Edward Eliscu

Movies

A Touch of Magic
Writer
Car fantasies
Three Husbands
Screenplay
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Out of the Blue
Screenplay
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
The Gay Senorita
Screenplay
Romance with a lovely senorita convinces a contractor to abandon his plans to take over a Mexican housing district.
Hey, Rookie
Screenplay
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
The More the Merrier
Songs
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Something to Shout About
Writer
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
Isle of Missing Men
Screenplay
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Sis Hopkins
Writer
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Screenplay
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
His Exciting Night
Writer
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
Little Tough Guys in Society
Story
A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
High Tension
Writer
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Little Miss Nobody
Writer
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Every Saturday Night
Writer
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Paddy O'Day
Writer
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
Music Is Magic
Writer
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Silk Hat Kid
Screenplay
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.
School for Romance
Writer
Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart.
Hip Zip Hooray
Director
Sheriff Bell inadvertently ends up as owner of a lingerie salon.