
Birthday:
10-31-1887
Deathday:
09-30-1953 (65 years)
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
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William Jacobs (October 31, 1887 - September 30, 1953) was an American screenwriter and producer for Warner Bros. He wrote 13 Hollywood movies and produced 59 more, including musicals.
Jacobs joined Warner Bros. as a screenwriter in 1934. From 1938 to his death he produced movies for the studio. Movies he produced include Calamity Jane (1953), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), and Tea for Two (1950).
William Jacobs died in 1953 in Beverly Hills, California, at age 65.
William Jacobs (October 31, 1887 - September 30, 1953) was an American screenwriter and producer for Warner Bros. He wrote 13 Hollywood movies and produced 59 more, including musicals.
Jacobs joined Warner Bros. as a screenwriter in 1934. From 1938 to his death he produced movies for the studio. Movies he produced include Calamity Jane (1953), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), and Tea for Two (1950).
William Jacobs died in 1953 in Beverly Hills, California, at age 65.
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Producer
event1953 star_border 5.8
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Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
April in Paris
Producer
event1952 star_border 4.9
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A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
Conflict
Producer
event1945 star_border 6.5
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Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
The Verdict
Producer
event1946 star_border 6.6
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After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
On Moonlight Bay
Producer
event1951 star_border 6.4
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The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
Danger Signal
Producer
event1945 star_border 5.8
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After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Shadow of a Woman
Producer
event1946 star_border 4.2
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Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
Swellhead
Screenplay
event1935
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Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, in the end, he is still blowing smoke.
Escape from Crime
Producer
event1942 star_border 5.2
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An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
Whiplash
Producer
event1948 star_border 4.9
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An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
Shadows on the Stairs
Associate Producer
event1941 star_border 5.4
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Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
Love and Learn
Producer
event1947 star_border 5.5
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A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
Isle of Fury
Screenplay
event1936 star_border 5.3
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An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
Treachery Rides the Range
Story
event1936 star_border 1
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The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
Song of the Saddle
Story
event1936 star_border 7
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Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
Sergeant Murphy
Screenplay
event1938 star_border 5
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An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
Dance Charlie Dance
Screenplay
event1937 star_border 6
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A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
Moonlight on the Prairie
Story
event1935 star_border 5.5
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A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Close to My Heart
Producer
event1951 star_border 6.5
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A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.
Over the Goal
Screenplay
event1937 star_border 3
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The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
April Showers
Producer
event1948 star_border 6
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A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
Ladies Must Live
Associate Producer
event1940 star_border 6
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A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
Father Is A Prince
Associate Producer
event1940 star_border 5
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Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.
Passage from Hong Kong
Associate Producer
event1941
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In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.
Unwelcome Stranger
Story
event1935
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Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. This is bad news when 'Gimpy", an orphan, shows up at Chamberlain's horse-ranch in search of a place to stay. But Howard's soft-hearted wife, Madeline, allows the young boy to stay on and work in the barn with the horses. And "Gimpy" breaks Chamberlain's "orphan-jinx" in a big way.
Hot Money
Screenplay
event1936 star_border 4
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Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Shine on Harvest Moon
Producer
event1944 star_border 6
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Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
My Wild Irish Rose
Producer
event1947 star_border 6
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Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Nora Prentiss
Producer
event1947 star_border 6.1
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Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Tea for Two
Producer
event1950 star_border 6
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In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
Always in My Heart
Associate Producer
event1942 star_border 6
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A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
Rocky Mountain
Producer
event1950 star_border 5.7
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A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld.
Here Comes Happiness
Associate Producer
event1941 star_border 5
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Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
About Face
Producer
event1952 star_border 3
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Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.
Talent Scout
Screenplay
event1937 star_border 6
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A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Down the Stretch
Screenplay
event1936 star_border 5.5
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A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
Underground
Associate Producer
event1941 star_border 6.1
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A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
A Shot in the Dark
Associate Producer
event1941 star_border 5.2
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A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
Calamity Jane
Producer
event1953 star_border 6.9
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Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
Too Young to Know
Producer
event1945
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A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
She Couldn't Say No
Producer
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
Night of Terror
Writer
event1933 star_border 5.5
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The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
Never Say Goodbye
Producer
event1946 star_border 6.3
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Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Producer
event1950 star_border 5
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An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
Look for the Silver Lining
Producer
event1949 star_border 5.7
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After getting her start in her parents' vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue. He senses the girl's enormous talent, and before long she's performing on Broadway. There, she is extremely successful and finds love with songwriter Frank Carter. Yet obstacles remain for the rising star, especially when he proposes marriage just before he's set to be deployed in World War I.
Lullaby of Broadway
Producer
event1951 star_border 5.8
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Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
Crime by Night
Producer
event1944 star_border 5.8
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A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
The Nurse's Secret
Associate Producer
event1941 star_border 5
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An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
Murder in the Big House
Producer
event1942 star_border 6.5
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When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Montana
Producer
event1950 star_border 5.6
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An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Associate Producer
event1941 star_border 5
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A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
The Great Mr. Nobody
Associate Producer
event1941 star_border 5.3
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A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Christmas in Connecticut
Producer
event1945 star_border 7
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While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
Penrod and His Twin Brother
Screenplay
event1938 star_border 5
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Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
The Big Noise
Screenplay
event1936 star_border 5
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The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
Wagon Wheels West
Original Story
event1943 star_border 4
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In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.
The Hidden Hand
Associate Producer
event1942 star_border 6.3
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Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
Money and the Woman
Associate Producer
event1940 star_border 4.3
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An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Find the Blackmailer
Producer
event1943 star_border 6.5
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A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
River's End
Associate Producer
event1940 star_border 6
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An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays two roles.
Flowing Gold
Associate Producer
event1940 star_border 7
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In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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