Warren Duff


Biography

Filmography

 

Writer (Feature Film)

The Last Command (1955)
Screenwriter
Make Haste to Live (1954)
Screenwriter
The Turning Point (1952)
Screenwriter
Appointment with Danger (1951)
Writer
Gambling House (1951)
Contract Writer
A Dangerous Profession (1949)
Writer
Chicago Deadline (1949)
Screenwriter
Experiment Perilous (1944)
Screenwriter
Step Lively (1944)
Screenwriter
Marine Raiders (1944)
Screenwriter
Marine Raiders (1944)
Original Story
The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Screenwriter
The Iron Major (1943)
Screenwriter
No Time for Love (1943)
Adaptation
The Forest Rangers (1942)
Contr to Screenplay constr
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
Screenwriter
Shining Victory (1941)
Contract Writer
'Til We Meet Again (1940)
Screenwriter
Invisible Stripes (1939)
Screenwriter
The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
Screenwriter
Espionage Agent (1939)
Screenwriter
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Screenwriter
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Screenwriter
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
Screenwriter
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Screenwriter
Racket Busters (1938)
Contr to Screenplay const
Back in Circulation (1937)
Screenwriter
Submarine D-1 (1937)
Screenwriter
Stolen Holiday (1937)
Original Story
Varsity Show (1937)
Original Story
Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
Screenwriter
Varsity Show (1937)
Screenwriter
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Screenwriter
The Singing Kid (1936)
Screenwriter
Stage Struck (1936)
Contr to Screenplay const
The Frisco Kid (1935)
Story and Screenplay
Sweet Music (1935)
Screenwriter
In Caliente (1935)
Story and Adapted
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Screenwriter
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
Screenwriter
The St. Louis Kid (1934)
Screenwriter
Midnight Alibi (1934)
Screenwriter
Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)
Screenwriter
I've Got Your Number (1934)
Screenwriter
Heat Lightning (1934)
Screenwriter
Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Story
The Crosby Case (1934)
Screenwriter
The Constant Woman (1933)
Screenwriter
The Big Brain (1933)
Cont
Deluge (1933)
Screenwriter
Uptown New York (1932)
Screenwriter
Hotel Continental (1932)
Adapted and cont
Strangers of the Evening (1932)
Adapted and dial
Lena Rivers (1932)
Adapted and dial
X Marks the Spot (1931)
Story

Producer (Feature Film)

Gambling House (1951)
Producer
Sealed Cargo (1951)
Producer
Honeymoon (1947)
Producer
Out of the Past (1947)
Producer
Lady Luck (1946)
Producer
Experiment Perilous (1944)
Producer

Writer (Special)

Three For Danger (1967)
Writer

Producer (Special)

Three For Danger (1967)
Producer

Special Thanks (Special)

Three For Danger (1967)
Writer

Writer (Short)

Roaring Guns (1944)
Writer (Uncredited)

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Honeymoon (1947) -- (Movie Clip) The Walter Pidgeon Type American consul David (Franchot Tone) brought stranded bride Barbara (Shirley Temple) to a Mexico City club for a meal, as she tries to locate her soldier fiancé Phil, but she’s up for dancing too, which worries his future father-in-law (Julio Villareal), in Honeymoon, 1947.
Honeymoon (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Every Smart Young Diplomat Franchot Tone is David, U.S. Consul in Mexico City receiving his local fiancée (Lina Romay), Gene Lockhart with his staff, then young Barbara (Shirley Temple) from Minnesota, needing help because her soldier fiancé (Guy Madison) couldn’t make their wedding date, in RKO’s Honeymoon, 1947.
Fashions Of 1934 (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Not Much Fun At A Funeral Clever opening, William Dieterle directing from a story and screenplay credited to Harry Collins, Warren Duff, Hugh Herbert and Carl Erickson, introducing William Powell who’s running a scam, Frank McHugh his sidekick, Dorothy Burgess the snarky gal-pal and Bette Davis, in a platinum wig, the unexpected inspiration, in Fashions Of 1934, 1934.
Fashions Of 1934 (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Going To Love Paris! Broke investor turned fashion scam artist “Sherry” Nash (William Powell), with his team (Frank McHugh as Snap, Bette Davis as Lynn), has persuaded the New York designers he was ripping-off to send him to Paris to steal fashions, but they meet former partners Glenda and Harry (Dorothy Burgess, Gordon Westcott) at the docks, in Fashions Of 1934, 1934.
Fashions Of 1934 (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Isn't That A Hottie? Frank McHugh as Snap is sidekick to William Powell as broke investor Nash, conniving with models (Dorothy Burgess as Glenda) and new-recruit fashion artist Lynn (Bette Davis) to photograph then counterfeit the latest Paris designs, delivered by chauffeur Harry (Gordon Westcott) en route to New York couture houses, in Fashions Of 1934, 1934.
Fashions Of 1934 (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Spin A Little Web Of Dreams Nearly an hour into the picture and finally the big (and only) Busby Berkeley number, Verree Teasdale’s song, by Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal, introduces a feather and fashion-based production, gowns per usual by Orry-Kelly, in Warner Bros.’ Fashions Of 1934, 1934, starring William Powell and Bette Davis.
Fashions Of 1934 (1934) -- (Movie Clip) What Pried You Loose? Now in Paris, posing as society types but really stealing haute-couture designs, Bette Davis (who hated the movie and her role but must have loved her co-star!) as designer/artist Lynn and William Powell as “Sherry,” (with partner Frank McHugh playing his driver) finally get good news from New York, in Fashions Of 1934, 1934.
Gold Diggers Of 1937 (1936) -- (Movie Clip) The Boston Bluntingtons Joan Blondell as jobless showgirl Norma is sitting out her friends’ hunt for generous men-folk on the train from Atlantic City but winds up having to flee a hoarde of hungry insurance salesmen, taking refuge in a sleeper where she meets aspiring musician and for-now salesman Rosmer (Dick Powell, Blondell’s new husband at the time!), early in Gold Diggers Of 1937, 1936.
Gold Diggers Of 1937 (1936) -- (Movie Clip) All's Fair In Love And War Busby Berkeley’s dance direction at last with some scale in the finalè number, Dick Powell and Lee Dixon, with Joan Blondell and Rosalind Marquis, in a Harry Warren/Al Dubin original composition for Warner Bros., in what was technically the 5th film in the series (counting the lost silents), in Gold Diggers Of 1937, 1936.
Gold Diggers Of 1937 (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Life Insurance Song From director Lloyd Bacon and Warner Bros., opening with William Davidson as the insurance big-wig pulling bons vivants Rosmer (Dick Powell) and sidekick Oglethorpe (Lee Dixon) to the Atlantic City convention stage for a nutty original by Harold Arlen and E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, in Gold Diggers Of 1937, 1936, also starring Glenda Farrell and Joan Blondell.
Gold Diggers Of 1937 (1936) -- (Movie Clip) The Broker Ripped His Pants From the opening at an Atlantic City insurance salesman’s convention, to the train station where chorus girls Genevieve and Norma (Glenda Farrell, Joan Blondell) lament the collapse of their musical, with Irene Ware as “Irene” and Rosalind Marquis as Sally, and Iris Adrian as snooty Verna, the first appearance for all, in Warner Bros.’ Gold Diggers Of 1937, 1936.
Gold Diggers Of 1937 (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Speaking Of The Weather Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, who married in September of 1936, before this picture was released December 26, with as cute a number as any they did, another Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg original, begun after she, the newly hired secretary, ribs him, the dilettante insurance salesman, for not finding her a job, in Gold Diggers Of 1937, 1936.

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