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- Canio and his Comedia dell'Arte troupe tour Italy. His wife Nedda meets a young cadet and they plan to elope. He tries to leave her when he finds how important she is for his husband, but a rejected trouper interferes. As jealous Canio suspects the truth the tragedy approaches. Richard Tauber sings Pagliacci.
- Peter Franke owns Supraphon record company, which has one main competitor in Lyraphon. As a commercial strategy Peter gets engaged to her counter partner Asta, to his assistant Münzer's approval. Then he meets Wally Sommer, singing saleswoman at one of his shops, and all his plans are turned upside down while they both fall in love in this light musical comedy filled with Robert Stolz music.
- A music student is hired to dub an indisposed tenor in a film entitled A Star fell from Heaven. He does it to become successful and be able to propose to his beloved, his housekeeper's daughter. But things won't be so easy. English version of one of the few Joseph Schmidt films, with a different ending than the German one.
- Some British citizens meet at the Venetian Lido where they go to play. Between them is naughty Mr. Corner, who under the false name of Mr. Pickles goes after Mimi so his friend's son can be free to marry his own daughter. Only, he does not know that the man is in fact already married to Mimi. Little does he suspect that back home they will all meet at his home, Braystead Castle, where fireworks are to be expected.
- Recently widowed from María de las Mercedes, King Alfonso XII of Spain is urged to marry again to secure the restored monarchy and a heir to the throne. He chooses María Cristina de Battemberg, who makes an excellent yet lonely queen. Then the king becomes ill. Second part to "¿Dónde vas Alfonso XII ?".
- Eloísa leaves her aunt with whom she has had a bad living since her mother's death, and travels to the city to ask shelter from another aunt, who takes her as a maid. She also meets a good boy and they become engaged. When to sort out a difficult situation her aunt compromises her honor she will have to react. Based on the zarzuela of the same title.
- Javier and Teresina, a simple village girl, fall in love during his stay in the Asturias countryside recovering from an illness. He promises to marry her before the Covadonga Virgin altar. Back in Madrid, Javier's mother has other plans for his son, to marry him to a marquise. Time goes by and all of them return to Asturias, and Javier must now decide on his future.
- Rosa, a poor and ill widow, has a child and, with her doctor's help, gives him to a rich family who has just lost their baby. When she recovers she enters their service as nanny. As time goes by they have another child whom they spoil and gets in trouble. His step-brother will try to help him and Rosa will try to help his own son in turn.
- Dr. Felgentreu is not expecting half of what's coming upon him : a young lady patient falling in love with him, a well-kept secret from his past unveiled and himself being involved in a crime. The only thing he could count on was his antibiotic serum experiments progressing. Schoenmals was a doctor in real life as well as actor.
- Baby, a count's daughter, longs for a stage career, while her best friend, a chorus girl, longs for an education. When Baby's parents find out she has cheated them, they decide to send her to an English boarding school. Her friend's company travel on the same boat. Both girls agree to change identities and follow their dreams.
- Javier is used to make the best of his military life. When a companion is killed in his place, he makes up his mind and enters religious life. Reencountering his rich and spoiled family will show him that not all the battles were fought during the war.
- Alejandro, a young composer, leaves Madrid after several disappointments, enlisting in the Army for Cuba, by then still a Spanish colony bursting with revolutionary attempts. He makes good friends with Antonio and then they meet Bambú, a beautiful fruit vendor. Both men fall in love with her and help her hide from her cruel father.
- Maria, an astounding singer in a music school , is discovered by an impresario who engages her for a concert in Nizza. A nobleman wishing to leave his gambling debts behind accepts money to fake suicide for unrequited love, for publicity's sake. He heads for Paris, not knowing that she is also going to sing there.
- Antonio, a whale ship captain, has an affair with a woman who runs away convinced that her ill fate will fall upon him. He is sent to Cabo de Hornos, picking the ship owner and his wife, the woman he met, on the way. They head for their destination, a place with a black legend.
- Manuel pays a visit to his parents at the family Andalusian cortijo (hacienda), where he meets dancer Castañuela. His fiancée decides to visit him there too. Castañuela feels herself divided between her attraction for the patron's son and the love of an honest worker.
- Alfredo Rivera and his cousin travel abroad from Buenos Aires to meet the sender of a mysterious letter. She happens to be a girl who has fallen in love with his name, used by her teacher as a fictitious recipient to practice commercial letters, her companions having sent one of the letters for fun.
- Champagne Waltz is one of five movies produced by Paramount in the 1930s featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies.
- The wife of the Perú viceroy travels back to his husband and falls in love with the ship's captain, although they both know their duty.The viceroy serious condition makes him travel back to Spain, facing storms, mutiny and death along an ill-fated trip.
- When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up. Her authoritarian ways collide with Török, her manager. Based on Emerich Kálmán operetta.
- Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris for the 1867 World Exhibition. As their reservation was lost they must be accommodated in separate hotels. The next day the mother has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her.
- Two war comrades return home to their country village. At the vine feast Katinka, unspoiled niece of one of them, gets engaged to the other, Gyorgy. Then he travels to the city and falls for a flirtatious rich girl, breaking Katinka's heart. He'll soon discover the truth. First (semisilent) Mártha Eggerth film.
- Showstar Csibi's mother Maria has a new suitor. In order to make Maria appear younger Csibi poses as a young brat which backfires when she meets the suitor's gorgeous brother and flirts with him while he treats her like a little child.
- A wealthy young man changes his idle life when he falls in love with a beautiful girl of humble position, leaving the city for the Argentinian pampa to become a man with self-pride worthy of her hand, in a story offering pamperas and tangos sung by two famous Argentinian singers of the time.
- To Immendingen Principality travels Christine Holm, daughter of a singer, to find her unknown father. The Prince is awaiting a replacement singer for the annual concert. Chistine meets handsome lieutenant von Arnegg, son of the minister, and is aided by Herr Knips, a poet. When she is about to unveil the truth she is ordered by the minister to leave at once.
- Das Land des Lächelns operetta is performed at a diplomat's mansion. Lisa hosts an exotic guest from India, paralleling the stage story of prince SouChong(Tauber)and Viennese Countess Lisel(Margit Suchy)in a tale of East meets West.
- Opera star Enrico Ferraro, tired of his stressful schedule, changes trains for a Swiss vacation. When his presence is discovered at the peaceful lakeside resort, he changes places with a new friend pretending he is his secretary. Free at last he explores the country and meets a beautiful girl.
- Officers stationed in a castle in Flandes during WWI are comforted by Gloria Delamare's recorded voice. One of them even writes her a letter that will never be sent. When the war is over Miss Delamare takes a tour in Belgium and spends a night in that castle. Most unexpectedly her former admirer appears and they dine and dance together. In the morning he has disappeared and she finds the letter. She tries to find him, only to discover he is presumably dead and involved in a family secret.
- Back in India after what happened at first part Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to carry on his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will get involuntarily involved having to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.
- Elena, her mother and sister travel from Cáceres to Madrid searching for a better future and opportunities for Elena to make career as a singer. They make friends with a carriage driver and a young painter who also tries to succeed. Then their struggle with various ups and downs begins.
- A Cuban millionaire leaves his fortune to the first marriage to be concluded between two families, the Acevedo's and the Espinosa's, before the centenary of his death would be fulfilled. If no link, the money will go to the State. In the past, It has never been possible this union because there were no women, but now the Espinosa family has Mary, and the Acevedo's want to marry Ernesto. However Mary is in Cuba and Ernesto sends his servant's photo instead of his.
- Harbour policeman Hans and his companion rescue a young woman from water during their night watch, to find out she is connected with a jewel robbery in which a gangster now owner of an hippodrome, an out jailed one and his mistress now mixed up with an American millionaire weave some obscure plans.
- Both the King and his son have been deposed by popular demand. The now Prinz of Arkadia certainly enjoys his new role, which without much changing his lifestyle leaves him free to concentrate on his main interest -women. Including an actress who once wrote a mocking song about him -a song that he likes to sing.
- When an unsympathetic and benefit-driven factory director is shot and sent to hospital, his old and young engineer, a poor but honest man who has fallen in love with the secretary whom the director has proposed to, team up to keep the business running.
- The night before his wedding George gets drunk and marries a chorus girl. Her boyfriend appears, they fight and are believed dead, so she is now "the bridegroom's widow" (die Bräutigamswitwe). When they both come back one after another they must hide from the Police as they believe they have murdered each other, while the inspector believes there are ghosts in the house.
- The elder of three sisters performing an equestrian number is engaged to her partner. Her frail health makes him switch affections to the middle one, Maria. They marry, have a child and she becomes also frail.He turns to the younger sister.
- Determined Gerda Weber travels to the big city and locates at a girl's pension. She soon finds job as a secretary in a big business thanks to her optimism and wits, and ends dating her boss after mistaking him for a companion. They share an evening of music and dancing, after which she discovers who he really is.
- A girl of the suburbs wants to become a variety star. Working as a model she meets a wealthy sculptor, who offers her money and education. She chooses instead to take the money and run away. Will the "marsh flower" emerge or will she sink ?
- As children an accident makes Ludwig blind, and Renate feels responsible. She cares for him through the years, relegating a promising career as sculptor. He regains vision, a flirtatious dancer appears, and he ignores that Renate is her former childhood companion.
- A famous Hungarian revue star travels to the countryside to rest. Upset by a conversation against actresses, she decides to impersonate an unsophisticated peasant girl -and so well does she, that she gets trapped into her own trick.
- Gerte Winter, a young Berliner mechanic, marries an English rich nobleman who promises to send for her. Time goes on, and tired of waiting Gerte heads off to England. After some new acquaintances she finds herself in front of a big fenced property.
- Giovanni works as tourist guide in Naples, Capri and the near isles, where clear waters and fresh air inspire his singing. Claire, an idle traveler, hires him and eventually gets fancied with him and his extraordinary voice. Leaving an Italian girl who truly loves him, they leave together for an urban socialite life and maybe an opera contract.
- Capricious Lady Virginia has an unexpected double in a girl who works at a fair and wishes for a beauty salon. When the first one's eccentricities lead to her arrest, the second is paid for going to prison. There she meets Charles, Virginia's suitor. When out of jail she will have to fight not only for him but for going through with the leading role in a skating show.
- When Dr. Penning, a famed doctor, takes a wife, some of her women patients don't get discouraged, and his wife will have to face what being a doctor's wife supposes.
- Francisquita, owner of a pastry shop with her widowed mother, loves Fernando, but he only has eyes for Aurora, a temperamental artist. It's his father who courts Francisquita, despite her efforts to interest the son. Aided by Fernando's friend, she will follow the steps of the parallel story in the famed Zarzuela of the same name to make him jealous.
- During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him. But he accepts..
- Joseph Reiner, a talented music student, tries to get a contract from a film and music producer, aided by Annerl, the girl he loves, and his music school fellows. When famous screen tenor Lincoln gets suddenly indisposed he will have a chance, yet not exactly the one he expected.
- Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. Even not having money he gets to know her, invites her to supper and after dancing a tango, even hires the royal suite. How will he get out of this is a mystery to himself.
- A man plays Judas in the passion Easter play but he ambitions to play the role of Jesus.
- A young lieutenant is appointed flag bearer for his regiment, on the verge of the Spanish war against Napoleonic invasion. He doesn't share his friends'conspiring plans because he is engaged to a French lady. Then the revolution breaks out.
- In Madrid, under Queen Isabel II reign, rebellions are frequent events. During one of them Captain Jorge de Córdoba, nicknamed Veneno (poison) for his quarrelsome disposition, bad temper and outright misogyny, is hurt and taken to a house where two women, a widow and her daughter, are to take care of him.