Complete Filmography

The Wizard of Oz on Ice
1996
Original Film Writer
An ice-skating television adaptation of the 1939 musical film based on Lyman Frank Baum's 1900 fairy tale novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".

The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True
1995
Original Film Writer
This production consists an abbreviated script and highlights most musical numbers from the 1939 film.

Smooth as Silk
1946
Story
An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.

Her First Beau
1941
Story
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...

Henry Goes Arizona
1939
Screenplay
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

Babes in Arms
1939
Additional Writing
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wa...

The Wizard of Oz
1939
Screenplay
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow ...

The Kid From Texas
1939
Screenplay
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.

The Ice Follies of 1939
1939
Screenplay
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home,...

Everybody Sing
1938
Screenplay, Story
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piec...

Mad Holiday
1936
Screenplay
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.

Moonlight Murder
1936
Writer
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.

Tough Guy
1936
Story, Screenplay
An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.

The Casino Murder Case
1935
Screenplay
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the ...

A Wicked Woman
1934
Screenplay
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed...

Have a Heart
1934
Additional Dialogue
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanim...

This Side of Heaven
1934
Screenplay
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

The Crime of the Century
1933
Screenplay
Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up ...

Compromised
1931
Adaptation
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious ti...

The Reckless Hour
1931
Adaptation
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a ...

The Drums of Jeopardy
1931
Dialogue, Continuity
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.

Call of the West
1930
Story
Nightclub entertainer Violet La Tour collapses during a performance in Sagebrush, Texas, and is taken to the ranch of Lon Dixon. They fall in love and...

The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930
Writer
The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.

Pointed Heels
1929
Screenplay
Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss Wr...

Dangerous Females
1929
Writer
Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
Fast Company
1929
Screenplay
Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an intere...

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
1929
Screenplay
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.

Dangerous Curves
1929
Writer
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a ...
Her Husband's Women
1929
Story

The Canary Murder Case
1929
Screenplay
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the C...

Hot News
1928
Writer
Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman,...

Easy Come, Easy Go
1928
Writer
Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets sli...

Something Always Happens
1928
Original Story

Wickedness Preferred
1928
Writer
He couldn't help it if the girls all fell for him. But his wife certainly cramped his romantic style!
Adam and Evil
1927
Writer
A wealthy society wife discovers her husband's long-hidden secret--he has a brother, who is not only his twin but his "evil" twin. The long-lost broth...
On Ze Boulevard
1927
Story
On Ze Boulevard is a 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Harry F. Millarde and written by Earl Baldwin, William Scott Darling, Joseph Farnham...

Blazing Days
1927
Story
While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to th...

The Demi-Bride
1927
Writer
Trouble begins when Madame Girard steps out on her husband, Criquette's father, to fool around with rakish Phillippe Levaux. When Monsieur Girard find...

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
1927
Writer
An orphan is adopted by a kindly old racehorse owner. He decides to pay back his benefactor by training to ride the horse so he can win an important r...