Known For
Complete Filmography

Scenes from Casablanca
2025
Writer
A reframing of a section of the Casablanca script. Made for a University assignment.

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century....
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
2000
Writer
Part of Frank Capra's World War II propaganda series made for the U.S. Armed Forces, this program presents newsreel footage addressing the Battle of C...

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...
Epstein in Hollywood - Julius J. Epstein Talks
1994
as Self
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
1992
as Self - Screenwriter
A documentary about the making of the classic film "Casablanca."

Bacall on Bogart
1988
as Self
Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.

Reuben, Reuben
1983
Co-Producer, Screenplay
A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young wom...

The Pirate
1978
Writer
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fort...

House Calls
1978
Story, Writer
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, ...

Cross of Iron
1977
Screenplay
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews betw...

Once Is Not Enough
1975
Writer
An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to ...

Pete 'n' Tillie
1972
Writer, Producer
A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.

Any Wednesday
1966
Screenplay, Producer
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the ap...

Return from the Ashes
1965
Screenplay
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that ...

Send Me No Flowers
1964
Screenplay
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two ...

Light in the Piazza
1962
Screenplay
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Na...

Fanny
1961
Screenplay
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The nigh...

Tall Story
1960
Screenplay
A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe ...

Take a Giant Step
1959
Screenplay, Producer
This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black...

The Reluctant Debutante
1958
Screenplay
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its final "Debutante Season."

The Brothers Karamazov
1958
Screenplay
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons ...

Kiss Them for Me
1957
Screenplay
Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer,...

The Tender Trap
1955
Screenplay
A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.

Young at Heart
1954
Screenplay
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming compo...

The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954
Screenplay
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her siste...

Forever Female
1953
Screenplay
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

Take Care of My Little Girl
1951
Writer
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.

My Foolish Heart
1950
Writer
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew W...

Chicken Every Sunday
1949
Theatre Play
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

Romance on the High Seas
1948
Screenplay
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband che...

Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Screenplay
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married;...

Mr. Skeffington
1944
Screenplay, Producer
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Casablanca
1943
Screenplay
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1943
Writer
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.

Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Screenplay
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

The Male Animal
1942
Screenplay
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threaten...

The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Screenplay
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

The Bride Came C.O.D.
1941
Screenplay
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.

The Strawberry Blonde
1941
Screenplay
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nef...

Honeymoon for Three
1941
Additional Dialogue
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy ...

No Time for Comedy
1940
Screenplay
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Saturday's Children
1940
Screenplay
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

Four Wives
1939
Screenplay
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her enga...

Daughters Courageous
1939
Writer
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Ji...

Secrets of an Actress
1938
Screenplay
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

Four Daughters
1938
Screenplay
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man ...

Confession
1937
Adaptation
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's l...

Sons o' Guns
1936
Screenplay
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join ...

Stars Over Broadway
1935
Screenplay
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

I Live for Love
1935
Screenplay
A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.

Little Big Shot
1935
Screenplay
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Broadway Gondolier
1935
Writer
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

In Caliente
1935
Screenplay
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.

Living on Velvet
1935
Screenplay
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of ...