Marie Dressler

Middle-aged housekeeper Emma (Marie Dressler) helps a lonely widower, Ronald Smith (Richard Cromwell) raising his spoiled and over-entitled children. When Smith takes Emma on a vacation, he makes his feelings for her known by proposing marriage. Emma happily accepts, but tragedy strikes when Smith dies of a heart attack shortly after. Emma is devastated, but then must face Smith's children, who suspect she may have been involved in the death of their father.

Scandal and intrigue abound as a social climbing woman and her husband host a party of New York's elite.

All hands on deck! Anyone wondering why Marie Dressler was such an extraordinary box-office draw need only to step aboard the tug Narcissus and sail away with Tugboat Annie for a knockabout comedy-drama. Dressler stars as savvy skipper Annie, steering through Pacific Northwest waters and through troubles with her hard-working, adoring son Alec (Robert Young) and her hapless, boozing husband Terry (Wallace Beery, Dressler's costar in Min and Bill). There are plenty of laughs, but also lots of familial strife, until life-threatening danger at sea brings out the best in Terry...and puts everyone's priorities in order.

Charlie Chaplin stars as a con who tricks a wealthy young woman into a sham marriage, but his plans take a hilarious and unlikely turn.

With her boozy boyfriend, the owner of a shabby dockside hotel scrimps and saves to give a child abandoned by her birth mother a life she never had.

Pat Harrington, an awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend, tries to make him notice her in any way.