A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rented by pooling resources and pretending to be wealthy themselves.
Tag: 1940s
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he’s failed in his patriotic duty when he’s rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
Jason Bond hops a ride on a freight-train car, containing a saddled horse, Black Eagle, and some rifles. When the boxcar is placed on a railway siding in a Texas town, Jason meets Ginny Long, the sister of the horse-owner who is missing and has been murdered. The rifles are for a group of horse-ranchers, led by Bengy Laughton, who are being swindled by Frank Hayden. The latter forces Bond to go to work for him by framing him for the murder.
This musical revolves around Ann Castle, a beautiful burlesque showgirl, who takes a job performing at a ranch to raise money for her father’s silver mine. Handsome engineer Steve Baird, her father’s partner, is struggling to locate potential investors for the mine. Ann rejects Baird’s advances, the investors remain elusive and all seems lost for the engineer until he encounters Mortimer J. Slocum, a wily con man, who produces counterfeit money.
The owner of a cattle ranch and publisher of the Laramie Bulletin wages an uphill battle to have Wyoming join the Union, in the face of intimidation by corrupt politician Lee Landow and crooked banker Jesse Dixon who have teamed up to fight her.
During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girl friends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn’t count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
Marianne, a stage actress, has decided to give up her career in order to marry a wealthy nobleman, Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and to steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved…