Sam Mintz
Nacimiento : 1897-07-12, Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
Muerte : 1957-09-13
Writer
Bickering brothers unwittingly wind up working together on the same musical production.
Writer
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
Writer
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
Screenplay
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
Story
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Screenplay
Un jugador de fútbol americano viaja a París donde sin proponérselo se verá regentando una tienda de moda.
Screenplay
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
Writer
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
Screenplay
Mary Carroll, una chica trabajadora, alquila una habitación en piso compartido con Jack Bacon, un artista bohemio. Como él sale por las noches y ella por el día, no se ven nunca. Carroll se propone conocer a su compañero de piso como sea.
Adaptation
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
Screenplay
Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers and Nixon, while Morgan and Cawthorn continue muttering Teutonic imprecations at one another.
Story
Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers and Nixon, while Morgan and Cawthorn continue muttering Teutonic imprecations at one another.
Writer
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
Story
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
Screenplay
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.
Screenplay
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Writer
Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The Boone Boys, a boys' club that costs thirty dollars to join and has uniforms that Sooky admires, refuses to admit him because he is poor. Sooky and Skippy form their own club called the Beagle Boys.
Writer
Skippy (Jackie Cooper) es un niño de nueve años que no para de hacer travesuras. Su amigo Sooky, un niño pobre, le acompaña en sus aventuras. (FILMAFFINITY)
Story
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but she is just smarter than them, which wouldn't be too hard! On the train, Finn meets shyster Harry who sizes Finn up as a sucker and quickly wires his partner Bessie, aka "The Princess" to make Finn's acquaintance and take him for everything he has.
Writer
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
Writer
The Santa Fe Trail (1930)
Writer
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
Writer
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
Scenario Writer
Adventures of a marine in China.
Story
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, he falls for the team owner's daughter, who McRae has designs on.
Screenplay
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is re-discovered.
Writer
Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.
Adaptation
Story of a rancher clearing his girlfriend's father of a crime he didn't commit
Writer
Caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts' mission is to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an anticipated flood.
Writer
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
Adaptation
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?