Home Work

Who's a Dummy?

Mrs. Errol, rehearsing for a play but keeping it a secret from Leon, forces him to take a taxi, as she needs the family car. The taxi driver tells Leon a tale of a love triangle that sets Leon's imagination on fire. He follows his wife and discovers her rehearsing a love scene with an actor, and he thinks it is real. He is leaving when he hears a pistol shot and rushes back, to discover his wife stuffing a dummy in a hamper, but he thinks it is a real body. To protect his wife, Leon steals the hamper, and is almost lynched by a crowd who also thinks the hamper contains a real body.

Triple Trouble

Leon Errol wants to retain his secretary; complications ensue.

An Apple in His Eye

Edgar tries his hand at making pies for Vivien's charity bazaar with predictable results.

A Rented Riot

While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.

A Polo Phony

Salesman Leon Errol joins a polo club to secure an order from a tough-sell member. He manages to gum up the deal for his company and gets fired.

Goodness! A Ghost

Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur play.

Man-I-Cured

Leon Errol and his wife try to prevent their nephew's romance.

Gildersleeve on Broadway

On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.

Girls! Girls! Girls!

Errol is mistakenly involved in the raid of a burlesque show where he had innocently gone in order to hire some talent, including a fan dancer, for his lodge show.

The Fighting Gringo

A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.

Genius at Work

Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.

They Won't Believe Me

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

The Locket

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

The Curse of the Cat People

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

Pete Kelly's Blues

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

The Miracle of the Bells

The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.