Gertrude Short Movies

Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.

This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.

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...

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

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...

Removed from an orphanage, Nance Olden is taken to live at Mother Hogan's boarding-house for crooks. There she becomes Tom Morgan's partner, helping...

Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him. She defies his wishes by dancing at a...

Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But...

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.

Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke,...

Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells and his wife, Maud, have...

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

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

A young disabled girl invites a poor family, that she often watches playing in the street, over for Christmas dinner.

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and...

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

Polly (Pauline Garon) and Gert (Gertrude Short) are a pair of lingerie models, ever on the prowl for boyfriends. When the girls "steal" the...