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Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.

A musical revue that has Paramount stars and contract-players doing unrelated short sketches and elaborately staged song-and-dance numbers like a duet on a giant cuckoo clock and Clara Bow singing aboard a navy vessel.

A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer.

A socialite gets a divorce but can't keep out of her ex-husband's life.

After a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.

A man left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl.

Set in London, Kathryn Miles's marriage is threatened when she discovers her husband's longstanding affair with her best friend but surprises everyone when she uses it to create a new life for herself.

A wife shoots her husband's mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime.

The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.

Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to reform him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile, and murder and a grand courtroom scene ensue.

Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

The San Francisco earthquake shakes up the life of Jenny, a madam who gives birth to an illegitimate son and gives him up to protect him.

Rich couple loses their fortune in stock market crash.

A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.

"Once a Lady" is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and starring Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello, and Jill Esmond. The film, produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, is a remake of the Pola Negri silent film "Three Sinners" (1928). The film was British matinée idol Novello's final attempt to establish himself in Hollywood.

In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

A society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of her child.

A fallen woman, forcibly separated from her young son, has a chance encounter with him years later when she's put on trial for murder.

The Dummy is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Robert Milton and written by Harriet Ford, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Herman J. Mankiewicz and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The film stars Fredric March, John Cromwell, Fred Kohler, Mickey Bennett, Vondell Darr, Jack Oakie and ZaSu Pitts. The film was released on March 9, 1929, by Paramount Pictures.

After marrying wealthy Richard Garson for his money and prestige, Lillian Garson grows weary of her stuffed-shirt husband and decides to run off with another man. However, when Lillian's lover is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver, an old friend of Garson's learns Lillian's secret.