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- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsJeanette MacDonaldRobert YoungEthel WatersReporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Convoys with robot-planes.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsJackie CooperMeg RandallEmory ParnellErnie (Jackie Cooper), manager of an apartment house that allows no children, finds himself evicted when his wife, Peg (Meg Randall as Gene Roberts), becomes pregnant. With the help of an imaginary stork and a large department store, he institutes a boycott against the apartment house.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsLeon ErrolJoe Kirkwood Jr.Guy KibbeeIn the second film of Monogram's "Joe Palooka" series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe, he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize-fighting profession, but his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name, and discredit the crooked politicians.
- DirectorAlexander HallVincente MinnelliStarsWilliam PowellHedy LamarrJames CraigThe neglected wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsEdward G. RobinsonMarlene DietrichGeorge RaftTwo friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.