Frank R. Adams

Películas

Trade Winds
Writer
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
El vaquero y la dama
Original Story
Gary Cooper interpreta a un cowboy rudo e implacable pero con buenos sentimientos. Aunque no tiene nada que ver con su forma de ser, acaba enamorándose de una joven adinerada de alto copete, interpretada por Merle Oberon. Con su manera decidida de actuar, el cowboy, que tiene un temperamento bastante tradicional, está decidido a calmar la ligereza de la chica. Ella no soporta que nadie le diga lo que tiene que hacer. El cowboy piensa que este tipo de chicas son como los caballos salvajes, que para adiestrarlos hay que darles un margen de confianza, a la vez que atarles corto.
Circus Girl
Story
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Outcast
Story
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
The Virginia Judge
Writer
Walter C. Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Stepin Fetchit
Love in Bloom
Screenplay
A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.
She Made Her Bed
Scenario Writer
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happiness depends on doing so.
Peg o' My Heart
Writer
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
The Time, the Place and the Girl
Theatre Play
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a job as a Wall Street stock salesman. While poor at selling, he knows how to charm women and his boss has him concentrate his efforts on disposing of bad stock to gullible females, one of whom turns out to be the wife of his boss. The film is considered lost, with only its soundtrack remaining.
Almost a Lady
Story
Marcia, a pretty young girl, goes to work as a model for a lecherous dress-shop owner. She resists his advances, despite his giving her expensive gifts. One day Mrs. Reilly, a prominent society woman and a customer of the shop, invites Marcia to a party she's throwing. Marcia winds up impersonating a famous writer in order to impress a "duke" for Mrs. Reilly, who doesn't know the "duke" isn't really a duke. Complications ensue.
De la cocina al escenario
Story
La camarera Jennie Hagen, que sueña despierta, fantasea con convertirse en una actriz famosa, mientras que en realidad ella y su novio cocinero, Orme Wilson, esperan algún día tener su propio restaurante. Aunque Orme ama a Jennie, también siente debilidad por las estrellas de teatro, así que cuando un equipo de teatro de un barco fluvial llega a su ciudad, se enamora de la actriz principal Lillian Lyons. Desesperada por quedarse con Orme, Jennie insiste en subir al escenario para superar a Lillian, pero pronto se le escapa.
The Love Piker
Story
There Are No Villains
Story
In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence against suspected opium smuggler George Sala. She then advises Detective Flint of her plan to develop a relationship with John King, an impoverished, disabled ex-soldier who Rosa met in George's office. After claiming to have lost her home in a fire, Rosa is invited to stay in John's modest flat. He receives money from a mysterious source, enabling them to afford a more expensive apartment, and they soon fall in love. Although Rosa secretly witnesses John receiving a package from George, she tells the skeptical Flint that her lover is above suspicion. John agrees to end his association with George if Rosa will marry him, and, realizing that a wife cannot legally testify against her husband, she agrees.
Proxies
Story
Carlotta Darley (Dean) is engaged to Homer Carleton (Crosby), but regrets that Homer is not as tall and handsome as the butler Peter (Kerry).
The Pointing Finger
Story
Mary Murphy, the oldest waif in an orphanage, steals a dress and three dollars, then escapes to the city. Grosset, the superintendent of the institution, steals $10,000 on the same night, and Mary is suspected of the theft.
Unexpected Places
Story
The valet of Lord Harold Varden, on a secret mission to our Government, has been murdered. Dick Holloway, a reporter, detailed to the story, calls on Lord Varden just as the latter feels the effects of poison administered to him. He takes the place of the nobleman when his American cousins come for him, and not only saves his lordship's papers, but captures the spies detailed to get them.
The Brass Bullet
Story
Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold.
My Unmarried Wife
Novel
A nurse falls for a impoverished and recently blinded novelist.