Gertrude Short Movies

A musical comedy telling a simple story of backstage life and romance. Featuring Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra and Putney Dandridge.

Cal Thurman, a timid fellow, thinking that the woman he is to meet at the train station is an old maid, avoids her when he finds that she is a pretty...

Richard Barr, who lives in the suburbs of New York, and John Colville, honest directors of a dishonestly managed corporation, are fighting to save...

Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his plans. Poverty and disappointment make him a...

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

The poor man, professing love for his family, drinks what he presumes to be poison in order to make a thousand dollars for them, but the drink proves...

A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.

A pretty young girl from the country arrives in New York, hoping to become a Broadway star. She achieves that goal, but when she hears untrue stories...

Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of...

A young boy foils outlaw "Bad Bill" from stealing a gold shipment in this classic Western short.

Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan...

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window...

Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter...

A small town girl goes to Hollywood with ambitions of becoming major dramatic star. However, the melodrama she appears in is unintentionally amusing...

The cracksman is discouraged and cynical. It is Christmas Eve. He takes his revolver and starts out in quest of gain. Dot gets home, tired out and...

The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is...

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's...

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping...

College hero Charles Stanton fails miserably as an insurance agent; so he becomes a lifeguard, saves an injured swimmer and is rewarded for his valor.