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Edwin J. Burke
Edwin J. Burke (August 30, 1889 – September 26, 1944) was an American screenwriter who was most known for writing some of Shirley Temple's earlier films. He won an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay for the film '' Bad Girl''. He was also a successful playwright. He wrote the play that inspired the film '' This Thing Called Love''. Filmography Only films that he wrote the screenplay for, not ones that were adapted from his plays-unless he helped write the screenplay to it. *'' Plastered in Paris'' (1928) *''The Girl from Havana'' (1929) *''Good Medicine'' (1929) *''Happy Days'' (1929) *''Love, Live and Laugh'' (1929) *''Not Quite Decent'' (1929) *''Speakeasy'' (1929) *'' Woman Trap'' (1929) *'' The Dancers'' (1930) *''Harmony at Home'' (1930) *'' Man Trouble'' (1930) *''Auto Intoxication'' (1931) *'' Bad Girl'' (1931) *'' It Might Be Worse'' (1931) *'' The Man Who Came Back'' (1931) *''Mr. Lemon of Orange'' (1931) *'' Sob Sis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. Terminology In the silent era, writers now considered screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist and screen playwright.Steven Maras. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice.'' Wallflower Press, 2009. pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown and argues that they cannot be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to be a professional scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auto Intoxication
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Auto may refer to: * An automaton * An automobile * An autonomous car * An automatic transmission * An auto rickshaw * Short for automatic * Auto (art), a form of Portuguese dramatic play * ''Auto'' (film), 2007 Tamil comedy film * Auto (play), a subgenre of dramatic literature * Auto (magazine), an Italian magazine and one of the organizers of the European Car of the Year award * A keyword in the C programming language used to declare automatic variables * A keyword in C++11 used for type inference * Auto (Mega Man), a character from ''Mega Man'' series of games * Auto, West Virginia * Auto, American Samoa * AUTO, a fictional robot in the 2008 film ''WALL-E'' See also * Otto Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Melody Of 1936
''Broadway Melody of 1936'' is a musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935. In New York, the film opened at the Capitol Theatre, the site of many prestigious MGM premieres. In New York, the film opened at the Capitol Theatre, the site of many prestigious MGM premieres. It was a follow-up of sorts to the successful ''The Broadway Melody'', which had been released in 1929, although, there is no story connection with the earlier film beyond the title and some music. The film was written by Harry W. Conn, Moss Hart, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth and starred Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, June Knight, Frances Langford, Sid Silvers, Buddy Ebsen and Vilma Ebsen (in their film debut). It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Plot Irene Foster (Eleanor Powell) tries to convince her high school sweetheart, Broadway producer Robert Gordon ( Robert Taylor), to give her a chance to star in his new musical, but he is to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now I'll Tell
''Now I'll Tell'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Edwin J. Burke starring Spencer Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, and Alice Faye. It was produced by Fox Film shortly before the company's merger with Twentieth Century Pictures. It marked the final screen appearance of former silent star Alice Calhoun. Plot Murray Golden is an unscrupulous New York City gambler and casino operator who wants to live life to the fullest. His philosophy is encapsulated in something he keeps saying: "You're only wrong when you fail." His wife, Virginia, has extracted a promise that he will quit the business once he makes $500,000. However, when he does, he breaks his word. He also starts seeing Peggy Warren behind his wife's back. Murray learns that gangster Al Mossiter has fixed a championship boxing match. He pays one of the fighters to take a dive in the second round, before Mossiter's man goes down in the fifth, and wins a lot of money. (Mossiter's boxer is later murdered.) However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Eyes (1934 Film)
''Bright Eyes'' is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William Conselman is based on a story by David Butler and Edwin J. Burke. Plot Five-year-old Shirley Blake (Shirley Temple) and her widowed mother, Mary ( Lois Wilson), a maid, live in the home of her employers, the rich and mean-spirited Smythe family, Anita (Dorothy Christy), J. Wellington (Theodore von Eltz), their spoiled seven-year-old daughter, Joy (Jane Withers) and cantankerous wheelchair-using Uncle Ned (Charles Sellon). After Christmas morning, Shirley hitches a ride to the airport to visit her late father's pilot friends. The aviators bring her aboard an airplane and taxi her around the runways while she serenades them with a rendition of ''On the Good Ship Lollipop''. Mary is killed in a traffic accident. Loop ( James Dunn), one of the pilots and Shirley's godfather, takes Shirley up in an airplane. He says that she is in Heaven and that her mother is now there. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy The Next Best Thing (1933 Film)
''Paddy the Next Best Thing'' is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter and Walter Connolly. The screenplay was written by Edwin J. Burke, based on the 1912 novel '' Paddy the Next Best Thing'' by Gertrude Page and its later stage adaptation, which had previously been made into a 1923 British silent film of the same title. The film reteamed Gaynor and Baxter who had starred together in the 1931 hit '' Daddy Long Legs''. Synopsis Impoverished Irish landowner Major Adair pushes his eldest daughter Eileen to marry the wealthy Lawrence Blake in order to pay off his debts, despite the fact that she is in love with another man. However Adair's younger daughter Paddy falls for Blake herself, and schemes to order events to everybody's happiness. Cast * Janet Gaynor as Paddy Adair * Warner Baxter as Lawrence Blake * Walter Connolly as Major Adair * Harvey Stephens as Jack Breen * Margaret Lindsay as Eileen Adair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello, Sister! (1933 Film)
''Hello, Sister!'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama-romance film produced by Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim, Raoul Walsh, and Alfred L. Werker, although no directorial credit is given. The film is a re-edited version of von Stroheim's now-lost film ''Walking Down Broadway''. The film stars James Dunn, ZaSu Pitts, Minna Gombell, and Boots Mallory. The story follows the relationship between an innocent, small-town boy and girl who are overmatched by the vastness and crudeness of New York City, but whose love overcomes both their surroundings and their friends' attempts to separate them. The theme of loneliness among singles and the practice of "picking up" strangers to satisfy sexual longing are also explored. ''Hello, Sister!'' was also thought to have been lost, until a print was found in the early 1970s. Title According to the ''Motion Picture Herald'', "Hello, Sister!" is "the salutation of the 'pick-up.'" Plot Mona encourages her two friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down To Earth (1932 Film)
''Down to Earth'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Will Rogers, Dorothy Jordan and Irene Rich. It is a sequel to the 1929 film '' They Had to See Paris'', with the Peters family returning to America where their wealthy lifestyle is suddenly hit by the Great Depression. Main cast * Will Rogers as Pike Peters * Dorothy Jordan as Julia Pearson * Irene Rich as Idy Peters * Matty Kemp as Ross Peters * Mary Carlisle as Jackie Harper * Brandon Hurst as Jeffrey, the Butler * Theodore Lodi Theodore may refer to: Places * Theodore, Alabama, United States * Theodore, Australian Capital Territory * Theodore, Queensland, a town in the Shire of Banana, Australia * Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada * Theodore Reservoir, a lake in Saskatche ... as Grand Duke Michael * Clarence Wilson as Ed Eggers References Bibliography * Bryan B. Sterling. ''Will Rogers in Hollywood''. Crown Publishers, 1984. External links * * 1932 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Team (film)
''Dance Team'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Edwin J. Burke. The film stars James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Ralph Morgan, Minna Gombell, Edward Crandall and Nora Lane. The film was released on January 17, 1932, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast * James Dunn as Jimmy Mulligan *Sally Eilers as Poppy Kirk *Ralph Morgan as Alex Prentice *Minna Gombell as Cora Stuart *Edward Crandall as Fred Penworthy *Nora Lane as Jane Boyden *Harry Beresford Harry J. Beresford (4 November 1863 – 4 October 1944) was an English-born actor on the American stage and in motion pictures. He used the professional name Harry J. Morgan early in his career. Career Harry Beresford began his acting career i ... as Herbert Wilson * Charles Williams as Benny Weber References External links * * 1932 films 1930s English-language films Fox Film films American comedy-drama films 1932 comedy-drama films Films directed by Sidney Lanfield American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Her Savage
''Call Her Savage'' is a 1932 pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Clara Bow. The film was Bow's second-to-last film role. It is also one of the first portrayals of homosexuals on screen, including a scene in a gay bar. Plot A wild young woman, Nasa Springer (Clara Bow), born and raised in Texas by well-to-do parents, rebels against her father. She is sent to school in Chicago, where her disruptive behavior marks her as a troublemaker. She marries a rich playboy, who then declares the marriage a ploy and abandons her. She is renounced by her father, who tells her he never wishes to see her again. She discovers she is pregnant and bears a child. Reduced to poverty, she moves into a boardinghouse with her infant, and struggles to pay for the baby's basic needs. Unaware that her grandfather in Texas has died and left her a $100,000 fortune, a desperate Nasa dresses up as a prostitute and goes out in the neighborhood hoping to earn some quick cash to purch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young As You Feel (1931 Film)
''Young as You Feel'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Will Rogers, Fifi D'Orsay and Lucien Littlefield.Goble p.1025 The story was later remade by Fox in 1940 under the same title as part of the Jones Family series of films. Cast * Will Rogers as Lemuel Morehouse * Fifi D'Orsay as Fleurette * Lucien Littlefield as Noah Marley * Don Dillaway as Billy Morehouse * Terrance Ray as Tom Morehouse * Lucile Browne as Dorothy Gregson * Rosalie Roy as Rose Gregson * Gregory Gaye as Pierre * John T. Murray as Colonel Stanhope * Brandon Hurst as Robbins * C. Henry Gordon as Harry Lamson * Marcia Harris as Mrs. Denton * Otto Hoffman as Secretary * Joan Standing as Lemuel's Secretary * Bob Burns as Colorado Detective * Eddy Chandler as Death of a Faun Picket * Harvey Clark as Colorado Hotel Manager * Charles Coleman as Butler * Paul Fix as Desk Clerk * Tom Kennedy as Colorado Detective * Cecilia Parker as Und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stolen Jools
''The Stolen Jools'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy short produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by film stars of the day. The stars appeared in the film, distributed by Paramount Pictures, to raise funds for the National Vaudeville Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium. The UCLA Film and Television Archive entry for this film says—as do the credits—that the film was co-sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes to support the "fine work" of the NVA sanitarium. When the film was shown in theaters in 1931, a speaker would appear after the film to ask the audience for donations. Being made for charity, the film has an unusually large cast of actors who volunteered to appear gratis. Studios represented included Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, MGM, and Hal Roach Studios. This film was retitled ''The Slippery Pearls'' in the United Kingdom. In spite of copies being sold by Blackhawk Films throughout the 1970's on 16mm and Super 8 stock the film was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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