
Birthday:
04-06-1898
Deathday:
05-17-1954 (56 years)
Birthplace:
Sacramento, California, USA
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The Little Princess
Screenplay
event1939 star_border 6.7
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A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Just Around the Corner
Writer
event1938 star_border 5.5
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Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
Young Whirlwind
Screenplay
event1928
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Red foils a plan to steal the airmail and in one especially exciting scene takes to the air armed only with a (very effective) slingshot.
When You're in Love
Story
event1937 star_border 6.7
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An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.
Virtue
Story
event1932 star_border 6.8
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Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
Two Smart People
Screenplay
event1946 star_border 6.4
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Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
It Happened in Hollywood
Screenplay
event1937 star_border 6.1
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A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Man from Frisco
Screenplay
event1944 star_border 6
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Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
Maryland
Screenplay
event1940 star_border 6.2
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A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Twice Blessed
Writer
event1945 star_border 6
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Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.
More Than a Secretary
Story
event1936 star_border 6.4
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When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Whirlpool
Screenplay
event1934 star_border 6.1
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An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
Blind Date
Screenplay
event1934 star_border 7
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A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Party Wire
Screenplay
event1935 star_border 8
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When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Fury of the Jungle
Writer
event1933
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Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
The Best Man Wins
Screenplay
event1935 star_border 5.8
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A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Small Town Deb
Writer
event1941 star_border 6
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Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
Eight Bells
Screenplay
event1935 star_border 6
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A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
Driven from Home
Writer
event1927
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A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by the sinister owner of an opium den.
The Public Menace
Writer
event1935 star_border 5
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1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
Ship of Wanted Men
Story
event1933 star_border 2
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A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who were framed. Into this den of iniquity swims socialite Dorothy Sebastian, who jumped off a yacht after apparently murdering her lecherous host. To remain on the Island, Sebastian is told that she must pay $5,000 to head honcho Fred Kohler -- and if she hasn't got the money, it is implied, there are other methods of collection.
In Old Oklahoma
Screenplay
event1943 star_border 6.2
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Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
Fog
Screenplay
event1933 star_border 5
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The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion before the actual killer is bought to justice with the aid of a very substantial "ghost."
For Beauty's Sake
Screenplay
event1941
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A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
The Eagle
Story
event1918
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Following his mother's death, John Gregory becomes the "Eagle," a thief determined to get even with the mining company that stole his family's fortune. Breaking into the company’s head office he discovers that another robber has preceded him and killed the night guard. When he is falsely accused, Lucy the girl he loves, discovers a written confession from the real killer just before John is to be hanged and rides wildly to the jail to save his life.
I'll Fix It
Story
event1934
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A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
Let's Get Married
Screenplay
event1937 star_border 5
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Let's Get Married is a 1937 American comedy film starring Ida Lupino, who plays the daughter of a political consultant, Joe Quinn. From Wikipedia
Most Precious Thing in Life
Screenplay
event1934 star_border 5.2
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An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes and Ward Bond.
Maisie Gets Her Man
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event1942 star_border 6.5
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Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
The Masquerade Bandit
Story
event1926
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A young woman, Molly Marble, is enmeshed in a train robbery by her crooked step-father. She meets a stranger, Jeff Morton, and suspects he knows where the loot is hidden. For the sake of her relatives, she must try to 'vamp' this information from him but, instead, she falls in love with him.
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