Ben Markson - Turner Classic Movies

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Edge of Eternity (1959)

It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

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Mr. District Attorney (1947)

A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)

Prison Ship (1945)

The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)

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Half Naked Truth, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Thirty Pounds Of Raw Meat

Here Comes The Navy (1934) -- (Movie Clip) He Don't Mean Liquor!

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Edge of Eternity (1959)

It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

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Mr. District Attorney (1947)

A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)

Prison Ship (1945)

The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)

The Beautiful Cheat (1945)

He Hired the Boss (1943)

Thieves Fall Out (1941)

The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)

The Smiling Ghost (1941)

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I Was a Convict (1939)

Pride of the Navy (1939)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Woman-Wise (1937)

Sing and Be Happy (1937)

Original Screenplay

That I May Live (1937)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

Sing Me a Love Song (1937)

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Ready, Willing and Able (1937)

Brides Are Like That (1936)

Nobody's Fool (1936)

Flying Hostess (1936)

Contract Writer

The White Cockatoo (1935)

The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)

Bright Lights (1935)

Going Highbrow (1935)

Additional Dialogue

The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)

Upper World (1934)

Here Comes the Navy (1934)

Big Hearted Herbert (1934)

Here Comes the Navy (1934)

Additional Dialogue

Lady Killer (1933)

Goodbye Again (1933)

Lucky Devils (1933)

The Silk Express (1933)

Picture Snatcher (1933)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Girl Missing (1933)

Rackety Rax (1932)

Is My Face Red? (1932)

The Half Naked Truth (1932)

What Price Hollywood? (1932)

Masked Emotions (1929)

The River Pirate (1928)

Life Events

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Half Naked Truth, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Thirty Pounds Of Raw Meat Scamming promoter Jimmy (Lee Tracy) with sidekick "Achilles" (Eugene Pallette), angered at a Broadway producer's tactics, gets an idea to boost his phony Turkish princess Teresita (Lupe Velez), leading to a riff by director Gregory La Cava, in The Half Naked Truth, 1932.

Here Comes The Navy (1934) -- (Movie Clip) He Don't Mean Liquor! Now shooting at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, James Cagney and Frank McHugh as recruits Chesty (who signed up just to settle a score with an officer) and Droopy tangle with some real officers recruited as actors, in Warner Bros.’ Here Comes The Navy, 1934.

Here Comes The Navy (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Have A Hot One! Their first-ever scene, in the first of nine features they made together, Pat O’Brien as Navy officer Biff (escorting Ida Darling et al) meets James Cagney as iron worker Chesty, with background shots from the Navy Yard at Bremerton, WA, Lloyd Bacon directing, opening Warner Bros.’ Here Comes The Navy, 1934.

Here Comes The Navy (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Looks Too Much Like A Casket James Cagney, introduced as grimy Navy yard worker Chesty, becomes a dance-hall dandy in the next scene, personally financing the trophy he intends to win with spikey girlfriend Gladys (Dorothy Tree), Lloyd Bacon directing from a crafty original screenplay by Warner Bros. stalwarts Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson, in Here Comes The Navy, 1934.

Here Comes The Navy (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Look At The Trim Lines! Now shooting on board the U.S.S Arizona, before it became the famous memorial at Pearl Harbor, swabbies Droopy (Frank McHugh) and Chesty (James Cagney), who joined the Navy to get even with officer Biff (Pat O’Brien), who stole a previous girlfriend, get their heads turned by Gloria Stuart, not yet knowing she’s Pat’s sister, in Here Comes The Navy, 1934.

Case Of The Howling Dog, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) A Sure Sign Of Insanity Mucho nervous Cartwright (Gordon Westcott), established in the opening scenes with a howling canine neighbor and a deaf housekeeper, has insisted on seeing super-busy LA attorney Perry Mason (Warren William), who sees a need for his in-house shrink (Frank Reicher), early in the first feature in the Warner Bros. series, The Case Of The Howling Dog, 1934.

Case Of The Howling Dog, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Funny Thing About That Girl Perry Mason (Warren William, playing Erle Stanley Gardner’s hot-shot lawyer in the first entry in the Warner Bros. series) arrives with Foley (Russell Hicks), the rival of his neurotic client, and the sheriff (Arthur Aylesworth) and meets his housekeeper (Dorothy Tree) who has an improbable bulletin, early in The Case Of The Howling Dog, 1934.

Case Of The Howling Dog, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Like A Common Intruder Mary Astor has appeared only in fleeting profile until now so, once the suspect housekeeper (Dorothy Tree) departs, she arrives, observed by Perry Mason’s snoop (Eddie Shubert), armed and confronting the titular dog, and Russell Hicks, slippery rival of Perry’s client, in the hit opener of the Warner Bros. series based on the Erle Stanley Gardner novels, The Case Of The Howling Dog, 1934, starring Warren William.

Half Naked Truth, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) As We Say In Trigonometry The disgruntled press agent (James Donlan) lights up exotic dancer Teresita (Lupe Velez), who goes gunning for carnival barker Jimmy (Lee Tracy), interrupting his spiel to the boss (Robert McKenzie), but sparking inspiration, early in Gregory La Cava's The Half Naked Truth, 1932.

What Price Hollywood? (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Beef, Iron And Wine Lowell Sherman (actor turned director, here playing dissolute director "Max Carey") outside the Brown Derby, escorting waitress Mary (Constance Bennett) to his premiere, in George Cukor's What Price Hollywood?, 1932.

What Price Hollywood? (1932) -- (Movie Clip) You Haven't Proposed On the MGM lot, pretty waitress Mary (Constance Bennett) arrives to shoot her bit part for her new customer pal, director Max Carey (Lowell Sherman), in George Cukor's What Price Hollywood?, 1932.

Upper World -- (Movie Clip) Cow-Towing Nitwits Railroad tycoon Alex Stream (Warren William) at home with son (Dickie Moore) and wife Hettie (Mary Astor) who's preparing for a costume party, in Upper World, 1934, from a story by Ben Hecht.

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