Harry Kurnitz

Screenwriter

About

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Also Known As

Marco Page

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

January 05, 1909

Died

March 18, 1968

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Filmography

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Witness for the Prosecution (1982)

From Screenplay ("Witness For The Prosecution")

How to Steal a Million (1966)

Goodbye Charlie (1964)

Surprise Package (1960)

Once More, With Feeling! (1960)

Photos & Videos

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See Here, Private Hargrove -- (Movie Clip) Fort Bragg Date Bureau

See Here, Private Hargrove -- (Movie Clip) Your First War?

Family & Companions

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Eileen Tatlock-Miller

Wife

Divorced in 1944.

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Witness for the Prosecution (1982)

From Screenplay ("Witness For The Prosecution")

How to Steal a Million (1966)

Goodbye Charlie (1964)

Surprise Package (1960)

Once More, With Feeling! (1960)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

The Happy Road (1957)

Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

Tonight We Sing (1953)

The Man Between (1953)

Of Men and Music (1951)

Scr, Peerce--Connor

Pretty Baby (1950)

My Dream Is Yours (1949)

A Kiss in the Dark (1949)

Wrt for the screen

The Inspector General (1949)

Adventures of Don Juan (1949)

One Touch of Venus (1948)

Something in the Wind (1947)

Based on a Story by

What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)

Story and Screenplay

The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)

The Heavenly Body (1944)

They Got Me Covered (1943)

Pacific Rendezvous (1942)

Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

I Love You Again (1940)

Fast and Furious (1939)

Original Screenplay

Fast and Loose (1939)

Original Screenplay

Fast Company (1938)

Producer (Feature Film)

Pretty Baby (1950)

A Kiss in the Dark (1949)

The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)

Life Events

1938

Moved to Hollywood

Videos

See Here, Private Hargrove -- (Movie Clip) Fort Bragg Date Bureau Robert Walker, the innocent title character, thinks Mulvehill and Esty (Keenan Wynn, George Offerman) have sold him a legit date through their bogus "date bureau" with widely-admired Carol (Donna Reed), whose uncle (Grant Mitchell) takes pity, in See Here, Private Hargrove, 1944.

See Here, Private Hargrove -- (Movie Clip) Your First War? Cordial greetings on the draftee bus, between Hargrove (Robert Walker, playing the writer and title character, who was still only 25, in the feature based on his best-selling novel), Esty (George Offerman) and Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), followed by comeuppance at induction ceremonies, in See Here, Private Hargrove, 1944.

Happy Road, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) He Was Teaching Us About Baseball Paris-based American widower businessman Mike (producer and director Gene Kelly) has just learned his son escaped from his Swiss boarding school and here, confronting the headmaster (Roger Treville) meets the mother (Barbara Laage) of his French accomplice, and their nobleman pal the Earl (T. Bartlett), early in MGM’s The Happy Road, 1957.

Happy Road, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Hold Your Positions Stopped at a military road-block in rural France, American dad Mike (producer-director Gene Kelly) and French mom Suzanne (Barbara Laage), chasing their boarding-school runaway kids (Bobby Clark, Janine Duval) are handed off to a Brit commander (Michael Redgrave), who turns out to be clueless, Colin Mann and Harry Locke in support, in The Happy Road, 1957.

Fast And Loose (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Do They Play For Keeps Here? Part of the point in the casino scene has to be Roz Russell’s outfit, as Garda Sloane with her book-dealer amateur-sleuth husband Joel (Robert Montgomery) quipping their way into the joint run by Sidney Blackmer as Nolan, Joan Marsh his conspiring moll, in the MGM semi-programmer Fast And Loose, 1939.

Fast And Loose (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Swallowed A Jam Session Clever and provocative business, Rosalind Russell and Robert Montgomery introduced in bed(s) as Joel And Garda Sloane, officially rare-book dealers, as the second of MGM’s three couples cast in the roles, from screenwriter Harry Kurnitz, in Fast And Loose, 1939.

Fast And Loose (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Go On Dear, Detect Something! Roz Russell as Garda Sloane and Robert Montgomery her husband Joel, the clever book-dealer/amateur sleuth now at dinner with daffy mogul Oates (Etienne Girardot), banker Charlton (Reginald Owen), host Torrent (Ralph Morgan) and Anthony Allan, et al, quipping and inviting mystery, in MGM’s Fast And Loose, 1939.

Fast And Furious (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Like This Ocean Jet-setting rare-book dealers Joel and Garda Sloane (Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern) arrive at “Seaside City” escaping the New York heat, and he’s alarmed to find out that his friend, who got him to invest in the beauty pageant, signed him up as a judge, early in MGM’s Fast And Furious, 1939.

Fast And Furious (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Speaks His Native Tongue Minor celebrity Joel Sloane (Franchot Tone) plays it cool while newsman Bentley (Allyn Joslyn) puts the moves on a beauty pageant contestant (Margaret Roach), then Mrs. Sloane (Ann Sothern), who doesn’t know her husband’s been made a judge, comes seeking his checkbook, in Fast And Furious, 1939.

How To Steal A Million (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Tiny Blue Beams Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) worries that her father's fake statue, exhibited at a Paris museum, could be discovered, when she encounters Simon (Peter O'Toole), whom she caught burgling her house the night before, Fernand Gravey the museum director, in William Wyler's How To Steal A Million, 1966.

How To Steal A Million (1966) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The One That's Bleeding Awakened in the night in the Paris mansion of her highly successful art forger father, Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) catches Simon (Peter O'Toole, his first scene) in evening dress, early in William Wyler's How To Steal A Million, 1966.

How To Steal A Million (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Such A Scoundrel Opening with a Paris art auction, Hugh Griffith introduced as the seller, one Charles Bonnet, then news on the radio alerts Audrey Hepburn, whom will learn is his daughter, who then hurries home, in How To Steal A Million, 1966, directed by William Wyler, co-starring Peter O’Toole.

Companions

Eileen Tatlock-Miller

Wife

Divorced in 1944.

Bibliography

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