
Birthday:
10-07-1898
Deathday:
03-22-1961 (62 years)
Birthplace:
Not available
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Johnny Eager
Producer
event1941 star_border 6.1
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A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Dancing Lady
Associate Producer
event1933 star_border 7
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Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Tempest
Producer
event1928 star_border 6.4
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In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
Men of Boys Town
Producer
event1941 star_border 6.1
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Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
Disorderly Conduct
Director
event1932
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When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
This Side of Heaven
Producer
event1934 star_border 7
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A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Producer
event1937 star_border 5.2
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Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Arsène Lupin Returns
Producer
event1938 star_border 5.8
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A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
Abraham Lincoln
Story
event1930 star_border 5.4
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A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
Married Bachelor
Producer
event1941 star_border 5.8
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A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
Doctors' Wives
Producer
event1931
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The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
Personal Property
Producer
event1937 star_border 6.9
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Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
Broadway Melody of 1936
Producer
event1935 star_border 6.4
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Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secretary certainly does. She and Irene must use their wits to show him what he's missing!
The Bad One
Supervising Producer
event1930 star_border 6.5
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
She Wanted a Millionaire
Associate Producer
event1932
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Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.
Two Arabian Knights
Producer
event1927 star_border 6
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During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation in 2016.
Evelyn Prentice
Producer
event1934 star_border 6.6
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A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
Blackmail
Producer
event1939 star_border 6.4
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A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Of Human Hearts
Producer
event1938 star_border 5.8
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This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
Mad Love
Producer
event1935 star_border 6.9
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An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Boys Town
Producer
event1938 star_border 6.7
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Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Puttin' on the Ritz
Story
event1930 star_border 5.2
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A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
Flesh
Producer
event1932 star_border 5.6
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Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
Three Live Ghosts
Producer
event1936 star_border 5
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Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
Robin Hood of El Dorado
Producer
event1936 star_border 4.7
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In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Producer
event1936 star_border 5.8
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A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
Third Finger, Left Hand
Producer
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Sequoia
Producer
event1935 star_border 6
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A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
Jackass Mail
Producer
event1942 star_border 7
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An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Design for Scandal
Producer
event1941 star_border 5.2
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A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Hold That Kiss
Producer
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Have a Heart
Producer
event1934 star_border 7
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Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.
Stronger Than Desire
Producer
event1939 star_border 5.8
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An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
The Gay Bride
Producer
event1934 star_border 5.8
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Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
One Romantic Night
Associate Producer
event1930 star_border 5.3
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A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
Young Tom Edison
Producer
event1940 star_border 5.6
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Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Absolute Quiet
Producer
event1936 star_border 5.5
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Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
Wild Justice
Producer
event1925
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A young woman takes refuge in a cabin during a blizzard with a villianous man. Meanwhile, coming to her rescue are the handsome hero and his trusted dog. A sub Rin-Tin-Tin canine named Peter the Great.
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