Philip Klein (April 24, 1889 – June 8, 1935) was an American
screenwriter.
[Solomon, p. 331] He worked on around forty films during his career in both the
silent and
sound era
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed befor ...
s. He was the son of the British playwright
Charles Klein
Charles Klein (January 7, 1867 – May 7, 1915) was an English-born playwright and actor who emigrated to America in 1883. Among his works was the libretto of John Philip Sousa's operetta, ''El Capitan''. Klein's talented siblings includ ...
.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Social Highwayman'' (1926)
* ''
Is Zat So?'' (1927)
* ''
Don't Marry
''Don't Marry'' is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by James Tinling and starring Lois Moran, Neil Hamilton, and Henry Kolker.Solomon p.309
Plot
A flapper masquerades as her strait-laced cousin to try and impress a potential suitor. ...
'' (1928)
* ''
Charlie Chan Carries On
''Charlie Chan Carries On'' (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers.
Plot summary
Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first introduced in '' Behind That Curtain'', is pursuing a murde ...
'' (1931)
* ''
The Spider
The Spider is an American pulp-magazine hero of the 1930s and 1940s. The character was created by editor Harry Steeger and written by a variety of authors for 118 monthly issues of '' The Spider'' from 1933 to 1943. A 119th Spider novel manuscr ...
'' (1931)
* ''
There Were Thirteen
''There Were Thirteen'' (Spanish: ''Eran trece'') is a 1931 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by David Howard and starring Juan Torena, Ana María Custodio, and Rafael Calvo, with Manuel Arbó as Charlie Chan.Jarvinen pp. 123-24
It is ...
'' (1931)
* ''
Riders of the Purple Sage
''Riders of the Purple Sage'' is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called ...
'' (1931)
References
Bibliography
* Aubrey Solomon. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011.
External links
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1889 births
1935 deaths
American people of English-Jewish descent
20th-century American screenwriters
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