List of Paramount Pictures films (1930–1939)

A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.

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.

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

Based on J.M. Barrie's play "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," about a young Canadian soldier (Gary Cooper) wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow (Beryl Mercer) without a son believes that he is in fact her son. To comfort the widow, the soldier agrees to pretend to be her Scottish son. After fighting with British sailors who make fun of his kilts, he wants to desert, but moved by his mother's patriotism he returns to the war front and is killed in battle. Later the proud Scottish widow receives the medals that her "son" was awarded for bravery. Produced by Louis D. Lighton and Richard Wallace for Paramount Pictures, the film was released on January 25, 1930 in the United States, (Wikipedia)

Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.

A big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.

A boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).

Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...

A jewel thief's accomplice falls for a mysterious gentleman crook. Together, they decide to reform but trouble finds them when the girl's boss is killed during a struggle.

A Union captain (Gary Cooper) in the Civil War volunteers for spy duty, then meets and falls for a Southern belle (Mary Brian).

J. Aubrey Piper, a lowly railroad clerk with an irritating laugh and a gigantic ego, constantly brags about his knowledge and success. Despite the strenuous objections of her parents and sister Clara, Amy Fisher sees another side of Aubrey and accepts his proposal of marriage. Ma Fisher predicts financial ruin and unhappiness for Amy, but agrees to let them marry in the family home, and Frank Hyland, Clara's well-off husband, loans Aubrey money for their honeymoon. Eight months later, Amy and Aubrey must move from their small apartment because their building is being torn down. Amy still loves Aubrey but is so worried about money that she breaks down in front Ma. Meanwhile, the pompous Aubrey borrows Frank's car to go to an auto show, gets a parking ticket, then foolishly antagonizes a traffic cop and causes an accident in which the cop's arm is broken. Frank pays $1,000 to cover the costs, but Aubrey faces criminal prosecution for injuring a policeman. That night, the family learns that Pa Fisher has died of a stroke. Although still refusing to take responsibility for the accident or his financial failings, Aubrey tells Amy that, because he is now the head of the family, they should move in with Ma and Amy's brother Joe, a budding inventor. That same night, Aubrey sees a letter Joe has just received from Morgan and Jennings, two patent attorneys who are interested in an automobile process Joe has invented. A few days later, when Aubrey faces the judge, he is so impertinent and contemptuous that the judge increases his fine from $500 to $7,000, which Frank takes care of. Meanwhile, after Ma signs papers to receive Pa's life insurance, she and Clara talk about Aubrey, and Clara admits that she envies her sister because Aubrey is such a loving husband, while Frank, though an excellent provider, is too busy to pay much attention to her. After court, Aubrey goes to see Morgan and Jennings. When the lawyers tell him that they have already met with Joe and he signed a $50,000 contact with them, Aubrey insists that he is Joe's representative and would not think of allowing Joe to accept anything less than $100,000 and fifty percent of the profits from his invention. Aubrey's obnoxious bravado, and his threat that they can sell the invention to General Motors, so alienates Morgan and Jennings that they tell him he is detestable and they are no longer interested. For the first time, even Aubrey begins to realize the terrible effects of his actions. A short time later, Joe, who does not know that Aubrey went to the lawyers, arrives home and tells the family about his $50,000 contract. Aubrey tries to dismiss the contract, but just then a letter from Morgan and Jennings arrives with a check for $100,000 and an agreement to Aubrey's terms. Joe is so delighted over the windfall that he tells Aubrey he will be his partner in all future endeavors. Amy and Aubrey are overjoyed, but poor Ma can only say "Lord help me from now on."

After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.

A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

Lt. Robert Banks (Charles Rogers) shoots down and captures a German ace and is betrayed by the woman he loves.

A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there. He decides to find out who killed him.

Drunk Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth, sister of his murdered friend and heir to the ranch. She refuses but hires Dick and his buddies to protect her from Stack who claims to have bought the ranch.

A musical revue that has Paramount stars and contract-players doing unrelated short sketches and elaborately staged song-and-dance numbers like a duet on a giant cuckoo clock and Clara Bow singing aboard a navy vessel.

The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.

Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.

The villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.

A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.

An outlaw and con-man's plan to bilk an old woman out of a fortune takes an unexpected turn.

Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature writer for another newspaper, and they get married after a whirlwind romance. The romance begins to wane nearly as fast as it blossomed but, directly and indirectly, is salvaged by Toby's writer pal, "Shorty" Ross, and a ditsy socialite, "Puff" Randolph. Artchive footage provides shots of the Tunney-Dempsey fight, and other sports events of the era.

A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart.