Albert Gran – MRQE

Hula

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.

Kiss Me Again

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.

Mother Knows Best

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a “don’t do this, daughter” and “don’t do that, daughter” story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.

Geraldine

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on a story by Booth Tarkington, Geraldine stars winsome Marion Nixon in the title role. Though quite wealthy, sweet Geraldine Wygate lacks the social graces to win the heart of aristocratic Bell Cameron (Gaston Glass). The heroine’s dad (Alexander Gran) spends a fortune sending the girl to charm school, and upon her graduation she is quite the poised fashion plate. In fact, now she’s too good for the snooty Cameron, and she has fallen in love with her instructor, down-to-earth Eddie Able (Eddie Quillan). The 1953 Republic musical comedy Geraldine was not a remake.

Employees’ Entrance

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her “career move.”

My Past

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.

Sweethearts and Wives

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister’s divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.

The Man from Blankley’s

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there’s a party going on, he’s mistaken for a hired butler.

The Kibitzer

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people’s lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.

Tanned Legs

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet’s the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy’s friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet’s reputation.