby at last comes to realize her love for Elmer. Leila's role: Ethyl Norcrosse

The Far Call (1929)
Director: Allan Dwan. Pal Loring is making plans to rob the seal hatchery on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea and goes to the island to reconnoiter, there meeting Hilda Larsen, the daughter of the island's governor. Hilda later discovers Pal to be the long-lost son of Paul Webber, who, while living, was a greatly respected member of the island community. Pal then decides not to go through with the robbery. Pal's former henchman, London Nick, sets out to rob the seal hatchery. Pal fights him off, protecting the baby seals and winning a respected place in society. Leila's role: Hilda Larsen

The Idle Rich (1929)
Director: William C. de Mille. Millionaire William Van Luyn marries Joan Thayer, a middle-class stenographer of little commonsense, and offers her family the benefits that his money can so easily provide. The family haughtily refuses, and Joan soon insists that he move in with her family and share the virtues and discomforts of her simple home life. William decides to give his fortune away to found a hospital and finds that his new relatives suffer a quick change of heart about accepting the benefits of his money. Leila's role: Joan Thayer

Wonder of Women (1929)
Director: Clarence Brown. Stephen Tromholt is a German concert pianist whose artistic temperament leads him around and about the creation of his "masterpiece." With a constant eye for the feminine flare, he meets Brigitte (a widow with three children and a strong sense of responsibility) on a train, wines and dines her, and has her engaged to be married that very evening as the train whizzes by the concert stop for the night. As they set up a home by the sea, Stephen is often struck by the wanderlust and though unfaithful on several occasions, most ardently with his former lover, Karen, he eventually comes to realize, at his wife's deathbed, the true measure and worth of her unflagging devotion. Leila's role: Karen

Masquerade (1929)
Director: Russell J. Birdwell. Sylvia Graeme is a young, ingenuous girl whose father, Andrew, is in jail where he likely will remain owing to some incriminating papers being secured, she believes, in the apartment secretary of world traveler Dan Maitland. She is nearly surprised by Maitland and his companion Blodgett after she has broken in, and her escape is marred by leaving behind her gloves and purse. Crook Dan Anisty, also after the same papers, hovers about these events waiting for an opportunity to purloin the files. At one point he blackjacks Maitland and takes his place, trying to induce Sylvia to surrender the files by masquerading as Maitland. Maitland in turn impersonates Anisty, much to the dismay and confusion of both Miss Graeme and Blodgett. The climax is an encounter between the two look-alikes on the roof of the apartment building, with Maitland besting his double and winning Miss Graeme in the bargain. Leila's role: Sylvia Graeme

The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
Director: Tod Browning. The mysterious killing of writer Spencer Lee in Calcutta prompts authorities to consult Madame Rosalie La Grange, a reputedly successful medium. At a seance, Wales, Lee's best friend, is killed at the very moment he is about to reveal the murderer's identity; but through a reconstruction of the seance, the killer is frightened into a confession. Ample use is made of sounds emerging from a blackened screen to provide the proper effects. Leila's role: Helen 'Nellie' O'Neill

The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
Director: Nick Grindé. In New York City, soon after a typed note reading "Who killed Cock Robin?" and signed by "The Bishop" is found in the mailbox of prominent scientist Professor Bertrand Dillard, the body of his young assistant Robin, nicknamed "Cock Robin" by his friends, is discovered on the archery range on the grounds of Dillard's home. Detective Philo Vance is asked by the district attorney to consult on the case. Gathered at the scene of the crime are John E. Sprigg, the victim's best friend, who vows to find the killer; Belle Dillard, the professor's niece and ward; and Sigurd "Eric" Arnesson, Belle's fiancé and Dillard's assistant. After Vance interviews Dillard's neighbors, the elderly Miss Drukker and her hunch-backed brother Adolph, whom Vance is sure witnessed the crime, Miss Drukker dies of heart failure. Adolph is murdered one night while sitting on a wall in the park, reminiscent of the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty," which is included in another note from "The Bishop." As typed notes from "The Bishop" continue to appear, each with a reference to a nursery rhyme, suspicion is soon cast on Arnesson, and Vance deduces that "The Bishop" is not a reference to a cleric but a chess piece. One night, when Belle hears a loud typing noise in an upstairs room of her house, she is confined by the unseen typist. Later, while Vance and the others are looking for Belle, Arnessen is brought before Vance and implies that he is guilty. Moments later, Dillard is uncovered as "The Bishop" when he drops poisin from his ring into a glass intended for Vance, who has discovered that Dillard secretly hated Arnessen for robbing him of his scientific fame and taking over the affections of Belle. When his guilt is revealed, Dillard drinks from what he thinks is the poisoned glass. After Dillard dies, Arnessen and the others think that Dillard drank the poison until Vance reveals that he had switched glasses and that the professor had actually died of shock. Belle, who was not harmed by her uncle, is reunited with Arnessen, who had pretended to act guilty after Vance slipped him a note to "play along." Leila's role: Belle Dillard

The Girl Said No (1930)
Director: Sam Wood. Tom Ward, a cocky young football hero, returns home after graduation determined to conquer the world. He begins a flirtation with Mary Howe, secretary to his rival, McAndrews, and in a restaurant he bribes a waiter to spill soup on her employer. Although offered a local banking job, Tom stakes his fortunes on a scheme to sell bonds to wealthy old Hattie Brown, a befuddled spinster, and achieves the difficult task while posing as a doctor by getting her drunk. Finally, desperate over Mary's engagement to McAndrews, Tom kidnaps her from the altar. In a chase finale she is convinced that he loves her. Leila's role: Mary Howe

The Flirting Widow (1930)
Director: William Seiter. Eccentric and headstrong, Sir William Farady refuses to allow his daughter Phyllis to marry Bobby Tarver until Celia, his oldest daughter, is married. When Celia returns to London from a vacation, she announces her engagement to a Colonel Smith, who she says has sailed for Arabia, hoping thereby to help Bobby and Phyllis. The family is elated, and at her sister Evelyn's insistence, Celia writes a love letter that she intends to destroy but which is accidentally posted. It happens that there is actually in Arabia a Colonel Smith, who is amused by the letter. When Celia publishes his obituary in the Times , however, he decides to visit her, claiming to be a friend of the deceased. After making her thoroughly uncomfortable, he reveals his identity, and they find a mutual affection growing. Leila's role: Lady Evelyn Faraday Trenchant

The Big House (1930)
Director: George Hill. Kent Marlowe, a frightened young man convicted of manslaughter while driving drunk, becomes cellmates with hardened prisoners "Machine Gun" Butch Schmidt and John Morgan, who are serving time, respectively, for homicide and robbery. Conditions at the prison are extremely harsh, especially in the prison mess, where the convicts are fed small amounts of spoiled, inedible food. One day, when Butch loudly objects to the food, causing an unruly outpouring of complaints from the other prisoners, Warden James Adams orders him to be placed in solitary confinement, called "the dungeon," for thirty days. Before he is taken away, Bush passes his contraband knife down a row of prisoners until it reaches an anxious Kent. When yard snitch Oliver later tells Kent that his time in prison could be significantly shortened if he passes on information to the guards, his naiveté and fear cause him to hide the knife among Morgan's things. When head guard Wallace searches Morgan's bunk, he finds the knife and sends him to the dungeon, even though Morgan was to be paroled the next day and swears that the knife is not his. At the end of his time in the dungeon, Morgan feigns unconsciousness and is taken to the prison hospital. Late that night, by sneaking away from his hospital bed and changing places with the corpse of another prisoner who has just died, Morgan is able to escape the prison in the mortician's wagon. Intending to get back at Kent, whom he deduces planted the knife, Morgan goes to a bookstore owned by his sister Anne, whom Morgan had briefly seen visiting Kent in prison. Although Anne recognizes Morgan, when a policeman acquaintance, Sgt. Donlin, comes into her shop while Morgan is there, she covers for him, saying he is an old friend named Everett. Morgan starts a job and begins to spend time with Anne and her family, and the two fall in love, but his freedom is short-lived when Donlin, who had recognized Morgan, arrests him at the Marlowes' home. Back at prison, Morgan determines that he will serve his time and start life over when he is released. Butch wants Morgan to come with him, Kent and some of the other prisoners who are planning a prison break, but Morgan refuses, saying that he plans to go straight, despite the wretched food and horrible conditions at the prison. On the day of the planned escape, just before noon, when the attempt will be made, Morgan is called into the prison office. When Butch and some of the others start to break through the prison gates, which were momentarily opened to allow fellow conspirator Gopher, the prison gardener, hand a bunch of flowers to a guard, they are greeted by Wallace's men firing machine guns at them. Butch is convinced that Morgan had revealed their plans, even though Morgan refused to give Wallace any information. Unknown to Butch, Wallace has confirmed to Morgan that Kent is the informer. After some of the prisoners are killed in the escape attempt, Butch and his remaining cohorts barricade themselves inside a cellblock and, using prison machine guns they have confiscated, threaten to kill all of the guards they have taken prisoner. Morgan risks his life to save some of the guards, despite being wounded. As tear gas canisters and finally an army tank enter the cell block, a panicked Kent is killed. Butch, who has been mortally wounded, is about to kill Morgan when one of the other prisoners reveals that it was Kent who was the informer. As he dies, Butch smiles at his friend, saying he would never kill him and was "just kidding." After the riot is quelled, Morgan is proclaimed a hero and pardoned by the governor. He promises Adams that he will go straight from now on and plans to move to where government lands are available. As he leaves the prison gates, Morgan is embraced by Anne, who has been waiting for him. Leila's role: Anne Marlowe

Sweethearts and Wives (1930)
Director: Clarence Badger. On a stormy night, Anthony Peel and Angela Worthing are forced to seek shelter at a secluded inn. There they find the maître d'hôtel, a waiter, and a maid in earnest conference. Angela is hesitant about staying overnight because of a possible scandal; and the maid, pretending to understand only French, is curious about the young lovers. Screams from an adjoining room bring the police and detective Reginald De Brett in search of a stolen diamond necklace; a murder is discovered, and all are detained overnight. Anthony learns that the maid is the sister of the woman who owned the missing jewels and discovers a button near the location of the murder, proving ultimately that De Brett is actually the killer. Leila's role: Angela Worthington

The Sins of the Children (1930)
Director: Sam Wood. Adolf, a German-American barber, is about to invest his savings in a building and loan association in the growing town in which he lives; instead, he sends one of his beloved children, in poor health, to a sanatorium, and his friend Joe Higginson becomes powerful in the growing community, while he remains a barber. As the children grow up, Adolf sacrifices to provide his son, Ludwig, with a medical education and later mortgages the shop to set him up in a local office. Johnnie becomes a collector for an electrical company, and his father gives up the last of his savings to cover a shortage in collections; unable to continue his employment there, Johnnie disappears. Alma falls in love with Higginson's ne'er-do-well son, Nick, who compromises her, then refuses to marry her because of their social inequality. In consequence, Adolf denounces his former friend. On Christmas Eve, having seen the mortgage foreclosed on his shop, he is reunited with all his children, including Johnnie, who finally has met success as an inventor. Leila's role: Alma Wagenkampf

Way Out West (1930)
Director: Fred Niblo. Windy, a sideshow barker playing a small western town, swindles some cowboys with a rigged roulette wheel, and they decide to hang him for his perfidy; but he is saved by the intervention of a ranch foreman, who suggests that he work on the ranch and pay back the money he swindled. At the ranch, where Windy is forced to do menial tasks, he falls in love with the ranch owner, Molly; however, he is beaten in a fight with Steve, Molly's suitor. He decides to make his getaway during the roundup, but he saves Molly when she is bitten by a rattlesnake by taking her to an Indian medicine man. Returning, they are caught in a sandstorm, and she is retrieved by Buck, her brother. Thinking Molly has been kidnaped, the cowboys corner Windy in a deserted Indian village, and this time he defeats Steve; cleared by Buck, Windy is declared a hero and is reunited with Molly. Leila's role: Molly Rankin

Hurricane (1930)
Director: Ralph Ince. Captain Black and his band of pirates are shipwrecked on a South Sea island, where they hold in custody several sailors they have shanghaied, among them, Dan, a youth of good breeding. When Black observes the vessel of the feared Hurricane Martin approaching, he plots to get his men aboard that vessel, incite a mutiny, and seize the cargo. Hurricane's former wife, who deserted him 20 years earlier, her daughter, and a sailor are rescued from a lifeboat; and thirsting for revenge, Hurricane plans to marry the girl, Mary, to the pirate Captain Black, though the mother avows her own innocence with her dying breath. Dan, who has fallen in love with Mary, protects her from Black, but Hurricane downs the leader and quells the mutiny. Leila's role: Mary Stevens

Part Time Wife (1930)
Director: Leo McCarey. Jim Murdock, a gas and oil man immersed in his business activities, neglects his wife, who is crazy about golf and finds that Johnny Spence is a willing partner in her favorite sport. She and Jim separate, and she turns to modeling as a source of income. Jim takes up golf on the advice of his physician, and on the links he meets Tommy Milligan, an Irish caddie whose philosophizing eventually brings about a change in Jim, who realizes the reasons for the failure of his marriage. When he is accidentally matched with his wife in a game, she discovers the new side of his personality, leading to a reconciliation. Leila's role: Mrs. Murdock (Betty Rogers)

Way for a Sailor (1930)
Director: Sam Wood. Jack, a sailor, along with his buddies Tripod and Ginger, feels himself an indomitable force until he falls for Joan, who repeatedly repels his advances every time he comes into port, and only after a number of years is he able to see her alone. Finally he wins her and they are married, but Joan, learning he plans to return to the sea, leaves him. Later, having become a quartermaster on an ocean liner, he finds her still unforgiving; then a storm wrecks the ship on which all are traveling, and to her grief he is lost with Tripod and Ginger, but the trio is rescued by a whaling vessel and returned to port. After receiving Jack's message, Joan, having realized her true feelings, is reunited with him. Leila's role: Joan

Gentleman's Fate (1931)
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Wealthy gentleman Jack Thomas is engaged to Marjorie Channing, whom he plans to marry in one month. While planning his wedding and a European honeymoon, Jack is told by Mario, his guardian and financial adviser, that his name is really Giacomo Tomasulo and that he is not really an orphan. Mario also informs him that his father is on his deathbed and wants to see him. When Jack meets Frank Tomasulo, a brother he did not know that he had, at the Hotel Ritzi in Jersey City, he soon learns that his hard-boiled brother is a racketeer in the liquor-running business. Jack also realizes that Frank expects him to shed his high society ways and join the mob once his father dies. Jack eventually succumbs to his brother's pressure to join the mob, but insists that his fiancée be kept ignorant of his involvement. When Marjorie becomes entangled in a Tomasulo jewel robbery, however, she is prevented from leaving her hotel room and learns the truth about the family. Jack's first assignment in the gang is to take the rap for a jewel theft that has gone bad, which he does after Frank tells him that the money from the theft went to care for his ailing father. After he serves ten days in jail, the charges against Jack are dropped and he is freed. When he returns to the hotel, Jack punches Frank, and then reads a note from Marjorie, in which she informs him that she has decided to leave until the "unfortunate affair" has ended. Jack now realizes that he can never go back and live among the "swells," and when Frank offers him the opportunity to take over the Montreal end of the "booze" racket, he takes it. During a hijack attempt on Frank's goods by the rival Florio gang, Jack saves his brother's life by shooting Dante, one of Florio's henchmen. Several months later, at Florio's headquarters, Ruth, Dante's ex-moll, is sent by Florio to infiltrate the Tomasulo gang and take revenge on Jack for killing Dante. Jack meets Ruth at a banquet, which has been called to bring peace between the rival mobs. There, the drunken Florio insults Ruth and Jack punches him. The police arrive in time to prevent a gun battle from erupting. After the raid, Jack tells Frank that he wants to quit the racket, and that he has been thinking about Marjorie. However, when Frank shows Jack a newspaper article announcing Marjorie's marriage to a man named Barlow, he is crushed. Jack soon concludes that Ruth reminds him of Marjorie, so he marries her. Florio, angry at Ruth for having double-crossed him and still out to avenge Dante's murder, decides to kill both Ruth and Jack. When Florio and his men attempt to kill the couple, Ruth manages to shoot Florio. Jack, too, is shot in the mêlée, and dies. Leila's role: Marjorie

The Christmas Party (1931)
Jackie Cooper's mother agrees to host a Christmas party for his football team. Things soon get out of hand, and the number of children gets too large for his house. He pleads with Norma Shearer to ask Louis B. Mayer to allow Jackie to have the party on one of MGM's sound stages. The party is held at stage no. 2, with numerous MGM stars acting as food servers. Leila's role: Herself (uncredited)

Men Call It Love (1931)
Director: Edgar Selwyn. When socialite Callie Brooks decides to divorce her husband Henry, she cheerfully announces her decision at one of the regular weekend house parties given at her Sands Point, New York home. Callie's friend, Helen Robinson, immediately congratulates her on the clever stunt and wishes that she could be as original in finding a way to leave her husband, Joe. Though Helen applauds Callie's announcement, Connie Mills, another guest, tells her husband Jack that she finds the casual treatment of divorce distasteful. While Joe falls ill and retreats to the library, Helen joins her playboy paramour, Tony Minot, on the balcony, where she tells him that their affair must come to an end because their love has "gone cold." Later, Joe accuses Helen of ignoring his needs and being more than just a golfing parter to Tony. Joe's suspicions of Tony also lead him to inform Jack that the roué is after Connie as well. Jack quickly dismisses the thought and expresses his confidence that Connie will remain faithful to him. When Jack's car breaks down, Tony drives the Millses home and joins them for a nightcap. While Jack mixes their drinks in the kitchen, Tony tries to woo Connie, but she resists him and reassures him that she loves her husband. Jack realizes that Tony's sole interest in his home is his wife, so with Connie's approval, he throws him out. On his way out, Tony accuses Jack of cheating on Connie when he had an affair with a Follies girl. Connie overhears the charge, but she believes Jack when he tells her that he is innocent. Callie soon throws another weekend party, but when Jack makes last minute changes in his plans and tells his wife that a business meeting will prevent him from attending the first night of the party, Connie goes alone. After Connie leaves, Helen shows up at the Mills's drunk and ecstatic that her husband has gone to Callie's without her. She celebrates by drinking some more and playing a tune on the piano. As Helen flirts with Jack and begs him not to leave, Connie returns home, having changed her mind about going to Callie's party, and catches her husband with Helen. Jack tries to explain, but Connie calls him a liar and orders him to leave the house. When Joe shows up at the Mills's looking for Helen, Connie listens to his complaints about his wayward wife and scolds him for being too weak to leave her. With no one to turn to, Connie calls Tony and tells him to hurry over so that he can start making good on his promise to make her "loose." While getting drunk with his business associate, Jack calls home and learns from Brandt, his butler, that Connie left with Tony. Instead of going to the party, however, Connie and Tony go to his place, where she seduces the bewildered playboy. They kiss, but Connie breaks into sobs and admits that she is not good at being a "bad" woman. When Connie returns home, she admits to Jack that she was with Tony. Connie and Jack discuss their marriage and agree to allow each other to carry on extramarital affairs until they decide what to do. One day, while sunbathing at the beach, Tony tells Connie that he has reformed and then proposes to her. Connie consents to marry him and tells Jack that she wants a divorce that same evening. Jack relinquishes his claim to his wife, but when Connie overhears him telling Tony that all he wants is what is best for his wife, she realizes that he is truly devoted to her and that she must stay with him. Leila's role: Connie

Stepping Out (1931)
Director: Charles F. Riesner. Despite predictions that Eve Martin would not be able to hold onto her philandering husband for long, she and Tom have been married for two years. Eve's close friend Sally Smith is married to Tom's pal Tubby, who involves Tom in his latest scheme to play around behind their wives' backs. As part of their plan, the two appoint themselves as filmmakers and "audition" two young women, Cleo Del Rio and Bubbles. Though Tom is hesitant at first, after Tubby arranges a date with Cleo, they soon begin an illicit affair. Meanwhile, Sally suggests that she and Eve leave town for awhile in order to make their husbands miss and appreciate them more. As soon as Eve and Sally depart for Aguascalientes, Mexico, Tom and Tubby resume their philandering and invite the girls to Tom's house. While Tubby and Bubbles flirt, Tom takes Cleo aside and tells her that he loves his wife dearly and is only interested in the most discreet of trysts, one without any entanglements that might threaten his marriage. The gaiety is interrupted, however, when Tom's lawyer, Charley Miller, drops in and tells the men that the contract they signed to make a motion picture has left their assets unprotected if the picture goes beyond the planned budget. Tom and Tubby then take Charley's advice and safeguard their possessions by turning them over to their wives. They sign over all their stocks, bonds and checking accounts, hoping that Eve and Sally will remain ignorant of the transfer. After Charley leaves, some poolside merriment ensues, but is curtailed when the wives return unexpectedly because Eve has forgotten her bag. In the house, the women discover the papers that their husbands recently signed. On their way out, the wives discover Tubby in the pool with Bubbles playing "piggy wiggy" and Cleo waiting for Tom in one of their rooms. Eve and Sally make a hasty departure for Aguascalientes, but not before they clean out their husbands' bank accounts, leaving them broke. In Mexico, Eve and Sally happily squander their philandering husbands' money on bad bets. Later, Sally runs into an old college flame, Paul Perkins, who, along with his pal Hal Rogers, agrees to a double dinner date at Sally's bungalow. Just as the four are about to sit down to dinner, though, Tom and Tubby, who have also come to Mexico with Cleo and Bubbles, enter and discover that their wives have been "stepping out." The situation is soon reversed, however, when Eve and Sally discover Cleo and Bubbles in their husbands' bungalow, where, unbeknown to Tommy and Tubby, the girls have been waiting to blackmail them. All ends happily, though, when the husbands succeed in getting their wives back. They return home, and Tubby plays "piggy wiggy" with Sally. Leila's role: Eve

The Phantom of Paris (1931)
Director: John S. Robertson. At the Cirque de Paris, society magician and famous disappearing artist Chéri-Bibi performs his act before a well-heeled Parisian audience. While Cecile, his friend and admirer, waits in his dressing room, unable to watch the daring feat, Chéri, with his hands and legs bound, is lowered into a tank of water. The audience grows silent as the clock ticks away, and firemen wait on the sidelines, prepared to rescue the magician should he fail to emerge from the tank in time. To the audience's astonishment, Chéri makes his escape with little time to spare. Cecile lives with her wealthy but ailing father, Bourrelier, who recently added a codicil to his will specifying that if she were to marry the Marquis du Touchais, he would receive a liberal allowance from his estate. However, when Bourrelier is informed that the marquis is a nobleman, he removes the allowance clause from the will so as not to spoil the young man and allow him to live an idle life. Bourrelier informs the marquis of the change at a party at his residence, and he reacts angrily, accusing Cecile's father of favoring her upstart suitor, Chéri. Bourrelier denies the accusation and later tells Chéri personally that he will not allow him to marry his daughter. Soon after the confrontation between Chéri and Bourrelier, the aged millionaire is murdered. Police Chief Costaud immediately begins an investigation into the murder and questions the guests attending the party. When the marquis is questioned, he lies to Costaud, telling him that Bourrelier privately expressed his fears about Chéri. The magician is promptly arrested and jailed. Though extra security precautions are taken to insure that Chéri does not escape, he manages to free himself from his cell. The magician then attacks a guard, takes his clothes and walks out of the prison unnoticed. Meanwhile, Dr. Gorin, a friend of Chéri's, tells the police that Chéri could not have committed the murder. Another friend of Chéri's, Herman, hides him in the basement of his shop. When Costaud pays Herman a visit, he informs him that the marquis is dying and then searches the shop. Before the police chief can find him, Chéri flees. Having overheard the news of the marquis' impending death, Chéri sneaks into his home and persuades him to admit that he killed Bourrelier. However, the marquis dies before he is able to make the confession. Chéri quickly devises a plan to save himself by bringing the body of the marquis to Dr. Gorin and asking him to perform an operation that would make him resemble the marquis. Chéri then arranges to have his own death announced publicly. The newspapers soon tell stories of the Chéri holding the marquis prisoner before his death. Six months later, Chéri, disguised as the marquis, returns to the marquis' mansion and realizes that Cecile, now married to the marquis, has been unhappy. After Cecile tells Chéri that her love for the magician has never faltered, he reveals himself to her. No sooner does Chéri tell Cecile that he loves her than Costaud and his officers arrive to question the marquis. After fingerprinting the magician, Costaud accuses Chéri of impersonating the marquis and arrests him. Again, Chéri escapes. When he returns to Cecile's house, he forces Vera, the marquis' accomplice in Bourrelier's murder, to confess his guilt. Costaud overhears Vera's confession, and Chéri is vindicated of the crime. Leila's role: Cecile

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931)
Director: Sam Wood. On a ship sailing from France to New York, professional confidence artist J. Rufus Wallingford, posing as an acquaintance of millionaire J. P. Morgan, dupes fellow passenger Horace Tuttle into giving him $25,000 for one of his illicit moneymaking schemes. Wallingford offers Tuttle a cut in his syndicate, tells him that the money is needed to pay off a senator and then informs him that his business associate, Charlie Mitchell, is a big bank president. After arriving in New York, Wallingford and Tuttle rendezvous at Mitchell's bank, where Wallingford is assisted in his scheme by Schnozzle, a wisecracking pickpocket who impersonates the senator, and Blackie Daw, who impersonates bank president Mitchell. Matters are complicated for Wallingford when Tuttle pays with a traceable cashier's check instead of cash, but Wallingford takes it regardless. Later, at the Ritz-Palmer Hotel, Wallingford meets Dorothy Layton, a hotel employee who has been recently fired. When he discovers that she is going to Pelton, New York to help her parents respond to a local bank's offer to buy their property, Wallingford sees another opportunity to make a quick buck and insists on accompanying her. Before leaving, however, Wallingford is visited by the inept Sergeant McGonigal, who has been investigating the con man and has been eager to arrest him. Wallingford and Blackie manage to escape, however, by picking a fight with a truck driver and causing a diversion. After McGonigal informs Tuttle that he has been had, he tells him that all the evidence he needs to put Wallingford behind bars is his signature on the cashier's check. As soon as Wallingford and Dorothy arrive at her parents' house, Wallingford prevents Charles Harper, the bank owner, from closing a deal with the Laytons and chases him off. The Laytons are bewildered at Wallingford's brash manner, so to quell their fears, Wallingford gives them Tuttle's $25,000 check as collateral and promises them a bigger payoff after Mr. Layton takes his place as the president of his new business venture, International Commercial Clay Products Company, Inc. Wallingford and his cohorts soon begin blasting the Laytons' land to make it look as if it contains valuable clay. As part of his elaborate plan to defraud the town, Wallingford sends a soil sample to J. P. Morgan and sees to it that Harper's banking reputation is destroyed. Blackie and Schnozzle try to convince their boss that they should flee to Montreal with money they received from local investors, but the lovestruck Wallingford insists on staying so that he can take Dorothy out on a date. Following his date, Wallingford has a change of heart and tells his associates that he has decided to leave the confidence racket and go straight. Despite Blackie and Schnozzle's protestations, Wallingford calls a stockholders meeting so that he can return their money. Meanwhile, Mr. Layton deposits Wallingford's cashier's check in his bank for safekeeping, and when McGonigal discovers this he goes after Wallingford. While waiting for his stockholders to show up, Wallingford discovers that Blackie has double-crossed him and has fled by train with the cash. Schnozzle is immediately sent after him. No sooner does Schnozzle leave, than Dorothy shows up and accuses him of being a fake and "trimming the town." After assuring her that no one in the town will lose a penny, Wallingford tells Dorothy that he loves her. Wallingford uses his wits to stall his stockholders long enough for Schnozzle to catch up with Blackie and return with the money. Though Wallingford quickly settles matters with his stockholders, he soon realizes that he still must contended with McGonigal. Ashamed of having betrayed his boss, Blackie makes an attempt to secretly take the rap for Wallingford, but when Wallingford discovers him in McGonigal's custody, he admits his guilt. McGonigal is outsmarted one last time, however, when Schnozzle picks his pocket and uses the cashier's check to light a cigar. Leila's role: Dorothy Layton

Surrender (1931)
Director: William K. Howard. Having lost three sons to the French and English armies in the World War, Prussian Count Reichendorf laments the days when the Reichendorfs made Prussia "the might of land." Reichendorf, a military general left with only one son, Dietrich, is forced to recruit military men from the prison camp he commands. Axelle, Reichendorf's niece, who became his ward when her parents died, lives in the Reichendorf castle and is courted by the disfigured Captain Elbing. Axelle shows little interest in Elbing, and when he reminds her how he dazzled her before he went into battle, she rejects his affections and tells him that she is engaged to Dietrich. Elbing pleads with her, insisting that his love for her is more intense and enduring than that of any other man, but she is not swayed. Meanwhile, at the German prison camp near the castle, new prisoners are brought in, including the wily and attractive French Sergeant Dumaine. Elbing soon puts Dumaine and the other prisoners to work at the unpleasant task of burial detail. When Dumaine, Fichet and other prisoners escape by overpowering the guards, they break into the Reichendorf castle and take refuge there, but are soon discovered by Axelle and taken back to the prison. One day, after noticing billows of smoke coming from the castle, Dumaine heroically rushes into the castle and puts out a kitchen fire. In gratitude for his valor, Elbing commissions Dumaine, an electrical engineer by profession, to wire the castle. Dumaine's new assignment puts him in close contact with Axelle, and they soon become friends. After one month, Axelle begins to trust Dumaine and suggests that he remove his prison number from his uniform. When news reaches Germany that Dietrich has led his regiment in victorious battle against the French, an end to the war is predicted. Axelle is overjoyed at the news, but Dumaine, whose loyalties still remain with France, is upset. Back at the prison, Dumaine's fellow inmates resent Dumaine's privileged status at the castle, and plan a breakout without him. Soon after Dietrich returns from the battlefront, he discovers his fiancée in the arms of Dumaine, and learns that Elbing, too, is trying to woo Axelle, so he decides to return to the front. When the jealous Elbing learns of Dumaine's affair with Axelle, he sends the Frenchman to be executed despite Axelle's pleas to spare him. Elbing later has a change of heart, however, and decides to call off the execution. News of the Armistice and the end of the war brings with it orders to suspend all disciplinary action against prisoners of war, and Elbing, who sees no further use for himself as a military leader, commits suicide. With the battlelines suddenly erased, Dumaine and Axelle resume their romance with a kiss. Leila's role: Axelle

Freaks (1932)
Director: Tod Browning. As horrified people gather round the cage containing one of the members of a carnival's freak show, the barker explains that the pitiful specimen inside was once a beautiful aerialist named Cleopatra, who was known as the "Peacock of the Air," and relates to the crowd: Hans, one of the carnival's dwarfs, is infatuated with Cleopatra's beauty and normal size, much to the dismay of his fiancée Frieda, who is Hans's size. Cleopatra delights in toying with Hans's affections and making Frieda jealous, and she continually borrows large sums of money from Hans. One day, Hercules, the strongman, ends his relationship with Venus, one of the other "normal" members of the carnival, and takes up with Cleopatra, who shares his cruel attitude toward the "freaks." Venus is comforted by one of the clowns, Phroso, and her friends, the freaks. Venus, Phroso and Roscoe, another clown who is married to Daisy Hilton, one of the carnival's Siamese twins, begin to worry about Hans, who is increasingly ignoring Frieda to moon over Cleopatra. Hans breaks off his engagement to Frieda, after which Frieda goes to Cleopatra and begs her to cease leading Hans on. Cleopatra laughs at her, and after Frieda inadvertently tells Cleopatra about Hans' fortune, Cleopatra and Hercules plot against him. Cleopatra and Hans marry, and at the wedding feast, Cleopatra is horrified when the drunken freaks tell her that she is now one of them. She shouts at them, then humiliates Hans by carrying him around on her shoulders. She later reveals to Hans that their marriage is a joke, and after he collapses in hysterics, another dwarf, Angeleno, overhears Cleopatra and Hercules discuss the poison they gave to Hans. The next morning, a doctor examines Hans and reveals that although he was poisoned, he will recover. Venus confronts Hercules, but he refuses to tell her what poison Cleopatra used. A week passes, until one night, after Cleopatra gives Hans some medicine she has doctored, he and the other freaks plot their revenge on her and Hercules. A thunderstorm begins, and some of the freaks chase after Cleopatra while the others prevent Hercules from harming Venus. Hercules is killed, and after a chase, Cleopatra is mysteriously transformed into a grotesque "duck woman" who is put on display with the other freaks. Some time later, Hans and Frieda are happily reunited, while Phroso and Venus continue their romance. Leila's role: Venus

Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Director: Jack Conway. In the small company town of Renwood, secretary Lil "Red" Andrews sets her sights on her boss, William Legendre, Jr., the son of Renwood's leading citizen. Regarding his happy marriage to childhood sweetheart Irene as only a minor obstacle, Red, who wears Bill's picture in her garter, doesn't want to leave his house after they have been working late there one night. He tells her to leave because she is "too darn pretty," but weakens when he sees his picture on her garter. Just as they start to become more familiar, Irene comes home and Red quickly leaves. An embarrassed Bill insists that nothing has happened and promises never to see Red again. The next day, Bill's father offers Red a job in Cleveland, hoping to convince her to leave his son alone, but she feigns resentment and demands to see Bill. Though he is still attracted to Red, he sends her away. A short time later, when Red sees Bill and Irene at The Log Cabin ngihtclub, she has him called to the telephone and corners him in the phone booth. After they kiss, he promises to see her the next evening. Later that night, however, Irene and Bill reconcile their differences and Bill decides never to see Red again. The next night, Red gets drunk when Bill fails to meet her, then goes to his house and creates a scene in front of Irene. After Red leaves, Bill angrily goes to her apartment, then slaps her. When she tells him to do it again because she likes it, he beats her, then makes love to her. Soon Irene divorces Bill and he and Red marry. When Irene comes to see him to see if he is happy, she tells him that their relationship won't last because it is only based on sex. Because marriage to Bill still has not helped Red to be accepted socially in Renwood, she wants to move to New York. To further her aim, she seduces visiting New York tycoon Charles B. Gaerste and only reveals her name after they have made love. She then demands that Bill throw a party for Gaerste and invite the town's leading citizens. When the party guests leave early to go to another reception at Irene's, however, Red is furious and begs Bill to take her to New York. Mr. Legendre, who found her handkerchief in Gaerste's hotel room, shows it to Bill, who then lets Red go to New York but threatens to divorce her at the first hint of a scandal. Red goes to Gaerste in New York and soon becomes his mistress, while at the same time taking the handsome French chauffeur Albert as her lover. Soon Bill arrives at Gaerste's apartment and shows him suggestive photographs that he has obtained of Red and Albert and says that he is planning to divorce Red. Gaerste then discharges Albert and tells him to take Red with him. Desperate, Red then wires Bill that she is coming home, but back in Renwood she finds that he has moved to his father's house and has started seeing Irene again. Mr. Legendre offers Red a check for $500 to leave town, but she runs after Bill, who is driving away, and shoots him. Bill recovers from his wounds, however, and refuses to prosecute Red. Two years later, when the remarried Bill and Irene go to the races in Paris with Mr. Legendre, they see Red, who has become the mistress of a millionaire and a well-known figure in Parisian society. As Red drives back home with her rich Frenchman, she is chauffeured by Albert. Leila's role: Irene 'Rene' Legendre

The Big Broadcast (1932)
Director: Frank Tuttle. Singer Bing Crosby's chronic tardiness, which is the result of his affair with the notorious Mona Lowe, endangers the financial well-being of station WADX. After Mona jilts Crosby, the despondent singer meets Texas oil man Leslie McWhinney, who has also been wronged by a woman. The two make a suicide pact that is foiled by Anita Rogers, station manager George Burns's assistant, who is in love with Crosby and was formerly engaged to McWhinney. Burns, who is plagued by the addled conversation of his stenographer, Gracie Allen, loses the radio station, which McWhinney buys for the sake of Crosby and Anita. Mona's return endangers the budding romance of Crosby and Anita as well as the station's upcoming big broadcast. Despite his efforts to secure a phonograph record to replace the absent Crosby, McWhinney must impersonate Crosby on the air until the singer returns and takes the microphone in mid-song. Crosby, who actually has been feigning irresponsibility to bring McWhinney and Anita together, succeeds both in reuniting the former lovers and in taming Mona. Leila's role: Anita Rogers

Island of Lost Souls (1933)
Director: Erle C. Kenton. Edward Parker, the sole survivor of the S.S. Lady Vain , is rescued by Montgomery on the trading ship S.S. Covena and taken to a South Sea island. There, Captain Davies deposits Edward, along with his shipment of wild animals, at the experimental station of Dr. Moreau, a mad scientist involved in "bio-anthropological research." Moreau's island is inhabited by half-man, half-beasts, who are products of genetic engineering that is meant to alter the evolutionary process of animals through ions, whereby they become men. Moreau has made only one woman, Lota, from a panther, and hopes to mate her with Edward. When Edward discovers Moreau performing an operation on what appears to be a man in his torture chamber, the House of Pain, he tries to escape with Lota. As the couple fends off Moreau's beasts, Moreau strikes a gong and the beasts recite the law of the island, which forbids running on all fours, eating meat, or spilling blood and exonerates Moreau as their maker. Meanwhile, at the seaport of Apia, Edward's fiancée, Ruth Thomas, discovers him missing from the S.S. Covena . The American consul then sends her and Captain Donahue to find him. At Moreau's island, Edward discovers Lota's origins when he kisses her and sees that her fingers have begun degenerating into claws. Moreau then threatens Lota with the House of Pain, in which he previously tortured her to keep her from reverting to a panther; but Montgomery, who heretofore has assisted Moreau as an alternative to jail, refuses to torture Lota. Donahue and Ruth then arrive, and that night, Ouran, one of the beasts, tries to attack her. Forced to leave the island, Donahue braves the jungle of beasts to collect his crew and, at the orders of Moreau, is killed by Ouran. Having broken the law of the man-beasts that forbids the spilling of blood, Moreau is attacked by them and tortured in his own House of Pain. Ruth and Edward escape, but Lota is killed by a man-beast. Leila's role: Ruth Thomas

The Constant Woman (1933)
Director: Victor Schertzinger. In Mansfield, Ohio, a stock company performs a love scene starring Marlene Underwood before a small crowd in a tent. Marlene's husband Walt, the manager of the company, is chastised by Lou, the ingenue, when he drops a cake baked to celebrate Marlene's birthday. Lou fixes the cake, and after the performance, Walt delivers it adorned with lit candles to his wife, which she accepts with the crowd's applause. When her son Jimmie, who idolizes her, presents her with an incense burner, Marlene sarcastically remarks that it is just what she wanted. Before the party is over, Marlene reads a telegram inviting her to go back East for a show. Although Walt argues that with their present company, they finally have a chance to be together after having worked separately so often and that Jimmie needs her, Marlene feels that the invitation is her last opportunity for success on Broadway and begs Walt not to be selfish. Walt agrees to carry on with the troupe without her, and after Marlene leaves, the troupe moves to various towns for one-week runs. As the show breaks for a move to Reading, Walt and Jimmie decide to visit Marlene in New York. In the city, Walt learns that his wife died in a hotel fire after she had been drinking with a man in her room and one of them fell asleep with a still-lit cigarette. Walt tells Jimmie that his mother died when her curling iron was left unattended after she fell asleep from exhaustion. As Walt and Lou remove Marlene's personal belongings from her dressing room, they learn from one of her letters that Jimmie is not Walt's son. Later, in Galveston, the show's take for an evening performance is abysmal, due in part to a torrential rainstorm. When the local authorities slap an attachment on the show, the cast and crew want to disband, especially since Walt has disappeared for two days. Lou, however, rallies the stagehands to stay for another week, then finds Walt drunk in a speakeasy. When the manager demands fifty-two dollars for the bill, a brawl ensues, and Walt ends up in Lou's hotel room, where she watches over him as he recovers. At breakfast, Walt and Lou lie to Jimmie about Walt's whereabouts the previous night, but Jimmie, who spotted Walt in Lou's room a few minutes earlier, leaves the breakfast table ashamed of them. As Walt is about to sell the show, Lou gets an idea to have some of Walt's old scripts rewritten into a comedy radio series, featuring a husband and wife. The series becomes a success, and as Walt and Lou embrace, ecstatic over their newfound wealth, Walt finally realizes that Lou loves him. Jimmie rejects their marriage plans, believing that Lou is not good enough to take his mother's place, and Lou vows to leave Walt if he tells Jimmie the truth about Marlene. Jimmie runs away and seeks work with Beef, one of the stagehands from the tent show, who is now working for a circus in Camden. From a casual conversation with Beef, Jimmie learns the true nature of Walt and Lou's relationship. Realizing that Jimmie has fled to the circus, Walt and Lou rush there. An errant elephant causes a disruption in the performance and sets the tent on fire. Jimmie is pinned under an overturned wagon, but Lou rescues him. She is attacked by a tiger, but she recovers, and Jimmie gives her his blessing. Leila's role: Lou

Horseplay (1933)
Director: Edward Sedgwick. Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for one million dollars because the land contains valuable minerals. Slim and his partner, Andy Jones, are overwhelmed by their newfound wealth, but it does not help to soothe Slim's hurt feelings when he finds out that Angelica has gone to England to stay with her other aunt. He decides to bring her his horse, "Cynthia Ann," as a gift, and with Andy and the horse, he sets sail. Once in England, Slim and Andy have difficulty locating Angelica, but the notoriety they gain for bringing their horse into the royal suite at their hotel brings Angelica's aunt, the Duchess of Disborough, to see them. Discovering that they know Angelica, she invites them to a costume ball at her castle. When Andy and Slim arrive, they are outfitted with medieval costumes, and Angelica is thrilled to see them. Slim is disappointed again when he hears that Angelica is engaged to Philip Marley, whom she met on the cruise. Unknown to Angelica, Philip is a jewel thief, and his "sister" is actually his wife. During an enactment of the Robin Hood story, in which everyone participates, Slim and Andy meet a detective from Scotland Yard who is looking for a man with a birthmark on one ear lobe. Slim and Andy join in the search, afraid that Angelica may be in danger, but their unending assault on everyone puts them in disgrace, and the duchess asks them to leave. At the same time, they unwittingly disrupt Philip and Angelica's plans to elope, and as Philip is the only man whose ears have not been checked, they try to locate him. Philip is in the midst of robbing the duke, whom he knocks out. Andy and Slim catch Philip, and after they prove his identity, he is arrested. Angelica returns to America with Slim, Andy and "Cynthia Ann." Leila's role: Angelica Wayne

Sing, Sinner, Sing (1933)
Director: Howard Christy. After her song on the gambling ship Monte Carlo , Lela Larson greets her philandering lover, Phil Carida, who owns the ship, in her dressing room, and he promises her a vacation the next week. Although her pal in the chorus, Margaret Flannigan, urges her to respond to the persistent attentions of drunken millionaire Ted Rendon, Lela just laughs him off. As she leaves her dressing room for her next number, the drunken Rendon enters her closet and remains there. Meanwhile, two hoods waylay Phil's assistant Jerry and with Louis, one of the cashiers, plan to rob the casino. Lela returns to her dressing room, and when she finds Phil embracing a chorus girl, she says she is quitting. The two hoods decide to throw Louie overboard and split the money between them. Jerry revives, and when he learns that Louie is in on the plot, he gets a gun and holds Louie at bay. Meanwhile, Ted wanders out of the closet and Phil hits him. After Phil learns about the stick-up, Lela, looking through a port hole, sees Phil shoot Louie. With Maggie's encouragement, Lela then agrees to marry Ted so that she can escape from the ship. As they leave on Ted's boat, Phil yells out a threat. One of the hoods then grabs Phil and makes him open the safe, and Phil is shot during an exchange of gunfire. Six weeks later in New York, Ted, although he has promised to stop drinking, carouses in clubs drinking with women, in particular with a blonde named Gwen. Maggie visits Lela and tells about the shooting and that Phil gave up the ship. When Phil, convalescing in a hospital, learns about Ted and Lela, he leaves despite the doctor's warning. That night, Maggie witnesses Ted, in a drunken stupor, try to strangle Lela and promises to testify against him, but Lela only feels sorry for him. The next day, Ted apologizes, but says that he cannot stop drinking. Ted's uncle and aunt, worried that Lela is a gold digger, arrive and try to buy her off, saying that they will never release Ted's money as long as she is married to him. Ted sticks by Lela and says that he drinks to forget the taint of madness in his family, then orders them out. Later, at a party, when Lela finds Ted tussling with Gwen, she and Maggie take him upstairs and phone for a doctor. Just then, Phil drives up and enters surreptitiously. Lela tells the guests that they must leave, but Gwen dissents, saying that they won't leave until Ted tells them to. In the bedroom, Ted revives and after looking at himself into the mirror, gets a gun from the drawer. Lela enters and demands the gun. They struggle, and when Ted says that he will kill her also, she locks herself in the bathroom. As the guests go upstairs and Phil enters the bedroom, Ted puts the gun to his head. When Lela hears the shot, she rushes to Ted and faints when she sees his body. Phil leaves the room, and the drunken guests burst in. Lela is accused of the murder, and she is about to be convicted, when Phil, to save her, bursts into the courtroom and, after firing a gun, falsely shouts that he killed Ted. Because of his love for Lela, Phil dies in the electric chair. Lela later resumes her job as a singer. Leila's role: Lela Larson

Saturday's Millions (1933)
Director: Edward Sedgwick. Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him, and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girl friend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girl friend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home. After-dinner conversation reveals that Jim sees football as merely a business, and feels devalued by his popularity because he thinks people are only interested in him because of football, not for who he is. Joan is disillusioned that Jim treats football as a racket, and the fathers are disappointed because they sincerely love the game. Later, Joan tries to prove her sincere love for Jim with a kiss, but he refuses to express his love for her because he is convinced that she will forget him in six months. She is so offended that she vows never to see him again. Later, Jim gets drunk, even though he is breaking training, and goes to a roadhouse to see Marie, a woman who he believes knows nothing of his football career. Marie asks Jim not to play in the next game because the roadhouse owner, Felix, has bet $6,000 on the opposing team. Felix enters and tells Jim that he will release a sordid story about him and Marie if Jim plays, which will ruin his reputation because he and Marie are actually married. Jim hits Felix and breaks his hand, but when Felix comes at him with a knife, Andy and his father come to his rescue, and with Joan, they all return home. Jim refuses to allow the doctor to put a cast on his hand and insists that the doctor not reveal his condition to the coach. The day of the game, Jim gives Andy the task of keeping nosy reporter Myra Blane busy during the game. Although he is in severe pain, Jim plays the game, but the team immediately falls behind. Team captain Alan, who is a rival for Joan's affection, decides to stand by Jim and keep him in the game, but when Jim drops the final pass, Western loses. In the locker room, Jim's teammates are dejected, but to his surprise, they all agree that they would rather lose a game with him, than win one without him. Jim finally realizes that they are his true friends, indeed. Andy finally finds Thelma, and Jim apologizes to Joan, after which they reunite. Chandler and Fowler toast the class of 1954, knowing they will have a grandson by then. Leila's role: Joan Chandler

The Poor Rich (1934)
Director: Edward Sedgwick. Impoverished Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood arrives in Old Haven, Connecticut, expecting to settle down at the family estate, Spottiswood Manor. He soon discovers, however, that the manor has been deserted and that the Spottiswood fortune has been lost. After his disappointed valet leaves him in town, Albert is rescued by Andy, a lunch wagon cook. Andy and Albert drive to the manor, where they crash into Harriet Spottiswood's decrepit electric automobile, which is being towed by Tom Hopkins' feed wagon. Harriet, who a relative of Albert's and is as poor as he, announces that the extremely wealthy Lord and Lady Featherstone and their daughter Gwendolyn are coming to the manor as house guests. After Harriet suggests to Albert that he marry Gwendolyn for her money, Grace Hunter, an aluminum wares saleswoman, shows up at the manor and pretends to faint. Although Harriet is suspicious of Grace's motives, Albert immediately falls in love with the peddler. With the help of Andy, Tom and Grace, Albert and Harriet make hectic preparations for the arrival of the Featherstones. While Tom and Andy pose as servants to impress the Featherstones, Gwendolyn tries to flirt with Albert. Grace, however, repeatedly interrupts her attempts. Unknown to the Spottiswoods, the Featherstones are as broke as they and have come to the manor with the same goals. Soon, Prince Abdul Hamidshan, a rogue with whom Harriet was once infatuated, arrives, uninvited. Determined to move into the manor, Abdul blackmails Harriet with their past affair. Detective Flannigan then shows up at the manor looking for Abdul, who is a fugitive. Through his questioning of all of the manor's occupants, Flannigan exposes everyone's lies. Eventually, Abdul is arrested, Grace wins Albert, and Gwendolyn wins Andy. Once properly aligned, the group decides to turn the manor into a roadhouse specializing in fried chicken. Leila's role: Grace Hunter

Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
Director: Edwin L. Marin. In New York City, best-selling novelist Victor Gresham is a playboy who has based each of his novels on a previous love affair. Before the completion of his latest book, Frailty , Victor is found dead. A note bearing his signature points to suicide, but Inspector Quillan suspects foul play and investigates six of Gresham's lovers, all of whom were at his house the night before he died. Paul Bindar, Victor's publisher, recounts the events leading up to Victor's death: Carlotta Barbe, an old flame, returns from Europe and, curious to see who is Victor's latest lover, invites the female subjects of Victor's novels to a surprise party for him. They include Gail Melville, who says good-bye to Victor for good because her fiancé, who left town when Victor's book about Gail came out, has returned to marry her; Gladys Durland, who has had a two-year affair with Victor and is planning to leave her husband Lyn for him; Foxey Dennison, who is married, but wants to have an affair with Victor; and Nan Fitzgerald, an old friend on whom Victor based his first book. Also at the party is Jean Sinclair, an illustrator who is hoping to design the cover of Frailty . Her boyfriend, Carter Vaughan, is in attendance to make sure Victor doesn't make a play for Jean. At the end of the evening, Victor asks to see Jean in the morning. All leave except Nan, who has spent the night drinking and is asleep on the couch. In the morning, Victor asks his valet, Fletcher, to think up an ending to Frailty . Then he sends Nan upstairs to sleep off her hangover and discovers a gun in her purse. Fletcher and Victor's secretary, Miss Bennett, read in the morning paper about the suicide in Paris of actress Peggy Fanning, the subject of Frailty , who was divorcing her actor husband to marry Victor when he told her not to bother. Gladys then arrives to warn Victor that Lyn is on his way to kill him, having recognized his own wife as the protagonist of one of Victor's novels from the detailed description of her sexual idiosyncrasies. Gladys urges Victor to leave with her immediately and sail around the world, but he tells her he doesn't love her. Carlotta arrives and throws herself at Victor, but he throws her out. Jean arrives to show Victor her cover sketches, and he gives her the job because he's falling in love with her. He is about to kiss her when Lyn enters and threatens to kill him. To save him, Jean tells Lyn that Victor is going to marry her, then tells Victor she is sincere. As Victor and Jean embrace, Nan comes out of Victor's bedroom, and Jean runs out in a panic believing that she might have been turned into next season's best seller. Nan realizes Victor is really in love with Jean and leaves for Rio after selling Victor her pistol. Jean, meanwhile, asks Carter to take her to city hall. Victor now resigns himself to write real literature and suggests to Bindar that suicide should be the ending of Frailty . Fletcher and Victor discuss suicide, and Victor pretends to kill himself. When they discuss the actress in the book, Fletcher gives Victor the newspaper clipping about Peggy Fanning's suicide. After asserting that Victor killed the actress just as sure as if he gave her poison, Fletcher confesses he is Peggy Fanning's deserted husband and has only been acting as Victor's valet to get revenge. Fletcher then shoots Victor dead, providing him with the perfect ending to his novel. Leila's role: Gladys Durland

No Ransom (1934)
Director: Fred Newmeyer. Depressed because his self-indulgent family neglects him, John Winfield, the president of Winfield Steel, offers racketeer Larry Romero $30,000 to kill him. Romero accepts the job and takes $15,000 as a down payment, but secretly doubts John's desire to die and, with his henchmen, Heinie and Bullet, plot to reform John's family. First, Heinie and Bullet try to scare off Ashton Woolcott, who has been filling Mrs. Winfield's head with Freudian psychology, which in turn has caused her to ignore the problems of her family. Then Heinie and Bullet try to scare Eddie Winfield, John's wayward son, from drinking and gambling. Finally, Romero abducts John's wild daughter Barbara from a nightclub and tries to frighten her by explaining that he is a gangster. When none of his scare tactics work, Romero ships John, who is by now impatient to die, to a health farm. After the newspapers announce that John has been kidnapped, Tom Wilson, Barbara's forgotten boyfriend, accuses the distraught Winfields of selfishly neglecting John. Ever the sycophant, Woolcott steps in to denounce Tom, but Mrs. Winfield concedes Tom's point and shows Woolcott the door. Meanwhile, as John is improving his health and outlook on the farm, Eddie fills in at Winfield Steel, and Barbara unwittingly asks Romero for help in finding her father. Back on the farm, Romero takes John for a walk and announces that the time has come to finish the job. Suddenly nervous, John confesses that he no longer wants to die, and Romero tells him about the changes in his family. After he offers Romero $50,000 to terminate their contract, John returns home. Although pleased with his family's transformation, John is distressed to discover that Barbara is infatuated with Romero and begs the gangster to break off with her. Romero reluctantly agrees and, by making a phony drunken pass at her, terrifies Barbara into rejecting him and returning to Tom. Satisfied, John hands Romero his $50,000, but Romero proudly refuses the money, moving John to call him the "finest man I ever knew." Leila's role: Barbara Winfield

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Director: Leo McCarey. In Paris in the spring of 1908, the Earl of Burnstead regretfully informs his manservant, Marmaduke Ruggles, that he has lost Ruggles in a poker game to the genial, but roughhewn millionaire Egbert "Sourdough" Floud, who, on the insistence of his dominating, society-conscious wife Effie, intends to take Ruggles to their home in Red Gap, Washington. Before they leave Paris, however, Ruggles, who is assigned to oversee his new master's cultural education, begins to fall under Egbert's egalitarian influence, getting drunk and abandoning many of his professional traditions. In Red Gap, Egbert continues to treat Ruggles as an equal. He playfully introduces Ruggles as a colonel and generates a false newspaper article that obliges Effie and her snobbish brother-in-law, Charles Belknap-Jackson, to pretend that Ruggles is an honored guest instead of a servant. When Belknap-Jackson dismisses Ruggles, he sadly packs his bags and, while waiting for the train, enters the Silver Dollar Saloon. There, Egbert and his wealthy, down-to-earth mother-in-law, "Ma" Pettingill, are outraged to learn that Belknap-Jackson fired Ruggles without their consent. A discussion of egalitarianism ensues, and when no one in the bar can remember President Abraham Lincoln's address at Gettysburg, Ruggles recites the speech in full from memory to the astonishment of the crowd. He then decides to become the first Ruggles in generations to quit being a manservant and go into business for himself. With the help of widow Prunella Judson, a local woman with whom he is smitten, and a business loan from Egbert and Ma, Ruggles begins work on his restaurant. When Effie informs Ruggles of the impending visit of the Earl of Burnstead, who wants him to return to his service, Ruggles' loyalty to the earl and to his profession causes him to hesitate. When the earl arrives and Ruggles is found missing, Prunella fears he may have jumped in the river, but his Americanization has gone too far; he shows up and declares his independence to the earl, who congratulates him. The night Ruggles' Anglo-American Grill opens, Effie, Belnap-Jackson and their society friends are among the guests. When the earl arrives with his bride, Nell Kenner, a dancer and native of Red Gap, Belnap-Jackson insults the earl for marrying beneath his class, and Ruggles throws him out. Returning to the kitchen, Ruggles fears the incident has caused his ruin, but the earl gives a speech in Ruggles' honor. The crowd then breaks into a chorus of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and Ruggles is overjoyed to realize they are singing, not for the earl, but for him. Leila's role: Nell Kenner

People Will Talk (1935)
Director: Alfred Santell. When Peggy Trask leaves her husband Bill on their first anniversary because of his attentions toward their neighbor Doris McBride, Peggy's parents, Ella and Henry, decide to stage their own fight over Doris in order to teach the children a lesson. Henry acts his part too well, however, and hurts Ella's feelings, and Ella forces him out of the house. On the street, Henry meets Doris, who has just had a fight with her husband Willis, and gives her a ride, and a nosey neighbor assumes the worst. Bill, meanwhile, urges Peggy to come home, but she rebuffs him, so he goes out with Doris in a new car that Henry has bought for Ella's birthday. When Willis sees Doris being let out of a new blue sedan, he asks the town car dealer who recently bought a sedan and is told that Henry did. Gossip spreads quickly that Doris and Henry are having an affair. Meanwhile, Ella engages two wrestlers as entertainment for a charity gala at the country club. Although Doris usually takes tickets, she is ostracized, and Henry commiserates with her in the coatroom by getting drunk on afternoon cocktails. They end up innocently passed out beneath a pile of minks on the coatroom couch and are caught by Willis, Ella and the ladies of the club. While Henry breakfasts with Bill, Peggy tells Ella that Henry is innocent. Doris then fetches Henry to explain to Willis, and Ella, seeing them together, sets her mind on divorce. Doris and Willis, however, are reconciled. At the wrestling match, Peggy finally makes up with Bill, and they scheme to save her parents' marriage. Henry, as referee of the match, gets tossed around and finally walks out and is kidnapped by detectives hired by Bill. Next, Ella is kidnapped and placed blindfolded in her new car with Henry and is driven to their house, where they are left alone. Henry soon discovers he can remove his blindfold and pretends to fend off the kidnappers to save his wife. Touched by his gallantry, Ella makes up with Henry, who happily shows her her birthday present. Leila's role: Peggy Trask

1,000 Dollars a Minute (1935)
Director: Aubrey Scotto. While reporter Wally Jones's editor, Charlie, is looking for him to fire him, Wally is attempting to borrow an engagement ring. He wants to give it to his fiancée, Dorothy Summers, that night, but he has not made a payment on it for a year, and the jewelry shop owner, Mr. Vanderbrocken, will not allow him to borrow it. Wally then meets Dorothy for dinner, and, upset about his irresponsibility with money, she tells him they are through. Wally asks Charlie for money, but Charlie fires him for not following through on an important bank robbery story. Wally then takes his remaining ten dollars to a gambling casino, but after a winning streak, his luck turns sour and he loses everything. Meanwhile, casino owner Big Jim Bradley and his friend, Sonny Rycross, have gotten into an argument about whether anyone could spend $1,000 a minute. They make a bet that requires a person to spend $720,000 in twelve hours by purchasing different items. Just then, Wally comes into Jim's office to ask for a loan. Jim refuses the loan but tells Wally about the bet and also tells him that he will get $10,000 if he succeeds. Wally agrees, and with Jim's employee, Benny Dolan, along to make sure that he sticks to the rules, Wally begins his buying spree. He starts at Vanderbrocken's jewelry store, where Vanderbrocken assumes he is being held up by Wally and calls Wally's buddy McCarthy and Ryan, two policemen. Vanderbrocken discovers that Wally's check is good, and Wally leaves without being arrested. McCarthy is suspicious, however, and after talking with Dorothy and Charlie, decides that Wally must have been involved in the bank robbery that he was supposed to investigate. Wally, meanwhile, buys a racehorse from New Deal Watson and then an expensive fur coat from the Reville Fur Co. McCarthy and Ryan question Reville about Wally's purchases, and Dorothy is crushed when McCarthy suggests that Wally bought the coat for another woman. Dorothy still believes in Wally though, and when she catches up with him while he is buying a car, she warns him that the police are after him. Wally and Benny escape from McCarthy and Ryan and buy a yacht, then a champion Great Dane dog named Cyril. After Wally buys a rare wine collection, he and Benny are chased by McCarthy and Ryan and wind up in the hospital after colliding with an apple cart. With only fifteen minutes and $25,000 to go, Wally frantically tries to buy a much-needed radium capsule for the hospital, but he is $25,000 short. Jim and Sonny arrive and tell McCarthy about the bet, which Jim is just about to collect when Wally receives the prize money won by his race horse that afternoon. The prize is just enough to make up the difference for the radium capsule, and Wally spends all of his money just in time. Jim gives Wally's reward to Dorothy for safekeeping, and the sweethearts are reconciled. Leila's role: Dorothy Summers

Yellow Dust (1936)
Director: Wallace Fox. In the California hills, Bob Culpepper, a college-educated gold prospector from Tennessee, helps seasoned prospector Silas "Solitaire" Carter defend himself against an intruder's ambush. While digging a grave for the intruder, Bob uncovers a vein of gold that leads to a "mother lode" in a nearby mountain. Ecstatic, Bob and Solitaire head for town to make their claim, but stop to scare off a gang of outlaws who are robbing a stagecoach. The moment Bob sees Nellie Brian, a passenger on the coach, he falls in love with her, and although Nellie, a saloon singer, is equally enamored of the manly Bob, her ambitious mother pushes her to entertain Jack Hanway, the prosperous saloon owner. Unknown to Mrs. Brian and Nellie, Hanway is the leader of the same gang that robbed the stagecoach and took a valuable necklace from Nellie. After Nellie confesses her love for him, Bob cajoles "Missouri," one of Hanway's henchmen, to give him the necklace. Jealous of Bob, Hanway arranges with Missouri and the other outlaws to stage a saloon holdup, which he "bravely" thwarts at the appropriate moment. When Bob tries to expose Hanway's scheme in front of Nellie, Missouri accuses him of being involved in the stagecoach robbery and cites Nellie's necklace as proof. While Bob sits in jail with Missouri, Hanway romances Nellie, who now believes that Bob is a thief. Soon, however, Nellie overhears Hanway plotting to jump Bob's claim, but is unable to alert the drunken Solitaire to the scheme. To prevent Hanway from filing his claim, Nellie makes an early breakfast date with him, then keeps him waiting at the hotel while she files the claim herself. When Solitaire discovers Nellie's claim, he rushes to tell Bob, who assumes that the singer has conspired with Hanway. By staging a phony hanging with a reformed Missouri, Bob escapes from jail and abducts Nellie from Hanway's table. Bob ties Nellie in a straightjacket and forces her to ride with him to the gold claim. After a day of riding together, Nellie and Bob accept the other's innocence and pledge their love. When they arrive at the claim, however, they are surprised by Hanway and his men, who take Bob prisoner. After forcing her back to town, Hanway proposes to Nellie, and to buy time for Bob, she accepts. Solitaire then rides to the claim and arranges with Missouri to have Bob hanged. During the phony hanging, Bob, Missouri and Solitaire flee and ride to town in time to stop Nellie's wedding and expose Hanway as a thief. Leila's role: Nellie Brian

First Aid (1943)
Director: Will Jason. This Pete Smith Specialty is a semihumorous look at basic first aid techniques for mishaps that often occur around the house. It was produced in cooperation with the Beverly Hills First Aid Unit of the American Red Cross Disaster Service. Leila's role: Herself