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Complete Filmography

The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
as Self (archive footage)
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances M...

Affair in Trinidad
1952
Story, Associate Producer
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

Here Comes the Groom
1951
Screenplay
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947
Producer
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

Gilda
1946
Producer
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
Screenplay, Producer
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with wa...

Together Again
1944
Screenplay, Producer
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on an...

The Impatient Years
1944
Screenplay, Associate Producer
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smi...

Cover Girl
1944
Writer
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Young and Willing
1943
Screenplay
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of ...

The Crystal Ball
1943
Screenplay
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.

Bahama Passage
1941
Screenplay
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the ...

One Night In Lisbon
1941
Writer
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.

Come Live with Me
1941
Original Story
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

Virginia
1941
Story, Screenplay
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.

Honeymoon in Bali
1939
Screenplay
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is...

Cafe Society
1939
Screenplay
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.

St. Louis Blues
1939
Writer
A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they mak...

You and Me
1938
Screenplay
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Am...

Swing High, Swing Low
1937
Screenplay
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved i...

Easy to Take
1936
Screenplay
To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.

My American Wife
1936
Screenplay
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian ...

Poppy
1936
Writer
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter...

Too Many Parents
1936
Screenplay
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart wri...

Timothy's Quest
1936
Screenplay
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with ...

The Pursuit of Happiness
1934
Screenplay
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local milit...