Author Archive: Retro

Breen’s screen debut as a talented youngster who runs away from his orphanage and joins a travelling circus, which eventually leads to a shot at singing opera in New York. Songs include: “Let’s Sing Again”, “Lullaby”, “Farmer in the Dell”, “La Donna e Mobile,” (from Verdi’s “Rigoletto”). Dir. Kurt Neumann. Circus life and backstage theater drama of a broken home and the custody of a child; featuring Bobby Breen, the famous child star.

Debt-ridden New England country girl inherits an ice show that has been run into bankrupcy by a conniving competitor. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus

A scientist’s obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.

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The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.

A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarty.

A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.

A young man (Frankie Darro) gets a job to support his mother; he’s hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.

In this domestic comedy, Peter Foley stands to inherit a fortune from his late uncle. The problem: to increase his allowance from his wealthy relative, Peter pretended to have a wife. Naturally, the will stipulates that Peter still be married, lest he lose his $800,000 legacy.