Elliott Nugent

Director

About

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Birth Place

Dover, Ohio, USA

Born

September 20, 1898

Died

August 09, 1980

Biography

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Playwright and stage performer who entered film with the coming of sound, first turning his hand to directing in 1932. Nugent proved a nimble orchestrator of breezy romances and comedies and enjoyed productive collaborations with such leading comic players as Danny Kaye, Harold Lloyd and Bob Hope. His parallel caareer as a playwright crested with the 1940 production of "The Male Animal,"...

Filmography

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Just for You (1952)

The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)

The Skipper Suprised His Wife (1950)

Father Was a Fullback (1949)

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)

The Great Gatsby (1949)

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Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sin Throughout The Ages

Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sunny California

Family & Companions

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Norma Lee

Wife

Actor. Died in December 1980.

Bibliography

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"Events Leading Up to the Comedy"

Elliot Nugent (1965)

"Of Cheat and Charmer"

Elliot Nugent (1962)

Biography

Playwright and stage performer who entered film with the coming of sound, first turning his hand to directing in 1932. Nugent proved a nimble orchestrator of breezy romances and comedies and enjoyed productive collaborations with such leading comic players as Danny Kaye, Harold Lloyd and Bob Hope. His parallel caareer as a playwright crested with the 1940 production of "The Male Animal," which he co-wrote with college friend James Thurber. Alcohol and mental problems conspired to end his career in the 1950s. Husband of actress Norma Lee and son of playwright John Charles Nugent.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Just for You (1952)

The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)

The Skipper Suprised His Wife (1950)

Father Was a Fullback (1949)

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)

The Great Gatsby (1949)

My Girl Tisa (1948)

My Favorite Brunette (1947)

Welcome Stranger (1947)

Up in Arms (1944)

The Crystal Ball (1943)

The Male Animal (1942)

Nothing But the Truth (1941)

The Cat and the Canary (1939)

Never Say Die (1939)

Give Me a Sailor (1938)

Professor Beware (1938)

It's All Yours (1937)

Wives Never Know (1936)

And So They Were Married (1936)

Love in Bloom (1935)

College Scandal (1935)

Splendor (1935)

Strictly Dynamite (1934)

She Loves Me Not (1934)

Two Alone (1934)

Enter Madame! (1934)

Three Cornered Moon (1933)

Whistling in the Dark (1933)

If I Were Free (1933)

Life Begins (1932)

The Mouthpiece (1932)

Cast (Feature Film)

My Girl Tisa (1948)

Welcome Stranger (1947)

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

The Last Flight (1931)

The Virtuous Husband (1931)

For the Love o' Lil (1930)

Not So Dumb (1930)

Sins of the Children (1930)

The Unholy Three (1930)

So This Is College (1929)

Wise Girls (1929)

Headlines (1925)

Writer (Feature Film)

Whistling in the Dark (1941)

Contract Writer

Whistling in the Dark (1933)

Sins of the Children (1930)

The Unholy Three (1930)

Wise Girls (1929)

Navy Blues (1929)

Wise Girls (1929)

Music (Feature Film)

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)

Life Events

Videos

Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sin Throughout The Ages Entertaining the big-shot out-of-town investor (William Holden), Dulcy (Marion Davies) turns the floor over to her new supposed screenwriter friend Leach (Franklin Pangborn), dramatizing his next feature, Van Dyke (Donald Ogden Stewart) on piano, Elliott Nugent her worried husband, in Not So Dumb, 1930.

Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sunny California Opening with Marion Davies (as nutty Dulcy, the title role in the original George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play) and fiancè Gordon (Elliott Nugent) in the rain, awaiting potential investor Forbes (the other actor William Holden, 1862-1932), wife and daughter (Sally Starr, Julia Faye), with King Vidor directing, in Not So Dumb, 1930.

Unholy Three, The (1930) -- (Movie Clip) You're Too Feminine It’s a little incoherent but Lon Chaney as “Professor Echo,” Harry Earles as “Willie” and Ivan Linow as “Hercules” have left the circus and formed a criminal band, now in disguise as they prevail on their ex-cohort Rosie (Lila Lee), who’s working a pet shop employee (co-writer Elliott Nugent), in The Unholy Three, 1930.

Cat And The Canary, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Psychology Of Fear Distant cousins Cicily (Nydia Westman) and actor Wally (Bob Hope) securing their ancestor's creepy bayou mansion, after learning that Joyce (Paulette Goddard), visited by the executor Crosby (George Zucco), got all his money, in the horror-comedy The Cat And The Canary, 1939.

Cat And The Canary, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Sleep With Those Pebbles Distant relatives Joyce (Paulette Goddard) and radio-actor Wally (Bob Hope), at the spooky bayou mansion where everyone has just learned that she's the sole heir of the owner, are on the trail of jewels said to be stashed on the premises, in The Cat And The Canary, 1939.

Unholy Three, The (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Professor Echo His first spoken lines in Lon Chaney’s first and only talking picture, as Professor Echo at the carnival, practicing ventriloquism he learned for the picture, Richard Carle the barker, Lila Lee his partner in crime, Ivan Linow the strongman, in MGM’s five-years-later remake, The Unholy Three, 1930.

Cat And Canary, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Psychology Of Fear Actor Wally (Bob Hope) and Cicily (Nydia Westman) are among the distant cousins securing their ancestor's spooky bayou mansion, after learning that Joyce (Paulette Goddard), visited by executor Crosby (George Zucco) was his sole heir, in the horror spoof The Cat And The Canary, 1939.

Cat And The Canary, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) There Are Spirits All Around You Bob Hope as Wally joins fellow potential heirs at the spooky Louisiana mansion, George Zucco the lawyer, Gale Sondergaard the housekeeper, with Elizabeth Patterson, Nydia Westman, Douglass Montgomery and John Beal, then Paulette Goddard's entrance, in the horror-comedy The Cat And The Canary, 1939.

Cat And The Canary, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Is He A Dangerous Maniac? After the reading of their ancestor's will in his bayou home, Bob Hope as Wally, with Nydia Westman, George Zucco the lawyer, John Beal, Elizabeth Patterson, Paulette Goddard who got the money, Douglass Montgomery and John Wray, the guard bringing scary news, in the horror spoof The Cat And The Canary, 1939.

Up In Arms (1944) -- (Movie Clip) This Brave Young Soldier Producer Samuel Goldwyn's opening for his first vehicle for newly-signed star Danny Kaye, which he begins as the hypochondriac elevator operator, haranguing doctors, patients and especially Higginbotham (Charles Arnt) in Up In Arms, 1944, with Dana Andrews, Dinah Shore and Constance Dowling.

Up In Arms (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Theater Lobby Number His buddy Joe (Dana Andrews) and gals (Constance Dowling, Dinah Shore) are spectators for this fairly momentous scene, Danny Kaye's first song in his first feature film, known only as "Theater Lobby Number," by his wife Sylvia Fine, with Max Liebman, before anybody gets drafted, in Samuel Goldwyn's Up In Arms, 1944.

Up In Arms (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Now I Know On leave from their base at a carnival, Danny (Kaye) has arranged for himself and Joe (Dana Andrews) to make a record, on which their nurse/officer dates Mary (Constance Dowling) and especially Virginia (Dinah Shore) excel, with a tune by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, in Samuel Goldwyn's Up In Arms, 1944.

Give Me A Sailor - (Original Trailer) A series of romantic complications ensue between two brothers in the U.S. Navy and two sisters in Give Me a Sailor (1938) starring Bob Hope and Martha Raye.

Welcome Stranger - (Original Trailer) Going My Way stars Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald reunite as small town doctors in Welcome Stranger (1947).

Mouthpiece, The - (Original Trailer) Warren William is the slickest lawyer in town until he outsmarts himself in the pre-code drama The Mouthpiece (1932).

Male Animal, The - (Original Trailer) Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland star in the college life satire The Male Animal (1942).

Last Flight, The - (Original Trailer) A group of American vets damaged by World War I live it up in Paris after the war in the Hemingway-inspired The Last Flight (1931).

Skipper Surprised His Wife, The - (Original Trailer) A captain (Robert Walker) tries to keep home as tight as his ship in The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950).

Life Begins -- (Original Trailer) A maternity ward becomes the focus for the patients', doctors' and nurses' personal problems. A pre-code drama starring Loretta Young.

Family

John Charles Nugent

Father

Playwright, vaudevillian. Born in 1868; died in 1947.

Grace Mary Fertig

Mother

Died in 1930.

Barbara Nugent

Daughter

Died in 1974.

Companions

Norma Lee

Wife

Actor. Died in December 1980.

Bibliography

"Events Leading Up to the Comedy"

Elliot Nugent (1965)

"Of Cheat and Charmer"

Elliot Nugent (1962)

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