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My True Story (1951)

Shed No Tears (1948)

Leather Gloves (1948)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Moon Over Miami (1941)

Castle on the Hudson (1940)

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Satan Met A Lady (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You're In The Bag

Satan Met A Lady (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought You Were Sleeping

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Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

My True Story (1951)

Shed No Tears (1948)

Leather Gloves (1948)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Moon Over Miami (1941)

Castle on the Hudson (1940)

Sporting Blood (1940)

Contr to Screenplay const

Second Fiddle (1939)

Contract Writer

Blackmail (1939)

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Three Blind Mice (1938)

The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)

Goodbye Broadway (1938)

Contract Writer

The Crime of Dr. Hallett (1938)

Top of the Town (1937)

The Lady Fights Back (1937)

Life Begins with Love (1937)

The Man in Blue (1937)

Contract Writer

Oh, Doctor (1937)

Marry the Girl (1937)

Ever Since Eve (1937)

Satan Met a Lady (1936)

Flying Hostess (1936)

Snowed Under (1936)

The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)

The Florentine Dagger (1935)

Additional Dialogue

We're in the Money (1935)

The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)

Additional Dialogue

While the Patient Slept (1935)

Additional Dialogue

I Sell Anything (1934)

Heat Lightning (1934)

Dark Hazard (1934)

The Avenger (1933)

The Stranger's Return (1933)

Ladies They Talk About (1933)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)

Street of Women (1932)

Adapted and dial

Play Girl (1932)

Adapted and dial

The Maltese Falcon (1931)

Screenplay and dial

Life Events

Videos

Satan Met A Lady (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You're In The Bag Run out of town by police brass in some city, slick private eye Warren William (going by the name Nash, in this instance) immediately ingratiates himself with well-heeled Mrs. Arden (Alison Skipworth) on the train, co-top billed Bette Davis, smartly outfitted by Orry-Kelly, eavesdropping, early in Warner Bros.’ second, and loosest adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, Satan Met A Lady, 1936.

Satan Met A Lady (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought You Were Sleeping Back in town enjoying banter with the secretary Murgatroyd (Marie Wilson) of his long-ago partner Ames (Porter Hall), Shane (Warren William) acts gallant for new client Bette Davis as Miss Purvis (the Mary Astor role in the landmark 1941 version of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon), not apparently realizing she’s been watching him, in Satan Met A Lady, 1936.

Satan Met A Lady (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Without Any Phonus Balonus Having intercepted her, attempting to leave town, the morning after the murder of her maybe-accomplice and his detective partner, private eye Shane (Warren William) jousts with Valerie Purvis (Bette Davis), early in the second Warner Bros. adaptation of The Maltese Falcon, Satan Met A Lady, 1936.

Maltese Falcon, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) The Black Figure Of A Bird Otto Matieson plays a customer calling himself “Doctor” Cairo, in a less flamboyant performance that Peter Lorre’s in John Huston’s landmark 1941 re-make, Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade, Una Merkel his excited assistant, in the first movie version of The Maltese Falcon, 1931.

Maltese Falcon, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) A Guy Named Thursby Still on the evening of the murder of his partner Archer, Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) receives two San Francisco cops he clearly knows well (J. Farrell MacDonald and Robert Elliot as Polhaus and Dundy), and learns that their client was also killed, but sharing little, in the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon.

Maltese Falcon, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Her Name's Wonderly Opening Hollywood’s first pass on Dashiell Hammett’s celebrated novel, Ricardo Cortez as a dandier Sam Spade of San Francisco, Una Merkel as his assistant Effie, eager to introduce a new client with an odd name (Bebe Daniels), Roy Del Ruth directing, in Warner Bros.’ The Maltese Falcon, 1931.

Ladies They Talk About (1933) -- (Movie Clip) She Likes To Wrestle Cheesy process shot but new inmate Nan (Barbara Stanwyck) and veteran Linda (Lillian Roth) on fire, visiting Mrs. Arlington (Cecil Cunningham), Blondie (Helen Mann), Aunt Maggie (Maude Eburne) and a husky matron (Helen Dickson), in Ladies They Talk About, 1933.

Ladies They Talk About (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Too Much Deaconing First scene for crusading newsman Slade (Preston Foster), then joining freshly busted, also guilty, Nan (Barbara Stanwyck), reminiscing as the D-A (Robert McWade) considers his options, in Ladies They Talk About, 1933.

Ladies They Talk About (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Fresh Fish Like You Newly famous bank robber Nan (Barbara Stanwyck) strides into the cell block, an update from the reporter who put her away coming on the radio, as she faces down matron Noonan (Ruth Donnelly) and inmate Susie (Dorothy Burgess), in Ladies They Talk About, 1933.

Ladies They Talk About (1933) -- (Movie Clip) A Man's Running Wild! Dolled-up Barbara Stanwyck making a phone call that turns out to be a diversion, then a past-his-prime bank guard (Harry Gibbon) is supposed to resist her asking to open up early, and her gang busts in, opening Ladies They Talk About, 1933, from a play by actress and one-time San Quentin inmate Dorothy Mackaye.

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Hard Labor Jim (Paul Muni) learns about breaking rocks the hard way with some counsel from Bomber (Edward Ellis) and Sebastian (Everett Brown) in director Mervyn LeRoy's II Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932.

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Where He Probably Belongs Landlady and casual girlfriend Marie (Glenda Farrell), arguably the only actor in the picture working on a par with star Paul Muni, turns on him, as now-successful prison escapee "Allen James," as he gets ready to move out in, Mervyn LeRoy's I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932.

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