Movies: Ernie Alexander

At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count. Just before our ...

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop....

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him....

This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale....

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the p...

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew....

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI....

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication....

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marri...

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three ...

Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Wil...

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however....

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing....

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer....

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff....

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."...

Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow....

Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making it tricky...

A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client....

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby hou...