Hugh Herbert

A timid stenographer removes her glasses and - wow - she's a star. A gee-whiz tenor asserts his independence. Plucky chorines tap, a greedy hangers-on get their comeuppances, and an indefatigable producer/dancer and his Girl Friday work showbiz miracles to stage live prologues for talkie houses to keep their company afloat during hard times.

Love is blind, fickle and true. Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged to Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies, have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get the boy from her by using some magic. Lysander and Hermina meet in the forest. Helena...

"The story whisks audiences off to Paris with a fashion sharpie and a designer who hope to bootleg the hottest haute couture and flood New York with knockoffs. The two stars make larceny seem like great fun and Berkeley's numbers are astonishing"--Container.

The film follows a rube, played by Henry Morgan, on a journey as he uses his recently obtained inheritance to take a trip to 1910's New York with his wife and sister-in-law. Along the way, he encounters numerous eccentric characters including a drunken jockey, a sleaze ball millionaire and a devious stage actor, all scheming to court his sister-in-law in order to gain a slice of the inheritance.

"An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist."-- IMDb.

The set includes ten films from the golden age of the silver screen spanning the '30s, '40s, and '50s.