Ruth Chatterton

A bittersweet tale of the increasing estrangement of a retired automobile tycoon and his wife. Increasingly obsessed with maintaining an appearance of youth, she falls in with a crowd of frivolous socialites during their "second honeymoon" European vacation. He, in turn, meets a woman who is everything she is not; self-assured, self-confident, and able to take care of herself. (imdb)

Alison is owner and successful manager of an automobile factory. She also has a good relation to her employees - especially the male ones, which she is known to invite to her bed for some time and then dump quickly. Only the inventor Jim Thorne refuses her offers - will she fire or marry him? (imdb)

A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, who is a drunk. After enduring all his abuse, she finds herself attracted to a young engineer. (imdb)

A noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is. (imdb.)

A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three. (imdb)

A San Francisco madam who placed her son up for adoption years before finds herself on the opposite side of the law from her child, grown up as a District Attorney.

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

In this sassy romantic comedy, Clive Brook plays Neil Dunlap, a lawyer who is heartbroken when his wife leaves him. Neil is out drowning his sorrows when he meets Pansy Gray (Ruth Chatterton), a high-spirited chorus girl. Neil and Pansy hit the town, and a brutally hung-over Neil wakes up the next day to discover that he and Patsy are now man and wife. (All Movie Guide)

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

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

A musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting singing "My Marine" to a group of U. S. Marines, including Stuart Eriwn, Stanley Smith and Frederic March; Buddy Rogers doing a song-duet with Lillian Roth called "Any Time's the Time to Fall in Love", on a cuckoo-clock set; and Clara Bow singing and dancing in "The Red Head" number to a group of sailors. (imdb)

Rich couple loses their fortune in stock market crash. (imdb)

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a flirtation with her former boyfriend Karl Kraley (William Powell). After reels and reels of verbal fencing, the status quo is re-established, and Robert and Kathryn are reunited. (imdb)

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

A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, 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. (imdb)

"The Rat" is the moniker for a notorious jewel thief whose life suddenly changes when a friend facing life imprisonment asks him to take care of his daughter. (AllMovie)

The early Paramount talkie The Dummy represented a collaboration of sorts between screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who adapted the play on which the film was based, and Mankiewicz' brother Joseph, who wrote the subtitles for the film's silent version. The title character is office-boy Barney, played by Mickey Bennett. (allmovie.com)

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

In this drama, a prominent society woman causes a scandal when she begins a torrid affair with the dashing lifeguard who saved her from drowning at a recent beach party. Her angry husband retains an attorney and files for divorce. More trouble ensues when his lawyer begins falling for his client's wife as well. (allmovie.com)

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

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

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

A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.