Harvey Thew


Biography

Filmography

 

Writer (Feature Film)

Confessions of a Vice Baron (1943)
Adaptation
Calaboose (1943)
Adaptation
Four Days' Wonder (1937)
Screenwriter
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
Adaptation
It Happened in New York (1935)
Contr to Screenplay const
Transient Lady (1935)
Screenwriter
Bedside (1934)
Story
Murder in the Private Car (1934)
Adaptation
Operator 13 (1934)
Screenwriter
Death on the Diamond (1934)
Screenwriter
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Contract Writer
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Screenwriter
Supernatural (1933)
Screenwriter
Terror Aboard (1933)
Screenwriter
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Adapted and dial
Stranger in Town (1932)
Screenwriter
Silver Dollar (1932)
Screenwriter
Two Seconds (1932)
Adaptation
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
Screenplay and dial
The Mad Genius (1931)
Adaptation
The Public Enemy (1931)
Adaptation
Illicit (1931)
Adapted and dial
Le masque d'Hollywood (1931)
Adaptation
Expensive Women (1931)
Adaptation
The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
Dial
Divorce Among Friends (1930)
Adaptation
Showgirl in Hollywood (1930)
Dial
Divorce Among Friends (1930)
Dial
Song of the West (1930)
Dial
Sinner's Holiday (1930)
Dial
The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
Screenwriter
Showgirl in Hollywood (1930)
Adaptation
Song of the West (1930)
Scen
Dumbbells in Ermine (1930)
Screenwriter
The Man From Blankley's (1930)
Screenwriter
Sinner's Holiday (1930)
Screenwriter
Divorce Among Friends (1930)
Scen
Tiger Rose (1929)
Dial
Love in the Desert (1929)
Story
Love in the Desert (1929)
Dial
The Hottentot (1929)
Dial
The Sacred Flame (1929)
Dial
The Argyle Case (1929)
Dial
Tiger Rose (1929)
Scen
The Argyle Case (1929)
Scen
The Hottentot (1929)
Adaptation
The Sacred Flame (1929)
Scen
Love in the Desert (1929)
Screenwriter
Three-Ring Marriage (1928)
Cont
Blockade (1928)
Cont
The Head Man (1928)
Cont
Give and Take (1928)
Adaptation
Three-Ring Marriage (1928)
Adaptation
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1928)
Scen
Beware of Blondes (1928)
Story
Give and Take (1928)
Scen
The Head Man (1928)
Adaptation
The Street of Illusion (1928)
Adaptation
Out All Night (1927)
Cont
The Cheerful Fraud (1927)
Adaptation
Take It From Me (1926)
Scen
The Mad Whirl (1925)
Titles
Oh, Doctor (1925)
Cont
I'll Show You the Town (1925)
Scen
Siege (1925)
Screenwriter
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925)
Scen
Oh, Doctor (1925)
Adaptation
Daughters of Pleasure (1924)
Titles
The Enemy Sex (1924)
Scen
The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1924)
Scen
Sporting Youth (1924)
Scen
Flaming Barriers (1924)
Adaptation
Midnight (1922)
Story
Midnight (1922)
Scen
Bobbed Hair (1922)
Scen
The Heart Specialist (1922)
Scen
A Homespun Vamp (1922)
Adaptation
Just Outside the Door (1921)
Scen
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920)
Scen
Duds (1920)
Scen
Under Crimson Skies (1920)
Scen
The Romance Promoters (1920)
Scen
The She Wolf (1919)
Titles
What Am I Bid? (1919)
Story
The Woman Under Cover (1919)
Scen
What Am I Bid? (1919)
Scen
Her Purchase Price (1919)
Scen
Hearts of Men (1919)
Scen
The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
Scen
The Scarlet Shadow (1919)
Scen
The Shuttle (1918)
Scen
The Thing We Love (1918)
Scen
Jules of the Strong Heart (1918)
Scen
Rimrock Jones (1918)
Scen
A Kiss for Susie (1917)
Scen
Those Without Sin (1917)
Story
A School for Husbands (1917)
Scen
The Narrow Trail (1917)
Scen
The American Consul (1917)
Scen
The Winning of Sally Temple (1917)
Scen
The Plow Girl (1916)
Scen
Seventeen (1916)
Scen
The Years of the Locust (1916)
Adaptation
The Big Sister (1916)
Scen
The Woman's Law (1916)
Scen
The Kiss (1916)
Scen

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) -- (Movie Clip) The Falls Are Just Below The famous ice-floe spectacle, from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, fugitive slave mother Eliza (Margarita Fisher) and child flee in a winter storm to a free state, famously re-shot entirely in Hollywood after an expensive, failed shoot in upstate New York, in Universal’s multi-million dollar epic treatment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.
Illicit (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Dubious Connecticut Resorts Worth noting terrific dialogue from the underlying un-produced play by Edith Fitzgerald and Robert Riskin, boozy Georgie (Charles Butterworth) drops in on Dick (James Rennie) and his unabashed intimate girlfriend Anne (Barbara Stanwyck), in the pre-Code drama Illicit, 1932.
Illicit (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Must It Be Puffy? First scene for Barbara Stanwyck, age 24, in her first starring role, uninhibited in the apartment of her boyfriend Dick (James Rennie), in the provocative pre-Code Warner Bros. drama Illicit, 1931.
Illicit (1931) -- (Movie Clip) We Two Modern People Dick (James Rennie) can’t wait while his somewhat reluctantly betrothed fianceè Anne (Barbara Stanwyck) visits with Price (Ricardo Cortez), the ex-boyfriend who insisted on seeing her before her marriage, in the pre-Code potboiler Illicit, 1931.
Mad Genius, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) That Sensation Of Screaming 15 years on from his humble introduction, John Barrymore is now impresario Tsarakov, Luis Alberni his desperate dance director Serge, Marian Marsh (Barrymore’s co-star from Svengali) his principal Nana, Mae Madison and Carmel Myers as needier performers, in The Mad Genius, 1931.
Mad Genius, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) There Was A Strange Boy Freaky opening in the Warner Brothers-John Barrymore commercial follow-up to Svengali, the star operates a puppet act, assisted by Charles Butterworth, young Frankie Darro their only audience, pursued by a pre-Frankenstein Boris Karloff, Michael Curtiz directing, The Mad Genius,1931.
Public Enemy, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta Grow Up Sometime The first appearance of the adult Tom and Matt (James Cagney, title character, and Edward Woods), now in 1915 Chicago and still reporting to small-time hoodlum Putty Nose (Murray Kinnell), who’s upping the ante, early in William A. Wellman’s Warner Bros.’ sensation The Public Enemy, 1931.
Public Enemy, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta Have Friends Chicago, 1917, beer truck drivers Tom (James Cagney, title character) and Matt (Edward Woods) aren’t impressed by their brother and sister (Donald Cook, Rita Flynn) getting together, as they visit local operator Ryan (Robert O’Connor) with a scheme, in William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy, 1931.
She Done Him Wrong (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Come Up Sometime Salvation Army Captain Cummings (Cary Grant) from next door is cutting a thief (James C. Eagles) some slack, when resident saloon singer Lou (star and screenwriter Mae West) appears, her famous line not quite as usually cited, in She Done Him Wrong, 1933.
Death On The Diamond (1934) -- (Movie Clip) When I Say We Hot-shot rookie pitcher Larry (Robert Young) being introduced by Frances (daughter of the coach), to Dunk (Joe Sawyer), Frank (Robert Livingston), her dad (David Landau) and the premise, in real St. Louis Cardinals gear, in Death On The Diamond, 1934.
Death On The Diamond (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Give It To The Milk Fund Villain Karnes (C. Henry Gordon) aims to stop the streaking Cardinals, whose pitcher Larry (Robert Young) is practicing in a mirror when he gets a bribe, and consults with coach (David Landau), his daughter (Madge Evans) and reporter Downey (Paul Kelly) in MGM's Death On The Diamond, 1934.
Stranger In Town (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Bugs In This Cabbage On the opening day of the new chain grocery across the street, Marian (Ann Dvorak) with Grandpa Crickle (Charles "Chic" Sale) at his old-line store, then with competitor Jerry (David Manners), in Stranger In Town, 1932.

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