Doris Anderson

Nacimiento : 1897-11-14, Chico, California, USA

Historia

American screenwriter.

Películas

¡Qué vida ésta!
Screenplay
Kay, una cantante famosa, cambia radicalmente de vida al casarse con Chris, un ranchero que tiene dos hijas. Kay pone todo su empeño en conseguir adaptarse a la dura vida del campo. Pero cuando cree que lo ha conseguido, una desavenencia con su marido hace que sus esperanzas se vean truncadas.
That Brennan Girl
Screenplay
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
Salute for Three
Writer
El agente de una cantante famosa piensa que podría recibir una buena publicidad si consigue emparejarla en una comedia romántica con un héroe de guerra.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Story
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Women in War
Writer
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.
Beauty for the Asking
Screenplay
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.
Dame un marino
Screenplay
Los hermanos Jim y Walter son dos marinos de la Marina de los Estados Unidos. Walter le dice a Jim que tan pronto como llegue a casa le va a pedir matrimonio a la bella Nancy Larkin, pero Jim también está enamorado de Nancy por lo que pide a la fea hermana de Nancy, Letty, que le ayude a que Walter y Nancy rompan. Letty está de acuerdo, pero con una condición, que Jim la ayude a conquistar a Walter.
Sophie Lang Goes West
Screenplay
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
The Girl from Scotland Yard
Writer
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.
King of Gamblers
Screenplay
A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy.
And So They Were Married
Screenplay
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the "romance" never gets off the ground and do everything they can to see that they are kept apart.
Without Regret
Writer
In order to save herself while in China, a woman marries a young drifter and is able to return to England. Later, believing that her new husband is dead, she marries a wealthy man. Her new husband's ex-girlfriend, learning of the woman's past and that her first husband is indeed alive, threatens to expose the new wife as a bigamist.
Straight from the Heart
Story
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Straight from the Heart
Screenplay
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
I Give My Love
Dialogue
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
I Give My Love
Screenplay
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
Love Birds
Writer
Un hombre y una mujer se encuentran en un rancho abandonado de California. Sus solitarias vidas cambian cuando un vagabundo descubre oro en la propiedad...
Fascinación
Writer
Linda, una corista que aspira a triunfar, se enamora de Victor, un compositor de éxito. Ambos se casan y tienen un hijo, pero ella pronto empieza a sentirse atraída por el joven y atractivo bailarín Lorenzo Valenti.
Wild Girl
Writer
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
Mata Hari
Additional Dialogue
Año 1917. Mata Hari es una seductora bailarina que vive en París y que ejerce de espía para los alemanes.
The Gay Diplomat
Writer
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
The Gay Diplomat
Adaptation
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
Men Call It Love
Writer
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
Men Call It Love
Dialogue
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
Fast and Loose
Story
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.
Curmudgeon
Writer
An irascible retired old lawyer exposes a diamond thief.
Anybody's Woman
Writer
A lawyer, left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
Grumpy
Screenplay
Bullivant es un gruñón abogado que ya está jubilado. Cuando el novio de su hija es acusado de robar un valiosísimo diamante, Bullivant decide defenderle. Primera película de George Cukor, basada en una obra de Horace Hodges.
True to the Navy
Screenplay
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
The Marriage Playground
Writer
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
The Marriage Playground
Adaptation
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
Charming Sinners
Screenplay
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a flirtation with her former boyfriend Karl Kraley (William Powell). After reels and reels of verbal fencing, the status quo is re-established, and Robert and Kathryn are reunited.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Writer
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.
Half a Bride
Writer
Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned on a desert island with handsome Captain Edmunds. Her head full of notions that she's gleaned from radio dramas and pulp novels, Patience demands that she and Edmunds enter into an in-name-only marriage, observing the responsibilities and proprieties of matrimony without the sexual entanglements. Complications naturally arise.
Three Sinners
Writer
A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.
Three Sinners
Adaptation
A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.
Esclava por amor
Story
Mary Vilner vive con su padre, anciano y enfermo, en una modestísima casa en la granja de Doomsday, propiedad del millonario Percival Fream. Este propone a Mary ser su esposa. Pero Mary, que ve en esta propuesta una manera de tener acceso a la comodidad material para ella y para su padre, está muy dudosa. En secreto, ama a Arnold Furze, un agricultor que trabaja en Doomsday.
Love and Learn
Story
In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of her own good name, Nancy decides to turn the tables on the crooked politicos by framing Cowles' opponent in a compromising situation. Things don't go quite as planned.
Hula
Writer
En Hawái, Hula Calhoun, hija de Bill Calhoun, propietario de una plantación de piña, pone el ojo en un ingeniero inglés casado. Basada en la novela: Hula, un Romance en Hawaii de Armine von Tempski
Hula
Adaptation
En Hawái, Hula Calhoun, hija de Bill Calhoun, propietario de una plantación de piña, pone el ojo en un ingeniero inglés casado. Basada en la novela: Hula, un Romance en Hawaii de Armine von Tempski
The World At Her Feet
Writer
Film was released in 1927
A Kiss in a Taxi
Writer
Bebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was really more slapstick than farce. Ginette (Daniels) is a waitress at Pierre's café. She is in love with Lucien (Douglas Gilmore) and hates getting attention from anyone else. Whenever another man tries to kiss her, she angrily starts throwing glassware. The restaurant's patrons find this amusing, and Leon Lambert (Henry Kolker) makes a bet that he will be able to kiss her. (Janiss Garza)
Her Honor, the Governor
Story
The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having refused to support a water power bill endorsed by Jim Dornton, the political boss of the state, the governor is threatened.
Her Honor, the Governor
Writer
The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having refused to support a water power bill endorsed by Jim Dornton, the political boss of the state, the governor is threatened.