Alfred A. Cohn

Nacimiento : 1880-03-26,

Muerte : 1951-02-03

Películas

Harold Teen
Screenplay
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Son of a Sailor
Screenplay
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Mi chica y yo
Writer
Un policía y una camarera se enamoran; el único problema es que él tendrá que ayudar y proteger a la hermana de su novia, que está liada con un gángster.
Mystery Ranch
Screenplay
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.
The Cisco Kid
Writer
The Cisco Kid rides again! This time, he robs a bank to save pretty widow Sally Benton and her ranch. After developing a good relationship with Sally’s children, he risks life and limb in order to save her little one.
Con los pies por delante
Story
Harold Horne (Harold Llloyd) es un vendedor de zapatos quien por casualidad conoce a Bárbara, la hija de su jefe, y se enamora de ella. Horne le cuenta a la chica que él es un magnate del cuero y debe esconder la verdad para no desilusionarla.Decide hacer lo posible para cortejarla, aunque eso signifique escalar todo un edificio. Más tarde, al tratar de entregar una carta, Horne se halla a sí mismo colgando de los andamios de un edificio, a muchos metros de altura sobre las calles de la ciudad.
Sweethearts on Parade
Scenario Writer
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
Sweethearts on Parade
Story
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
Numbered Men
Screenplay
Se trata de un melodrama adaptado de la obra teatral "Jailbreak" de Dwight Taylor, convertida en guión por el dúo Alfred A. Cohn y Henry McCarthy. En ella asistimos a bastantes tópicos dentro del género como el falso culpable (Raymond Hackett), el recluso que tiene un plan para escapar (Ralph Ince) y la chica de turno que aparece en la cárcel como si nada (Bernice Claire).
Always Faithful
Director
The wife and secretary of a mine operator attempt to conceal their romantic affair.
Divorce Made Easy
Writer
The Carnation Kid
Story
It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.
The Carnation Kid
Screenplay
It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.
Melancholy Dame
Writer
A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
The Last Warning
Writer
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
We Americans
Screenplay
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
We Americans
Adaptation
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Writer
The Gorilla
Screenplay
An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
El cantor de Jazz
Screenplay
Primer film sonoro. La Warner Bros. Pictures, que por entonces pasaba problemas financieros, fue el primer estudio en sacar un filme sonoro, que alternaba la voz y canciones de Al Jolson con subtítulos. Por supuesto, e independientemente de la calidad artística del filme, se convirtió en un gran éxito de taquilla.
El Legado Tenebroso
Screenplay
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
Frisco Sally Levy
Story
Sally Lapidowitz is the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother and the girlfriend of motorcycle cop Patrick Sweeney. Sally finds herself attracted to the fancy Stuart Gold, a young Jewish boy who charms her father but raises Patrick's suspicions, which are soon justified.
Frisco Sally Levy
Screenplay
Sally Lapidowitz is the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother and the girlfriend of motorcycle cop Patrick Sweeney. Sally finds herself attracted to the fancy Stuart Gold, a young Jewish boy who charms her father but raises Patrick's suspicions, which are soon justified.
The Midnight Kiss
Screenplay
While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas from going broke. Mildred works up a business arrangement, whereby she will sell Thomas' father's 250 pigs for a dollar each. Though Lenore is appalled by Mildred's "disgraceful" behavior, the younger girl quickly earns the respect of everyone in town
The Midnight Kiss
Adaptation
While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas from going broke. Mildred works up a business arrangement, whereby she will sell Thomas' father's 250 pigs for a dollar each. Though Lenore is appalled by Mildred's "disgraceful" behavior, the younger girl quickly earns the respect of everyone in town
Flames
Story
Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to marry Herbert Landis, a young engineer (Eugene O'Brien). Unfortunately, Anne loves Landis...like a brother, and his rival, Hilary Fenton (Bryant Washburn), stands ready to snatch her up.
Flames
Screenplay
Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to marry Herbert Landis, a young engineer (Eugene O'Brien). Unfortunately, Anne loves Landis...like a brother, and his rival, Hilary Fenton (Bryant Washburn), stands ready to snatch her up.
The Cohens and Kellys
Writer
Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerheads, feuding over anything and everything. Kelly's son, Tim, and Cohen's daughter, Nannie, fall in love despite the bickering of their parents; when they cannot get parental consent for their marriage, they secretly wed.
His People
Writer
The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect.
In Fast Company
Story
Richard Talmadge as a man who loves to live the fast life which often results in him getting in trouble. Be it throwing wild parties, losing money, getting in the boxing ring and running from gangsters. There's always something.
The Drums of Jeopardy
Writer
The story centers around two small statuettes containing valuable emeralds, which are said to project a sinister influence on the possessor. The czar of Russia gives the statuettes to a grand duke, who, in turn, gives them to his secretary, John Hawksley. Hawksley sends them to America in a friend's possession and follows after.
Jazzmania
Writer
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
Livets Stormagter
Director
A girl is forced to marry a irresponsible man she does not love to save her fathers reputation. At the same time she falls for a religious preacher to the poor.