William Powell plays the role of Nick Charles, a retired private detective turned lush. His rich wife, Nora, played by Myrna Loy, has inherited her late father's business and Nick has taken on the responsibility of running it and living in luxury. While at the lobby bar at the Ritz, Nick runs in to the
The crowd laughs with you always ... but it will cry with you for one day. A young optimistic man named John Sims (Murray) moves to New York to lead a successful life. Driven for success, he works hard and studies after work in order to get up in the world. He ends up meeting
Alfred Butler, played by Keaton, is a young member of an affluent family and an example of the idle rich. His father sends him off to camp in the wilderness so that he can learn to "become a man and learn to take care of himself." Off he goes with his valet, played by Edward
...for Alonzo there was an end to Hate... called death... A traveling circus features a man with no arms, named Alonzo (Chaney). Unknown to the rest of the circus troupe, or the circus master, is that he has the hots for the circus master's daughter, Nanon (Crawford), he in fact has arms, and that he
