Movies by George Barbier

Straight, Place and Show

Straight, Place and Show

The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.

Remember?

Remember?

Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.

A Girl with Ideas

A Girl with Ideas

A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.

The Big Pond

The Big Pond

A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.

Repent at Leisure

Repent at Leisure

Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.

Million Dollar Legs

Million Dollar Legs

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

No One Man

No One Man

When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.

Old Man Rhythm

Old Man Rhythm

Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

24 Hours

24 Hours

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.

The Big Broadcast

The Big Broadcast

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.

Thunder Birds

Thunder Birds

On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.

Spendthrift

Spendthrift

A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.

Hold That Co-ed

Hold That Co-ed

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.

Mama Loves Papa

Mama Loves Papa

A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.

The Preview Murder Mystery

The Preview Murder Mystery

The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.

The Phantom President

The Phantom President

Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.

It's Love I'm After

It's Love I'm After

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.

The Adventures of Marco Polo

The Adventures of Marco Polo

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.

The Sap from Syracuse

The Sap from Syracuse

Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.