Guy Bolton

Guy Bolton

Nacimiento : 1884-11-23,

Muerte : 1979-09-05

Perfil

Guy Bolton

Películas

Anything Goes
Musical
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love... proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail. This hilarious musical romp across the Atlantic, directed by the multi-award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, features Cole Porter’s joyful score, including "I Get A Kick Out of You," "You’re the Top" and the show-stopping "Anything Goes."
When the Boys Meet the Girls
Theatre Play
A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees.
Julia se porta mal
Theatre Play
Una mujer madura, famosa actriz y esposa de un hombre escéptico y elegante, se enamora con locura de un joven que tiene 15 años menos que ella.
Anastasia
Adaptation
París, 1928. Tras la Revolución Rusa de 1917 y, después de varios años de exilio, un grupo de súbditos leales al zarismo sigue buscando el rastro de la Gran Duquesa Anastasia, la única superviviente de la matanza de Ekaterimburgo (1918), ciudad donde los bolcheviques de Lenin acabaron con la dinastía de los Romanov.
Entre rivales todo vale
Writer
Bill Benson y Ted Adams son dos estrellas del mundo del espectáculo que viajan alrededor del mundo en busca de las dos mujeres que necesitan para la comedia musical que preparan. Segunda versión musical de la obra de Guy Bolton y P.G. Wodehouse, tras la realizada por Lewis Milestone 20 años antes, "Todo vale" (1936). Sigue teniendo las canciones de Cole Porter, y vuelve a estar protagonizada por Bing Crosby y a ser desarrollada en un crucero, pero el argumento es diferente. Esta fue la única película dirigida por uno de los tres fundadores del Actors Studio, Robert Lewis (1909-97), al margen de uno de los fragmentos de Ziegfeld Follies (1945), y también representó el último trabajo de Bing Crosby para la Paramount, estudio al que estuvo ligado durante 22 años.
Anything Goes
Novel
On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love. The American must avoid his boss who is traveling on the same vessel and disguises himself as a gangster traveling with a minister who is, in fact, a disguised gangster on the lam.
Letra y Música
Story
Retrato de las carreras profesionales de Richard Rodgers y Lorenz Hart, dos conocidos escritores de canciones.
Hasta que las nubes pasen
Story
Biografía del compositor Jerome Kern a través de distintos números musicales, que van recreando su trayectoria profesional desde sus duros inicios en Nueva York, hasta su triunfo en 1927.
Fin de semana
Adaptation
Un famoso corresponsal de guerra se introduce en la habitación de una estrella de cine; un soldado se enamora de una joven taquígrafa a la caza de un hombre rico; un estafador quiere hacer negocio con un jeque millonario; un periodista busca una exclusiva; un director de orquesta pierde a su cantante principal... Nada más normal un fin de semana en el más prestigioso de los hoteles de Nueva York, el Waldorf Astoria.
Girl Crazy
Musical
Danny Churchill es un joven de familia rica que sólo piensa en las chicas, por lo que su padre decide enviarlo a un instituto masculino en mitad del desierto, donde se supone que no habrá chicas a la vista. Lo cual es completamente cierto si no contamos a la hija del director.
Rosalie
Theatre Play
El cadete de West Point, Dick Thorpe, se enamora de una chica, que resulta ser una princesa de un reino europeo.
Ángel
Adaptation
María es la esposa de Sir Frederick Barker, aristócrata británico que hace tiempo que no le presta atención. Enfadada, se va a París sin decírselo a su marido. María conoce allí a Anthony Halton, un americano con quien cena y visita los monumentos de la ciudad.
Todo vale
Theatre Play
Adaptación de un musical de gran éxito en Broadway.
Man of the Moment
Adaptation
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
The Morals of Marcus
Adaptation
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
The Camels Are Coming
Writer
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.
Atención, señoras
Story
Anna Mirelle, la encargada del mantenimiento de un edificio de apartamentos en el centro de París, habla tanto por teléfono con Julian De Lussac, un atareado hombre de negocios, que acaba enamorándose de él. Gracias a sus habilidades técnicas, descubrirá un complot contra Julian del que solo ella puede salvarle.
Aunt Sally
Screenplay
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
Vals de Viena
Writer
Johan Strauss es obligado por su padre a abandonar la música. Se enamora de una chica y escribe un vals para una rica condesa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Pleasure Cruise
Writer
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
La mujer pintada
Writer
Después de verse mezclada en un asesinato, Kiddo sube al barco de Boyton. Cuando éste se entera de lo ocurrido, la abandona en una isla de los Mares del Sur. Allí se casa con Tom, pero cuando Boyton vuelve se enfurece, porque quería casarse con ella. Cuando Boyton es asesinado, las sospechas recaen sobre Kiddo...
Almost Married
Writer
Una belleza rusa con pasaporte falso intenta huir de la policía, y busca la ayuda del hombre que conoció en Escocia durante un verano.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Writer
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
La dama del 13
Writer
Tras el asesinato de un cantante, su amante es la principal sospechosa del crimen. Su ex marido, detective privado, coloca micrófonos ocultos para fabricar pruebas contra ella. El actual marido de la mujer se confiesa culpable para salvarla. Entonces, ella decide descubrir la verdad, y coloca micrófonos ocultos en el despacho de su ex marido...
Careless Lady
Screenplay
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Devil's Lottery
Writer
Intricate, soapy drama of romance, heartbreak, and murder amongst a diverse group of sweepstakes winners visiting a newspaper tycoon's estate.
Girl Crazy
Book
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
Delicious
Story
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Embajador sin cartera
Screenplay
Un embajador de Estados Unidos llega a un pequeño país que está siendo sacudido por intrigas políticas y disturbios civiles. Tiene la misión de hacerse amigo del niño que va a ser el rey del país, para garantizar que viva lo suficiente como para recibir la corona y que esté preparado para asumir el papel.
The Yellow Ticket
Writer
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Camarotes de lujo
Screenplay
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
The Lady Refuses
Writer
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
The Cuckoos
Book
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
El desfile del amor
Writer
Por sus deshonrosas aventuras en París, el agregado militar, conde Alfred Renard (Maurice Chevalier), es devuelto a su país de origen Sylvania, justo en los días en que los miembros del Consejo de Estado andan preocupados porque la reina Louise I (Jeanette McDonald) no consigue casarse con ninguno de sus pretendientes... pero al ser llevado ante su presencia a la espera de recibir su castigo, Renard conseguirá seducirla y Sylvania va a tener a un príncipe consorte que ha jurado ante la iglesia ser dócil y obediente.
Rio Rita
Theatre Play
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
The Love Doctor
Adaptation
Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness."
La señorita sin miedo
Writer
La película nos presenta una sucesión de enredos que comienzan cuando la atrevida Kay se niega a contraer matrimonio con un lord inglés. Desobedeciendo los designios de su padre, su fuerte y decidido carácter le hace cambiar de nombre y encontrar trabajo de doncella.
Lady Be Good
Book
Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
Tiptoes
Book
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical
The Dark Angel
Theatre Play
Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bánky) have grown up together, as close playmates When World War I starts, both Alan and Gerald enlist in the British Army as officiers, and Kitty sees them off to war. Many months later, Alan and Gerald come back to Kitty, on a short furlow. Alan and Kitty reveal their love for each other. Gerald (who's in love with Kitty, too) congratulates his friends. But before Kitty and Alan can arrange to be married the next day, the furlow is cut short and both men head back to the front lines. Weeks later, Gerald will not give Alan leave to marry Kitty. Still arguing, both men volunteer for a reconiscience raid into enemy lines, where a grenade goes off near Alan and appears to kill him. Gerald and Kitty mourn Alan's death. After the war ends, Gerald and Kitty become engaged to be married.
Grounds for Divorce
Writer
Sally
Theatre Play
Sally is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore.
Secrets of the Night
Theatre Play
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
Adam and Eva
Novel
An extravagant girl reforms when her father goes bust.
The Cave Girl
Theatre Play
A 1921 film.
Polly with a Past
Story
Polly Shannon takes a job as a maid to earn money to go to Paris and study opera. She becomes embroiled in a scheme by her two employers to help their friend in the love of a woman who does not fancy him: She will pretend to be interested in their friend instead. The film has been lost.
Oh, Lady, Lady
Theatre Play
A silent film version of the Kern-Bolton-Wodehouse "Princess Theatre" musical. The story concerns an engaged young man, Bill, whose ex-fiancée arrives unexpectedly on his wedding day. Meanwhile, comic complications arise because of a couple of crooks, the bride's mother dislikes the groom, and the nuptials are called off. Bill works to convince his old flame that he was not worthy to marry her; but his clumsy efforts do not make him look good to his new fiancée.
Oh Boy!
Book
Oh Boy! 1919 film