Walter Deleon - Turner Classic Movies

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Scared Stiff (1953)

Hold That Blonde (1945)

Delightfully Dangerous (1945)

Out of This World (1945)

Rainbow Island (1944)

Happy Go Lucky (1943)

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Union Pacific (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Pay Or No Pay

College Swing (1938) -- (Movie Clip) When You Get To Be A Professor

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Scared Stiff (1953)

Hold That Blonde (1945)

Delightfully Dangerous (1945)

Out of This World (1945)

Rainbow Island (1944)

Happy Go Lucky (1943)

Riding High (1943)

The Fleet's In (1942)

Kisses for Breakfast (1941)

Contract Writer

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)

Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)

Original Screenplay

The Cat and the Canary (1939)

Union Pacific (1939)

I'm from Missouri (1939)

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The Star Maker (1939)

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The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

College Swing (1938)

Artists and Models (1937)

Waikiki Wedding (1937)

Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

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The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)

Strike Me Pink (1936)

Adapted and Screenplay

Princess Comes Across (1936)

College Holiday (1936)

Rhythm on the Range (1936)

The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

You're Telling Me! (1934)

The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Now and Forever (1934)

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Six of a Kind (1934)

A Lady's Profession (1933)

Her Bodyguard (1933)

International House (1933)

Hold 'Em Jail (1932)

A Fool's Advice (1932)

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Union Pacific (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Pay Or No Pay Just a suggestion of the scale producer-director C.B. De Mille's has in mind, trouble shooter Jeff (Joel McCrea) discussing railroad progress with foreman Dusky (William Haade), mail girl Mollie (Barbara Stanwyck) working the crowd, in Union Pacific, 1939.

College Swing (1938) -- (Movie Clip) When You Get To Be A Professor Gracie Allen is Gracie “Alden,” in the 200-year old original structure of the college her family stands to inherit if she, on this last chance, can pass a graduation exam, cheating miraculously from a laundry list, George Burns her interrogator representing the administration, Cecil Cunningham on the board, in College Swing, 1938.

College Swing (1938) -- (Movie Clip) How'dja Like To Love Me? Just-introduced Martha Raye as Mabel, having just dropped her fake French persona, offering herself as a “Professor of Practical Romance,” for Bob Hope as Bud, who’s now in charge of staffing up the college, cueing an original tune by Burton Lane and Frank Loesser, in Paramount’s College Swing, 1938, starring George Burns and Gracie Allen.

College Swing (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song (Betty Grable) Just the third scene and not essential to the narrative, at what must be the dining hall, an original tune for Paramount by Frank Loesser and Hoagy Carmichael finds Skinnay Ennis launching a duet with Betty Grable, who switches to Jackie Coogan for the dance, choreography by LeRoy Prinz, Raoul Walsh directing, in College Swing, 1938, starring George Burns, Gracie Allen and Bob Hope.

College Swing (1938) -- (Movie Clip) You Will Positively Graduate! After she played her ancestor in a colonial prologue, Gracie Allen is the last member of her wealthy family with the chance 200-years later to take ownership of the college by graduating, and Bob Hope introduces himself as an eager tutor after her fees, early in Paramount’s College Swing, 1938, also starring George Burns.

Cat And The Canary, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Psychology Of Fear Distant cousins Cicily (Nydia Westman) and actor Wally (Bob Hope) securing their ancestor's creepy bayou mansion, after learning that Joyce (Paulette Goddard), visited by the executor Crosby (George Zucco), got all his money, in the horror-comedy The Cat And The Canary, 1939.

Cat And The Canary, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Sleep With Those Pebbles Distant relatives Joyce (Paulette Goddard) and radio-actor Wally (Bob Hope), at the spooky bayou mansion where everyone has just learned that she's the sole heir of the owner, are on the trail of jewels said to be stashed on the premises, in The Cat And The Canary, 1939.

Scared Stiff (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Debonair Slob Jerry Lewis is bumbling fill-in waiter Myron, not formally part of the act Larry (Dean Martin) is performing, and we’ll later learn their old pals, showgirl Rosie (Dorothy Malone) included in the schtick for the customers, early in the 1953 horror-comedy vehicle Scared Stiff.

Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935) -- (Movie Clip) One Of Those Indian Places Beginning with nouveau-riche Americans Egbert (Charlie Ruggles) and Effie (Mary Boland), discussing Charles Laughton (title character,) a valet, about to be informed by his employer the Earl (Roland Young) that he's been lost in a card game, early in Leo McCarey's Ruggles Of Red Gap< 1935.

Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935) -- (Movie Clip) That Ruthless Reality In Paris, English valet Ruggles (Charles Laughton) tries to keep up as his new American employer Floud (Charlie Ruggles) ditches his wife's cultural instructions and trashes social barriers, in Leo McCarey's Ruggles Of Red Gap, 1935.

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) -- (Movie Clip) English Cowboy Butler Ruggles (Charles Laughton) assumes his false identity as "The Colonel" as he calls on the widow Judson (ZaSu Pitts) and her troublesome dog in Leo McCarey's Ruggles of Red Gap, 1935.

Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Superlative Sauce Valet Charles Laughton (title character), at his first social in his new American home town, meets forthright widow Mrs. Judson (ZaSu Pitts), having given up resisting his new employers' determination to declare him a colonel, in Leo McCarey's Ruggles Of Red Gap, 1935.

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