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- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMargaret SullavanHerbert MarshallFrank MorganA naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsJane WithersThomas BeckLouise HenryAn orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsJane WithersGloria StuartHenry WilcoxonJane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
- DirectorHarley KnolesStars'Little Billy' RhodesDavid ButlerMadge KennedyBilly, a diminutive manager of prizefighters, is priming Jim Stone for the heavyweight championship, when Charley Burns discloses that for the past 8 years he has invented a mythical wife and daughter for the benefit of his Aunt Phoebe, who now requests a visit from them. He finally persuades Billy to pose as his daughter, Evangeline, while Miss Brennan, a magazine writer, consents to take the role of his wife. Billy narrowly escapes the ordeal of being put to bed by Miss Bond, Aunt Phoebe's young companion; later, he dons his pink dress and orders his chauffeur to race to New York. At Madison Square Garden, Jim is panic-stricken as Billy fails to show up, but after many humorous incidents, Billy, in a party dress and blonde wig, manages to crash the gate and call instructions to Jim in the ring. Jim wins the bout, and Billy's identity is discovered. Meanwhile, Aunt Phoebe learns from Charley's butler that he has no family; she tracks him to the Garden, and then to a nightclub, where all are happily united.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMitzi GreenEdna May OliverLouise FazendaTwo small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsDavey LeeEdward Everett HortonBetty BronsonOn the eve of her divorce, a mother enlists her sister's aid in smuggling her young son out of the house, fearing that she will lose custody of him and hides out in the apartment of her husband's bachelor lawyer, who has just left town for a month. Complications arise when the lawyer's parents unexpectedly pay him a visit, and the woman is forced to pose as his new wife in order to be able to stay hidden out in the apartment.
- DirectorF. Harmon WeightStarsRin Tin TinDavey LeeRaymond McKeeRinty (Rin-Tin-Tin) rescues a young boy, Billy (Davey Lee) , lost in the woods and prevents a gang of crooks from stealing a cache of gold from Hazy (Josef Swickarf) a kindly old man.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsMonte BlueDavey LeeBetty CompsonGangster Joe Daley marries a chorus girl named Sadie and decides to give up the rackets and surrender $100,000 to the DA . For this she turns on him and goes in with Blackie Culver, a rival gang lord, and they set Joe up to take the rap for stealing it. Joe is sent to prison, still unaware of Sadie's betrayal. She makes Joe believe the DA wants her and that he must save her by escaping. He does so and injures his face in the breakout. Farm girl Elsa Langdon has her surgeon father remake his face. Now unrecognizable, Joe learns of Sadie's plot and returns to the city.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsJack HoltDorothy RevierDavey LeeA gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsLee TracySally EilersJimmy Durante"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act, only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsDarla HoodGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandCarl 'Alfalfa' SwitzerTruant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsShirley TempleHerbert MarshallLaraine DayKathleen is a 12 year old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true. Kathleen and her nanny, Mrs. Farrell do not get along, so her father hires a psychologist name Dr. Kent to be her new nanny for the summer. Her father has a new girlfriend, named Lorraine, who he is considering for his wife and mother to Kathleen. Kathleen does not like her and Lorraine is cold to Kathleen. Kathleen envisions Dr. Kent as the perfect mother for her and wife for her father.