Dale Van Every - Turner Classic Movies

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Dale Van Every worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. A screenwriter for film, Every's best work was often considered to include "Marianne" (1929), "Navy Blues" (1929) and "The Duke Steps Out" (1929). He also appeared in "Those Three French Girls" (1930), "East of Borneo" (1931) and "Spirit of Notre Dame" (1931). Every had a number of different projects...

Filmography

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Sealed Cargo (1951)

The Fighting Seabees (1944)

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The Talk of the Town (1942)

Spawn of the North (1938)

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Souls at Sea (1937)

Captains Courageous (1937)

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After Office Hours (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Where Do You Keep Your Airplane?

After Office Hours (1935) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Get Drunk In Three Days?

Biography

Dale Van Every worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. A screenwriter for film, Every's best work was often considered to include "Marianne" (1929), "Navy Blues" (1929) and "The Duke Steps Out" (1929). He also appeared in "Those Three French Girls" (1930), "East of Borneo" (1931) and "Spirit of Notre Dame" (1931). Every had a number of different projects under his belt in the thirties and the forties, including "Wings in the Dark" with Myrna Loy (1935) and "More Than a Secretary" with Jean Arthur (1936). Every more recently wrote "I'll Tell the World" (1945).

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Sealed Cargo (1951)

The Fighting Seabees (1944)

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The Talk of the Town (1942)

Spawn of the North (1938)

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Souls at Sea (1937)

Captains Courageous (1937)

More Than a Secretary (1936)

Lady Be Careful (1936)

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Annapolis Farewell (1935)

Men Without Names (1935)

After Office Hours (1935)

Wings in the Dark (1935)

I'll Tell the World (1934)

Love Birds (1934)

The Poor Rich (1934)

Story and Screenplay

Saturday's Millions (1933)

Horseplay (1933)

The Big Cage (1933)

Unexpected Father (1932)

Doomed Battalion (1932)

Associate scen Editor

The All American (1932)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

Tom Brown of Culver (1932)

Air Mail (1932)

The Virtuous Husband (1931)

A House Divided (1931)

Trader Horn (1931)

The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931)

East of Borneo (1931)

Ex-Bad Boy (1931)

Those Three French Girls (1930)

Marianne (1929)

The Duke Steps Out (1929)

The Duke Steps Out (1929)

Desert Nights (1929)

Navy Blues (1929)

Telling the World (1928)

The Acquittal (1923)

Producer (Feature Film)

Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Rangers of Fortune (1940)

Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)

Associate Producer

The Poor Rich (1934)

Associate Producer

I'll Tell the World (1934)

Associate Producer

Uncertain Lady (1934)

Associate Producer

Love Birds (1934)

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After Office Hours (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Where Do You Keep Your Airplane? Angry again with her high society friends, reluctant reporter Sharon (Constance Bennett) has escaped a chic New York riverside restaurant with her old school pal Tommy (Harvey Stephens), who himself is being drawn toward scandal, Robert Z. Leonard directing from Herman J. Mankiewicz’s script, in After Office Hours, 1935, starring Clark Gable.

After Office Hours (1935) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Get Drunk In Three Days? Pacey opening, Robert Z. Leonard directing from Herman J. Mankiewicz’s screenplay, introducing Connie (Constance) Bennett as columnist Sharon, entering a New York newsroom where we meet Stuart Erwin and Henry Travers, reporting to Clark Gable as editor Branch, the year after his reporter-turn in It Happened One Night, 1934, in After Office Hours, 1935.

After Office Hours (1935) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Scroop! Put out because she was fired from her new job as music critic earlier that day, socialite Sharon (Constance Bennett) returns from the theater to find her mother (Billie Burke) being charmed by her editor Branch (Clark Gable), who also was there, and who now wants to hire her back for her society connections, in After Office Hours, 1935.

Trader Horn (1931) -- (Movie Clip) They Have A Telegraph Early business, MGM getting its money's worth out of location shooting, in African states then known as Tanganyika and Congo, then Harry Carey (title character) and sidekick Peru (Duncan Renaldo) arriving, in Trader Horn, 1931.

Trader Horn (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Made Her No Promise Horn (Harry Carey) and sidekick Peru (Duncan Renaldo) find the remains of missionary Edith (Olive Golden, Carey's wife) but resolve to carry on, on location at noisy Murchison Falls on the Nile in modern-day Uganda, in MGM's Trader Horn, 1931.

Trader Horn (1931) -- (Movie Clip) We're White, Like Herself! Now captives of an especially hungry East African tribe, Horn (Harry Carey) and Peru (Duncan Renaldo) meet Nina (Edwina Booth), the captive they planned to rescue, who has become the chief, in MGM's Trader Horn, 1931.

Marianne (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Au Revoir, Mon Cheri! Opening with the mobilization of France in the Great War, George Baxter is local Andre, Marion Davies his sweetheart and the title character, in her first talking feature, beginning in French, no less, in MGM’s Marianne, 1929.

Marianne (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Hinky Dinky Parlez Vous After a montage indicating many years of war, Marion Davies (title character) in her French country village is more interested in her pig than in the bunch of American doughboys arriving, Cliff Edwards as Soapy, Benny Rubin as Sam, and Lawrence Gray as soon-smitten Stagg, in Marianne, 1929.

Marianne (1929) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A War Orphan Too! The American soldiers (Cliff Edwards, Benny Rubin, and Lawrence Gray as the more ambitious Stagg) have finagled some food from French single-gal innkeeper Marion Davies (title character), whose fiancè hasn’t been heard from in years, and who begins to thaw a little, in Marianne, 1929.

More Than A Secretary -- (Movie Clip) Stimulates The Liver Secretarial school owner Carol (Jean Arthur), working incognito at "Body And Brain" magazine, with fitness chief Ernest (Lionel Stander) and boss Fred (George Brent), in More Than A Secretary, 1936.

Captains Courageous (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Got New Kind Of Fish Spoiled schoolboy Harvey (Freddy Bartholomew) sailing to England, makes good on his boast that he could drink six ice-cream sodas, then topples overboard and meets Portugese fisherman Manuel (Spencer Tracy, his first scene), a key moment in MGM’s Captains Courageous, 1937.

Talk Of The Town, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Dance Divinely Judge Lightcap (Ronald Colman) has shaved his beard so that beautician Regina (Glenda Farrell) will not recognize him as he tiptoes into investigating the whereabouts of her presumably dead boyfriend, in George Stevens' The Talk Of The Town, 1942, co-starring Jean Arthur and Cary Grant.

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