Complete Filmography

Silver Lode
1954
Story, Screenplay
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance w...

Appointment in Honduras
1953
Writer
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying mo...

Count the Hours!
1953
Screenplay
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

When You're Smiling
1950
Screenplay
When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline concerns the misadventures of T...

Holiday in Havana
1949
Writer
While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada tries to persuade singer Lolita Valdez to join him in a rhumba contest in Havana.

Johnny Allegro
1949
Screenplay
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hun...

Make Believe Ballroom
1949
Screenplay
Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first ...

Slightly French
1949
Screenplay
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new dis...

The Return of October
1948
Story
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

Adventures of Casanova
1948
Writer
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in gueri...

Bury Me Dead
1947
Screenplay
A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

Stepchild
1947
Screenplay
Although Dale and Ken Bullock should be a happily married couple, their marriage is on the verge of a break-up, because Dale refuses to give up her we...
It's Great to Be Young
1946
Story
Ricky Malone, Spud Winters and some other returning G.I.'s are trying to break into show business by the old summer resort. Terry, a runaway daughter ...

Getting Gertie's Garter
1945
Writer
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an...

Nine Girls
1944
Screenplay
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on...

Footlight Glamour
1943
Screenplay
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessma...

It's a Great Life
1943
Screenplay
Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day...

The Daring Young Man
1942
Screenplay
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret...

Blondie for Victory
1942
Screenplay
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in ...

Meet the Stewarts
1942
Screenplay
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage workâon a budget.

Blondie's Blessed Event
1942
Screenplay
Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby always creates is the appearance of Hans Conried a...

Shut My Big Mouth
1942
Screenplay
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

Go West, Young Lady
1941
Screenplay, Story
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.

Tillie the Toiler
1941
Story
While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a friend...

Blondie in Society
1941
Screenplay
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.

Saddlemates
1941
Story
The Three Mesquiteers, as army scouts, soothe hostilities between the Army and Indians after both have been riled by someone with a hidden agenda - a ...

Her First Beau
1941
Screenplay
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also...

Blondie Goes Latin
1941
Screenplay
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleto...

Pioneers of the West
1940
Screenplay
Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Orlebeck.

Saga of Death Valley
1939
Screenplay, Story
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker n...

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

Always in Trouble
1938
Writer
Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.

Passport Husband
1938
Screenplay
At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of th...

Safety in Numbers
1938
Screenplay
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Walking Down Broadway
1938
Writer
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many differ...

Borrowing Trouble
1937
Story, Screenplay
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Checkers
1937
Screenplay
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

Hot Water
1937
Screenplay
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Love in a Bungalow
1937
Screenplay
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Hum...

Dangerous Holiday
1937
Story
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Ride, Ranger, Ride
1936
Story
It is the story of Gene's, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising.

Bulldog Edition
1936
Screenplay
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also ...

Doughnuts and Society
1936
Story, Screenplay
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, ...

Condemned to Live
1935
Screenplay, Story
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampir...
Public Opinion
1935
Writer
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.

The Countess of Monte Cristo
1934
Screenplay
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow ext...

By Candlelight
1933
Screenplay
A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.