Helen Kane

Three Little Words

Richard Thorpe

Fred Astaire, Red Skelton

Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact, that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relation.

Betty Boop: The Queen of Cartoons

Eddie Borden, Irène Bordoni

From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a popular icon since the 1930s.

Sweetie

Frank Tuttle

Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane

Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.

Nothing But the Truth

Victor Schertzinger

Richard Dix, Berton Churchill

A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.

A Lesson in Love

Casey Robinson

Helen Kane, Donald Kirke

Helen Kane stars as a college student who has a crush on her psychology teacher.

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

Louis Lewyn

Eddie Kane, Roscoe Ates

Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.

Paramount on Parade

Ernst Lubitsch, Dorothy Arzner

Maurice Chevalier, Jean Arthur

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

Pointed Heels

A. Edward Sutherland

William Powell, Helen Kane

Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss Wray, but he won't use his influences to take any advantages.... as usual, he's a perfect gentleman. Pointed Heels was supposed to have been a vehicle for "boop-boop-a-doop" girl Helen Kane, but by the time the film was released, Kane's role was reduced to a supporting part.

Heads Up

Victor Schertzinger

Charles Rogers, Helen Kane

Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Jack is not invited. Meanwhile, Mary suspects Rex of picking up contraband beyond the 12-mile limit and refuses his proposal of marriage, while Betty, her impish sister, drives Skippy to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port by a coast guard, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary; but on a subsequent cruise, he hides himself in a lifeboat with two aides. When the captain stops to take on a cargo of rum, Jack and his aides take over the vessel, and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, and Jack proves his heroism, while Rex reveals his true colors and is identified as a fugitive bootlegger.

Dangerous Nan McGrew

Malcolm St. Clair

Helen Kane, Victor Moore

Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.