No Time for Comedy is a comedy film released in 1940. The story revolves around a playwright named Gaylord Esterbrook who is struggling with his personal life and career. He is torn between his desire for success and his love for his wife. As he becomes more successful, he finds himself attracted to a glamorous actress, leading to a series of comic misunderstandings and quarrels. In the end, he realizes that his true happiness lies in his wife and not in his work.
Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
In 'Silver Blaze,' a detective and his partner investigate a murder that takes place during a horse race. They discover a race-fixing scheme led by an evil man and an animal trainer. With the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, they unravel the mystery and catch the culprits.
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
A Jinn's magic helps a poor architect win a professor's daughter. This film is considered lost.
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and friend, Dr. Watson.
John Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's most prestigious jewellers. As the chase leads him to Ireland, Forrest finds he needs help and who better to call upon than his impossibly elegant, highly capable wife, Alice?
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
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