Gene Stratton-Porter

Gene Stratton-Porter

Nacimiento : 1963-08-17, Wabash County, Indiana, USA

Muerte : 1924-12-07

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Gene Stratton-Porter

Películas

At the Foot of the Rainbow
Novel
Fifteen years ago 1830s muskrat trapper Dannie Mcnoun, loves Mary and sends his best friend, Jimmy, to win her over for Dannie. Jimmy married her instead. Now neighbors, Dannie works both farms as Jimmy tries to drown his problems with a bottle.
A Girl of the Limberlost
Novel
A teenage girl living in 1908 rural Indiana attends high school despite her mother's fierce opposition of her life, the friendship of a free-spirted older woman helps her stick to her goals.
Freckles
Novel
A young man with only one hand gets a job at a timber camp and falls for his boss's daughter.
Michael O'Halloran
Novel
A young crippled girl and her love for a teenage newsboy despite her over-protective and alcoholic mother's objections.
The Girl of the Limberlost
Novel
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.
Freckles Comes Home
Novel
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
Her First Romance
Novel
Dos hermanas, una guapa y otra menos favorecida, compiten por el mismo hombre.
Laddie
Writer
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
Romance of the Limberlost
Novel
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The girl's existence is close to being servitude bondage, and her only companions are the birds and the animals of the forest. She meets and falls in love with a young man whose ambition is to be a lawyer. But her aunt is arranging for her to be married to the wealthiest man in the Limberlost, a drunken, coarse bully.
Michael O'Halloran
Novel
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
Freckles
Writer
A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
The Keeper of the Bees
Writer
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
Laddie
Novel
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
A Girl of the Limberlost
Novel
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
The Magic Garden
Novel
Story about a little boy and girl that meet in a beautiful garden and the little girl promises the boy that some day she would meet him there again. He goes off to study the violin in Italy and when he returns he finds the girl in the garden.
Laddie
Novel
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor but meets opposition from her stern military father who has recently immigrated from England.
The Keeper of the Bees
Novel
A bee keeper does his best to help the army.
The Keeper of the Bees
Little Scout
A bee keeper does his best to help the army.
The Keeper of the Bees
Producer
A bee keeper does his best to help the army.