Robert Presnell Sr. - Turner Classic Movies

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Second Chance (1950)

For You I Die (1948)

Original Screenplay

High Tide (1947)

Michigan Kid (1947)

Additional Dialogue

The Guilty (1947)

Cuban Pete (1946)

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Kennel Murder Case, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Well-Known Fancier

Kennel Murder Case, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Someone Miscalculated

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Second Chance (1950)

For You I Die (1948)

Original Screenplay

High Tide (1947)

Michigan Kid (1947)

Additional Dialogue

The Guilty (1947)

Cuban Pete (1946)

The Big Bonanza (1944)

Singapore Woman (1941)

Contract Writer

Hurricane Smith (1941)

Money and the Woman (1940)

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

Disbarred (1939)

The Real Glory (1939)

My Man Godfrey (1936)

Contract Writer

Postal Inspector (1936)

Manhattan Moon (1935)

The Keyhole (1933)

Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)

Employee's Entrance (1933)

The Narrow Corner (1933)

Terror Aboard (1933)

The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

The Man Called Back (1932)

The Lost Squadron (1932)

Additional Dialogue

What Price Hollywood? (1932)

Leftover Ladies (1931)

The Bargain (1931)

The Big Pond (1930)

Young Man of Manhattan (1930)

Producer (Feature Film)

Girl on the Run (1953)

For You I Die (1948)

Attack! The Battle for New Britain (1944)

Four Days' Wonder (1937)

Associate Producer

When Love Is Young (1937)

Associate Producer

Carnival Queen (1937)

Associate Producer

That's My Story (1937)

Associate Producer

Night Key (1937)

Associate Producer

Girl Overboard (1937)

Associate Producer

Associate Producer

The Girl on the Front Page (1936)

Associate Producer

Postal Inspector (1936)

Associate Producer

Mary Jane's Pa (1935)

Hi Nellie! (1934)

The Personality Kid (1934)

Midnight Alibi (1934)

Mandalay (1934)

Ever in My Heart (1933)

The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

Life Events

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Kennel Murder Case, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Well-Known Fancier Opening scene, introducing William Powell as sleuth Philo Vance, also Robert Barrat as "Archer Coe," Mary Astor as his ward "Hilda," Paul Cavanagh as English "Sir Thomas," plus exposition, from Warner Bros.' The Kennel Murder Case, 1933.

Kennel Murder Case, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Someone Miscalculated Beginning his detective work, Philo Vance (William Powell) with Sergeant Heath (Eugene Pallette), D-A Markham (Robert McWade) and Wrede (Ralph Morgan), secretary to the deceased, considering possibilities, in The Kennel Murder Case, 1933.

Employees' Entrance (1933) -- (Movie Clip) All I Want Is You Good clean fun in Warner Bros.’ (First National's) otherwise plenty provocative pre-Code Employees’ Entrance, 1933, as department store middle-manager Wallace Ford, in his first scene, can’t help noticing the knockout new model (Loretta Young), with clever popular song references.

Employees' Entrance (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Know You With All Your Clothes On Tough-guy department store exec Anderson (Warren William) has summoned dress-model Polly (Alice White), who touch on their shared history as he dispatches her to entrap his unwitting older rival Ross (Albert Gran), in Employees’ Entrance, 1933.

Employees' Entrance (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Smash Or Be Smashed After a prologue establishing a roughly 50-year history of department store profits, and mentions of a cut-throat executive named Anderson, we meet Warren William, intimidating his chairman (Hale Hamilton), Ross (Albert Gran) et al, in Warner Bros.’ Employees’ Entrance, 1933.

Employees' Entrance (1933) -- (Movie Clip) How Would You Like A Wax Banana? Threatening to fire most everybody (excepting Ruth Donnelly, his assistant), hard-headed department store executive Anderson (Warren William) has a random meet-cute with wannabe employee Madeline (Loretta Young), even if it plays like they might be lovers already, in the steamy pre-Code Employees’ Entrance, 1933.

Ever In My Heart (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Two Little German Puppies Fairly newly married Mary (Barbara Stanwyck) and her German immigrant professor husband Hugo (Otto Kruger) settle on a dachshund then welcome a baby, sometime around 1910, in director Archie Mayo's semi-political melodrama Ever In My Heart, 1933.

Ever In My Heart (1933) -- (Movie Clip) United We Stand Proud wife Mary (Barbara Stanwyck) and buddy Jeff (Ralph Bellamy) remarking as all celebrate the citizenship of German immigrant Hugo (Otto Kruger), his boss Hoffman (Frank Reicher) especially pleased, everything okay so far, in Ever In My Heart, 1933, directed by Archie Mayo.

Kennel Murder Case, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Touch That Body Socialite Hilda (Mary Astor) proves herself a straight shooter when she walks in on society sleuth Philo Vance (William Powell), supported by law and order (Robert McWade, Eugene Pallette), investigating the death of her skinflint uncle, early in The Kennel Murder Case, 1934, directed by Michael Curtiz.

Kennel Murder Case, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Unsolved Murders This is William Powell in a different movie from his capable colleagues, as Philo Vance, deducing what must have happened to the missing murder suspect, Arthur Hohl as servant Gamble, Robert McWade as prosecutor Markham, Eugene Pallette as cop Heath, in The Kennel Murder Case, 1931.

Mandalay (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Never Get Dressed Cash-strapped Rangoon gun-runner Tony (Ricardo Cortez) returns to his boat and the introduction of his Russian emigre` girlfriend Tanya (Kay Francis), plenty provocative pre-code business, early in Michael Curtiz' Mandalay, 1934.

Mandalay (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Just Where You Pinned Them Rangoon mobster Nick (Warner Oland) is summoned to the police chief (younger than usual Reginald Owen) over the behavior of his charge Tanya, a.k.a."Spot White," (Kay Francis), who rather turns the tables, in Warner Bros.' Mandalay, 1934.

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