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- The Brian Sisters are also featured in this short.
- Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.
- A musical short in which a group of musician stable hands race a horse in the Hollywood Handicap at Santa Anita Park racetrack with many celebrities of the day in attendance.
- This series of shorts was a prototype of TV's late night talk shows. Celebrity guests chat with guest irreverent host Lloyd Hamilton.
- Portraits on the wall of Willy Pogany's studio come to life.
- Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
- Various entertainment celebrities take part in a circus performance, along with authentic acrobats and other performers of the big top.
- In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
- A group of singing porters, waiters, and chefs on a private railcar are rewarded when the billionaire owner gives the railcar he no longer wants to them. They convert the railcar into a diner in Los Angeles and sing to bring in customers.
- Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host a Chinese-themed tea party near the Southern California seashore complete with musical entertainment, a fashion show, and attended by Hollywood celebrities.
- Buster Keaton appears in a short skit as an admiral.
- A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies. The Royal Canadian Mounted parade; William Gargan, Gary Cooper and his wife Rocky are seen; Mary Astor is Queen, and James Cagney, on a horse, is Prince of Pep. Ann Harding on a horse, 'Stuart Erwin (I)' in an oxcart, Eddie Cantor in a chariot, Wallace Ford and Shirley Temple are seen, Chester Morris and Mary Astor catch the chariot race, and Alice White and husband Sy Bartlett are seen. Billy Barty bursts a balloon of Italian balloon seller Monte Carter and is chased. Lee Moran is a barker, Mary Astor buys a balloon, Arthur Housman, drunk, leers at her, and Mary loses her pearl necklace as barker Sam Hardy guesses Billy's weight wrong. The balloon man pays Billy to pop balloons in order that more will be bought. Meantime a necklace search is underway and Chester's balloon is popped. An organ grinder with a monkey plays "Dixie" and Winchell announces that Shirley Jean Durst will do horse tricks. William S. Hart and 'Alice Faye' sit together; May Robson is glimpsed, as a cop becomes suspicious of Billy. A Texas longhorn steer jumps over a car; 'Kenneth Thomson (I)' looks for the necklace, which Mary finds on Housman's balloon. Cantor looks at the camera, Mary smiles, and it's all over.
- Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon with an orchestra playing, all sorts of stars and would-be stars sitting at tables near the pool alongside paying customers, and bathing beauties parading and diving. The Lido's manager, Reggy Denny, introduces the stars in the audience. He's sometimes interrupted by someone who does a bit, sings a song, or otherwise entertains: most of these are novelty acts. By the end, everyone's having a swell time.
- Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
- A promotional film featuring movie stars at play.
- A fictional radio station, Station S*T*A*R, provides an excuse for a parade of novelty and variety acts by stars big and small.
- Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
- Two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
- In this short subject, performer Cliff Edwards introduces musical numbers and archival footage of various Hollywood stars, connecting them loosely with a "tribute" to theme songs -- none of which actually are theme songs. Clarence Muse performs a song of his own composition, and a mariachi band plays a musical tribute to Lupe Velez. Other footage shows the stars visiting the Caliente racetrack in Mexico.
- Penny, the dance captain/manager of the Abbott Dancers, who are just concluding their engagement at the Cocoanut Grove, and Tommy are just about to be married, Penny to join the dance troupe in San Francisco after the conclusion of the honeymoon. But in also being mother hen to the girls in both professional and personal matters, Penny, in having to put out one fire too many for the girls, may risk her relationship with Tommy altogether. In feeling like the problems between Penny and Tommy are their fault, the girls do a little subterfuge to try and the get the pair back together in wedded bliss.
- Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
- Mary & Sally who just want to get home to Kokomo, Indiana but its not so easy.