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- In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
- It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drunken British sergeant.
- Aging roué Arthur Merrill meets flapper Penelope Stevens on an ocean liner and decides to undergo rejuvenation surgery to enjoy life again. Transformed, he attends a wild jazz party given by Penelope and persuades her to visit his apartment, but he finds that she is a "good girl" and only flirting. After he gives Penelope a scare and a lecture, her old beau Brock Farley enters with a letter to Arthur that reveals that Brock is his son. Arthur gladly steps aside, renounces his wild living, and returns to a simple life. - Motion Picture News 1924.
- Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
- Nellie Wayne loses her husband Pendleton to Jill Wetherell by neglecting him and her appearance to pursue her literary ambitions. She goes to Europe, where she becomes fashionable and a famous novelist under the name of Mrs. Paramor. She encounters Jill with Perley Rex, whom the vamp has married after jilting Pendleton. Intending to teach Jill a lesson, Nellie applies her charms to Perley until he offers to divorce Jill, but Nellie refuses and sends for Pendleton, whom she still loves. Toward the end some of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars are shown at a banquet and Mah-Jong party at which Mrs. Paramor entertains the screen stars who are to work in the film of one of her novels.
- A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
- Just as Nancy Claxton finished at a convent school, her wealthy father Sherwood is killed in a roadhouse brawl. Stung by the disgrace, she disappears and her sweetheart, Herrick, tries to find her.
- Jack's dog, Peter the Great, is the sole witness to Phil's murder of Barbara Jane's stepfather. Peter fetches his master, and Jack's presence at the scene of the crime results in his being convicted of the murder. With Peter's assistance, however, Jack escapes from jail and goes to Mexico with Barbara Jane. They find Phil, and Peter's ferocity wrings a confession from the culprit.
- In Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a beautiful daughter named Romola. Tito flirts with a peasant girl in the streets, and for fun goes through a mock marriage with her -- but she takes it seriously. Romola doesn't really love him, but marries him because her father wishes it. When the Medici are forced out, Tito joins the new government and rises to be chief magistrate. His evil actions earn him the hatred of Romola and of the people, and he is killed by his stepfather. Romola ends up with sculptor Carlo, who has always loved her.
- An aristocrat who was raised in Spain returns to the United States and falls in love with a plumber.
- Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kind woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to ensure that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.
- Comedienne Maggie falls for musician Al Cassidy. They get married, Al becomes a songwriter and Maggie a housewife. Al is hired to write a number for one of the Follies' most beautiful stars and falls for her. Complications ensue.
- A sideshow ventriloquist, a midget, and a strongman form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" and commit a series of robberies.
- Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in a train wreck in which another woman is killed. Katherine finds the woman's purse and, among its contents, discovers an invitation for the woman to spend 6 months in an unoccupied luxury apartment in Manhattan. Katherine seizes this opportunity and sets up housekeeping in the elegant suite, living well and dressing in the newest fashions. Her family appears unexpectedly, and Katherine tells them that she is married to Nicholas Wentworth, the apartment's owner. Mother Emerson, disturbed that Nicholas is not living with his "wife," writes to him in Europe and asks him to return. Nicholas arrives unexpectedly and is highly amused at Katherine's predicament, taking every opportunity to make her miserable. Katherine finally decides to tell her family the truth, but she is forestalled when Nicholas, who has decided that she would make a good wife, asks her to marry him.
- Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.
- When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to kill the deserter who she learns is the son of a murderous revenue agent.
- A prince must woo the now-wealthy dancer he once abandoned, to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.
- An American criminal imports a gang of Hungarian gypsies to gain control over a fortune. The victim, Doris Merrick, is persuaded by fake medium Zara to hand over her jewels to Nash.
- A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 is given to meet the people who make the movies there and see how movies are made.
- An unhappy woman considers leaving her dull husband for another man.
- Naval Academy upperclassman James Randall falls for Patricia Lawrence, a plebe's sister. She is engaged to the wealthy but ne'er-do-well Basil Courtney, who comes up with a scheme to discredit his rival that involves a "loose" woman and framing James for a technical violation that can get him kicked out of the Academy. Complications ensue.
- Two couples, John and Margaret Rathburn and Victor and Elise Moran, have been married a year and live next door to each other. Margaret is an excellent cook and housekeeper but is not very affectionate, while Elise is very affectionate but cannot cook. Circumstances throw the couples together as Elise vamps John and Victor falls in love with Margaret. Margaret, determined to keep John, arranges for the four to go to a mountain lodge where the husbands and wives would live in separate cabins and each wife would cook for the other's husband. In the end John is glad to return to Margaret, and a sudden reversion to caveman tactics brings Elise to Victor's arms.
- After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
- Fely and Anne are twins orphaned when their mother dies en route from Ireland to America. Fely is adopted by the O'Tandys, who live in New York's Shantytown, and Anne is adopted by the wealthy De Rhondos. Fely grows up without knowing her sister and becomes a dancer in Tony Pastor's theater. Dirk De Rhondo, Anne's stepbrother, is attracted to Fely, and after protecting her during the great Orangemen's riot falls in love with her. She consents to his proposal but later retracts when Dirk's father dispossesses her family. Fely's father, however, becomes wealthy when his investment in Edison's incandescent light pays off, but Dirk's father is ruined. Fely saves De Rhondo's bank from a run by making a large deposit, thus winning over Dirk's family and paving the way for their marriage.
- A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
- Nora Dakon, bored with the dullness of her life in a small New Jersey town, leaves her husband and small daughter to run off with Larry Brundage, a wealthy New York City sportsman. Nora's husband kills himself, and, to avoid scandal, Brundage walks out on Nora. She returns to her child and later she becomes a noted singer. Nora moves to Paris, France, and at a party to celebrate the Armistice, she again meets Brundage, who falls madly in love with her daughter, Ruth. To break up their engagement, Nora is forced to tell Ruth of her tragic relationship with Brundage years earlier. Ruth leaves Brundage and soon finds consolation in the love of Tom Cautley, a young art student.
- Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love with him, but his mother feels she is beneath Nathan. Nathan faces disaster unless he can corner a particular stock, with which Timothy and Max's room happens to be entirely papered.
- Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city. There he will show Patsy that he can be just what he thinks she wants: a city slicker. But Patsy yearns for the simple pleasure of her country boy Tom, and is shocked at what shows up at her door.
- Tracey Moffat, a schoolgirl flapper, makes a bid for her freedom by rejecting the man her father has chosen for her to marry and instead chooses fun-loving Gilbert Jenkins. Her parents' interference proves to be more than Tracey can bear, and she threatens to leave home. Mr. and Mrs. Moffat reevaluate their position, however, and decide to support their daughter's decision. Free to go, Tracey nevertheless decides to stay home and marry Gilbert.
- Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution erupts and the king is assassinated. Chief revolutionary Gigberto also falls in love with Thyra. The revolutionaries plan to drown Thyra and Gigberto in a boat, but the Duke takes Gigberto's place. And the loving couple are rescued.
- An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief.
- When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.
- Three women performing in a Broadway show face temptation, love, money, betrayal and tragedy as the cost of fame.
- The story tells how Count Preyn is artfully trapped into a marriage with the cold, unemotional princess of Flausenburg. Poor Count Preyn, with his bubbling Viennese disposition, finds himself lost in the cold atmosphere of the Flausenburg court. On his wedding night he rushes away in desperation and finds a pretty Viennese orchestra leader in a cafe. A romance ensues, the girl never suspecting that he is the prince consort. The girl, Franzi, is hired to teach the princess the modern arts in order to win her husband's love. Right up to the last she is unaware that it is her lover that she is helping to win back for his princess wife.
- Markrute, who holds the mortgage on the estate of Lord Tancred, insists that his niece, Velma, marry Tancred in order to improve his own social standing. Velma refuses and cuts all financial ties with her uncle. She later meets Tancred and, not knowing who he is, falls madly in love with him. Velma's brother is charged with embezzlement, and her uncle offers to make good the boy's accounts if she marries Tancred. She finds out then that her lover and her prospective husband are one and the same man and, feeling bitter and tricked, marries him. The marriage remains one in name only until Tancred, frustrated and disappointed, threatens to get a divorce. Velma then realizes the depth of her love for Tancred, a love that increases when she learns that he had paid off the mortgage before they were married, attesting that he married her for love alone.
- Struggling young doctor in a rural community, Dr. Lawrence Tibbits, cures Norma, a circus elephant, when she is injured in a fire. The circus moves on, but Norma, who has become quite attached to the young doctor, keeps coming back, trampling everything in her way. Minette Bunker, the girl Tibbits loves, is kidnapped by one of her frustrated suitors, and Tibbits goes to the rescue, aided by Norma and 2,000 Boy Scouts. Norma later returns to the circus, and Minette prepares herself for the joys and sorrows of being a country doctor's wife.
- A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.
- Millicent Russell wants her daughter May to be a social triumph. The Russells live in a mansion, but can hardly afford it. The Russells want May to marry Roger Hallday, who is the heir to a large fortune. They plan to ride their ponies on the bridle path of the Bronx River Parkway. Set in New York City (Washington Square and elsewhere) and Paris.
- Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
- Mike, the daughter of a railroad section boss, lives with her father and three other children in a remodeled boxcar attached to a railroad work train. Harlan, a section hand, saves the life of one of the children and invites Mike to a village dance, first telling her that he once was a telegrapher but was discharged for allowing the Transcontinental Limited to go through an open switch. Slinky and his gang plot to hold up the mail train, and Mike learns of their plans. They lock her in a boxcar and set it in motion. Harlan rescues her and then wires the nearest government station for help. With the aid of precision bombing by Marine aviators, Mike and Harlan bring Slinky and his gang to justice. Harlan is reinstated in his former job and marries Mike.
- Bob Wharton marries Lorelei Knight, a beauty contest winner. While on their honeymoon, Bob is laughingly abducted by the flirtatious Bernice Lane, who keeps Bob out way past his bedtime (and his rising time, too). Lorelei, having somehow gotten the wrong idea, returns to her North Carolina home alone. But Bob follows, intent on proving his innocence and winning her back. At a charity auction, Bob proves up to the task.
- A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
- The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
- Mary (Shearer) and Carlstop (Mack) are lovers. The former is a trapeze artist, while the latter is a pickpocket. Mary gets entangled in a nearly fatal situation with Lieberkind (Miljan), a lion-tamer, and his jealous wife Yonna (Myers), who victimizes Mary.
- A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
- Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone". Tony Townsend, an American on the lam from the police in Monte Carlo for skipping out on his hotel bills, registers at the same hotel where the girls are staying, and accidentally runs into one of them, Sally. To impress Sally he "borrows" the uniform of a prince who's staying in the next suite, and soon is mistaken by everyone for him. Unbeknownst to Tony, however, a gang of anarchists from the real prince's country are in town to assassinate him. Complications ensue.
- Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter -- and revenge.
- A young bourgeois Dominique Prad spurns his family's lucrative silk business for the bohemian life of an artist. Fleeing his estate to join a band of gypsies, the mentally unstable painter falls in love with a pretty gypsy maiden, Silda.
- Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.