S. Sylvan Simon

S. Sylvan Simon

Nacimiento : 1910-03-09, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Muerte : 1951-05-17

Perfil

S. Sylvan Simon

Películas

Nacida ayer
Producer
Billie Dawn es la novia de Harry Brock, un millonario mafioso. Brock desea convertirse en un miembro respetable de la alta sociedad y está dispuesto a lo que sea con tal de conseguirlo. Pero se siente avergonzado de los malos modales de su novia y de su falta de elegancia y sofisticación. Ésta es la razón por la que contrata a un joven y atractivo periodista para que le dé a Billie un curso de buenas maneras. Gracias a la paciencia y al cariño de su tutor, Billie experimenta una maravillosa transformación.
Los apuros de Sally
Producer
Sally Elliott busca trabajo y es contratada por una compañía para vender cosméticos a domicilio, pero sus intentos para conseguir ventas puerta a puerta son desastrosos. El asunto se complicará además cuando uno de sus clientes es asesinado y ella se convierte en la principal sospechosa. Sally, con la ayuda de su novio Humphrey buscarán al verdadero culpable mientras les persigue la policía.
The Good Humor Man
Producer
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Father Is a Bachelor
Producer
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Producer
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
La fiebre del oro
Producer
Jacon Waltz quiere recuperar los 20 millones de dólares escondidos en una antigua mina abandonada, haciendo caso omiso de la maldición que caerá sobre todo aquél que quiera hacerse con el botín.
La fiebre del oro
Director
Jacon Waltz quiere recuperar los 20 millones de dólares escondidos en una antigua mina abandonada, haciendo caso omiso de la maldición que caerá sobre todo aquél que quiera hacerse con el botín.
Más fuerte que la ley
Producer
Jenny Marsh es una ex presidiaria que, tras pasar cinco años en la cárcel y conseguir la libertad condicional, establece una estrecha relación con el agente que debe vigilarla.
The Fuller Brush Man
Producer
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
The Fuller Brush Man
Director
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
I Love Trouble
Producer
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
I Love Trouble
Director
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
Her Husband's Affairs
Director
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
The Cockeyed Miracle
Director
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
The Thrill of Brazil
Director
Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda. Because of this they all get small problems.
Bad Bascomb
Director
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
Abbott y Costello en Hollywood
Producer
A pesar de que en el título aparece la palabra Hollywood, esta comedia no gira en torno al mundo del cine, sino al de la música. Abbott y Costello vuelven a interpretar a dos perdedores que sueñan con convertirse en importantes agentes musicales. Quieren cumplir su sueño, así que empiezan con pequeños clientes con carreras alejadas del estrellato. Por el momento son unos don nadie, habrá que ver si la pareja de cómicos consigue convertirlos en los reyes de la música.
Abbott y Costello en Hollywood
Director
A pesar de que en el título aparece la palabra Hollywood, esta comedia no gira en torno al mundo del cine, sino al de la música. Abbott y Costello vuelven a interpretar a dos perdedores que sueñan con convertirse en importantes agentes musicales. Quieren cumplir su sueño, así que empiezan con pequeños clientes con carreras alejadas del estrellato. Por el momento son unos don nadie, habrá que ver si la pareja de cómicos consigue convertirlos en los reyes de la música.
El cachorro de Lassie
Director
Laddie es el cachorro de la intrépida perra Lassie, y sigue a su madre en una acción aérea durante la II Guerra Mundial. Pero el avión es derribado durante la misión y cae en la Noruega ocupada.
Song of the Open Road
Director
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
Whistling in Brooklyn
Director
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
Salute to the Marines
Director
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
Whistling in Dixie
Director
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
Tish
Director
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
Grand Central Murder
Director
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
Rio Rita
Director
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
The Bugle Sounds
Director
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
Whistling in the Dark
Director
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
Washington Melodrama
Director
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
Keeping Company
Director
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
Dulcy
Director
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Sporting Blood
Director
Un joven que intenta reconstruir las caballerizas de la familia se enamora de la hija de un duro rival.
Two Girls on Broadway
Director
Dos hermanas entran a trabajar en un musical, una como bailarina y la otra vendiendo cigarrillos. El productor, novio de la bailarina, pronto se da cuenta de que está enamorado de la otra hermana.
Dancing Co-Ed
Director
Una universitaria se esfuerza por sobrevivir en la academia y en el mundo del espectáculo.
These Glamour Girls
Director
Un estudiante universitario borracho invita a una chica al gran baile, pero luego olvida que se lo pidió. Cuando ella se presenta en la universidad, él trata de deshacerse de ella, pero la chica no se marcha, se mantiene en sus trece y se deja ver con él ante sus presumidos compañeros de clase.
The Kid From Texas
Director
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
Four Girls in White
Director
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with there own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
Spring Madness
Director
Un estudiante de Harvard corteja a una compañera de otra universidad cercana.
The Road to Reno
Director
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
The Nurse from Brooklyn
Director
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Director
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Prescription for Romance
Director
In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two get involved with a female physician in whose house the criminal is concealed (the doctor doesn't know this). Soon the detective and the doctor are involved.
A Girl with Ideas
Director
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.