Ellis St. Joseph

Playwright, Screenwriter

About

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Birth Place

New York, USA

Born

April 01, 1914

Died

August 21, 1993

Cause of Death

Cancer

Filmography

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The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970)

The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)

A Scandal in Paris (1946)

A Scandal in Paris (1946)

In Our Time (1944)

Original Screenplay

Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

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Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) It Looks Made For You

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Little Poorer Than Honest

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970)

The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)

A Scandal in Paris (1946)

A Scandal in Paris (1946)

In Our Time (1944)

Original Screenplay

Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Joan of Paris (1942)

Life Events

Videos

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) It Looks Made For You scandalinparis_itlooksmadeforyou_FC

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Little Poorer Than Honest In the same year he narrated the opening to The Picture Of Dorian Gray, George Sanders introduces himself as the central character, the real person Eugene François Vidocq, and Akim Tamiroff as friend Emile, Douglas Sirk directing, in A Scandal In Paris, 1946, from Austrian ex-pat producer Arnold Pressburger, with Signe Hasso and Carole Landis.

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) They Call Me Sweet Loretta Introducing leading WWII pinup Carole Landis in one of her first post-war pictures, fugitives George Sanders and Akim Tamiroff (as the historical figure and central character Vidocq, and sidekick Emile) are persuaded she’s worth a look, in Marseilles ca. 1805, in A Scandal In Paris, 1946, from producer Arnold Pressburger.

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Handsomer Than The Other Saints Via apparent happenstance, the face of St. George in a fresco (?) at a church in provincial France is that of George Sanders, the star and central character Vidocq, and has bewitched Signe Hasso as Therese, daughter of a local police official (Jo Ann Marlowe her sister), their first encounter following, in A Scandal In Paris, 1946.

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A Shrewd Suspicion Maneuvering himself into being made chief of police, con man George Sanders has assumed the name of a prominent local family and become a houseguest of the aristocrat police minister Houdon (Alan Napier), whose jewels he has stolen and hidden, and whose unsuspecting daughter (Signe Hasso) remains enthralled, in A Scandal In Paris, 1946.

In Our Time (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Nasty Looking Things From a prologue establishing a trip to Poland in March, 1939, we meet English antique hunter Mrs. Bromley (Mary Boland) and her sharp assistant Jennifer (Ida Lupino, also narrating), opening In Our Time, 1944, from director Vincent Sherman, starring Paul Henreid.

In Our Time (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Palaces of Poland's Kings Resuming the narration by middle-class English Jennifer (Ida Lupino), recounting her tour of Warsaw with Polish count Stephan (Paul Henreid), just before the 1939 German invasion, their future together foreshadowed, in Warner Bros.' In Our Time, 1944.

In Our Time (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I Think It's Opus Eleven The meeting in early 1939 of Jennifer (Ida Lupino, for once rightly cast as English, and in a romantic lead), assistant to a wealthy antique buyer, and Stephan (Paul Henreid, introduced here), a local nobleman, in a Warsaw boutique, in the WWII melodrama In Our Time, 1944.

In Our Time (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Life Has Chopped Me Down Michael Chekhov, acting teacher, nephew of the Russian playwright and sometime actor as Uncle Leopold, in 1939 Poland, as nobleman Stephan (Paul Henreid) introduces English fiancee' Jennifer (Ida Lupino) to his snobby mother and sister (Alla Nazimova, Nancy Coleman), in In Our Time, 1944.

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