Harry Tugend

Producer, Screenwriter

About

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Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Born

February 17, 1898

Died

September 11, 1989

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Filmography

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Birth of the Blues (1941)

Assistant Director

Who's Minding the Store? (1963)

Who's Minding the Store? (1963)

Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Public Pigeon No. 1 (1957)

Road to Bali (1953)

Photos & Videos

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Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Be Optimistic

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Thank You?

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Birth of the Blues (1941)

Assistant Director

Writer (Feature Film)

Who's Minding the Store? (1963)

Who's Minding the Store? (1963)

Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Public Pigeon No. 1 (1957)

Road to Bali (1953)

Wabash Avenue (1950)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

A Southern Yankee (1948)

A Song Is Born (1948)

Cross My Heart (1947)

Ziegfeld Follies (1946)

Wrt "When Television Comes"

Star Spangled Rhythm (1943)

Original Screenplay

True to Life (1943)

Let's Face It (1943)

The Lady Has Plans (1942)

Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)

Contr to Screenplay constr

Birth of the Blues (1941)

Caught in the Draft (1941)

Original story and Screenplay

Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)

Pot O' Gold (1941)

Birth of the Blues (1941)

Little Old New York (1940)

Seven Sinners (1940)

Second Fiddle (1939)

My Lucky Star (1938)

Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Original Screenplay

Thanks for Everything (1938)

Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Wake Up and Live (1937)

Love Is News (1937)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

You Can't Have Everything (1937)

Pigskin Parade (1936)

King of Burlesque (1936)

Half Angel (1936)

Captain January (1936)

Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

The Littlest Rebel (1935)

Thanks a Million (1935)

Contr on Special seq

Producer (Feature Film)

Public Pigeon No. 1 (1957)

Off Limits (1953)

Road to Bali (1953)

Darling, How Could You! (1951)

Golden Earrings (1947)

Cross My Heart (1947)

The Trouble with Women (1947)

Practically Yours (1944)

Associate Producer

Producer (Special)

Do Not Disturb (1960)

I Was a Bloodhound (1959)

Life Events

1933

Co-founded the Screen Writers Guild

Videos

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Be Optimistic Opening with Shirley Temple replacing the youngest of the Brian Sisters trio, with a tune by Harold Spina and Walter Bullock, then Jane Darwell confirming her usual status as an orphan, in this case just being adopted, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938, featuring George Murphy and Jimmy Durante.

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Thank You? Shirley Temple relates to her new adoptive sister (Phyllis Brooks), who helps run the show-biz hotel, where Jimmy Durante is rehearsing his band, and the owner next door (Edna Mae Oliver, with brother Donald Meek) has a problem with noise, song by Harold Spina and Walter Bullock, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938.

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) We Should Be Together Shirley Temple, adopted by the operators of a showbiz hotel, hopes to persuade the owners not to shut it down, and happily meets their agreeable nephew, George Murphy, celebrating with another Harold Spina/Walter Bullock tune, choreographed by Nick Castle, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938.

Song Is Born, A (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Daddy-o Head-turning introduction of Virginia Mayo, as Honey (Barbara Stanwyck was “Sugar” in the original Ball Of Fire, 1942, also directed by Howard Hawks), dubbed by Jeri Sullavan, with the Page Cavanaugh trio (Al Viola on guitar, Lloyd Pratt on bass), song by Don Raye and Gene de Paul, Danny Kaye as observing professor Frisbee, in A Song Is Born, 1948.

Song Is Born, A (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Dorsey, Armstrong, Etc. Danny Kaye is the music professor doing research but this is only a showcase for big musical guests, notably Tommy Dorsey on trombone, ending with Lionel Hampton joining Louis Armstrong, in one of his best-ever on-camera trumpet solos, from Samuel Goldwyn's A Song Is Born, 1948.

Song Is Born, A (1948) -- (Movie Clip) How Jazz Was Born The musical show-stopper, joining the original novelty number by Don Raye and Gene de Paul, Virginia Mayo dubbed by Jeri Sullavan, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet on sax, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Mel Powell on piano, and Louie Bellson drumming, Danny Kaye the professor in charge, in Howard Hawks’ remake of his own Ball Of Fire, 1942, A Song Is Born, 1948.

Song Is Born, A (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Just Another Tomato For Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper in Ball Of Fire, it was "Apple," now with Virginia Mayo as stripper "Honey" and Danny Kaye the music professor, Howard Hawks, directing again, changes fruits, Benny Goodman the professor in horn-rims, in the musical remake A Song Is Born, 1948.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) What's Wrong With Texas? New York high school coach Jack Haley and wife Patsy Kelly arrive for his new gig at fictional Texas State, greeted by Johnny Downs as Carson, Betty Grable his girl, with Dixie Dunbar, Arline Judge and Fred Kohler Jr. as running back Biff, in Pigskin Parade, 1936, from Twentieth Century-Fox.

Littlest Rebel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Away Down South In Dixie Southerner Virgie (Shirley Temple) is drilling her happy slave friends (Willie Best as "James Henry") when courteous Union Colonel Morrison (Jack Holt) rides up asking her father's whereabouts, in The Littlest Rebel, 1935.

Littlest Rebel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) My Mommy Went Away Slave Uncle Bill (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson) and bereaved Virgie (Shirley Temple) stage an entertaining diversion for Union Colonel Morrison (Jack Holt), concealing her father (John Boles), in 20th Century Fox's The Littlest Rebel, 1935.

Littlest Rebel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) See Uncle Bill Dance Ever shrewd, producer B.G. DeSylva, director David Butler, and their moppet heroine Virgie (Shirley Temple) have "Uncle Bill" (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson) dancing barely three minutes into The Littlest Rebel, 1935.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Y'all Stop For Melons? Judy Garland’s first scene in her first feature, collegians Johnny Downs and Betty Grable on a failed recruiting trip with the coach’s wife (Patsy Kelly) when they discover Judy and her redneck melon-heaving brother Stu Erwin, in Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pigskin Parade 1936.

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