Preston Sturges

Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

After the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.

Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.

The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.

Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But then he loses his job, and when he is offered a potent drink at a bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow).

A man dreams of revenge when he suspects his wife is unfaithful.

A womanizing singer falls for an old-fashioned Southern belle. The problem is, she already has a fiance.

Temperamental saloon singer Freddie Jones jealously shoots at her cheating boyfriend Blackie, but mistakenly hits Judge Alfalfa J. O'Toole's honorable behind, forcing her to skip town under the guise of a schoolteacher.

Major Thompson, an Englishman living in France, comments in his memoirs on the peculiarities of his French wife and friends.

The tragic life story of a power-hungry industrialist is recounted in the aftermath of his death.

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.

Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.

A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.

The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

A couple has an ideal marriage until she finds women's lingerie in his coat pocket. An astrologer advises her to make her husband unhappy. Meanwhile their daughter plans to elope in the same hotel her father has unknowingly moved into.

When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.

Madelon and Marius intend to marry but he finds the call of the ocean irresistible and leaves her and his father behind.

Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.

A wealthy hypochondriac and an heiress are both experiencing romantic complications, prompting them to marry each other.

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.