Biography
American film and television writer.
Complete Filmography

The Tall Texan
1953
Additional Dialogue
Groups of desperate travelers journey together throughout the Southwest and soon find trouble when they all get gold fever. The action and drama are h...

Hit Parade of 1951
1950
Screenplay
While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girl...

When My Baby Smiles at Me
1948
Adaptation, Screenplay
Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on...

Give My Regards to Broadway
1948
Writer
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.

Carnival in Costa Rica
1947
Writer
Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

Cluny Brown
1946
Screenplay
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

Sentimental Journey
1946
Screenplay
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She dec...

Laura
1944
Screenplay
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

His Butler's Sister
1943
Screenplay
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.

Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
Screenplay, Original Story
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 ...

Maisie Was a Lady
1941
Screenplay, Story
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds ...

Gold Rush Maisie
1940
Screenplay
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously...

Everybody's Baby
1939
Story
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

Pardon Our Nerve
1939
Story
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playin...

Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier
1935
Screenplay
Madrid, Spain, 1880. Angelina, daughter of the pompous Brigadier Marcial, is tempted by the womanizer Germán, who asks her to run away together, just ...

The Singer of Naples
1935
Writer
A blacksmith's son from Naples rises to become a celebrated opera singer, performing at La Scala in Milan.