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The Woman Who Fooled Herself (1922)

A Divorce of Convenience (1921)

Chivalrous Charley (1921)

The Daughter Pays (1920)

The Figurehead (1920)

A Fool and His Money (1920)

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Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- (Movie Clip) That Must Be Her Chest Measurement

Pin Up Girl (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Tell Fibs!

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Woman Who Fooled Herself (1922)

A Divorce of Convenience (1921)

Chivalrous Charley (1921)

The Daughter Pays (1920)

The Figurehead (1920)

A Fool and His Money (1920)

The Tiger's Trail (1919)

The Fringe of Society (1917)

The Glory of Youth (1915)

The Apaches of Paris (1915)

The Ventures of Marguerite (1915)

Cast (Feature Film)

Wake Me When It's Over (1960)

Space Master X-7 (1958)

Pvt. Joe Radigan

Pillars of the Sky (1956)

The Long Gray Line (1955)

The McConnell Story (1955)

Prisoner of War (1954)

Retreat, Hell! (1952)

Call Me Mister (1951)

Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)

The Green Promise (1949)

A Kiss for Corliss (1949)

Raymond [Pringle]

Easy Living (1949)

April Showers (1948)

Mexican Hayride (1948)

Kid Millions (1934)

I've Got Your Number (1934)

A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)

Madame Spy (1934)

Dancing Man (1934)

A Very Honorable Guy (1934)

Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)

Now I'll Tell (1934)

Only Yesterday (1933)

The Constant Woman (1933)

Women Won't Tell (1933)

Notorious but Nice (1933)

Prosecuting attorney

Thrill Hunter (1933)

Police Call (1933)

The Sphinx (1933)

Inspector James Riley

The Important Witness (1933)

Jack [Duke Farnham]

Colonel Jedcott

Reform Girl (1933)

Soldiers of the Storm (1933)

Speed Demon (1933)

The Phantom Express (1932)

American Madness (1932)

From Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)

Behind Stone Walls (1932)

The Last Man (1932)

English Charlie

Slightly Married (1932)

White Eagle (1932)

Daring Danger (1932)

The Fighting Fool (1932)

Come On Danger! (1932)

Frank [Sanderson]

The Penal Code (1932)

James Forrester

Officer 13 (1932)

The All American (1932)

A Man's Land (1932)

Speed Demon (1932)

Murder at Midnight (1931)

Duncan Channing

The Devil Plays (1931)

One Man Law (1931)

Jonathan P. Streeter

Mounted Fury (1931)

The Deadline (1931)

Ira Coleman, also known as Clink Durand

Dancing Dynamite (1931)

The Fighting Sheriff (1931)

The Good Bad Girl (1931)

The Last Parade (1931)

Is There Justice? (1931)

Caught Cheating (1931)

The Squealer (1930)

Undertow (1930)

What Men Want (1930)

Night Parade (1929)

Broadway (1929)

Tonight at Twelve (1929)

The Love Trap (1929)

Freedom of the Press (1928)

Marry the Girl (1928)

Harry Wayland, the boy

The Law's Lash (1928)

Law and the Man (1928)

Restless Youth (1928)

The Lure of the Night Club (1927)

Steve [Slick] Martin

Devil's Dice (1926)

Whispering Canyon (1926)

The Girl From Montmartre (1926)

Brooding Eyes (1926)

Ladies of Leisure (1926)

Capital Punishment (1925)

Nat Armstrong, Jr.

Forbidden Cargo (1925)

S. O. S. Perils of the Sea (1925)

The Part Time Wife (1925)

Lady Robinhood (1925)

The Northern Code (1925)

Defend Yourself (1925)

The Law Forbids (1924)

On Probation (1924)

Silk Stocking Sal (1924)

A Cafe in Cairo (1924)

Lovers' Lane (1924)

Dr. Tom Singleton

For Sale (1924)

The Flame of Life (1923)

The Wanters (1923)

Elliot Worthington

Dark Secrets (1923)

Lord Wallington

The Wild Party (1923)

Basil Wingate/Stuart Furth

Mark of the Beast (1923)

Wild Honey (1922)

The Woman Who Fooled Herself (1922)

Fernando Pennington

The Infidel (1922)

Anna Ascends (1922)

Hurricane's Gal (1922)

Steele O'Connor

The Dangerous Little Demon (1922)

Love's Masquerade (1922)

Herbert Norwood

Ladies Must Live (1921)

Anthony Mulvain

Handcuffs or Kisses (1921)

The Daughter Pays (1920)

Gerald Roseborough

Peggy Does Her Darndest (1919)

Hon. Hugh Wentworth

Upstairs and Down (1919)

Terence O'Keefe

In for Thirty Days (1919)

The Spite Bride (1919)

Louisiana (1919)

The Third Kiss (1919)

Brown of Harvard (1918)

The Customary Two Weeks (1917)

The Lifted Veil (1917)

Leslie Palliser

The Apaches of Paris (1915)

The Glory of Youth (1915)

Writer (Feature Film)

I'll Get By (1950)

Screenplay story

If I'm Lucky (1946)

Do You Love Me (1946)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

Pin Up Girl (1944)

Something for the Boys (1944)

Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)

Footlight Serenade (1942)

Original Screenplay

Song of the Islands (1942)

Original Screenplay

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

The Great American Broadcast (1941)

Original Screenplay

Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)

Star Dust (1940)

Tin Pan Alley (1940)

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)

High School (1940)

Based on an idea by

City in Darkness (1939)

Susannah of the Mounties (1939)

Too Busy to Work (1939)

Pardon Our Nerve (1939)

The Escape (1939)

Original Screenplay

The Honeymoon's Over (1939)

Contract Writer

Original Screenplay

Sharpshooters (1938)

A Trip to Paris (1938)

Love on a Budget (1938)

Down on the Farm (1938)

Speed to Burn (1938)

Road Demon (1938)

Original Screenplay

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1938)

Off to the Races (1937)

Original story and Screenplay

The Jones Family in Big Business (1937)

Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)

Born Reckless (1937)

Big Town Girl (1937)

That I May Live (1937)

Contract Writer

Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)

Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)

Original story and Screenplay

Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)

Original Screenplay

Back to Nature (1936)

Original Screenplay

Federal Agent (1936)

Laughing at Trouble (1936)

Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)

Hitch Hike to Heaven (1936)

Story and Screenplay

Here Comes Trouble (1936)

Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)

Original Screenplay

The Lady in Scarlet (1935)

Happiness C.O.D. (1935)

Story and Screenplay

¡Asegure a su mujer! (1935)

Adaptación cinematográfica [Scr]

Ladies Love Danger (1935)

Music Is Magic (1935)

In Love with Life (1934)

Port of Lost Dreams (1934)

Story and Adapted

The Quitter (1934)

Twin Husbands (1934)

Story, cont and dial

One in a Million (1934)

Screenplay and dial

Fugitive Road (1934)

Story and Screenplay

Dance Girl Dance (1933)

Screenplay and dial

In the Money (1933)

Screenplay and dial

A Man of Sentiment (1933)

Screen story and dial

By Appointment Only (1933)

By Appointment Only (1933)

Screenplay and dial

The Monster Walks (1932)

Story and Adapted

Art Director (Feature Film)

When a Man's a Man (1935)

The Cowboy Millionaire (1935)

Hard Rock Harrigan (1935)

The Dude Ranger (1934)

The Return of Chandu (1934)

Art Director Associate

Chandu on the Magic Isle (1934)

Strangers of the Night (1923)

Scenic architect

The Girl I Loved (1923)

A Tailor Made Man (1922)

Black Roses (1921)

Animation (Feature Film)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Assassination Bureau (1969)

The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)

The Whisperers (1967)

The Wrong Box (1966)

They All Died Laughing (1964)

Psyche 59 (1964)

The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)

Life Events

Videos

Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- (Movie Clip) That Must Be Her Chest Measurement At Ellis Island on a publicity stunt, big band pianist Ted (John Payne), manager Nifty (Milton Berle) and bandleader Phil (Glenn Miller, the bandleader), arrive to pick up their kid war orphan, who turns out to be Sonja Henie, in Twentieth Century-Fox's It Happened In Sun Valley, 1941.

Pin Up Girl (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Tell Fibs! At this point we’ve no idea that Lorry (Betty Grable), most popular gal at the Missoula, Mo. USO, is given to fibbing, but we learn more when she catches the train with girlfriend Kaye (Dorothea Kent), early in the Twentieth Century-Fox musical Pin Up Girl, 1944.

Pin Up Girl (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Carry Tales Out Of School Miffed New York night club star Molly (Martha Raye) calls Lorry (Betty Grable, with pal Dorothea Kent, from Missouri) on her claim she starred in a just-closed Broadway show, so owner Joe E. Brown introduces her for a number by James V. Monaco and Mack Gordon, in Pin Up Girl, 1944.

Susannah Of The Mounties (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Want You To Meet My Daughter Randolph Scott as officer Monty, having rescued the star (Shirley Temple) following an Indian massacre, is eager to report to his C-O (Moroni Olsen), not realizing he'd meet knockout Margaret Lockwood, then berating his orderly Mac (J. Farrell MacDonald), early in Susannah Of The Mounties, 1939.

Susannah Of The Mounties (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Is That Your Pony? Cordial when you consider that, broadly speaking, his tribe probably just slaughtered her family and wagon train, survivor Shirley Temple (title character) and Canadian Blackfeet “Little Chief,” who’s been left with the white men as a de facto hostage during peace talks, have a normal juvenile spat, Randolph Scott intervening, in Susannah Of The Mounties, 1939.

Susannah Of The Mounties (1939) -- (Movie Clip) One Little Word Pretty horrifying opening, at least in the Shirley Temple canon, as she’s found by Northwest Mounted Police officer “Monty” (Randolph Scott), the sole survivor of an outright massacre by Blackfeet Indians in Canada, in 20th Century Fox’s Susannah Of The Mounties, 1939, also starring Margaret Lockwood.

Susannah Of The Mounties (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Teach You To Waltz Shirley Temple (title character, survivor of a wagon-train massacre) helps Monty (Randolph Scott), her rescuer and Northwest Mounted Police officer, with dance technique, J. Farrell MacDonald accompanying, and Margaret Lockwood, the commander’s daughter, his object, in Susannah Of The Mounties, 1939.

April Showers (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Have A Cigar! Vaudeville stars since their son Buster (Robert Ellis) joined their act, the Tymes (Jack Carson, Ann Sothern) arrive for their big gig in New York and find out from Barnes (Joseph Crehan) that they’re not legal, Billy Curtis walking in with the solution, and Mel Blanc providing the nutty dubbed voice, in Warner Bros.’ April Showers, 1948.

Four Jills In A Jeep (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Look Like Somebody I've Seen Just arrived on a base in England, in a story supposedly based on their own real experience on USO tours, Kay Francis, sparky Martha Raye, blonde Carole Landis and Mitzi Mayfair get collected by their minder Eddie (Phil Silvers), and meet handsome flier Ted (John Harvey), early in Four Jills In A Jeep, 1943.

Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- (Movie Clip) It Happened In Sun Valley Promo here for the Idaho resort, Glenn Miller's band with an original by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, Milton Berle and Joan Davis schtick and Sonja Henie, in her first skating scene, tries to impress pianist Ted (John Payne), who is her legal adoptive guardian, in Sun Valley Serenade, 1941.

Pin Up Girl (1944) -- (Movie Clip) We're In Musical Comedy Navy hero Tommy (John Harvey) and pal Dud (Dave Willock) are the toast of New York, greeted by Eddie (Joe E. Brown) at his night club, not knowing Lorry and Kay (Betty Grable, Dorothea Kent) have fibbed to get his table, Martha Raye with an original song by James V. Monaco and Mack Gordon, in Pin Up Girl, 1944.

Green Promise, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Purebred Angus Scurrying home from school, Susan (Natalie Wood) meets a cow and her new neighbors Buzz (Robert Ellis) and Jessie (Jeanne La Duke) in the 4-H family drama The Green Promise, 1949.

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