Elmer Harris

1878-01-11 Chicago, Illinois, USA 50 Credits
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Johnny Belinda

1969

Original Story

Writing
Johnny Belinda

Johnny Belinda

1967

Theatre Play

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scanda...

Johnny Belinda

1958

Theatre Play

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scanda...

Johnny Belinda

Johnny Belinda

1948

Theatre Play

6.8

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

Let 'em Have It

Let 'em Have It

1935

Writer

7.0
Writing

Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Looking for Trouble

Looking for Trouble

1934

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and lef...

Cross Country Cruise

Cross Country Cruise

1934

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murde...

The Barbarian

The Barbarian

1933

Writer

4.9
Writing

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

Society Girl

Society Girl

1932

Writer

6.0
Writing

Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.

Young Sinners

Young Sinners

1931

Writer

Writing

The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.

Stepping Out

Stepping Out

1931

Dialogue, Theatre Play, Writer

6.5
Writing

After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.

So Long Letty

So Long Letty

1929

Theatre Play

5.9

Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets ...

Father and Son

Father and Son

1929

Story

7.0
Writing

A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child who receives it as a birth...

The Spirit of Youth

The Spirit of Youth

1929

Writer

Writing

Jim Kenney, the fleet middleweight boxing champion, is enamored of Betty Grant, the village librarian, and promises to write to her from every port. H...

Court Martial

Court Martial

1928

Story

6.0
Writing

During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri gu...

Name the Woman

Name the Woman

1928

Novel

Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Anita Stewart, Huntley Gordon, Gaston Glass, Chappell Dossett.

The Desert Bride

The Desert Bride

1928

Scenario Writer

4.7
Writing

Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane...

The Matinee Idol

The Matinee Idol

1928

Adaptation

6.3

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally ...

The Sporting Age

The Sporting Age

1928

Writer

3.5
Writing

Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young mal...

A Woman's Way

A Woman's Way

1928

Adaptation

Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.

So This Is Love

So This Is Love

1928

Writer

5.3
Writing

So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr....

That Certain Thing

That Certain Thing

1928

Story, Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.

The Siren

The Siren

1927

Scenario Writer

1.0
Writing

A high-society woman, Glenna Marsh (Dorothy Revier), is arrested for the murder of gigolo-gambler Cole Norwood (Norman Trevor), but his honest casino ...

The Forbidden Woman

The Forbidden Woman

1927

Story

Writing

A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel's wife and so arranges for his...

Sunny Side Up

Sunny Side Up

1926

Writer

Writing

Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to a...

Made for Love

Made for Love

1926

Writer

5.5
Writing

A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it ap...

Eve's Leaves

Eve's Leaves

1926

Story

7.0
Writing

After forming his own studio in 1925, Cecil B. DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and gender-bending comedy featuring his ...

Braveheart

Braveheart

1925

Writer

Writing

Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and ...

The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth

1925

Writer

5.0
Writing

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings.

No More Women

No More Women

1924

Writer, Producer

Writing Producing

When Matt Moore was thrown over by vamp Kathleen Cliffford, he resolved to have no more women in his life. But he didn't take account of wealthy Mage...

Richard the Lion-Hearted

Richard the Lion-Hearted

1923

Producer

Producing

Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.

Garrison's Finish

Garrison's Finish

1923

Scenario Writer

Writing

Billy Garrison, a jockey, is framed and suspended for throwing a face. Depressed, he goes to a bar and eventually gets into a fight. He loses his memo...

Tess of the Storm Country

Tess of the Storm Country

1922

Adaptation, Writer

5.8
Writing

Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the sq...

Her Gilded Cage

Her Gilded Cage

1922

Theatre Play

A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.

Her Own Money

Her Own Money

1922

Scenario Writer

Writing

After five years of marriage, Mildred comes to the realization that her husband, Lew, is going nowhere in the real estate business. Mildred, however, ...

Too Much Wife

1922

Supervisor of Production Resources

Her Sturdy Oak

Her Sturdy Oak

1921

Screenplay, Story

Writing

The March Hare

1921

Story

Writing

Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire, comes to New York with a chaperon to vis...

Sham

Sham

1921

Theatre Play

Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and he...

Ducks and Drakes

Ducks and Drakes

1921

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men that she calls up randomly on the telephone. When he...

All Souls' Eve

All Souls' Eve

1921

Writer

Writing

The wife of sculptor Roger Heath is killed by a maniac because of Roger's madly jealous admirer Olivia Larkin. To care for his home and son Peter, Rog...

The Education of Elizabeth

1921

Writer

Writing

Billie Burke, the real-life wife of Flo Ziegfeld, plays Ziegfeld Follies dancer Elizabeth Banks who falls for a wealthy young man. His parents are sho...

What Happened to Jones

What Happened to Jones

1920

Writer

Writing

Heeding the pleas of Bobbie Brown, Jimmie Jones packs his trunk full of liquor to present to his desperate friend and hops on a train. Upon his arriva...

Miss Hobbs

Miss Hobbs

1920

Writer

Writing

She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brute...

Mrs. Temple's Telegram

Mrs. Temple's Telegram

1920

Writer

Writing

Jack Temple (Washburn) adores his wife, Clara Temple (Hawley) but she is extremely jealous, and accuses him of flirting with a pretty woman in a depar...

Jack Straw

Jack Straw

1920

Writer

Writing

Jack Straw (Warwick) is an iceman who becomes a waiter to be closer to the girl (McComas) he is interested in. Later, to impress her, he impersonates ...

The Six Best Cellars

The Six Best Cellars

1920

Scenario Writer

Writing

Henry Carpenter and his wife Millicent are the envy of their exclusive suburban set because of their abundant wine cellar, a blessing in the face of t...

An Adventure in Hearts

An Adventure in Hearts

1919

Scenario Writer

Writing
The Lottery Man

The Lottery Man

1919

Writer

Writing

Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.

Ruy Blas

Ruy Blas

1914

Writer

Writing

Ruy Blas, a commoner disguised as a nobleman, falls in love with the Queen, Maria de Neubourg, after being manipulated by Don Salluste, a banished pri...