Sol Lesser

Producer

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Birth Place

Spokane, Washington, USA

Born

February 17, 1890

Filmography

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Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)

Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)

Man on the Prowl (1957)

Executive Producer

X the Unknown (1957)

Quest for the Lost City (1955)

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)

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Red House, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Things You've Never Explained

Red House, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Ever Run Away From A Scream?

Biography

Filmography

Producer (Feature Film)

Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)

Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)

Man on the Prowl (1957)

Executive Producer

X the Unknown (1957)

Quest for the Lost City (1955)

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)

The Three-D Follies (1953)

Vice Squad (1953)

Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)

Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)

Under the Red Sea (1952)

Without Warning! (1952)

Tarzan's Peril (1951)

Kon-Tiki (1951)

Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)

Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)

Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)

The Red House (1947)

Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)

Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)

3 Is a Family (1944)

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

Tarzan Triumphs (1943)

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)

That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

Our Town (1940)

Our Town (1940)

Fisherman's Wharf (1939)

Everything's on Ice (1939)

Escape to Paradise (1939)

Executive Producer

Way Down South (1939)

Breaking the Ice (1938)

Hawaii Calls (1938)

Hawaiian Buckaroo (1938)

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938)

Tarzan's Revenge (1938)

Panamint's Bad Man (1938)

The Californian (1937)

The Californian (1937)

Make a Wish (1937)

Secret Valley (1937)

It Happened Out West (1937)

It Happened Out West (1937)

Western Gold (1937)

Roll Along Cowboy (1937)

Secret Valley (1937)

Let's Sing Again (1936)

O'Malley of the Mounted (1936)

Wild Brian Kent (1936)

King of the Royal Mounted (1936)

O'Malley of the Mounted (1936)

The Border Patrolman (1936)

Wild Brian Kent (1936)

The Border Patrolman (1936)

Rainbow on the River (1936)

Thunder Mountain (1935)

The Cowboy Millionaire (1935)

The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)

Thunder Mountain (1935)

Hard Rock Harrigan (1935)

When a Man's a Man (1935)

Whispering Smith Speaks (1935)

Whispering Smith Speaks (1935)

Hard Rock Harrigan (1935)

When a Man's a Man (1935)

The Cowboy Millionaire (1935)

Fighting to Live (1934)

The Dude Ranger (1934)

The Return of Chandu (1934)

Chandu on the Magic Isle (1934)

The Dude Ranger (1934)

Jaws of Justice (1933)

Matto-Grosso (1933)

Thunder Over Mexico (1933)

South Sea Adventures (1932)

The Amazon Head Hunters (1932)

With Williamson Beneath the Sea (1932)

The Eyes of the World (1930)

The Re-creation of Brian Kent (1925)

Captain January (1924)

Helen's Babies (1924)

When a Man's a Man (1924)

Helen's Babies (1924)

The Drug Traffic (1923)

Circus Days (1923)

Oliver Twist (1922)

What Women Love (1920)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)

The Mine with the Iron Door (1936)

Peck's Bad Boy (1934)

Tarzan the Fearless (1933)

South Sea Adventures (1932)

One Man in a Million (1921)

Life Events

Videos

Red House, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Things You've Never Explained Farmer Pete (Edward G. Robinson) hopes to resume normal relations with adoptive daughter Meg (Allene Roberts), after his own spooky outbursts, sparked by her friend, the new hired hand Nath (Lon McCallister), who insisted on crossing the forbidden Ox Head Woods, in Delmer Daves’ The Red House, 1947. uveneverexplained_FC

Red House, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Ever Run Away From A Scream? Nath (Lon McCalllister), inquisitive at dinner after his first afternoon working at the Morgan farm, hired at the urging of Meg (Allene Roberts), with her adoptive father Pete (Edward G. Robinson) and his sister (Judith Anderson), events taking a sudden dark turn, early in The Red House, 1947.

That Uncertain Feeling -- (Movie Clip) Masters Of The World From Ernst Lubitsch's prologue, to the ladies lounge to meet Jill (Merle Oberon) and friends (Eve Arden, Olive Blakeney), then to the shrink, Dr. Vengard (Alan Mowbray), opening That Uncertain Feeling, 1941, also staring Melvyn Douglas and Burgess Meredith.

That Uncertain Feeling -- (Movie Clip) The Keeks Was Gone Jill (Merle Oberon), at home with insurance exec husband Larry (Melvyn Douglas), starting to think her new psychiatrist is right to have doubts about her marriage, early in Ernst Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling, 1941.

Our Town (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Way A Person's Born Frank Craven narrates into Martha Scott's first movie scene, as Emily, daughter of Charlie (Guy Kibbee), waylaid by smitten George (William Holden), and William Cameron Menzies' vision of Grover's Corners, NH, replacing the empty set from Thornton Wilder's play, early in Our Town, 1940.

Our Town (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Grover's Corners Actor and writer Frank Craven begins, in the screenplay he helped adapt, his role slightly modified from the Stage Manager he played on Broadway, in the Sol Lesser independent production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Our Town, 1940, with William Holden and Martha Scott.

Tarzan And The Huntress (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Never Kill For Fun Johnny Weissmuller (title character) happy with Jane (Brenda Joyce) and Boy (Johnny Sheffield), not aware yet of the hunting expedition led by Tanya (Patricia Morison, also from the title) and Marley (John Warburton), flying above, early in Tarzan And The Huntress, 1947.

Tarzan And The Huntress (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Killer Lion Jungle intrigue as the king (Charles Trowbridge) gets shot in a staged stampede, his son (Ted Hecht) distraught, guests (Barton MacLane, Carl Marley, Patricia Morison) alarmed, creepy Suli (Maurice Tauzin) faking concern and Johnny Weissmuller arriving, in Tarzan And The Huntress, 1947.

Way Down South (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Bayou Lovelle Credits notable for their content, co-star Clarence Muse and poet Langston Hughes sharing original screenplay credit, framing scenes at the plantation then Muse, his owner Ralph Morgan, and Edwin Maxwell with exposition, in producer Sol Lesser's musical one-off Way Down South, 1939.

Way Down South (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Good Ground Last piece of a long production number, featuring the Hall Johnson choir, song by screenwriters Clarence Muse and Langston Hughes, ending in a plot twist, as benevolent plantation owner Reid (Ralph Morgan) dies in a mishap, his son (Bobby Breen) suddenly the man, in Way Down South, 1939.

Captain January (1924) -- (Movie Clip) There Is An Island Opening scenes, from Universal Studios and producer Sol Lesser, of the "Baby Peggy" feature Captain January, 1924, starring Baby Peggy Montgomery (a.k.a. Diana Serra Cary) and Hobart Bosworth, later remade by 20th Century Fox with Shirley Temple.

Captain January (1924) -- (Movie Clip) My Watchful Soul Further exposition on the life of the title character ("Baby Peggy" Montgomery, a.k.a. Diana Serra Cary), cared for by her de-facto dad, lighthouse keeper Judkins (Hobart Bosworth), and caring for her own menagerie, in Universal's Captain January, 1924.

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