Joseph Schrank


Screenwriter

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Cabin In The Sky (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Double Or Nothing Little Joe (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson) hides in the bushes while Petunia (Ethel Waters) settles some of his gambling debts (with Ernest Whitman as "Jim Henry") in MGM's Cabin In The Sky, 1943.
Cabin In The Sky (1943) -- (Movie Clip) One Of Your Favorite Daughters The "Idea Men" at the "Hotel Hades" include Louis Armstrong, Mantan Moreland and Willie Best, led by "Lucifer Jr." (Rex Ingram), speaking to his father, then visiting the temptress Georgia (Lena Horne) in Cabin In The Sky, 1943.
Slight Case Of Murder, A (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom Ex-bootlegger turned legit-but-broke brewer Marko (Edward G. Robinson) visiting his "alma-mater" orphanage, Margaret Hamilton in charge, collecting his annual summer adopt-ee, (Bobby Jordan), in A Slight Case Of Murder, 1938, from the Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay play.
Slight Case Of Murder, A (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Wash Your Neck Speaking from the original Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay play, bootlegger Remy Marko (Edward G. Robinson) informs his troops (Edward Brophy, Allen Jenkins, Harold Huber et al) of the new plan, early in Warner Bros.' A Slight Case Of Murder, 1938.
Clock, The -- (Movie Clip) Busted Heel Corporal Allen (Robert Walker), adrift in Grand Central Station, meets New Yorker Alice (Judy Garland) in the first scene from Vincente Minnelli's home-front romance The Clock, 1945.
Clock, The -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Opening title sequence from MGM's 1945 hit The Clock, starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, famously rescued after a rough start by director Vincente Minnelli.

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