Complete Filmography

Ladies of the Chorus
1948
Screenplay, Story
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and P...

Two Blondes and a Redhead
1947
Story
Socialite Cathy Abbott is working in the chorus of a Broadway show instead of being enrolled at an exclusive girl's school as her parents think. When ...

Love and Learn
1947
Story
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music b...

How DOooo You Do
1945
Story, Screenplay
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.

What's Buzzin', Cousin?
1943
Screenplay
Musicians help a woman and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.

Let's Have Fun
1943
Story, Screenplay
When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.

Laugh Your Blues Away
1942
Screenplay
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942
Screenplay
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy beca...

Sing for Your Supper
1941
Screenplay, Story
Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-lea...

Here Comes Happiness
1941
Story
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor b...

Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
Screenplay
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

Out West with the Peppers
1940
Screenplay
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But a...

Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
Screenplay
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner bec...

Disbarred
1939
Story
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to...

Outside of Paradise
1938
Screenplay
Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money eno...

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
1937
Screenplay, Associate Producer
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the g...

Racketeers in Exile
1937
Story
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begi...

Sing Me a Love Song
1936
Story
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls fo...

Adventure in Manhattan
1936
Screenplay
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time ...

Her Master's Voice
1936
Adaptation
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Mi...

Dinky
1935
Screenplay
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

Maybe It's Love
1935
Screenplay
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Happiness Ahead
1934
Writer, Screenplay
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washe...

Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934
Screenplay
Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.

Let’s Be Ritzy
1934
Writer
Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.

I Like it That Way
1934
Story
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.

Obey the Law
1933
Story
In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights. He is a total supporter of...

Forgotten
1933
Writer, Story
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' objec...

Beauty Parlor
1932
Dialogue
Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets ...
Running Hollywood
1932
Writer
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931
Screenplay
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could...