Complete Filmography

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961
Writer
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.

Guys and Dolls
1955
Theatre Play
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky ...

Thunder in the East
1952
Screenplay
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifi...

It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Additional Writing
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinfli...

Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Screenplay
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

Lifeboat
1944
Screenplay
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-bo...

A Lady Takes a Chance
1943
Story
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

Crash Dive
1943
Screenplay
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new...

The Pride of the Yankees
1942
Screenplay
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

Confirm or Deny
1941
Screenplay
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz...

New York Town
1941
Story
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef...

Blood and Sand
1941
Writer
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face re...

The Westerner
1940
Screenplay
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by...

The Real Glory
1939
Screenplay
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous atta...

Made for Each Other
1939
Screenplay
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

I Am the Law
1938
Writer
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

Doctor Rhythm
1938
Screenplay
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

Double Wedding
1937
Screenplay
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.

Pennies from Heaven
1936
Screenplay
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a...

Love Me Forever
1935
Screenplay
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.

The Whole Town's Talking
1935
Screenplay
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to h...

Lady by Choice
1934
Screenplay
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

The Defense Rests
1934
Screenplay, Story
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

No Greater Glory
1934
Adaptation, Screenplay
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

Once to Every Woman
1934
Screenplay
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.

East of Fifth Avenue
1933
Screenplay
A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unf...

Man's Castle
1933
Screenplay
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

As the Devil Commands
1933
Writer
Slowly dying of a terminal illness, wealthy invalid John Duncan wants his aide Dr. Graham to end his suffering.

The Wrecker
1933
Screenplay
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) an...

The Woman I Stole
1933
Writer
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.

Below the Sea
1933
Screenplay
A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.

Man Against Woman
1932
Screenplay
Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is muc...

Washington Merry-Go-Round
1932
Screenplay
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...

War Correspondent
1932
Adaptation
In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. While there, he falls for an ex-streetwalker, but mus...

Hollywood Speaks
1932
Writer
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainm...

Attorney for the Defense
1932
Writer
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

Shopworn
1932
Dialogue
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.

Love Affair
1932
Writer
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.

Behind the Mask
1932
Writer, Story
A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.

Forbidden
1932
Screenplay
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby ...

Platinum Blonde
1931
Adaptation
Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinem...

The Miracle Woman
1931
Screenplay
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blin...

The Good Bad Girl
1931
Dialogue
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.

Carne de Cabaret
1931
Story
This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "...

Dirigible
1931
Screenplay
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the ...

Ten Cents a Dance
1931
Story, Screenplay
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

Madonna of the Streets
1930
Screenplay
Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn.

Rain or Shine
1930
Writer
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune ...

Hell's Island
1930
Adaptation, Screenplay
In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her when one of them announces ...

Around the Corner
1930
Story, Dialogue
18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as...

Ladies of Leisure
1930
Dialogue, Screenplay
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy f...

Melody Lane
1929
Theatre Play
A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in ac...

Humor Risk
1921
Writer, Producer
Harpo played the hero, a detective named Watson who "made his entrance in a high hat, sliding down a coal chute into the basement". Groucho played an ...