Wallace Smith - Turner Classic Movies

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During his Hollywood career, Wallace Smith wrote a variety of screenplays. Smith's film career started with such writing credits as "The Dove" (1927), "Two Arabian Knights" (1927) and "Bulldog Drummond" (1929). During the latter part of his career, Smith wrote "Friends and Lovers" (1931), the Richard Dix drama "The Lost Squadron" (1932) and "Bordertown" (1934). He also appeared in...

Filmography

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Her Husband Lies (1937)

The Gay Desperado (1936)

King of Burlesque (1936)

Contract Writer

Bordertown (1935)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)

The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)

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Captain Hates The Sea, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Down To The Sea In Ships

Captain Hates The Sea, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Could I Slit Your Throat And Love It?

Biography

During his Hollywood career, Wallace Smith wrote a variety of screenplays. Smith's film career started with such writing credits as "The Dove" (1927), "Two Arabian Knights" (1927) and "Bulldog Drummond" (1929). During the latter part of his career, Smith wrote "Friends and Lovers" (1931), the Richard Dix drama "The Lost Squadron" (1932) and "Bordertown" (1934). He also appeared in the musical comedy "The Gay Desperado" (1936) with Nino Martini. Smith more recently wrote "Her Husband Lies" (1937).

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Her Husband Lies (1937)

The Gay Desperado (1936)

King of Burlesque (1936)

Contract Writer

Bordertown (1935)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)

The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)

The Trumpet Blows (1934)

The Lost Squadron (1932)

Almost Married (1932)

The Lady Refuses (1931)

Friends and Lovers (1931)

Adapted and dial

The Silver Horde (1930)

Love Comes Along (1930)

Beau Bandit (1930)

Alias French Gertie (1930)

The Silver Horde (1930)

Shooting Straight (1930)

Alias French Gertie (1930)

Bulldog Drummond (1929)

The Delightful Rogue (1929)

The Delightful Rogue (1929)

Venus of Venice (1927)

Two Arabian Knights (1927)

The Dove (1927)

Adapted, cont and titles

Land of the Lawless (1927)

Venus of Venice (1927)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Gaucho (1928)

Life Events

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Captain Hates The Sea, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Down To The Sea In Ships Opening with extensive use of a real ocean liner, which director Lewis Milestone persuaded Columbia studio boss Harry Cohn to spring-for, we meet Walter Connolly in the title role, Frederic Howard and Fredric Santly his audience, Leon Errol the steward, in the all-star comic-melodrama, The Captain Hates The Sea, 1934, with Victor McLaglen and John Gilbert.

Captain Hates The Sea, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Could I Slit Your Throat And Love It? We discover here that Fred Keating (as thief Danny) is actually in league with Helen Vinson (posing as Janet, a librarian) over the stolen bonds, Victor McLaglen the friendly private eye Schulte, Alison Skipworth as Mrs Magruder, buying drinks for Wynne Gibson as reformed party girl “Goldie,” John Wray her indignant husband, John Gilbert her ex-pal Steve, Walter Catlett the barkeep Joe, in The Captain Hates The Sea, 1934.

Captain Hates The Sea, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) To Part Is To Die A Little Just away from Los Angeles, Akim Tamiroff as Salazaro misses his family, with new shipmates, John Gilbert as ex-reporter Steve, Victor McLaglen as gumshoe Schulte, who, while Helen Vinson introduces herself, predicts that their other pal, Danny (Fred Keating), his suspect in a big bond theft, will turn up, in The Captain Hates The Sea, 1934.

Captain Hates The Sea, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I Haven't Got Any Trunks Introducing Tala Birell as Gert, Inez Courtney as friend Flo, Raymond Turner the chauffeur but mainly John Gilbert as Steve, leaving LA by ship, with problems not unlike Gilbert’s own at the time, his first appearance in his last feature, in a role won for him by his friend, the director Lewis Milestone, in The Captain Hates The Sea, 1934.

Friends And Lovers (1931) -- (Movie Clip) An Insidious Vice Laurence Olivier (as "Nichols") almost fluffy in his first scene in a Hollywood film, in India meeting fellow officer Roberts (Adolphe Menjou) and aide McNellis (Hugh Herbert), in Friends And Lovers, 1931.

Two Arabian Knights -- (Movie Clip) Probably Her Eunuch Escaped from their German captors, American private Phelps (William Boyd) and Sergeant McGaffney (Louis Wolheim) on an Arab steamer, entranced by princess Mirza (Mary Astor), in Lewis Milestone's Two Arabian Knights, 1927, art direction by William Cameron Menzies.

Friends And Lovers (1931) -- (Movie Clip) One Is So Like The Other Philandering Roberts (Adolphe Menjou) and Alva (Lily Damita), returning from not attending the opera, quickly found out by her husband Victor (Erich von Stroheim), early in Friends And Lovers, 1931.

Bordertown (1935) -- (Movie Ciip) I'm Sorry, Ramirez A veteran judge (Samuel S. Hinds) explains to Johnny (Paul Muni) that he'll be disbarred for fighting with opposing counsel in his first trial in Bordertown, 1935, directed by Archie Mayo.

Lady Refuses, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) A Short Life And A Merry One Sir Gerald (Gilbert Emery) has just been stood-up by playboy son Russell (John Darrow), who scampers with disreputable Berthine (Margaret Livingston), only later noticing vagrant June (Betty Compson), pursued by the bobbies, but rescued by the baronet, early in The Lady Refuses, 1931.

Lady Refuses, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Blighter Can't Even Crawl Made-over June (Betty Compson) has secretly been positioned by the English nobleman father of Russell (John Darrow) to pry him away from gold-digging Berthine (Margaret Livingston) and her crowd, this being their first not-accidental encounter, in The Lady Refuses, 1931, directed by George Archainbaud.

Lost Squadron, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Birds That Were Lost From post-WWI France in 1918, American fliers Gibby (Richard Dix), Woody (Robert Armstrong), Red (Joel McCrea) and mechanic Fritz (Hugh Herbert), to hard times back home, early in The Lost Squadron, 1932, directed by George Archainbaud.

Lost Squadron, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Drinking And Flying Reunited with wartime pal and Hollywood pilot Woody (Robert Armstrong), meeting his sister "Pest" (Dorothy Jordan), Gibby (Richard Dix), Red (Joel McCrea) and Fritz (Hugh Herbert), get their first movie gig, Erich von Stroheim as the director, in The Lost Squadron, 1932.

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