Jules Furthman

Screenwriter

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Also Known As

Stephen Fox, Julius Grinnell Furthmann, Julius G. Furthman, Jules G. Furthman

Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Born

March 05, 1888

Died

September 22, 1966

Biography

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Began selling stories in 1915 and writing screenplays two years later. Furthman produced outstanding work in virtually every genre and proved himself compatible with a wide range of directing styles. He wrote or co-wrote eight scripts for Josef Von Sternberg (including "Morocco" 1930 and "Shanghai Express" 1932) and five for Howard Hawks (including "Only Angels Have Wings" 1939 and "The ...

Filmography

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Jet Pilot (1957)

2nd Unit Director

The Outlaw (1943)

Fill-In Director

Colorado Pluck (1921)

The Blushing Bride (1921)

The Land of Jazz (1920)

Rio Bravo (1959)

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Only Angels Have Wings (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Bonnie From Brooklyn

Nightmare Alley (1947) -- (Movie Clip) My Scotch Blood Is Working

Biography

Began selling stories in 1915 and writing screenplays two years later. Furthman produced outstanding work in virtually every genre and proved himself compatible with a wide range of directing styles. He wrote or co-wrote eight scripts for Josef Von Sternberg (including "Morocco" 1930 and "Shanghai Express" 1932) and five for Howard Hawks (including "Only Angels Have Wings" 1939 and "The Big Sleep" 1946). He directed three films in the early 1920s. Brother Charles Furthman (1884-1936) was also a screenwriter.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Jet Pilot (1957)

2nd Unit Director

The Outlaw (1943)

Fill-In Director

Colorado Pluck (1921)

The Blushing Bride (1921)

The Land of Jazz (1920)

Writer (Feature Film)

Rio Bravo (1959)

Jet Pilot (1957)

Peking Express (1951)

Pretty Baby (1950)

From a story by

Nightmare Alley (1947)

Moss Rose (1947)

The Big Sleep (1946)

To Have and Have Not (1944)

The Outlaw (1943)

The Shanghai Gesture (1942)

Collaborator [on Adapted]

Northwest Passage (Book I--Rogers' Rangers) (1940)

Contract Writer

The Way of All Flesh (1940)

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Contr to Screenplay const

Spawn of the North (1938)

The Good Earth (1937)

Contr to Screenplay const

Come and Get It (1936)

China Seas (1935)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Bombshell (1933)

The Girl in 419 (1933)

Shanghai Express (1932)

Blonde Venus (1932)

While Paris Sleeps (1932)

Contract Writer

Blonde Venus (1932)

6 Hours to Live (1932)

Contract Writer

Cuerpo y alma (1931)

Merely Mary Ann (1931)

Body and Soul (1931)

Written for Screen by

The Yellow Ticket (1931)

Over the Hill (1931)

Screenplay and dial

Del mismo barro (1930)

Renegades (1930)

Common Clay (1930)

Renegades (1930)

Renegades (1930)

Common Clay (1930)

New York Nights (1929)

Abie's Irish Rose (1929)

The Case of Lena Smith (1929)

Thunderbolt (1929)

The Dragnet (1928)

The Docks of New York (1928)

The Dragnet (1928)

The City Gone Wild (1927)

Casey at the Bat (1927)

Hotel Imperial (1927)

The Way of All Flesh (1927)

Barbed Wire (1927)

Fashions for Women (1927)

Barbed Wire (1927)

The City Gone Wild (1927)

You'd Be Surprised (1926)

You'd Be Surprised (1926)

The Wise Guy (1926)

Any Woman (1925)

Before Midnight (1925)

Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925)

Call of the Mate (1924)

Try and Get It (1924)

Condemned (1923)

The Acquittal (1923)

North of Hudson Bay (1923)

Lovebound (1923)

North of Hudson Bay (1923)

The Acquittal (1923)

St. Elmo (1923)

Pawn Ticket 210 (1922)

The Yellow Stain (1922)

The Ragged Heiress (1922)

The Love Gambler (1922)

Strange Idols (1922)

Arabian Love (1922)

Calvert's Valley (1922)

Arabian Love (1922)

The Yellow Stain (1922)

The Ragged Heiress (1922)

Gleam O'Dawn (1922)

A California Romance (1922)

The Last Trail (1921)

The Roof Tree (1921)

High Gear Jeffrey (1921)

Singing River (1921)

The Cheater Reformed (1921)

High Gear Jeffrey (1921)

The Cheater Reformed (1921)

The Big Punch (1921)

The Blushing Bride (1921)

The Blushing Bride (1921)

The Big Punch (1921)

Colorado Pluck (1921)

A Sister to Salome (1920)

A Sister to Salome (1920)

The Land of Jazz (1920)

Would You Forgive? (1920)

Leave It to Me (1920)

Would You Forgive? (1920)

The White Circle (1920)

The Great Redeemer (1920)

The Land of Jazz (1920)

The Man Who Dared (1920)

The Iron Rider (1920)

Treasure Island (1920)

The Valley of Tomorrow (1920)

The Texan (1920)

Twins of Suffering Creek (1920)

The Skywayman (1920)

The Skywayman (1920)

The Valley of Tomorrow (1920)

The Lincoln Highwayman (1919)

A Sporting Chance (1919)

Brass Buttons (1919)

Some Liar (1919)

Where the West Begins (1919)

This Hero Stuff (1919)

When a Man Rides Alone (1919)

Six Feet Four (1919)

When a Man Rides Alone (1919)

Brass Buttons (1919)

Where the West Begins (1919)

A Sporting Chance (1919)

This Hero Stuff (1919)

The Beloved Cheater (1919)

Wives and Other Wives (1918)

Up Romance Road (1918)

Hobbs in a Hurry (1918)

A Camouflage Kiss (1918)

All the World to Nothing (1918)

A Japanese Nightingale (1918)

A Camouflage Kiss (1918)

The Mantle of Charity (1918)

Up Romance Road (1918)

Wives and Other Wives (1918)

The Frame Up (1917)

The Frame Up (1917)

Producer (Feature Film)

Jet Pilot (1957)

Music (Feature Film)

Merely Mary Ann (1931)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Northwest Passage (1940)

Life Events

1915

Film story writer

1917

Screenwriter

Videos

Only Angels Have Wings (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Bonnie From Brooklyn Pilots Joe (Noah Beery Jr.) and Les (Allyn Joslyn) are impressed with the pretty blonde Bonnie (Jean Arthur) who gets off the boat in fictional Latin American "Barranca" in an early scene from Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings, 1939.

Nightmare Alley (1947) -- (Movie Clip) My Scotch Blood Is Working Carnival boss Hoatley (James Flavin) receiving an affronted town marshal (James Burke), his new M-C and all purpose performer Stan (Tyrone Power), with an assist from Molly (Coleen Gray), laying down the charm to keep the show from being shut down, in Nightmare Alley, 1947.

Nightmare Alley (1947) -- (Movie Clip) The Lady's Silence Now a big hit in Chicago, using the fortune telling code trick they stole from their ex-friends at the carnival, Stan (Tyrone Power) and his wife-assistant Molly (Colleen Gray) at work, Helen Walker as unannounced psychologist Dr. Ritter in the audience, in Nightmare Alley, 1947.

Nightmare Alley (1947) -- (Movie Clip) They Look Plenty Weird The carnival crew splurging on a hotel stay, new man Stan (Tyrone Power) plotting with his lover, fortune teller Zeena (Joan Blondell), who’s still devoted to her alcoholic husband “Pete,” whom she plans to send to treatment, reading ominous tarot cards, in Nightmare Alley, 1947.

Nightmare Alley (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Is A Guy Born That Way? From the top, Edmund Goulding directing, from the William Lindsay Gresham novel, we learn Stan (Tyrone Power) is the new general duty man at the carnival, querying the boss (James Flavin), and supporting the enamored fortune teller Zeena (Joan Blondell), in Nightmare Alley, 1947.

To Have And Have Not (1944) -- (Movie Clip) A Stray Bullet In French Martinique, boat captain Harry (Humphrey Bogart), with would-be thief Marie (Lauren Bacall), is making his deadbeat client pay up when Nazi-backed goons come after Frenchy (Marcel Dalio) and comrades, Capitane Renarde (Dan Seymour) mopping up, in To Have And Have Not, 1944.

Blonde Venus (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Hot Voodoo Director Josef von Sternberg has not caused his audience to expect his star Marlene Dietrich (as Helen, back in showbiz to support her ailing husband and son) to appear in a gorilla suit, but playboy Nick (Cary Grant) in her audience, likes it, her first number in Blonde Venus, 1932.

Blonde Venus (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Wish I Was Someone Else Learning that her ailing husband (Herbert Marshall) is returning healthy from Europe, Helen (Marlene Dietrich) agonizes with her sugar-daddy turned honest boyfriend Nick (Cary Grant), who financed everything, in Josef von Sternberg's Blonde Venus, 1932.

Shanghai Express (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Wouldn't Have Bobbed My Hair Possibly the most emphatic scene of the picture by director Joseph von Sternberg in displaying his mastery of the attributes of Marlene Dietrich, as Shanghai Lily, revealing her relations with British military doctor Harvey (Clive Brook), off the back of the train, in Shanghai Express, 1932.

Shanghai Express (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Both Their Souls Are Rotten Pompous clergyman Carmichael (Lawrence Grant) unloads on Brit military doctor Harvey (Clive Brook) about Hui Fei (Anna May Wong) and Magdalen (Marlene Dietrich, a.k.a. Shanghai Lily), whose subsequent chat suggests a complex history, early on the trip in Shanghai Express, 1932.

Shanghai Express (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Have No Friends At All Warner Oland as Chang, now revealed as a ruthless Chinese revolutionary, has stopped the train to interrogate passengers, so Magdalen (Marlene Dietrich, a.k.a. Shanghai Lily, employing her astonishing ability with language) acts as interpreter, Emile Chautard the French officer, in Shanghai Express, 1932.

Shanghai Express (1932) -- (Movie Clip) The Most Respectable People The train stalled by city hassles, first Doc (Clive Brook) then parson Carmichael (Lawrence Grant) visit similarly-employed Magdalen (Marlene Dietrich) and Hui Fei (Anna May Wong), then Mrs. Haggerty (Louise Closser Hale) misreads the situation, in Joseph von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express, 1932.

Big Sleep, The - (Original Trailer) Private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer in The Big Sleep.

Only Angels Have Wings - (Original Trailer) Cary Grant heads a team of flyers in a mountainous South American country in Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings (1939).

Nightmare Alley - (Textless Trailer) An ambitious carnival worker (Tyrone Power) attempts to scam his way out of the carnival in the brutal noir Nightmare Alley (1947).

Morocco - (Original Trailer) Marlene Dietrich plays a nightclub singer who falls hard for a Foreign Legionnaire (Gary Cooper) in her first American film Morocco (1930).

Rio Bravo - (Original Trailer) A sheriff (John Wayne) enlists a drunk (Dean Martin), a kid (Ricky Nelson) and an old man (Walter Brennan) to help him fight off a ruthless cattle baron in Rio Bravo (1959), directed by Howard Hawks.

China Seas - (Re-issue Trailer) A sea captain caught in a romantic triangle has to fight off modern-day pirates in China Seas (1935) starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow.

Outlaw, The - (Original Trailer) Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday fight over possession of sultry Mexican girl Jane Russell in Howard Hughes' western The Outlaw (1943).

Family

Charles Furthman

Brother

Screenwriter.

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