Gladys Unger

Nacimiento : 1885-09-16, San Francisco, California, USA

Muerte : 1940-05-25

Historia

American author, screenwriter, and playwright.

Películas

Daughter of Shanghai
Screenplay
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Partners in Crime
Screenplay
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
Night of Mystery
Writer
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
La gran aventura de Silvia
Screenplay
Descubiertos sus negocios sucios, Henry Scarlett se ve obligado a abandonar Marsella y huir a Inglaterra. Su hija, Sylvia, le acompaña disfrazada de hombre y bajo el nombre falso de Silvestre Scarlett. En el barco en que viajan, Henry conoce a un tipo dudoso, Jimmy Monkley, a quien le confiesa imprudentemente que lleva una cierta cantidad de dinero escondido. En la aduana, Jimmy le delata, una hábil táctica para que no se fijen en él, que también practica el contrabando. Más tarde, en un compartimento del tren, los tres coinciden de nuevo, se reconcilian y deciden asociarse para ganar dinero fácil en Londres con timos y estafas.
Alias Mary Dow
Screenplay
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Private Worlds
Additional Dialogue
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr. Charles Monet, who has a low regard for women physicians. Jane and Charles clash on patient treatment, and Jane learns that Charles has a sister, Claire, with a mysterious past.
Rendezvous at Midnight
Writer
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who actually confessed to the killing before it was committed.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Screenplay
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
Cheating Cheaters
Writer
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
Great Expectations
Screenplay
Una de las varias adaptaciones que se han hecho del texto homónimo de Dickens sobre la historia del huérfano Pip y un misterioso bienhechor que le satisfará económicamente para hacer de él un caballero. (FILMAFFINITY)
Embarrassing Moments
Screenplay
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Romance in the Rain
Writer
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
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.
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Dialogue
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
Coming Out Party
Story
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.
Coming Out Party
Screenplay
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.
Wayward
Screenplay
Story of mother's antagonism to her son's wife. From the novel "Wild Beauty" by Matsel Farnham.
Many a Slip
Writer
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
Madame Satán
Writer
Angela y Bob Brooks son una pareja de clase alta. Por desgracia, Bob es un marido infiel. Pero Angela tiene un plan para recuperar el afecto de su marido. Un baile de máscaras se llevará a cabo a bordo de un dirigible. Angela asiste y se disfraza de diablesa. Escondida detrás de su máscara y envuelta en un atrevido vestido trata de seducir a su marido para darle una lección.
Dinamita
Dialogue
Para conseguir la herencia de su riquísimo abuelo, Cynthia Crothers (Kay Johnson) debe de estar casada el día de su vigésimo tercer cumpleaños. Desgraciadamente, el hombre al que ama, Roger Towne (Conrad Nagel), ya está casado. Entonces adopta una solución provisional: casarse con Hagon Derk, un minero condenado a muerte (Charles Bickford), en tanto que ofrece dinero a la mujer de Towne (Julia Faye) para que acepte el divorcio...
Marianne
Writer
At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.
Breakfast at Sunrise
Writer
While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
Two Girls Wanted
Theatre Play
Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is hired as secretary to duplicitous businessman Philip Hancock.
The Heart Thief
Screenplay
The Goldfish
Theatre Play
A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.