Nat Perrin - Turner Classic Movies

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Died

May 09, 1998

Filmography

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The Great Morgan (1945)

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968)

Frankie and Johnny (1966)

I'll Take Sweden (1965)

I'll Take Sweden (1965)

The Petty Girl (1950)

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Frankie And Johnny (1966) -- (Original Trailer)

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Greetings Ching Ching

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Great Morgan (1945)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968)

Frankie and Johnny (1966)

I'll Take Sweden (1965)

I'll Take Sweden (1965)

The Petty Girl (1950)

Emergency Wedding (1950)

Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)

Tell It to the Judge (1949)

Song of the Thin Man (1947)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)

The Great Morgan (1945)

Original story and Screenplay

Swing Fever (1944)

Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)

Pardon My Sarong (1942)

Original Screenplay

Whistling in Dixie (1942)

Hellzapoppin' (1941)

The Big Store (1941)

Keep 'Em Flying (1941)

Hellzapoppin' (1941)

Alias the Deacon (1940)

Hullabaloo (1940)

The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)

On Again--Off Again (1937)

New Faces of 1937 (1937)

Don't Tell the Wife (1937)

Rose of the Rancho (1936)

Pigskin Parade (1936)

Stowaway (1936)

Kid Millions (1934)

Original Screenplay and story

Roman Scandals (1933)

Addl material by

Duck Soup (1933)

Additional Dialogue

Producer (Feature Film)

The Petty Girl (1950)

Emergency Wedding (1950)

Alias a Gentleman (1948)

Song of the Thin Man (1947)

The Mighty McGurk (1947)

No Time to Marry (1938)

Associate Producer

Start Cheering (1938)

Associate Producer

Cast (Special)

Here He Is... The One, The Only... Groucho (1991)

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (1982)

Life Events

Videos

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Greetings Ching Ching Having learned already that she's the orphan daughter of missionaries in China, and that a local warlord is rampaging, we meet "Ching Ching" (Shirley Temple) whom Sun Lo (Philip Ahn) has sworn to protect, in 20th Century-Fox's Stowaway, 1936, co-starring Robert Young and Alice Faye.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) All Things Have Two Prices Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the orphan daughter of missionaries and now a refugee, forgotten by her negligent escort, wanders Shanghai seeking food for her dog, and meets benevolent American Tommy (Robert Young), his first scene in Stowaway, 1936.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta S-M-I-L-E At port in Hong Kong, enjoying a show with friends Tommy and Susan (Robert Young, Alice Faye), who are not (yet) a couple, orphan Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple, with a song by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon) reveals hidden talents, with impressions, in 20th Century-Fox's Stowaway, 1936.

Song Of The Thin Man (1947) -- (Movie Clip) No Longer Interested In Murder At the Charles household in Manhattan the morning after the party and murder, we meet Dean Stockwell as Nicky Jr., Myrna Loy as Nora with an agenda, William Powell as less-rigid dad Nick, in the sixth and last feature in the glittering MGM series, Song Of The Thin Man, 1947, based on the Dashiell Hammet characters.

Song Of The Thin Man (1947) -- (Movie Clip) It Couldn't Have Been Somerset Maugham Nick (William Powell) with Asta is on the dock looking to get out to the gambling boat where the murder happened, thus meeting officer Callahan (James Burke), cook Sadie (Esther Howard), a boatman (Harry Burns) and another cop Davis (Tom Dugan), mostly comedy, in MGM’s Song Of The Thin Man, 1947.

Song Of The Thin Man (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Mrs. Charles Always Wears Her Mouth Open Clarinet player “Klinker” (Keenan Wynn) is helping Nick (William Powell) find a fellow musician so he meets Nora (Myrna Powell) but they’re intercepted by bookie Amboy (William Bishop) who thinks Nick has proof he didn’t kill the bandleader, in the last title in the MGM series, Song Of The Thin Man, 1947.

Song Of The Thin Man (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Right Down To Their Fingerprints At a charity event on a gambling boat anchored off New York, we join Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) observing bandleader Philip Reed, soloist Don Taylor, sideman Keenan Wynn, Gloria Grahame the sexy singer, and Bruce Cowling who owns the joint, exposition early in Song Of The Thin Man, 1947.

Swing Fever (1943) -- (Movie Clip) That Symphonietta Guy Kay Kyser is the bumbling Southerner in a New York composing house whose sheet music has been snatched, appealing to the secretary (Pamela Blake) with a weird trick until the camera gets stopped by 21-year old MGM contract player, Ava Gardner, in a bit part, in Swing Fever, 1943.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Y'all Stop For Melons? Judy Garland’s first scene in her first feature, collegians Johnny Downs and Betty Grable on a failed recruiting trip with the coach’s wife (Patsy Kelly) when they discover Judy and her redneck melon-heaving brother Stu Erwin, in Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pigskin Parade 1936.

Duck Soup (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Where's My Stradivarius? Now at war with nearby Sylvania, Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly leads his country (Freedonia) in battle, his brother Zeppo his assistant, then his other brother Chico as the double-dealing Chicolini, his secretary of war, for the moment, in Duck Soup, 1933.

Duck Soup (1933) -- (Movie Clip) A Rufus Over Your Head Now head of state in Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) gets a lift (from brother Harpo) to the tea party hosted by the widow Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), who is financing his government, and bamboozles foreign rival Trentino (Louis Calhern), in Duck Soup, 1933.

I'll Take Sweden (1965) -- (Movie Clip) We Place Our Women On Pedestals Widowed executive Bob Hope, who’s taken a job in Sweden in order to get is daughter (Tuesday Weld) away from a boyfriend he doesn’t like, arrives, the two of them greeted by charmer Erik (Jeremy Slate), whose own attitude about women is explored, in I’ll Take Sweden, 1965.

Frankie And Johnny (1966) -- (Original Trailer) Elvis Presley stars with Donna Douglas, then popular as Ellie Mae on TV’s The Beverly Hillbillies, in Frankie And Johnny, 1966, developed by producer Edward Small and writer-partner Alex Gottlieb, just barely from the often-recorded song, first published in 1904.

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