Brooks Benedict

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school’s owner to ...

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her ...

A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.