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Browse 61 movies from RKO Pathé Pictures
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Jun 1932
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Feb 1932
A collection of old-time silent movies, re-scored and narrated, featuring the most popular silent film stars. Includes: 1. Pathé 1900 Bathing Beauties fron Venice, California 2. Goodness Gracious with Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew 3. A Drunkard's Reformation Directed by D.W. Griffith
Jun 1943
This Sportscope short documentary takes a look at a group of Austrian speleologists who explore a newly-discovered cave.
Jan 1957
Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
Oct 1931
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Nov 1932
This short subject shows Lissa Bengston teaching a group of three- and four-year-olds how to swim in a pool. Miss Bengston, a member of the Royal Academy of Physical Education, Stockholm, Sweden, believes that at this age, children have no fear of the water and, therefore, can be taught to use their natural abilities to swim.
Aug 1956
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
Dec 1931
This Sportscope short focuses on the sport of kayaking.
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
Jul 1931
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
Nov 1931
The first in RKO Pathe's series of "Traveling Salesman Comedies" has Louis John Bartels traveling to Mexico to sell his line of underwear. He garners the attention of a fair senorita which does not set well with the chief of a gang of bandits, and Bartels is soon seeking the USA/Mexico borderline.
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
May 1932
This RKO-Pathe Screenliner short looks at the duties of the modern nurse. The story tracks the education of a student nurse as she works toward graduation and shows the earning of her cap during her student days, in retrospect. At the beginning, she wears the Student Nurse uniform dress and apron only, with no cap. She appears later in the movie as a more experienced Senior student with her cap already wearing a stripe. This was frequently done in the three year hospital programs to differentiate the Junior level students from the Seniors, more experienced and closer to Graduation. The capping ceremony illustrated shows the bare headed students receiving their plain white cap, and addressing it as something from her past that she will remember fondly.
Jan 1956
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Sep 1931
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Apr 1932
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
This short shows the important role played by members of the U.S. Air Force Reserve in the USA's defense against enemy attack.
Feb 1956