Arthur Wimperis
Nacimiento : 1874-12-03, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1953-10-14
Historia
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Arthur Harold Wimperis (3 December 1874 – 14 October 1953) was an English playwright, lyricist and screenwriter, who contributed lyrics and libretti to popular Edwardian musical comedies written for the stage. But with the advent of talking films, he switched to screenwriting, finding even greater success in this medium.
Early in his career, Wimperis was an illustrator. For 25 years beginning in 1906, he became a lyricist and librettist for musical comedies, including the hit The Arcadians in 1909 and many others. After serving in the First World War, he resumed his career, writing for shows like Princess Charming (1926). Beginning in 1930, he moved into writing screenplays for British films, and, by 1940, for Hollywood films, contributing to dozens of screenplays. He won an Academy Award for his contribution to the screenplay of Mrs. Miniver (1942) and was nominated for another Oscar for his contribution to the screenplay of Random Harvest (1942). He continued writing screenplays until his death.
Original Film Writer
A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.
Additional Dialogue
En 1865, el Regimiento Royal North Harvey se dispone a partir para Egipto para sofocar la rebelión de los derviches. Al mismo tiempo, el oficial Harry Faversham ha decidido abandonar el ejército, decisión que no comparten ni sus familiares ni sus amigos. Nuevo remake de "Las cuatro plumas", dirigida también por Korda. En este caso incluso usó el mismo guión y parte del rodaje de la versión anterior.
Screenplay
Inglaterra, siglo XVI. La juventud de la princesa Elizabeth Tudor, hija de la decapitada Ana Bolena, transcurre bajo la atenta mirada de su padre, el rey Enrique VIII. El ambiente cortesano y su dramático romance con Thomas Seymour, forjan el enérgico carácter de la futura reina de Inglaterra.
Screenplay
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Dialogue
Historia de amor de una mujer de alta alcurnia, que se acaba enamorando del prometido de su sobrina, lo cual deparará inesperadas consecuencias.
Screenplay
Guerra Fría. Después de la Segunda Guera Mundial (1939-1945), Viena queda dividida en cuatro zonas: la americana, la soviética, la inglesa y la francesa. Cuando una bailarina pide refugio político en la zona ocupada por los británicos, se origina un enfrentamiento entre un coronel inglés y otro ruso.
Screenplay
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries someone else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with her husband Tony. Mabel is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.
Screenplay
Un militar británico que padece amnesia (Colman) se fuga de un hospital psiquiátrico y conoce a Paula (Garson), una mujer con la que emprende una nueva vida: se casa y prueba fortuna como escritor. Después de varios años de feliz convivencia, un día, viaja a Liverpool para intentar vender una de sus obras; allí sufre un accidente de tráfico, que le permite recuperar los recuerdos del pasado, pero se olvida completamente de su esposa.
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una familia inglesa, que vive en un pequeño pueblo, logra sobrevivir a los bombardeos alemanes. La madre se encuentra al frente de la casa esperando que su hijo y su marido regresen de la guerra.
Screenplay
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una familia inglesa, que vive en un pequeño pueblo, logra sobrevivir a los bombardeos alemanes. La madre se encuentra al frente de la casa esperando que su hijo y su marido regresen de la guerra.
Additional Dialogue
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Story
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
Writer
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
Scenario Writer
Tras asistir a un baile benéfico en un hotel, Leslie Steele, una joven de buena familia, se ve obligada a pasar la noche en el mismo, debido a la densa niebla de Londres. Las circunstancias le harán compartir habitación con un apuesto y cínico abogado divorcista, Everard Logan.
Writer
Una joven llega a Londres en busca de trabajo y se encuentra con un hombre que ha sido apuñalado por una banda implicada en carreras de galgos. Huye con el fin de enviar un mensaje al hermano del muerto. El animador de un club nocturno la protege de la policía, y resulta ser el hombre al que va buscando.
Screenplay
Sir Percy se ve obligado a volver a Francia por última vez para rescatar a su mujer de las garras del siniestro Robespierre. Está claro que le han tendido una trampa, pero nada impedirá a la vieja Pimpinela cumplir su misión. Como siempre, tendrá que luchar contra los tontos y los malvados.
Lyricist
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
Dialogue
Fotheringill, un joven periodista inglés expulsado de Rusia por escribir un artículo antizarista, es persuadido por un agente del Servicio Secreto Británico para unirse a los miembros del movimiento revolucionario. Bajo el nombre de Peter Ouranov, Fotheringill participa en un complot para asesinar al Ministro del Interior, pero es descubierto y deportado a Siberia. Un año más tarde, Fotheringill interroga a la bella prisionera Alexandra, que resulta ser la hija del ministro zarista por cuyo asesinato sufrió destierro en Siberia. Ambos se enamora perdidamente y deciden escapar juntos.
Dialogue
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un espía alemán y una espía británica se conocen y no pueden evitar enamorarse.
Scenario Writer
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un espía alemán y una espía británica se conocen y no pueden evitar enamorarse.
Writer
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
Scenario Writer
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
Dialogue
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
Writer
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
Writer
Sir Percy Blakeney es un dandy miembro de la aristocracia inglesa, que en realidad oculta la identidad de La Pimpinela Escarlata, un héroe justiciero que combate las injusticias de la Revolución Francesa rescatando a sus víctimas de la guillotina y trasladándolas a un lugar seguro en Inglaterra. (FILMAFFINITY)
Adaptation
Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which just happens to be ruled by the king she is betrothed to. Unfortunately, the new revolutionary government won't let citizens leave, which she actually doesn't mind all that much because she's not particularly jazzed about marrying the elderly king. He sends a young naval officer to bring her across the border, but in order to do so they are forced into a marriage of convenience. Complications ensue.
Continuity
En 1745, una princesa austro-húngara, que sería llamada Catalina, llega a Rusia para casarse con el Gran Duque Pedro, un hombre de carácter inestable y desconfiado. Su matrimonio no funciona y mientras el Duque se entretiene con bellas cortesanas, Catalina inventa sus propios amantes para captar su atención. Cuando el Duque llega al trono de Rusia, resulta ser un pésimo gobernante y los consejeros piden a Catalina que asuma el poder y se convierta en reina.
Story
En 1745, una princesa austro-húngara, que sería llamada Catalina, llega a Rusia para casarse con el Gran Duque Pedro, un hombre de carácter inestable y desconfiado. Su matrimonio no funciona y mientras el Duque se entretiene con bellas cortesanas, Catalina inventa sus propios amantes para captar su atención. Cuando el Duque llega al trono de Rusia, resulta ser un pésimo gobernante y los consejeros piden a Catalina que asuma el poder y se convierta en reina.
Writer
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
Scenario Writer
En mayo de 1536, justo después de la ejecución de su segunda esposa Ana Bolena (Merle Oberon), Enrique VIII (Charles Laughton) se casa con Jane Seymour (Wendy Barrie), que muere 18 meses después. A continuación desposa a la princesa alemana Anne de Cleves (Elsa Lanchester), pero el matrimonio acaba en divorcio. Su quinta esposa, la bella y ambiciosa Katherine Howard (Binnie Barnes), se enamora del cortesano Enrique Thomas Culpeper (Robert Donat), pero el idilio es descubierto y ambos son ejecutados.
Story
En mayo de 1536, justo después de la ejecución de su segunda esposa Ana Bolena (Merle Oberon), Enrique VIII (Charles Laughton) se casa con Jane Seymour (Wendy Barrie), que muere 18 meses después. A continuación desposa a la princesa alemana Anne de Cleves (Elsa Lanchester), pero el matrimonio acaba en divorcio. Su quinta esposa, la bella y ambiciosa Katherine Howard (Binnie Barnes), se enamora del cortesano Enrique Thomas Culpeper (Robert Donat), pero el idilio es descubierto y ambos son ejecutados.
Writer
Las circunstancias obligan a un médico a hacer pasar a un cantante como su esposa.
Writer
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
Dialogue
A pesar de que su abuela lo presiona para que elija esposa, Reggie, marqués de Buckminster, se muestra reacio a contraer matrimonio.
Writer
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
Writer
A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return the money and stay alive
Writer
An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.
Theatre Play
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
Writer
The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.
Writer
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
Theatre Play
While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed boyfriend General Lavoris.
