Movies: Louise Closser Hale

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale....

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey....

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff...

Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collab...

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."...

While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York...

A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle....

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted....

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war....

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages....

Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons h...

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself....

Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare....

A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves....

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him....

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood....

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....

A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel....

Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby....

Cyril makes wife Violet angry and finds himself trying to win his wife back!...