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Frank Smiley
William Marien Conselman (July 10, 1896 – May 25, 1940) was an American screenwriter who also wrote newspaper comic strips under his Bill Conselman byline and sometimes under the pseudonym Frank Smiley. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Conselman arrived on the West Coast in 1920 and joined the staff of the ''Los Angeles Times'' as the assistant city editor. His play ''And Then What'', staged by the San Diego Players, opened November 6, 1923 at Balboa Park's Yorick Theater. Between 1921 and 1940, he was a screenwriter on more than 50 films. By 1936, he had an annual income of more than $60,000. In Hollywood, he often collaborated with writer Jack Woodford. Conselman was also a lyricist, and in 1928, he directed the film ''Four A.M.'' Comic strips With artist Charles Plumb, Conselman created the syndicated comic strip ''Ella Cinders'' in 1925. Using his Frank Smiley pseudonym, he wrote the less successful ''Good Time Guy'' with Mel Cummin. The latter was drawn by animat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County (Manhattan). Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough,2010 Gazetteer for New York State . Retrieved September 18, 2016. with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, Brooklyn is located on the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bohème (1926 Film)
''La Bohème'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the 1896 opera ''La Bohème'' by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star in a tragic romance in which a tubercular seamstress sacrifices her life so that her lover, a bohemian playwright, might pen his masterpiece. Gish, at the height of her influence with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, asserted significant control over the production, determining the story, director, cast, cinematography, and costume design. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career. Plot Several struggling bohemians try to survive in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the winter of 1830, hoping to one day become famous. Playwright Rodolphe (John Gilbert) and his painter roommate Marcel (Gino Corrado) have trouble with Bernard (Eugene Pouyet), the landlord, who threatens to throw them out if they do not come up with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orient Express (1934 Film)
''Orient Express'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Paul Martin and starring Heather Angel, Norman Foster and Ralph Morgan. It is based on the 1932 novel '' Stamboul Train'' by Graham Greene.Hand, Richard J. & Purssell, Andrew. ''Adapting Graham Greene''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. p. 18. Cast * Heather Angel as Coral Musker *Norman Foster as Carlton Myatt *Ralph Morgan as Dr. Richard Czinner *Herbert Mundin as Herbert Thomas Peters * Una O'Connor as Mrs. Peters *Irene Ware as Janet Pardoe *Dorothy Burgess as Mabel Warren *Lisa Gora as Anna *Roy D'Arcy Roy D'Arcy (born Roy Francis Giusti; February 10, 1894 – November 15, 1969) was an American film actor of the silent film and early sound period of the 1930s noted for his portrayal of flamboyant villains. He appeared in 50 different films ... as Josef Grunlich *Perry Ivins as Major Petrovich *Frederick Vogeding as Colonel Hartep *Marc Loebell as Lieutenant Alexitch References Exte ... [...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] |
Frontier Marshal (1934 Film)
''Frontier Marshal'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring George O'Brien. Produced by Fox Film and Sol M. Wurtzel, the film is the first based on Stuart N. Lake's enormously popular but largely fictitious "biography" of Wyatt Earp, '' Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal''. A second version of the film, also produced by Wurtzel, was made in 1939, and a third interpretation by John Ford entitled ''My Darling Clementine'' was released in 1946. He supposedly wrote the book with Earp's input, and it portrays Earp as a fearless lawman. But before the first movie was released, his widow Josephine Earp sued 20th Century Fox for $50,000 in an attempt to keep them from making the film. She said it was an "unauthorized portrayal" of Wyatt Earp. She succeeded in getting Earp's name completely excised from the movie. His character was renamed "Michael Wyatt," and the movie was released as ''Frontier Marshal''. Plot Wandering lawman Michael Wyatt ride ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young America (1932 Film)
''Young America'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film about two juvenile delinquents - Arthur and Nutty - directed by Frank Borzage and starring Spencer Tracy and Doris Kenyon. It was first adapted for the screen by Maurine Watkins from the play by Fred Ballard (Copyright 1931, Premier Syndicate Hollywood, Sept. 2). William M. Conselman William Marien Conselman (July 10, 1896 – May 25, 1940) was an American screenwriter who also wrote newspaper comic strips under his Bill Conselman byline and sometimes under the pseudonym Frank Smiley. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, ... rewrote the screenplay and Maurine Watkins' name no longer appeared on the credits (per American Film Institute catalog). Raymond Borzage plays Edward 'Nutty' Beamish in the film. Cast References External links * * 1932 films 1930s English-language films 1932 drama films American black-and-white films Fox Film films Films directed by Frank Borzage American drama films Films pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepping Sisters
''Stepping Sisters'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Seymour Felix and starring Louise Dresser, Minna Gombell and Jobyna Howland.Solomon p.331 Premise A trio of former burlesque dancers now living in high society try to prevent their past occupation from being discovered. Main cast * Louise Dresser as Mrs. Cissie Ramsey née Black * Minna Gombell as Rosie La Marr * Jobyna Howland as Lady Chetworth-Lynde aka Queenie * William Collier Sr. as Herbert Ramsey * Stanley Smith as Jack Carleton * Barbara Weeks as Norma Ramsey * Howard Phillips as Warren Tremaine * Ferdinand Munier as Ambassador Leonard * Mary Forbes as Mrs. Tremaine * Robert Greig as Jepson * Pietro Sosso as Butler * Franklin Pangborn as Gason * Arthur Housman as Max * Max Wagner Max Wagner (November 28, 1901 – November 16, 1975) was a Mexican-born American film actor who specialized in playing small parts such as thugs, gangsters, sailors, henchmen, bodyguards, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Sinners (1931 Film)
''Young Sinners'' is an American Pre-Code drama film released on May 17, 1931, directed by John G. Blystone. The screenplay was initially written by Maurine Watkins though the script filmed was William Conselman's, not Watkins'. (Watkin's script is in the archives of 20th Century Fox's produced scripts). Conselman scrapped her screenplay in favor of his own (adaptation, continuity and dialog, according to American Film Institute) based on the play '' Young Sinners'' by Elmer Harris (New York, November 28, 1929).American Film Institute: Catalog of Feature Film''Young Sinners'' afi.com; retrieved November 26, 2013. Cast *Thomas Meighan - Tom McGuire *Hardie Albright - Gene Gibson * Dorothy Jordan - Constance Sinclair *Cecilia Loftus - Mrs. Sinclair * James Kirkwood - John Gibson *Edmund Breese - Trent *Lucien Prival - Baron von Konitz *Arnold Lucy - Butler *Nora Lane - Maggie McGuire *Joan Castle - Sue *John Arledge - Jimmy *Edward Nugent - Bud *Yvonne Pelletier - Madge *Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Business And Pleasure
''Business and Pleasure'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by David Butler, starring Will Rogers and featuring Boris Karloff. Plot Earl Tinker () goes on a Mediterranean cruise and finds that a business rival has a in pursuit.Cast * as Earl Tinker * |
Heartbreak (1931 Film)
''Heartbreak'' (aka ''Love and War'') is a 1931 American Pre-Code war drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Charles Farrell, Madge Evans and Paul Cavanagh. The film was set primarily in Italy as an exotic locale but was actually filmed in California with the San Gabriel Mountains east of the Los Angeles Basin, standing in for the Italian Alps. The popularity of aviation films on World War I such as ''Heartbreak'' was still strong, but by 1934, was perceptibly waning. Plot In the years before the United States' involvement in World War I, John Merrick (Charles Farrell) and Jerry Somers (John Arledge), attachés to the American embassy in Vienna, attend an elaborate fundraiser at the aristocratic Walden home where John meets the lovely Countess Vilma Walden (Madge Evans) and romance blooms. Vilma's twin brother, Count Carl Walden (Hardie Albright), a combat veteran, along with Vilma and Carl's father (Claude King) asks John when Americans will fight against Austria. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Cylinder Love (1931 Film)
''Six Cylinder Love'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Fox and Edward Everett Horton. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and is a remake of their 1923 silent original. Both films are based on the 1921 Broadway play. It recorded a loss of $25,000. A further remake '' The Honeymoon's Over'' was released in 1939. Synopsis A fast-talking auto salesman persuades a couple of newlyweds to purchase a new car that they can ill afford to boost their social prestige. It soon proves to be more trouble than it is worth, leading to the wife getting into trouble by drunk driving and the husband to fall foul of his boss. Eventually, with the help of the auto salesman, they find someone else to sell the car to. Cast * Spencer Tracy as William Donroy * Edward Everett Horton as Monty Winston * Sidney Fox as Marilyn Sterling * Lorin Raker as Gilbert Sterling * William Collier, Sr. as Richard Burton * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whoopee! (film)
''Whoopee!'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code Comedy film, comedy musical film, musical Western (genre), western film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, and Eleanor Hunt. It was photographed in Technicolor#Two-color Technicolor, two-color Technicolor. Its plot closely follows the 1928 Whoopee!, stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. Synopsis In this zany musical, Sally loves Wanenis, a Native American man, but her father has forbidden her to marry him. Instead, she has been convinced to marry Sheriff Bob Wells. At the last minute, however, Sally decides she loves Wanenis too much and tricks farmhand Henry Williams into helping her run away to the ranch of Jerome Underwood. When Wells comes looking for Sally, it proves trouble for the oblivious Henry. Cast * Eddie Cantor as Henry Williams * Ethel Shutta as Mary Custer * Paul Gregory as Wanenis * Eleanor Hunt as Sally Morgan * Jack Rutherford (actor), Jack Rutherford as Sheriff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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