Sylvia Thalberg
Nacimiento : 1907-08-26, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Muerte : 1988-04-09
Historia
Sylvia Thalberg (sister of Irving) was an American screenwriter, active during the 1927-1937 span of years.
Screenplay
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
Writer
Jerry es un ladrón de guante blanco que se dedica al robo de joyas. Aunque está felizmente casado, su mujer quiere que abandone ese tipo de vida, pues desea tener hijos. Un día, reciben la visita de Penny, la hija de Jerry, que ha se ha criado con la familia de su difunta madre. El encanto y la simpatía de la pequeña hará que Jerry se replantee su vida y piense seriamente en formar una familia.
Writer
En una localidad cercana a Boston transcurre la apacible vida del matrimonio Haggett, sus hijas Susan y Ada y la sirvienta Abby, hasta que su existencia se ve interrumpida por la súbita llegada de un desconocido, Maxwell Davenport, que se presenta como amigo del fallecido Christopher Bean, un pintor que vivía con la familia Haggett. El recién llegado pronto se interesa por la obra pictórica del difunto que permanece en la casa, alegando motivos sentimentales. La verdad resulta que Bean llegó a convertirse en un célebre pintor. Pronto entran en liza por los cuadros sendos comerciantes de arte: Un tal Rosen y el verdadero Maxwell Davenport.
Story
La matriarca de una familia de banqueros lidera a su clan durante una crisis económica.
Writer
A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.
Dialogue
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
Adaptation
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
Writer
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Adaptation
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
Writer
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
Writer
A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.
Story
A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.
Adaptation
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
