Gerald Beaumont

A San Francisco madam who placed her son up for adoption years before finds herself on the opposite side of the law from her child, grown up as a District Attorney.

Two men from rival neighborhoods serve together on a ship in World War I. When they return after the War, they discover their neighborhoods have been overrun by drug dealers. Will their competition for the same woman prevent them from working together to get rid of the drugs?

Officer O'Malley arrests John Phillips for a traffic violation and costs him a chance at a good job. Phillips has a wife and crippled child, so he commits robbery and O'Malley sends him to prison. After this O'Malley becomes closer to Phillips' family. (imdb)

Young boxer Jim Hunt, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer...who needs $600 more for her sickly son to stay in the place. To help her, Jim endangers his health with a tough boxing match in Tijuana. Before long, he's back fighting while Peggy stays in the desert. But in the city, after new triumphs, Jim meets Joan, a teasing Society blonde. Will he see through her before it's too late? (imdb)

Lady Gwendolyn (Blanche Sweet, who, at the time, was married to Marshall Neilan) is the daughter of Sir Alfred Grayle, a wealthy Scotsman (Edward Martindel). Because her mother is dead and Sir Alfred wanted a boy, Gwendolyn grows up sharing his passion for sports. When she meets commoner Donald McAllen, a medical student, (Ronald Colman), she falls in love with him. Prince Carlos (Lew Cody), who is heavily in debt, contrives to get his hands on her fortune. (allrovi.com)

Learning of a certain cantina dancer, the notorious outlaw El Rayo bets he can bring her voluntarily back that night. Arriving he learns she loves the craps table operator Johnny Powell. When Johnny catches one of El Rayo's men with loaded dice, he has to outdraw him. El Rayo gets Johnny put in jail and tells the dancer he will have his men break him out and hang him unless she comes with him. (imdb)

Jimmy O'Connor and Scotty are a couple of New York City gamblers and sharpies who decide to go straight and, since they are such good friends, split 50-50 "even steven" on anything they get or do. Jimmy, a confirmed bachelor, doesn't care for women but Scotty falls in love with Diana O'Sullivan, a Coney Island girl. (imdb)

Babe Dugan, star player of the Angel baseball team, chews tobacco and gets his uniform dirtier than any other player. Vernie, the laundress who cleans his uniform every week, becomes concerned over his untidiness; Babe calls to apologize for unintentionally striking her with a ball during a game; and his pal, Peewee, falls in love with Vernie's friend, Georgia.

Adoption of an orphan boy by a sergeant champion boxer leads to complications but ends happily.

Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.

Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybil, who made Johnny hold back Mrs. Calhoun’s horse, Lady, leaves him, and he becomes a racetrack bum. Johnny returns to Mrs. Calhoun’s stable when the new jockey proves unable to manage Lady. Johnny wins the next race, thereby regaining Mrs. Calhoun’s confidence and winning the love of her attractive daughter, Lucy.

"Girl of the Rio" is a 1932 American Pre-Code RKO musical film starred Dolores del Río and Leo Carrillo. Directed by Herbert Brenon, the screenplay was written by Elizabeth Meehan and Louis Stevens, based on the play "The Dove by Willard Mack," which was itself based on a magazine article by Gerald Beaumont. The film is a remake of the 1927 silent film "The Dove," starring Norma Talmadge.