Movies: Stepin Fetchit

Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other bo...

Spanish-language version of The Big Fight (1930)....

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"...

The gang creates a huge mess after they get into a taffy-pulling contest....

Cameo Kirby, an honest riverboat gambler who works the Mississippi, rescues a girl from a gang of ruffians in New Orleans, but she disappears after he sings her a love song....

Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature lover Frank Gordon. Lost film....

Bill Grant is a small-time gambler who spends more time embellishing his accomplishments than actually doing anything. He has a small run of good luck when he wins a racehorse during a poker game. This enables him to enjoy the lifestyle he has been ...

A wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his "class" because of her beautiful, classically trained singing voice. In actuality, she is the daughter of a poor hotel maid, and in order to keep the boyfrie...

The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister....

Gloria Parker plays a station news agent who sings about a well-dressed man who comes to her asking directions to Broadway and Main. A janitor sweeps up around her as she sings. Intercut are scenes of her playing the vibraphone with her orchestra....

The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas....

Pretty Ruth Mason, who headlined at the Village sport for almost a year, is the heroine with Manhattan Paul, emcee at the club, as the guy who gets her, finally....

Stepin Fetchit in the Educational Pictures short "Slow Poke," doing the shtick that made him a millionaire in the 1930s....

Soundie featuring Mable Lee and Stephin Fetchit....