Ernest Pagano
Nacimiento : 1901-01-16, Colorado
Muerte : 1953-04-29
Historia
Ernest S. Pagano (January 16, 1901 – April 29, 1953) was an American screenwriter. He began in showbusiness as a "gag-man" in silent films. He wrote for 66 films between 1927 and 1947.
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Screenplay
Yvonne De Carlo es una esclava de Trípoli. Descubre la oportunidad de ser libre cuando unos norteamericanos llegan a casa de su dueño para negociar con él las condiciones del rescate de unos marineros. La esclava se ofrece a ayudarlos en la empresa a cambio de que le den la libertad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
Bill y Kay son un matrimonio pero Bill pasa mucho tiempo fuera de casa por asuntos de negocios. Kay sospecha de que su marido es un 'Don Juan' y que a parte de trabajar, se ha dedicado a flirtear con otras mujeres. Por eso, Kay quiere hacerle creer a Bill que ella tampoco ha perdido el tiempo, lo que dará lugar a una serie de equívocos y enredos.
Producer
Tras matar al asesino de su compañero, Johnny Hart se convierte en un fugitivo de la ley. En su huida, se detiene en un pueblo y entra en el saloon regentado por una cantante llamada Lorena Dumont. La atracción que hay entre ambos les llevará a un boda con muchas consecuencias.
Screenplay
Tras matar al asesino de su compañero, Johnny Hart se convierte en un fugitivo de la ley. En su huida, se detiene en un pueblo y entra en el saloon regentado por una cantante llamada Lorena Dumont. La atracción que hay entre ambos les llevará a un boda con muchas consecuencias.
Producer
Penny es una joven que sueña con convertirse en una estrella de Broadway. Para conseguir un papel e ingresar como actriz y bailarina en el espectáculo inventa una mentira, y le dice al productor Paul Renaud que ella es su hija, fruto de la relación que tuvo con su madre hace muchos años.
Writer
Penny es una joven que sueña con convertirse en una estrella de Broadway. Para conseguir un papel e ingresar como actriz y bailarina en el espectáculo inventa una mentira, y le dice al productor Paul Renaud que ella es su hija, fruto de la relación que tuvo con su madre hace muchos años.
Producer
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
Writer
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
Writer
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Adaptation
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Screenplay
Historia de una compañía de vodevil compuesta por la famila Monahan durante las dos primeras décadas del siglo XX.
Producer
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Screenplay
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Writer
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Screenplay
En la acaudalada familia argentina de los Acuña la tradición exige que las hijas se casen por orden de edad. Cuando la mayor se casa, las otras dos hermanas apremian a la segunda, María, para que busque marido. Pero María todavía no ha encontrado un hombre que le guste.
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En Nueva York, el propietario de un teatro de Broadway, está enamorado de la bella corista Sheila Winthrop. Su mujer no deja de vigilarle, mientras que Sheila sólo tiene ojos para el coreógrafo del espectáculo, Robert Curtis. Cuando son descubiertos, Robert no tiene más remedio que escapar, hasta que finalmente acaba en el ejército. Robert nunca se hará rico como soldado, pero al menos habrá salido del apuro... ¿O no?
Screenplay
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.
Writer
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Screenplay
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Screenplay
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Steven tiene problemas con la relación entre él y su prometida Amanda. La convence de ver a su amigo el Dr. Flagg. Después de unos malentendidos, Amanda acaba enamorada del doctor. Cuando él intenta hipnotizarla para hacerla sentir más por Steven, las cosas empiezan a complicarse.
Screenplay
El profesor universitario Peter Morgan se encuentra a su primo Keith totalmente ebrio en un club nocturno, por lo que tiene que avisar a su madre. Durante la espera, Peter ve cantar a Francey y, automáticamente, se queda prendado de ella. De forma impulsiva, Peter y Francey se casan y cogen un tren para ir a ver al padre de él. Pero Peter teme la reacción de su conservadora familia y convencerá a su primo para que se haga pasar por la pareja de Francey.
Screenplay
Se espera que Lady Alyce Marshmorton se case pronto, y los criados del Castillo Tottney hacen apuestas sobre quién será el elegido. Después de haber citado a un hombre en Londres, Alyce es castigada a quedarse en el castillo para evitar su comportamiento escandaloso. Pero en Londres también conoció a Jerry Halliday, quien acaba viniendo al castillo.
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Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
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A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Screenplay
La estrella del ballet Pete "Petrov" Peters se las ha arreglado para cruzar el Atlántico a bordo del mismo barco en el que viaja la bailarina de la que se ha enamorado perdidamente, Linda Keene, aunque apenas la conoce. Pero, en el momento en que el trasatlántico llega a Nueva York, una pequeña mentira se propaga como un rumor: que las dos celebridades están casadas en secreto.
Writer
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Writer
When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
Story
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
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An Educational Pictures Camera Adventure short depicting a female hunters capture of a wildcat.
Story
First entry in the Educational Pictures Moran and Mack series.
Writer
Hollywood Lights is a 1932 Comedy.
Screenplay
Mother's Holiday is a 1932 Comedy
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Hollywood Luck is a 1932 Comedy short.
Writer
A pseudonymous Roscoe Arbuckle directs this comedy short about a man who goes insane because of his wife's bridge addiction.
Writer
Keep Laughing is a 1932 Comedy short
Writer
The owner of a medicine show falls for a young beauty who is in love with someone else.
Story
When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
Dialogue
When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
Writer
Billy Dooley is a suspicious husband who, as a private detective, takes a job from a woman who thinks her husband is running around with another woman. The latter is actually Billy's wife, who is buying a car from the man as a present for Billy. But Billy doesn't know that.
Writer
Idle Roomers is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
The Tamale Vendor is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
A 1931 Comedy short.
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Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
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One Quiet Night is a 1931 Comedy short.
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That's My Meat is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Up Pops the Duke is a 1931 Comedy short.
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This Educational Comedies one-reeler is all about Walter Catlett in his obnoxious mode as he somehow imposes himself completely on Al St. John and Dorothy Granger as they go on their honeymoon. Dorothy never seems to notice anything odd about this situation -- which renders it all the funnier -- while Al St. John builds up quite a head of steam in what amounts to a ten-minute slow burn, worthy of Edgar Kennedy at his best.
Writer
Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
Screenplay
The Back Page is a 1931 Comedy short.
Story
The Back Page is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.
Writer
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
Dialogue
Pete and Repeat is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
Adaptation
Última película muda de Buster Keaton. La actriz Trilby Drew se casa con Elmer, quien está locamente enamorado de ella. Pero ella no parece sentir lo mismo...
Story
El famoso actor de teatro Don Wilson (Walker), después de los ensayos de una nueva obra, sale de excursión con unos amigos. En las afueras de la ciudad encuentran un teatro ambulante en el que actúa una compañía de aficionados, cuya primera actriz, Ginger Bolivar (Love), contrata a Don como actor secundario. Con él representan ante el productor Arnold Wingate (Hilliard) el melodrama “Guerra Civil”. El productor cree que es una magnífica comedia cómica, por lo que ofrece a la compañía un contrato para actuar en Broadway.