Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn

Nacimiento : 1879-08-17, Warsaw, Poland

Muerte : 1974-01-31

Historia

Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmul Gelbfisz), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood. In 1916, Goldwyn partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their movie-making enterprise Goldwyn Pictures. Seeing an opportunity, Samuel Gelbfisz then had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn, which he used for the rest of his life. Goldwyn Pictures proved successful but it is their Leo the Lion trademark for which the organization is most famous. On April 10, 1924, Goldwyn Pictures was acquired by Marcus Loew and merged into his Metro Pictures Corporation. Despite the inclusion of his name, Goldwyn had no role in the management or production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Before the sale and merger of Goldwyn Pictures in April 1924, Goldwyn had established Samuel Goldwyn Productions in 1923 as a production-only operation (with no distribution arm). Their first feature was Potash and Perlmutter, released in September 1923 through First National Pictures. Some of the early productions bear the name Howard Productions, named for Goldwyn's wife Frances Howard. For 35 years, Goldwyn built a reputation in filmmaking and developed an eye for finding the talent for making films. William Wyler directed many of his most celebrated productions, and he hired writers such as Ben Hecht, Sidney Howard, Dorothy Parker, and Lillian Hellman. (According to legend, at a heated story conference Goldwyn scolded someone —in most accounts Mrs. Parker, who recalled he had once been a glove maker— with the retort: “Don't you point that finger at me. I knew it when it had a thimble on it!” During that time, Goldwyn made numerous films and reigned as the most successful independent producer in the US. Many of his films were forgettable; his collaboration with John Ford, however, resulted in Best Picture Oscar nomination for Arrowsmith (1931). William Wyler was responsible for most of Goldwyn's highly lauded films, with Best Picture Oscar nominations for Dodsworth (1936), Dead End (1937), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Little Foxes (1941) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1948). The leading actors in several of Goldwyn films, especially those directed by William Wyler, were also Oscar-nominated for their performances. Throughout the 1930s, Goldwyn released all his films through United Artists, but beginning in 1941, and continuing almost through the end of his career, Goldwyn released his films through RKO Radio Pictures. Goldwyn died at his home in Los Angeles in 1974 from natural causes, at the probable age of 94. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. In the 1980s, Samuel Goldwyn Studio was sold to Warner Bros. There is a theater named after him in Beverly Hills and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1631 Vine Street.

Perfil

Samuel Goldwyn

Películas

Salinger
Self - Film Producer (archive footage)
Una profunda investigación sobre el mundo privado del escritor americano J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), que vivió la mayor parte de su vida detrás del impenetrable muro de un aislamiento autoimpuesto: cómo sus dramáticas experiencias durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial influyeron en su vida y en su trabajo, sus relaciones con mujeres muy jóvenes, sus obsesivos métodos de escritura, sus muchos secretos literarios.
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Himself (archive footage)
The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the PBS American Masters series. Based on A. Scott Berg's acclaimed biography, the film includes new interviews with Goldwyn's surviving family members as well as vintage interviews with such luminaries as Bette Davis, John Huston, Laurence Olivier and others.
Porgy y Bess
Producer
En 1912, en un pueblo de pescadores de Carolina del Sur, Bess (Dorothy Dandridge), una mujer con mala reputación, trata de librarse de Crown, su amante (Brock Peters). La única persona dispuesta a pasar por alto su pasado es Porgy (Sidney Poitier), un tullido. Pero su relación se ve amenazada por la desaprobación de la gente y por el retorno de Crown. Basada en la ópera homónima del compositor George Gershwin, cuyo libreto es obra de Ira Gershwin y DuBose Heyward. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ellos y ellas
Producer
Adaptación de un musical de Broadway basado en un cuento de Damon Runyon, gran maestro de la literatura picaresca americana. Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), organizador de las partidas más selectas de dados de Nueva York, apuesta mil dólares con uno de los jugadores (Marlon Brando) a que no es capaz de enamorar a una joven puritana que pertenece al Ejército de Salvación (Jean Simmons).
Brooba
Production Consultant
El fabuloso Andersen
Producer
Dinamarca, siglo XIX. El zapatero Hans Christian Andersen tiene alborotada a toda la chiquillería del lugar con el relato de sus fantásticas historias. El alcalde, presionado por el maestro, que considera nefasta la influencia de Andersen sobre los niños, lo obliga a abandonar el pueblo. Biografía del célebre escritor danés, autor de cuentos como "El patito feo", "El soldadito de plomo" o "Las zapatillas rojas"
No quiero decirte adiós
Producer
En una pequeña población del Este de los Estados Unidos, viven dos hermanos que trabajan en la empresa de construcción de su padre. Cuando estalla la Guerra de Corea (1950-1953), ambos son reclutados por el ejército, lo que provoca la desesperación de la novia del primero y la esposa del segundo.
Nube de sangre
Producer
Tras la muerte de su madre, un joven enloquece y asesina al cura de la parroquia porque éste se niega a celebrar un funeral adecuado
Our Very Own
Producer
Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
Mi loco corazón
Producer
Basado en un relato de Salinger, este melodrama inauguró la galería de mujeres dolientes en que se especializaría Susan Hayward. Su argumento es el dilema de una mujer embarazada de un soldado que parte para el frente y que acaba casándose con otro hombre.
Roseanna McCoy
Producer
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
Hechizo
Producer
El tío Rollo finalmente se retira a la casa en la que él fue criado. Perdido en los pensamientos de su amor perdido, Lark, él no quiere ser molestado en sus útimos días. Sin embargo, la aparición de su sobrina y el romance entre ella y el sobrino de su Lark, hace que él reconsidere su vida y ofrezca algún consejo a la joven pareja para que no caigan en el mismo error que cometió, hace ya muchos años.
Nace una canción
Producer
Basada en "Bola de fuego" y en el cuento escrito por Billy Wilder y Thomas Monroe. Siete profesores, encabezados por Hobart Frisbee (Danny Kaye), vienen trabajando en una enciclopedia de la música, cuando, al escuchar la versión moderna que, de una pieza de música clásica, hace uno de los limpiavidrios afroamericanos, van a darse cuenta de que muchos ritmos modernos no han sido tomados en cuenta. Lo que sigue será una gran fiesta de jazz donde estarán Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman... y un puñado de grandes talentos. Remake de Bola de fuego del mismo director.
La mujer del obispo
Producer
El espítiru navideño parece dominarlo todo, pero no tiene cabida en el hogar del obispo Henry Brougham. En su lucha por recaudar fondos para construir una nueva catedral, el joven clérigo ha desatendido de tal manera a su afectuosa esposa Julia, que ahora lo único que puede salvar su matrimonio es un milagro. Pero el poderoso ángel envíado desde el cielo no se conformará con darle a Henry una lección inmortal de romanticismo
La vida secreta de Walter Mitty
Producer
Walter Mitty, es un escritor soñador con una madre sobreprotectora, al que le gusta imaginar que es un héroe que vive fantásticas aventuras. Su sueño se convierte en realidad cuando conoce accidentalmente a una misteriosa mujer que le entrega un pequeño libro negro. Según ella, contiene las ubicaciones de las joyas de la corona holandesa, ocultas desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pronto, Mitty se encuentra en medio de una conspiración, donde tendrá dificultades para diferenciar entre la realidad y la ficción.
Los mejores años de nuestra vida
Producer
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), los soldados supervivientes, algunos con taras físicas, regresan a los Estados Unidos. Aunque al principio se les trata como héroes, poco tiempo después comienzan a verse marginados.
El asombro de Brooklyn
Producer
Un tímido lechero se ve envuelto en una pelea callejera en la puerta del club nocturno donde trabaja su hermana. Sin saberlo, golpea al campeón del mundo de boxeo. Después de la relevancia que toma el asunto por su difusión en los periódicos, el manager del boxeador le ofrece la oportunidad de enfrentarse de nuevo con él en el ring. Por medio de una serie de combates amañados, el lechero comienza a pensar que es invencible. Remake de "La vía láctea" un film de Leo McCarey de 1936.
Un hombre fenómeno
Producer
Edgar, un tímido bibliotecario es persuadido por el fantasma de su extrovertido hermano gemelo Buzzy Bellew, asesinado por un jefe mafioso, para que ocupe su lugar como showman de un nightclub y vengue su muerte
La princesa y el pirata
Producer
Mientras huye en un barco del hombre con el que debe casarse, una bella princesa (Virginia Mayo) es secuestrada por un grupo de piratas al mando del temible y sanguinario capitán Hook (Victor McLaglen). Sorprendentemente, será otro pirata (Bob Hope) el que logre rescatarla.
Rumbo a Oriente
Producer
Comedia musical sobre un hipocondríaco que tiene que trabajar como ascensorista en un hospital.
La estrella del norte
Producer
Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el verano de 1941, los alemanes invaden las poblaciones fronterizas de la Rusia comunista, siendo Estrella del Norte una de ellas. Mientras un grupo de jóvenes procedentes de este lugar parten en un viaje que se les complicará por el camino.
Me tenían cubierto
Producer
Un periodista es despedido de su trabajo por haber dejado escapar una gran noticia. Se va a Washington a ver a la directora del sindicato de prensa en busca de consuelo. Los acontecimientos se precipitan cuando caen en sus manos unos documentos secretos: será acusado de varios crímenes por haberse implicado sin querer en un asunto de espionaje.
El orgullo de los Yanquis
Producer
Biopic de Lou Gehrig, un legendario jugador profesional de béisbol norteamericano, al que, después de jugar durante muchos años sin perderse ni un solo partido, le diagnosticaron de repente una misteriosa enfermedad
Bola de fuego
Presenter
Gracias a la donación de un cuarto de millón de dólares, un grupo de profesores estrafalarios, todos solteros salvo uno que es viudo, trabajan en la elaboración de una enciclopedia del saber humano. Cuando el trabajo se encuentra ya en una fase bastante avanzada, la visita sorpresa de una bailarina de cabaret les hace replantearse su labor, pues caen en la cuenta de que viven de espaldas al mundo.
Bola de fuego
Producer
Gracias a la donación de un cuarto de millón de dólares, un grupo de profesores estrafalarios, todos solteros salvo uno que es viudo, trabajan en la elaboración de una enciclopedia del saber humano. Cuando el trabajo se encuentra ya en una fase bastante avanzada, la visita sorpresa de una bailarina de cabaret les hace replantearse su labor, pues caen en la cuenta de que viven de espaldas al mundo.
La loba
Producer
A finales del siglo XIX, en una población sureña, la calculadora y despiadada Regina Giddens entabla una lucha sin cuartel contra sus hermanos para quedarse con la herencia familiar. En sus planes no tienen cabida los sentimientos, ni siquiera hacia su marido, un hombre honrado que regresa a casa después de sufrir una grave enfermedad. En medio de la asfixiante atmósfera creada por la desmedida ambición de su esposa, sólo encontrará calor humano en el amor de su hija.
El forastero
Presenter
Texas, 1880, años agitados tras la Guerra Civil estadounidense. El famoso juez Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), caprichoso y de singular moralidad, cabecilla de los ganaderos, y autodenominado "la única ley al oeste de Pecos", acusa falsamente a un forastero llamado Cole Harden (Gary Cooper) de robar un caballo. Condenado a la horca tras el juicio, Cole Harden ideará un plan para librarse de la muerte: el juez siente una tremenda admiración por una famosa actriz a la que el sentenciado a muerte dice conocer.
El forastero
Producer
Texas, 1880, años agitados tras la Guerra Civil estadounidense. El famoso juez Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), caprichoso y de singular moralidad, cabecilla de los ganaderos, y autodenominado "la única ley al oeste de Pecos", acusa falsamente a un forastero llamado Cole Harden (Gary Cooper) de robar un caballo. Condenado a la horca tras el juicio, Cole Harden ideará un plan para librarse de la muerte: el juez siente una tremenda admiración por una famosa actriz a la que el sentenciado a muerte dice conocer.
Caballero y ladrón
Producer
A.J. Raffles, hombre de mundo y jugador de cricket de primera, se mantiene solvente cometiendo robos atrevidos. Cuando se reencuentra con Gwen, su amor de adolescencia, vuelve a enamorarse otra vez de ella y pasa el fin de semana con sus padres, Lord y Lady Melrose. Un valioso collar supone una tentación irresistible para él, pero deberá tener cuidado con uno de los mejores agentes de Scotland Yard, que también está al acecho.
La jungla en armas
Producer
Filipinas 1906. Trás la derrota de los españoles, el ejército norteamericano se ha asentado en Filipinas. El destacamento de la población de Mysang debe hacer frente a las huestes rebeldes del caudillo musulmán Alipang. Este envía "juramentados" para asesinar a los oficiales. El médico, teniente Canavan, se enfrentará a los "juramentados", a una epidemia de colera, a las insidias y traiciones de Datu, un jefecillo que finge ser aliado, y al ataque de los moros insurrectos.
They Shall Have Music
Producer
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Cumbres borrascosas
Producer
Perdido en medio de una tormenta de nieve en un rocoso páramo inglés, un extranjero se topa con Cumbres Borrascosas, la lúgubre mansión del misterioso Heathcliff, un hombre tan torturado por un amor frustrado que ha perdido el deseo de vivir. Mientras la tormenta ruge en el exterior, el fatigado caminante escucha fascinado la triste historia del desesperado amor de Heathcliff y Cathy. Cuando Heathcliff volvió a buscarla, después de una larga ausencia intentando hacer fortuna, Cathy ya se había casado con un joven de la alta sociedad. El desengaño destrozó el alma de Heathcliff, pero no logró apagar el fuego de una pasión inextinguible que arderá en sus entrañas por toda la eternidad.
El vaquero y la dama
Presenter
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.
El vaquero y la dama
Producer
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.
Las aventuras de Marco Polo
Producer
Relato que narra los viajes del aventurero Marco Polo, que viajó hasta Asia desde Italia descubriendo numerosas culturas. En Pekín conocerá la pólvora y se enamorará de la hija del emperador Kublai Khan.
Así nace una fantasía
Producer
Un excéntrico productor de cine se encuentra en plena crisis creativa y siente que ha perdido el contacto con el público. Por ello, contrata a una joven como asesora, para que le diga qué es lo que el público quiere ver, y con estas ideas rodar su siguiente película.
Huracán sobre la isla
Presenter
Manikoora es una isla de los mares del Sur azotada desde siempre por los tifones, aunque hace años que no ha sufrido ninguno. Es una colonia francesa cuyo gobernador ejerce el poder al margen de de las tradiciones y costumbres de los nativos. Según una leyenda local, cuando la tiranía rebasa ciertos límites, los pájaros abandonan la isla y el mar ruge enfurecido. La relación amorosa entre dos nativos, Marama (Dorothy Lamour) y Terangi (Jon Hall), se verá en peligro cuando él sea encarcelado injustamente en Tahiti...
Huracán sobre la isla
Producer
Manikoora es una isla de los mares del Sur azotada desde siempre por los tifones, aunque hace años que no ha sufrido ninguno. Es una colonia francesa cuyo gobernador ejerce el poder al margen de de las tradiciones y costumbres de los nativos. Según una leyenda local, cuando la tiranía rebasa ciertos límites, los pájaros abandonan la isla y el mar ruge enfurecido. La relación amorosa entre dos nativos, Marama (Dorothy Lamour) y Terangi (Jon Hall), se verá en peligro cuando él sea encarcelado injustamente en Tahiti...
Calle sin salida
Producer
En una calle de Nueva York, la miseria y la delincuencia conviven con la riqueza de los inquilinos de un lujoso bloque de apartamentos. Inevitablemente esos agudos contrastes acabarán desencadenando tensiones entre los dos mundos.
Stella Dallas
Producer
Stella, una chica de familia humilde, se casa con el adinerado Steve. Al poco tiempo, tienen una hija y todo parece ir bien, pero las grandes diferencias de educación harán mella en su matrimonio y finalmente se separan. Pasados unos años, Stella renuncia a su hija en favor de Steve para que la niña se críe en un mejor ambiente.
Woman Chases Man
Producer
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
Mi adorable enemiga
Producer
Cuenta la historia de amor entre dos personajes enfrentados por razones políticas. Sucede en la Irlanda de los años 20, cuando el fuego de la revolución se lleva por delante todo cuanto le sale al paso. Sólo el amor puede salvarse de las llamas.
Rivales
Producer
En las grandes regiones de bosques del Norte de los Estados Unidos, un padre y un hijo se enfrentan por el poder, la riqueza y el amor. Ambos se disputan el control de un negocio maderero y el amor de la misma mujer.
Desengaño
Producer
Samuel Dodsworth es un magnate de la industria del automóvil, el típico hombre de negocios que empezando desde abajo ha llegado a la cima del éxito. Él y su esposa deciden pasar una segunda luna de miel en Europa, pero durante el viaje descubre que ella le es infiel, y su mundo empieza a tambalearse. En tal circunstancia, conoce a una mujer que le devuelve la fe en el amor y lo convence de que vale la pena vivir. Gracias a ella, pondrá todos los medios a su alcance para salvar su matrimonio, pero quizá sea demasiado tarde.
Esos tres
Producer
Karen y Marta, compañeras de la universidad y ya graduadas, convierten una granja que ha heredado Karen de su abuela en un colegio para chicas. Pero una día las dos profeoras y el doctor Joe Cardin, el médico que las animó a construir la escuela, se ven envueltos en un escándalo cuando una alumna perversa se dedica a difamarlos.
Strike Me Pink
Producer
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Splendor
Producer
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and the loss of their mansion and social position, they had hoped that Brighton would marry wealthy heiress and family friend, Edith Gilbert.
La ciudad sin ley
Producer
En 1849, el descubrimiento de oro en California desencadena una intensa oleada migratoria. Miles de aventureros atraviesan las Montañas Rocosas hasta llegar a las costas del Pacífico, atraídos sobre todo por la ciudad de San Francisco.
The Dark Angel
Producer
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
Noche nupcial
Producer
Un escritor achaca su crisis de creatividad al ambiente en el que se mueve, la alta sociedad. Por esta razón decide transladarse junto con su esposa a su pueblo natal en Nueva Inglaterra. Su mujer decide regresar, poco después, a Nueva York, y él se enamora de una granjera, a la que convierte en heroína de su novela. Sin embargo, sus padres le obligan a contraer matrimonio, contra su voluntad, con otro hombre
El chico millonario
Producer
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Vivamos de nuevo
Producer
Dimitri Ivanovich (Fredric March) es un militar de la nobleza que vuelve a la hacienda de sus tías Marie y Sophia, donde se reencuentra con Katusha (Anna Sten), la joven plebeya con la que jugó de pequeño y que está ahora convertida en una preciosa mujer. El amor surge entre ellos, pero el servicio militar de su majestad el zar, reclama a Dimitri y este se marcha luego de haberse esforzado por educar en socio-política a su enamorada. Lo que se avendrá después, es un drama de abandono y sufrimiento, mientras los reclamos de la aristocracia envuelven en sus redes a aquel hombre que parecía tener una gran conciencia.
La reina del boulevard
Producer
Nana (Anna Sten) es una joven que sueña con triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo. Por ese motivo trabaja sin descanso en París. Un día tiene un golpe de fortuna, y un admirador suyo se decide a crear una revista musical donde Nana sea la única estrella. Esto le lanza a la fama, y pronto se ve rodeada de numerosos fans, que están ansiosos por conocerla en persona. Entre sus admiradores están el veterano Gran Duque Alexis, y un joven galán con quien no tarda en iniciar un romance. Pero el hermano mayor de su amante también anda enamorado de Nana, y los celos se cruzan en su camino. El Gran Duque se entera de la relación de Nana con el joven teniente, y destina a éste a un peligroso emplazamiento en Argelia. Nana, desesperada y presionada por el Gran Duque, abandona el espectáculo y se refugia en los brazos del hermano mayor de su antiguo amante. Un tiempo después, éste regresa de Argelia para luchar contra los prusianos.
The Masquerader
Producer
A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporarily assume his identity.
Escándalos Romanos
Producer
Un hombre está convencido de que el emperador romano Valerio es un hombre encorvado como el cacique local. Por esta razón, sueña con que ha regresado a los tiempos del antiguo imperio romano.
Su único pecado
Producer
Ronald Colman da vida a un marido atormentado por haber mantenido una fugaz relación con una dependienta, relación que terminó en un escandaloso suceso. Así, decide sincerarse ante su mujer y contarle la verdad. Esta situación obliga a la pareja a exponer con claridad la verdad de su feliz (y aburrido) matrimonio.
Torero a la fuerza
Producer
Eddie se despierta, tras una noche de borrachera, en la cama con una chica de un colegio para señoritas. Más tarde, se ve implicado en el robo de un banco, con lo que decide escapar a México, con la ayuda de su amigo Ricardo. La policía le sigue los pasos y, por ello, se hace pasar por un torero español.
Arsène Lupin
Producer
Arsène Lupin (John Barrymore), un ladrón que se hace pasar por el Duque de Charmerace, vive en París y su único objetivo es desplumar a los ricos. Después del robo perpetrado en la mansión del millonario Gourney-Martin (Tully Marshall), el detective Guerchard (Lionel Barrymore) sospecha que el culpable es el famoso Lupin. En una fiesta, en la que coinciden Guerchard y Lupin, éste decide actuar: un corte abrupto de la electricidad y el robo de varios invitados, que sólo se dan cuenta cuando vuelve la luz. Gourney-Martin invita a su residencia campestre a Charmerace y a Sonia (Karen Morley), que, en realidad es una ladronzuela que trata de rehabilitarse colaborando con Guerchard.
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Producer
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
El doctor Arrowsmith
Presenter
Martin Arrowsmith es un joven e idealista doctor que, tras graduarse, se ve obligado a renunciar a un puesto como investigador con el prestigioso Dr. Max Gottlieb para casarse con la enfermera Leora Tozer. Regresa a su hogar natal en el campo, estableciendo una pequeña consulta, y en su tiempo libre desarrollará un suero para detener una mortal plaga del ganado.
El doctor Arrowsmith
Producer
Martin Arrowsmith es un joven e idealista doctor que, tras graduarse, se ve obligado a renunciar a un puesto como investigador con el prestigioso Dr. Max Gottlieb para casarse con la enfermera Leora Tozer. Regresa a su hogar natal en el campo, estableciendo una pequeña consulta, y en su tiempo libre desarrollará un suero para detener una mortal plaga del ganado.
El paraíso del mal
Producer
En un hotel en medio del Sahara, un anciano y su hija intentan ocultar la ubicación de un tesoro escondido a un grupo de ladrones y delincuentes que se alojan en el hotel y que están decididos a conseguirlo. Un día llega al hotel un ladrón de refinados modales, con su propio plan para conseguir el botín, pero surgen complicaciones cuando comienza a enamorarse de la hija.
Un loco de verano
Producer
El ayudante de un falso vidente es confundido con un experto en eficacia y contratado en una panadería art déco. Las cosas se complican cuando el vidente y su banda intentan robar la nómina.
La calle
Producer
El escenario es una manzana anónima durante un verano sofocante, donde los residentes - italianos, judíos, suecos, alemanes e irlandeses- representan el no muy idealizado crisol de razas estadounidenses. Hay cháchara ociosa... chismorreos... celos... racismo... adulterio... y, de repente pero no inesperadamente, un asesinato.
Esta noche o nunca
Producer
La húngara Nella Vago (Gloria Swanson) es una diva de ópera cuyo agente insiste en que sus representaciones carecen de pasión, una situación que sólo podría cambiar si la propia Vago tuviera una verdadera experiencia amorosa. En un viaje de vuelta a Budapest, Vago descubre que su novio, el Conde Albert von Granac, tiene una aventura. El ánimo y la titubeante carrera de Vago recibirán entonces un gran impulso gracias a la relación de la diva con el apuesto Jim Fletcher (Melvyn Douglas). (FILMAFFINITY)
One Heavenly Night
Producer
A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
Que pague el diablo
Producer
Ronald Colman interpreta a un apuesto galán que lleva una vida alborotada. Ahora tiene puestas sus armas de seducción en dos atractivas señoritas, interpretadas por Loretta Young y Myrna Loy. Colman regresa de un ocioso viaje por Sudamérica y se encuentra con su padre enfurecido, que le echa en cara el despilfarro que hace del dinero, además de su ligera forma de vida. Pero a Colman sólo le interesan sus amoríos, y ahora está envuelto en una complicada relación a dos bandas. No sabe por qué señorita decidirse. Por un lado siente una gran atracción hacia la temperamental actriz interpretada por Myrna Loy, pero a la vez no puede negar sus sentimientos hacia una amiga de su hermana, Loretta Young. La honestidad de Colman se pone a prueba cuando se ve obligado a decidir, y logra demostrar que no es un simple y vanidoso seductor.
Whoopee!
Producer
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
Raffles
Producer
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.
Condenado
Producer
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
This Is Heaven
Producer
This film was released in both silent and sound versions.
Bulldog Drummond
Producer
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
The Rescue
Executive Producer
The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.
The Awakening
Producer
En Alsacia, justo antes de la Guerra Mundial, se ve a Marie Ducrot, una hermosa y virtuosa campesina que se enamora del Conde Karl von Hagen, un teniente del ejército alemán, visitando a Karl en sus aposentos, y una multitud enojada de habitantes arroja piedras y maldiciones a ella. Marie, reportada erróneamente muerta, se convierte en novicia en una orden religiosa. Estalla la guerra y von Hagen resulta herido en un combate cerca del convento de Marie; Marie lo cuida y la convence de que regrese a Alemania con él. Le Bête, un sargento del ejército francés que conocen, les ayuda a alcanzar las líneas y la seguridad alemanas. Le Bête es asesinado por la bala de un francotirador, y Marie y Karl se preparan para un futuro mejor.
Two Lovers
Producer
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise of "Leatherface," a swashbuckling masked avenger, Van Ryke performs his derring-do on behalf of the Prince of Orange (Nigel de Brulier). Naturally, Van Ruke considers beautiful Spanish aristocrat Donna Leonora de Vargas (Vilma Banky) to be a bitter enemy, and the feeling is mutual. To no one's surprise, however, Van Ryke and Donna Leonara eventually fall in love (hence the title). The pulse-pounding climax finds Van Ryke riding hell-for-leather through a rainstorm to warn the Flemish troops about the Spaniards' plans to burn the city of Ghent to the ground. Two Lovers was based on Madame Orczy's novel Leatherface, and adapted for the screen by Alice Duer Miller.
The Devil Dancer
Producer
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
La llama mágica
Producer
Película perdida. Drama, Cine mudo.
The Night of Love
Producer
Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal lord--to take the bride to his castle for a night. Rather than accede to the duke's advances, the girl chooses death by her own hand. Montero swears vengeance.....
Flor del desierto
Producer
Willard Holmes, ingeniero, colabora con su padrastro, banquero de escasos escrúpulos, en la construcción de una presa en el río Colorado para la irrigación de las tierras desérticas que posee Jefferson Worth, padre de Barbara. Tanto Holmes como el ingeniero local, Abe Lee, se enamoran de Barbara. El banquero estafa en los materiales para la presa, Worth lo descubre e intenta terminar él mismo el proyecto, pero se queda sin dinero para pagar a los trabajadores. La naturaleza, a través del desierto, las montañas y el agua, cobra un espectacular protagonismo.
Partners Again
Producer
Goldwyn produced a 1923 film adaptation of Potash and Perlmutter, and a 1924 sequel called In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter. In Partners Again the two are in the automobile industry -- This is a lost Film.
Ben-Hur
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
En los años del Imperio Romano del reinado de Augusto y su sucesor Tiberio, Judá Ben-Hur, hijo de una familia noble de Jerusalén, y Mesala, tribuno romano que dirige los ejércitos de ocupación, se han convertido en enemigos irreconciliables. Acusado de atentar contra la vida del nuevo gobernador romano, Mesala le encarcela junto a su familia. Cuando se llevan a Ben-Hur a galeras, un joven llamado Jesús de Nazaret se apiada de él y le da de beber.
Ben-Hur
Producer
En los años del Imperio Romano del reinado de Augusto y su sucesor Tiberio, Judá Ben-Hur, hijo de una familia noble de Jerusalén, y Mesala, tribuno romano que dirige los ejércitos de ocupación, se han convertido en enemigos irreconciliables. Acusado de atentar contra la vida del nuevo gobernador romano, Mesala le encarcela junto a su familia. Cuando se llevan a Ben-Hur a galeras, un joven llamado Jesús de Nazaret se apiada de él y le da de beber.
¡Y supo ser madre!
Producer
Stella, una chica pueblerina, se casa con Stephen Dallas, miembro de la alta sociedad, con quien no tiene nada en común. El matrimonio es un fracaso y, tras el nacimiento de una hija, Laurel, los Dallas se separan y Stephen vuelve a Nueva York. Conforme Laurel va creciendo, Stella se da cuenta de que ella no puede darle todo lo que necesita y la envía a vivir con Stephen y su nueva familia.
A Thief in Paradise
Producer
Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San Francisco millionaire. When Philip is killed by a shark, his half caste common-law wife, Rosa, informs Maurice that Philip had been forgiven by his father, and she persuades him to assume Philip's identity and return to the States - The film is now considered a lost film.
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Producer
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
Cytherea
Producer
Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris. When he meets her married aunt, Savina Grove, she appears to be the woman he imagines whenever he gazes at a doll he has christened Cytherea, goddess of love -----Cytherea features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.
True As Steel
Executive Producer
Successful middle-aged manufacturer Frank Parry takes a business trip to New York, where he becomes infatuated with Eva Boutelle, manager of the Swansea Cotton Mills. For a time, their affair develops, but Eva remains true to her husband ...
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Executive Producer
Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the death of her benefactor, she becomes a model in a fashionable shop. There she falls into the hands of her mother's unscrupulous nephew, who contrives to do away with her in order to obtain her fortune. ....
Three Weeks
Executive Producer
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
Name the Man
Executive Producer
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes involved in an intrigue with local girl Bessie Collister, becomes the deemster on his father's death, and is forced to try Bessie for killing her illegitimate child.
The Eternal City
Producer
War drama - Fitzmaurice was able to film King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini reviewing Italian troops.
Unseeing Eyes
Producer
The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.
The Day of Faith
Producer
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval. Anstell tries to undermine Jane's work by hiring reporter Tom Barnett to write an unfavorable story about the mission.
The Eternal Three
Producer
A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secretary, and finally targets the doctor's wife, his own stepmother as his next conquest....
Potash and Perlmutter
Producer
The film is based on an ethnic Jewish comedy with characters created by Montague Glass and Charles Klein.
Lost and Found on a South Sea Island
Producer
Faulke, a swindling white trader who persuaded Madge to leave Captain Blackbird, insists that her daughter, Lorna, marry Waki, a native leader, although Lorna loves Lloyd Warren. While in search of a doll for his other daughter, Baby Madge, Captain Blackbird comes to Pago Pago and gruffly refuses to aid Lloyd and Lorna, whom he does not recognize. A chance encounter with Faulke, however, reveals the trader's evil doings and Lorna's identity. The captain and his men rush to the island and rescue Lorna from the warring natives.
The Christian
Executive Producer
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John....
A Blind Bargain
Producer
Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's attempts to transplant animal glands into human beings.
Hungry Hearts
Producer
A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her efforts costs more then they are worth.
Remembrance
Producer
Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him -- and his money -- for granted. Grout's attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they've treated Pops.....
Mr. Barnes of New York
Producer
An English naval officer and a Corsican youth have a duel, and the Corsican is killed. The young man's sister, Marina Paoli, swears vengeance on the killer. Mr. Barnes of New York, who happened to see the duel, finds the name Gerard Anstruther engraved on the pistols.....
His Back Against the Wall
Producer
Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....
Head Over Heels
Executive Producer
When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip to Europe, he tells his more down-to-earth partner, Lawson, that he has hired a beautiful Neopolitan acrobat he saw onstage in Italy. When the acrobat, Tina Bambinetti, arrives in their office, though, Sterling is shocked to find that, offstage, she is plain, unkempt and badly dressed. Crushed by Sterling's dismissive treatment, Tina performs some acrobatics that almost destroy the office...
Sherlock Holmes
Executive Producer
Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. Prince Alexis is accused of a theft that he insists he didn’t commit. The evidence is stacked against him, but Holmes’ trusted friend, Dr. Watson, vouches for the prince. As the famed detective investigates, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.
Watch Your Step
Executive Producer
Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....
Doubling for Romeo
Producer
Slim Cody works in the movie industry, doubling for the performers. He has a dream in which he portrays Romeo in a movie version of "Romeo and Juliet," and arranges for someone to double for him when the fight scenes get scary. ....
As de corazones
Producer
La acción da inicio en una lúgubre habitación donde se hallan reunidos los miembros de una sociedad secreta, todos menos uno de sus miembros, la única fémina, de nombre Lilith. Ella no ha acudido, pero ha dejado dicho que está de acuerdo con la decisión que se tome sobre que hacer con el poderoso hombre al cual tildan como "el que ha vivido demasiado". El líder se pronuncia diciendo que ha sido su hombre de confianza durante tres meses y que su muerte libraría al mundo de una gran amenaza, debida a su gran codicia. Todos votan de manera unánime darle muerte. Aplazan la reunión hasta las nueve y quedan en reunirse de nuevo a las diez para decidir quien es la mano ejecutora... (FILMAFFINITY)
Oh Mary Be Careful
Producer
"Mary Meacham, the most popular girl in college, goes to live with her maiden aunt, Miss Myra. Auntie is a man-hater who has various theories for testing the desirable qualities of the male sex. Mary sees a dreary man-less time before her and sends an S. O. S. to various sisters and their brothers to visit her while Auntie is away.
Don't Neglect Your Wife
Producer
The wife of a prominent San Francisco doctor, feeling neglected by her husband, finds herself attracted to a young newspaper reporter. ...
Boys Will Be Boys
Producer
Peep O'Day, an orphan in a small Kentucky town, falls heir to a small fortune and begins to make up for all the lost pleasure of childhood, but Sublette, a crooked attorney, arranges for an eastern belle to show up as Peep's "niece" to steal his fortune.
A Tale of Two Worlds
Producer
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
Guile of Women
Producer
A naive young Swede is repeatedly victimized by predatory women. When finally he meets a young woman who seems sincere and true, he wonders if he can trust her.
What Happened To Rosa?
Producer
A fortune teller tells a store clerk with a romantic disposition that she was a Spanish noblewoman in an earlier life. The girl begins to live the part of the Spanish noblewoman and romance and comedy ensue.
The Great Lover
Producer
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer.
Officer 666
Executive Producer
Upon learning that notorious art thief Alf Wilson plans to steal his valuable paintings, idle millionaire Travers Gladwyn decides to amuse himself by guarding his own home. After bribing Policeman Phelan, Officer 666, with a $500 bill, Travers dons the officer's uniform and identity. When Wilson appears at his mansion, Travers questions him and discovers that Wilson is posing as Travers, claiming that he is packing up his paintings for safe keeping. ...
Honest Hutch
Producer
Ort Hutchins is a confirmed loafer who spends all of his time fishing while his wife toils over the washtub. One day, while digging for worms, Hutch uncovers a box containing $100,000 in bills, the loot of a bank robbed in the next town. Realizing that he cannot spend the money without arousing suspicion, Hutch resigns himself to taking a job for cover. ...
The Truth
Producer
Becky Warder constantly indulges in the telling of little white lies. In an innocent effort to ease the troubled marriage of her quarreling friends Eve and Fred Lindon, Becky meets secretly with Fred, thereby constructing a web of deceit that leads Eve to suspect Becky of trifling with her husband's affections. Eve informs Becky's husband Tom of these meetings and Tom, suspicious, accuses his wife of infamy. ....
El hombre sin piernas
Producer
Un hombre decide vengarse del médico que cuando era niño le amputó innecesariamente las dos piernas.
Cupid the Cowpuncher
Producer
Alec Lloyd, the foreman of the Sewell ranch, is nicknamed "Cupid" because of his propensity for matchmaking. When Macie Sewell returns from boarding school, Cupid himself falls victim to love, but Macie has aspirations to go to New York and become an opera singer, and so ignores his advances. However, Leroy Simpson, a poor doctor who is enamored of Macie's father's money, encourages her ambitions....
The Slim Princess
Producer
Kalora is the "slim princess of Morevana," a land in which fat is prized. This distresses her family, who must marry off Kalora, before her rotund younger sister Papova may wed. To remedy this situation, Kalora's father, the governor general, throws a garden party and disguises his slim daughter in an inflated rubber suit. All goes well until the suit ruptures, deflating Kalora to her normal size....
Jes' Call Me Jim
Producer
Happy-go-lucky Jim Fenton is in love with Miss Butterworth, the town milliner, who is taking care of little Harry Benedict while his father Paul, an inventor, is in the local insane asylum. Miss Butterworth convinces Jim that Belcher, one of the town's prominent citizens, has incarcerated Paul to steal the patents from his inventions. Jim breaks into the asylum and spirits away the enfeebled inventor......
Partners of the Night
Producer
A tricky woman criminal, in league with an international crook, falls in love with the honest detective tracking them.
The Paliser Case
Executive Producer
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
Water, Water, Everywhere
Producer
Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink. Hope's discontent is echoed by the town wives' public outcry against drink. To divert their interest, Billy is nominated to make love to their leader, widow Fay Bittinger, who has already disposed of four husbands....
Pinto
Producer
When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the death of her parents decide that ranch life will never make a lady of her. Their old friend Pop Audry, formerly of Arizona and now a member of New York society, agrees to provide Pinto with the necessary education. Accordingly, Pinto and her cowboy nursemaid Looey are dispatched to New York where they lose Audry's address. ...
Jubilo
Producer
Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machinations of a sinister villain.
Almost a Husband
Executive Producer
A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well. The teacher pretends to marry the girl to fool the unwanted suitor, but then finds that the marriage was inadvertently legal....
Lord and Lady Algy
Producer
Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering elder brother, Algy tries to help his brother escape Tudway's wrath by hiding Mrs. Tudway in his apartments. Tudway discovers her there ....
Upstairs
Producer
While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstairs to enviously peek at the people dancing to jazz music. Seeing the attractive Elsie dressed in a boy's uniform, wealthy Lemuel Stallings wagers a friend that he can get Elsie onto the dance floor....
Through the Wrong Door
Presenter
A young woman goes to visit friends but mistakenly rings at the wrong address. She is greeted and taken in out of the storm by a handsome young man to whom she is immediately attracted. What she does not know, however, is that this young man has been fleeced by her father and has sworn vengeance against him.
The Stronger Vow
Executive Producer
During the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he is a member of the family with whom her ancestors have long feuded. Dolores' cousin, Pedro Toral, jealous of her attentions to Juan, kills her brother that night and after leaving Juan's handkerchief by the body, makes Dolores swear to avenge the death with her own hands....
Sis Hopkins
Producer
Sis is an eccentric young girl in a small rural village. While most around Sis view her as a joke, she is loved by Ridy Scarboro, the clerk at the general store. One day Sis's dog knocks an oil can into the Hopkins well and when wealthy old Vibert tastes the water, he believes the Hopkins have an oil strike.....
The Racing Strain
Producer
Lucille Cameron, the spirited daughter of a Kentucky colonel, discovers that her father is nearly bankrupt as a result of his dealings with New York horseman and stock promoter Jim De Luce....
A Perfect Lady
Producer
Dancer Lucille Le Jambon (whose real name is Lucy Higgins) loses her job when the morals committee of Sycamore, Kansas, headed by the self-righteous Deacon John Griswold, forces the Merry Models Burlesque show to close. Having grown fond of Sycamore, Lucy opens a combined ice cream parlor and dance hall, where she teaches the young people all the latest dances. ...
The Hell Cat
Executive Producer
Pancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two men, Sheriff Jack Webb, whom she loves, and outlaw Jim Dyke, whose attentions she repeatedly rebuffs. Jim and his men attack Pancha's ranch, burning it to the ground and killing her father. The outlaw carries her to his cabin, where Wan-o-mee, his jealous squaw, tries to stab the girl....
A Perfect 36
Producer
The plot involves Mabel's clothes being stolen in a mix-up while she was swimming, necessitating her spending most of the time running around clad only in her swimsuit trying to straighten everything out
Thirty a Week
Producer
Although she is engaged to the wealthy Freddy Ruyter, Barbara Wright prefers her father's handsome Irish chauffeur, Dan Murray, and marries him. The newlyweds struggle to survive on Dan's meager income, but Barbara's father, furious with them both, nearly destroys their happiness by securing Dan's dismissal from several jobs. ...
Laughing Bill Hyde
Producer
Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan Thomas, tries so hard to save Danny that later, when Bill and the doctor meet in Alaska, the two become friends. A dying man gives his mine to the doctor, but upon discovering that it is worthless, Bill sells it to a crook named John Wesley Slayforth...
Peck's Bad Girl
Producer
Minnie Penelope Peck, the village scamp of Yaptank, accompanies her father to the bank to demand the nine dollars owed him for his work as a night watchman. When the bank president refuses to pay Peck, Minnie posts a sign which states that the bank is insolvent, whereupon all of the depositors immediately demand their money. The fire department is called in to quell the mob, but things get worse when Minnie accidentally turns on the fire hose.....
The Turn of the Wheel
Producer
While visiting Monte Carlo with her aunt, Rosalie Dean meets a young man, Maxfield Gray who is ready to kill himself because of his losses at the roulette wheel. She stops him from doing so, and lends him some money to win back what he's lost. He does, but they're only happy for a short while before Max is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife in the States.
All Woman
Executive Producer
Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a run-down inn with an attached saloon. As she struggles to make something of her new operation, she becomes involved in the life and difficulties of her new community....
The Floor Below
Producer
Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her assignment is to explain the clue that links the Hope Mission, a derelict home run by millionaire Hunter Mason and his secretary, Monty Latham, with a series of local robberies. When Hunter discovers Patricia in his office, he assumes that she is a crook in need of reforming and takes her into his home to be cared for by his mother.....
The Cinderella Man
Executive Producer
When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house. Learning that a young poet, Anthony Quintard, is living in poverty next door while working on the libretto of a great opera, she skips across the roofs and brings him a Christmas banquet. The poet sees Marjorie, and knowing that he detests wealth, she pretends to be the secretary of the Caner family.....
Fighting Odds
Producer
A woman determines to clear her imprisoned husband of false charges by entrapping the real culprit herself.
Polly of the Circus
Executive Producer
When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John Hartley. The two fall in love and marry secretly. But when the news leaks out, the minister loses his pastorate over disdain by the parishioners for Polly's background as a performer. Polly must decide whether to stay with the man she loves or leave him for the good of his calling.