
Birthday:
04-18-1893
Deathday:
10-23-1964 (71 years)
Birthplace:
Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]
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It's a Wonderful Life
Additional Writing
event1946 star_border 8.3
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A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Double Wedding
Screenplay
event1937 star_border 6.5
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A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Platinum Blonde
Adaptation
event1931 star_border 6.7
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Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Lifeboat
Screenplay
event1944 star_border 7.4
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During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Writer
event1961 star_border 6
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Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
The Westerner
Screenplay
event1940 star_border 7
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Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
Blood and Sand
Writer
event1941 star_border 6.4
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Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
Love Affair
Writer
event1932 star_border 5.6
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Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
Leave Her to Heaven
Screenplay
event1945 star_border 7.4
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A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Made for Each Other
Screenplay
event1939 star_border 6.2
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A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Forbidden
Screenplay
event1932 star_border 6.7
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On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby, but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Grover, but also wants to marry Lulu
The Whole Town's Talking
Screenplay
event1935 star_border 6.8
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Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
New York Town
Story
event1941 star_border 10
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Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Dirigible
Screenplay
event1931 star_border 5.6
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Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the love of beautiful Helen, Frisky's wife. After Braden's dirigible expedition fails, Frisky tries an expedition by plane. Unfortunately he crashes and strands his party at the South Pole. Braden must decide between a risky rescue attempt by dirigible and remaining safely at home with Helen.
Confirm or Deny
Screenplay
event1941 star_border 3.8
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Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Pennies from Heaven
Screenplay
event1936 star_border 6.9
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Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Thunder in the East
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 5.4
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During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.
Doctor Rhythm
Screenplay
event1938 star_border 6
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Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
Attorney for the Defense
Writer
event1932 star_border 6
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A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
East of Fifth Avenue
Screenplay
event1933 star_border 6
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A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unfold. Borrowed money, a lovelorn chorus girl, and a tragic misunderstanding set in motion the chain of events in East of Fifth Avenue’s tender pageant of life.
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Screenplay
event1932 star_border 6.7
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Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
The Defense Rests
Story
event1934 star_border 7
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A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Ten Cents a Dance
Writer
event1931 star_border 6.8
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A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
The Real Glory
Screenplay
event1939 star_border 6.3
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Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.
The Pride of the Yankees
Screenplay
event1942 star_border 7.4
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The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Behind the Mask
Writer
event1932 star_border 5.8
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A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
Crash Dive
Screenplay
event1943 star_border 6.2
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A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
The Wrecker
Screenplay
event1933 star_border 1
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The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
Lady by Choice
Screenplay
event1934 star_border 6.2
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To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.
Man Against Woman
Screenplay
event1932 star_border 3.5
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Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named George Perry. This does not bother McCloud, as he not only gets his man behind bars but takes the man's woman also.
War Correspondent
Adaptation
event1932 star_border 3
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In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. While there, he falls for an ex-streetwalker, but must compete with a mercenary pilot for her love. By the end, the correspondent loses his objectivity after he helps the pilot save the woman from the enemy. The rescue costs the pilot his life.
Hell's Island
Adaptation
event1930
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In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her when one of them announces that he plans to marry her. The argument is quite heated and in the ensuing scuffle one of them is shot and wounded.
Below the Sea
Screenplay
event1933 star_border 6
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A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.
Rain or Shine
Writer
event1930 star_border 6.2
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Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
Shopworn
Dialogue
event1932 star_border 6.7
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A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
As the Devil Commands
Writer
event1933
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Slowly dying of a terminal illness, wealthy invalid John Duncan wants his aide Dr. Graham to end his suffering.
The Miracle Woman
Screenplay
event1931 star_border 6.6
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After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
The Woman I Stole
Writer
event1933 star_border 3.5
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A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.
Once to Every Woman
Screenplay
event1934 star_border 5.8
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An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
Love Me Forever
Screenplay
event1935 star_border 4.8
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A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
A Lady Takes a Chance
Story
event1943 star_border 5.7
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A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Carne de Cabaret
Story
event1931 star_border 2
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This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "Wiliam Cabana"), and also Mexican director Eduardo Arozamena.
The Good Bad Girl
Dialogue
event1931 star_border 5.5
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A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Melody Lane
Theatre Play
event1929
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A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in action. Back in the States, his girl friend there leaves him. But Madelon can't forget him and comes to the USA to work there as singer. Per chance she meets the songwriter, and he is cured. Singing one of his love songs, he knows that he has found the right girl.
No Greater Glory
Screenplay
event1934 star_border 6.7
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A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Man's Castle
Screenplay
event1933 star_border 6.8
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Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
Guys and Dolls
Theatre Play
event1955 star_border 6.6
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Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
Humor Risk
Writer
event1921 star_border 9
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Harpo played the hero, a detective named Watson who "made his entrance in a high hat, sliding down a coal chute into the basement". Groucho played an "old movie" villain, who "sported a long moustache and was clad in black", while Chico was probably his "chuckling [Italian] henchman". Zeppo portrayed a playboy who was the owner of a nightclub in which most of the action took place, including "a cabaret, [which allowed] the inclusion of a dance number". The final shot showed Groucho "in ball and chain, trudging slowly off into the gloaming". Harpo, in a rare moment of romantic glory, gets the girl in the end. This film is lost.
Ladies of Leisure
Dialogue
event1930 star_border 6
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Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
Hollywood Speaks
Writer
event1932
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The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.
Madonna of the Streets
Screenplay
event1930
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Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn.
I Am the Law
Writer
event1938 star_border 6.6
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With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
Around the Corner
Dialogue
event1930
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18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
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