B. G. Desylva - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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The Stork Club (1945)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

Contract Writer

Born to Dance (1936)

Bottoms Up (1934)

Story and Screenplay

Have a Heart (1934)

My Weakness (1933)

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Bachelor Mother (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Pay The Fiddler, Man!

This Gun For Hire (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Are You That Broke?

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

The Stork Club (1945)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

Contract Writer

Born to Dance (1936)

Bottoms Up (1934)

Story and Screenplay

Have a Heart (1934)

My Weakness (1933)

Stepping Sisters (1932)

Contract Writer

Indiscreet (1931)

Just Imagine (1930)

Just Imagine (1930)

Sunnyside Up (1929)

Sunnyside Up (1929)

Producer (Feature Film)

Road to Utopia (1946)

Executive Producer

Two Years Before the Mast (1946)

Executive Producer

The Unseen (1945)

Executive Producer

Incendiary Blonde (1945)

Executive Producer

The Stork Club (1945)

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

Executive Producer

Going My Way (1944)

Executive Producer

Practically Yours (1944)

Executive Producer

Ministry of Fear (1944)

Executive Producer

Lady in the Dark (1944)

And the Angels Sing (1944)

Executive Producer

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Till We Meet Again (1944)

Executive Producer

Standing Room Only (1944)

Executive Producer

Frenchman's Creek (1944)

Executive Producer

The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)

Executive Producer

Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

Executive Producer

Double Indemnity (1944)

Executive Producer

I Love a Soldier (1944)

Executive Producer

The Great Moment (1944)

Executive Producer

Rainbow Island (1944)

Executive Producer

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Executive Producer

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)

Executive Producer

The Uninvited (1944)

Executive Producer

The Hitler Gang (1944)

Executive Producer

The Crystal Ball (1943)

Executive Producer

Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

Executive Producer

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Executive Producer

True to Life (1943)

Executive Producer

Happy Go Lucky (1943)

Executive Producer

Hostages (1943)

Executive Producer

Let's Face It (1943)

Executive Producer

No Time for Love (1943)

Executive Producer

Riding High (1943)

Executive Producer

So Proudly We Hail! (1943)

Executive Producer

Star Spangled Rhythm (1943)

Executive Producer

Wake Island (1942)

Executive Producer

Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)

Executive Producer

The Forest Rangers (1942)

Executive Producer

The Glass Key (1942)

Executive Producer

The Fleet's In (1942)

Executive Producer

The Lady Has Plans (1942)

Executive Producer

Road to Morocco (1942)

Executive Producer

My Favorite Blonde (1942)

Executive Producer

I Married a Witch (1942)

Executive Producer

This Gun for Hire (1942)

Executive Producer

Take a Letter, Darling (1942)

Executive Producer

The Great Man's Lady (1942)

Executive Producer

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Executive Producer

Sullivan's Travels (1942)

Executive Producer

Nothing But the Truth (1941)

Executive Producer

Caught in the Draft (1941)

Birth of the Blues (1941)

Louisiana Purchase (1941)

Executive Producer

Bachelor Mother (1939)

The Rage of Paris (1938)

Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)

Associate Producer

You're a Sweetheart (1937)

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

Associate Producer

Captain January (1936)

Ladies in Love (1936)

Associate Producer

Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)

Associate Producer

Stowaway (1936)

Associate Producer

The Littlest Rebel (1935)

Associate Producer

Bottoms Up (1934)

Just Imagine (1930)

Associate Producer

Music (Feature Film)

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

Wonder Wheel (2017)

Molly's Game (2017)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Fort McCoy (2014)

The Rite (2011)

Marmaduke (2010)

Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)

The Water Horse (2007)

FUN WITH DICK AND JANE (2005)

The White Countess (2005)

The Aviator (2004)

Melinda and Melinda (2004)

The End of the Affair (1999)

Buena Vista Social Club (1998)

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

I'm Not Rappaport (1996)

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

White Men Can't Jump (1992)

Shadows And Fog (1991)

Roger & Me (1989)

The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Lucky Lady (1975)

Song If I Had A Talking Picture Of You (")

Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

Senior Prom (1959)

The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

The Benny Goodman Story (1956)

Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (1956)

The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)

Love Me or Leave Me (1955)

Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

The Eddie Cantor Story (1954)

A Star Is Born (1954)

The Jazz Singer (1953)

Somebody Loves Me (1952)

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951)

Lullaby of Broadway (1951)

Hunt the Man Down (1951)

I'll Get By (1950)

Love That Brute (1950)

You're My Everything (1949)

When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)

Bill and Coo (1948)

Till the Clouds Roll By (1947)

Ziegfeld Follies (1946)

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Pillow to Post (1945)

Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Blonde from Brooklyn (1945)

Since You Went Away (1944)

Show Business (1944)

Broadway (1942)

Birth of the Blues (1941)

The Great American Broadcast (1941)

Hollywood Hotel (1938)

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Music Is Magic (1935)

Take a Chance (1933)

Flying High (1931)

Just Imagine (1930)

Follow the Leader (1930)

Follow Thru (1930)

Queen High (1930)

The Big Pond (1930)

Good News (1930)

Lucky Boy (1929)

In Old Arizona (1929)

Say It with Songs (1929)

Sunnyside Up (1929)

The Singing Fool (1928)

Music (Special)

Michael Feinstein & Friends (1991)

Harry Connick, Jr. & His Orchestra: Swinging Out With Harry (1990)

Misc. Crew (Special)

Panama Hattie (1954)

Life Events

Videos

Bachelor Mother (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Pay The Fiddler, Man! Department store scion David (David Niven) ambushes employee Polly (Ginger Rogers), just home from a dance contest, whom he wrongly thinks is the mother of a baby left in his custody, causing her to change tactics on the fly, early in RKO's Bachelor Mother, 1939.

This Gun For Hire (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Are You That Broke? Boyfriend cop Mike (Robert Preston) seeing off singing magician and under-cover operative Ellen (Veronica Lake), who by chance meets Alan Ladd (as fugitive "Raven,") their first scene in their first movie together, in This Gun For Hire, 1942.

Good News (1947) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Ladies Man After practice, inexplicably British football jock Tommy (Peter Lawford) leads Bobby (Ray McDonald), Danny (Mel Torme) and pals in a Buddy DeSylva tune about how to attract girls, in the Arthur Freed MGM musical Good News, 1947.

Miracle Of Morgan's Creek, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Bell In The Bay Writer-director Preston Sturges introduces both his leads, Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker in a famous bit, with a song composed by Sturges, entertaining soldiers about to deploy, and Eddie Bracken as dejected, service-ineligible Norval, in the landmark home-front comedy, The Miracle Of Morgan’s Creek, 1944.

Miracle Of Morgan's Creek, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Swaffled Or Something! The morning after the soldier’s sendoff party, where Trudy (Betty Hutton) drank spiked lemonade and got bonked on the head, she picks up Norval (Eddie Bracken) who provided her alibi and loaned her his car, way later than they should be, concocting a story for her father, in writer-director Preston Sturges’ The Miracle Of Morgan’s Creek, 1944.

Miracle Of Morgan's Creek, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Let's All Get Married! Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker is let loose in an action sequence by writer-director Preston Sturges, in the car borrowed from her 4-F boyfriend, all-in for the sendoff for the soldiers shipping out, to the church basement, the country club, then the juke joint, Len Hendry the soldier with the big idea, in The Miracle Of Morgan’s Creek, 1944.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) He Growled At Me! Orphan Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), who dozed off in a car that got loaded onto a liner departing Shanghai, winds up in the cabin of Susan (Alice Faye) and her mother-in-law to-be (Helen Westley), the captain (Robert Greig) calming nerves, in Stowaway, 1936, from producer Buddy DeSylva.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Goodnight, My Love Seems like the screenwriters maybe gave up, admitting that Alice Faye's solo ballad, by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, just doesn't work with the story, as she fends off shipboard Romeo Robert Young, in the Shirley Temple vehicle Stowaway, 1936.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Greetings Ching Ching Having learned already that she's the orphan daughter of missionaries in China, and that a local warlord is rampaging, we meet "Ching Ching" (Shirley Temple) whom Sun Lo (Philip Ahn) has sworn to protect, in 20th Century-Fox's Stowaway, 1936, co-starring Robert Young and Alice Faye.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) All Things Have Two Prices Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the orphan daughter of missionaries and now a refugee, forgotten by her negligent escort, wanders Shanghai seeking food for her dog, and meets benevolent American Tommy (Robert Young), his first scene in Stowaway, 1936.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta S-M-I-L-E At port in Hong Kong, enjoying a show with friends Tommy and Susan (Robert Young, Alice Faye), who are not (yet) a couple, orphan Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple, with a song by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon) reveals hidden talents, with impressions, in 20th Century-Fox's Stowaway, 1936.

Bachelor Mother (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Women And Things Merlin (Charles Coburn), owner of the department store that just dismissed holiday-employee Ginger Rogers, and his heir (David Niven) are introduced, while the head of the foundling home (Ernest Truex), who believes she abandoned her baby, follows, in Bachelor Mother, 1939.

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