
Birthday:
03-16-1885
Deathday:
11-04-1959 (74 years)
Birthplace:
Melbourne, Australia
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Keeper of the Flame
Novel
event1943 star_border 6.6
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Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Vivacious Lady
Story
event1938 star_border 6.8
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College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
Four Sons
Story
event1928 star_border 7.2
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A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
Four Sons
Story
event1940 star_border 7
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Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
Torch Song
Writer
event1953 star_border 6
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Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.
Shattered Idols
Novel
event1922
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This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
The Under-Pup
Story
event1939 star_border 6
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A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
The Wonderful Story
Novel
event1932
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A paralysed farmer watches his brother fall in love with the woman he intended to marry.
That Man's Here Again
Story
event1937 star_border 5
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An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
A Feather in Her Hat
Novel
event1935 star_border 6.8
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After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
Evenings for Sale
Story
event1932 star_border 6
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Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
The Young in Heart
Novel
event1938 star_border 6.6
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A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
Pilgrimage
Original Story
event1933 star_border 6.7
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A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
Someday
Original Story
event1935
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“Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.” - Steve Crook.
Young Nowheres
Story
event1929
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Young Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach.
The Unknown
Novel
event1915 star_border 2
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Richard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good time" finds himself penniless in an Algerian hotel. He expects money from England, but instead receives a cablegram stating his allowance has been stopped and that his uncle will have nothing further to do with him.
Stronger Than Death
Novel
event1920
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Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again. But when her dancing skills are needed by her lover's father to help quell a native uprising on the East Indian frontier, she determines to dance whatever the cost.
The Wonderful Story
Novel
event1922
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A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
The Foreign Legion
Writer
event1928
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A man falsely accused of crime joins Foreign Legion, and when trouble develops is saved by the self sacrifice of the commanding officer, his own father.
A Man Must Live
Novel
event1925
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Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company. Job Hardcastle, the hardened city editor of the paper, sends Jeff to get a story on "Mops" Collins, a society divorcée who has been reduced to dancing in a cabaret. Jeff takes pity on Mops, who is dying of consumption, and takes her into his apartment, telling Hardcastle that he could not find her. Afraid of losing his job, Jeff hunts for a big story, finding it when he discovers that Clive Ross-Fayne, a friend he thought lost in the war, has been arraigned on charges of narcotics peddling. (Pamela Short)
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