Luther Davis - Turner Classic Movies

About

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Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Born

August 29, 1916

Died

July 29, 2008

Cause of Death

Natural Causes

Filmography

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Across 110th Street (1972)

Lady in a Cage (1964)

The Wonders of Aladdin (1961)

Holiday for Lovers (1959)

The Gift of Love (1958)

The Eternal Sea (1955)

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Across 110th Street (1972) -- (Movie Clip) I'm In Charge Here

Across 110th Street (1972) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Be New Around Here

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Across 110th Street (1972)

Lady in a Cage (1964)

The Wonders of Aladdin (1961)

Holiday for Lovers (1959)

The Gift of Love (1958)

The Eternal Sea (1955)

Contract Writer

New Faces (1954)

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A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)

Black Hand (1950)

B. F.'s Daughter (1948)

The Hucksters (1947)

Producer (Feature Film)

Lady in a Cage (1964)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Lady in a Cage (1964)

Life Events

Videos

Across 110th Street (1972) -- (Movie Clip) I'm In Charge Here Joining NYPD captain Matelli (Anthony Quinn, who also produced), with loads of bad attitude and language, entering the crime scene where mafia guys, (crooked) cops and Harlem locals were all killed, and his first meeting with Yaphet Kotto as Lt. Pope, then their boss (Tim O’Connor) explaining the pecking order, in Across 110th Street, 1972.

Across 110th Street (1972) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Be New Around Here In the aftermath of a big gang shooting, grizzled NYPD Capt. Matelli (Anthony Quinn, also the producer) works through a sea of witnesses called in by his less-senior supervisor Lt. Pope (Yaphet Kotto), who’s engaged with the informer Chink (Charles McGregor), in Across 110th Street, 1972.

Across 110th Street (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Theme Up the West Side Highway, through Central Park, turning north with a suitcase full of cash, an incoherent route via the Apollo Theater, winding up a block off St. Nicholas Ave., Bobby Womack’s landmark theme song establishes Harlem in the grim early 70’s, in Across 110th Street, 1972, starring (co-producer) Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto.

B.F.'s Daughter (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Your Pretty Little Head Park Avenue, 1932, breakfasting with his wife (Spring Byington), industrialist B.F. Fulton (Charles Coburn) fumes over a radio commentator’s criticism as daughter Polly (Barbara Stanwyck) appears, sniffing a chance to help her fiancé (Richard Hart), opening MGM’s B.F.’s Daughter, 1948.

Hucksters, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Your Toes Are Not Pointed Enough! Clinton Sundberg (delightful as photographer Michael Michaelson) receives dignified but insolvent war-widow socialite Mrs. Dorrance (Deborah Kerr), savvy Vic (Clark Gable) from the ad agency, who got her the lucrative photo gig, and stiff Miss Kennedy (Kathryn Card), representing the demanding sponsor, in The Hucksters, 1947.

Hucksters, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody's Anybody's Friend As singer Jean (Ava Gardner) joins the table after her number, she visits with old pal and ad-man Vic (Clark Gable) and his new maybe-flame, war widow Kay (Deborah Kerr), before Vic's intoxicated boss "Kim" (Adolphe Menjou, a one-time Ivy Leaguer, with Gloria Holden as his wife) takes a bitter turn, in The Hucksters, 1947.

Hucksters, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Disagree With Him! Spectacular entrance of soap tycoon Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sydney Greenstreet) with a tirade for ad men Kimberly (Adolphe Menjou), Cooke (Richard Gaines) and Norman (Clark Gable) in The Hucksters, 1947.

Hucksters, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Carry A Pipe New York agency boss Kimberly (Adolphe Menjou) and his old acquaintance and prospective hire Vic (Clark Gable) drop in on embattled Clarke (Richard Gaines) as he struggles with the prized "Beauty Soap" campaign and their intimidating client, in The Hucksters, 1947.

Hucksters, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Not Needing A Job Opening scene from the MGM marquee productiuon of The Hucksters, 1947, sees Park Avenue hotel staffers Betty (Connie Gilchrist) and Glass (Aubrey Mather) thrilled at the return of war-veteran and ad man Victor Norman (Clark Gable), starlets Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner appearing soon.

Black Hand (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Old World Terror Richard Thorpe directs, in a style that might be compared to Francis Coppola's, the opening in Little Italy of MGM's noir-ish Mafia drama Black Hand, 1950, Peter Brocco a soon-to-be-martyred lawyer, Eleonora Mendelssohn his wife, and Raymond Malkin the son who will grow up to be Gene Kelly.

Kismet (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Rise And Pray Unlikely these days that Baghdad would be presented in these mystical, romantic tones, the opening of the 1955 MGM musical based on 1953 Broadway show rather than the 1944 MGM fantasy, introducing Howard Keel as the Poet and Ann Blyth as daughter Marsinah, from Kismet.

Black Hand (1950) -- (Movie Clip) He Discovered America! Jumping eight years from the prologue, Gene Kelly is Johnny, with impressive memorized Italian, returning to New York from the old country, looking to avenge his father’s murder, eventually meeting a girl from grade school (Teresa Celli), in MGM’s atmospheric Mafia drama Black Hand, 1950.

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