Victor Heerman
Nacimiento : 1893-08-27, Surrey, England, UK
Muerte : 1977-11-03
Historia
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Victor Heerman (August 27, 1893 – November 3, 1977) was an English-American film director, screenwriter and film producer.[1] After writing and directing short comedies for Mack Sennett, Heerman teamed with his wife Sarah Y. Mason to win the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women in 1933. He directed the Marx Brothers' second film, Animal Crackers, in 1930.
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Bob Merrick, un joven multimillonario, egoísta y engreído, sufre un accidente mientras conduce una lancha motora. En el hospital le aplican provisionalmente el pulmón artificial del doctor Phillips, pero desgraciadamente éste sufre un ataque repentino y muere. Su viuda Helen descubre entonces que está completamente arruinada, a pesar de que los honorarios que percibía su marido eran muy elevados. La razón es que él, sin que ella lo supiera, repartía el dinero, de manera anónima y altruista, entre los necesitados. A partir de ese momento, una serie de extrañas circunstancias mantendrán unidos a Helen y Bob, a pesar de tener caracteres muy distintos.
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Mientras su padre está en la guerra, cuatro jóvenes hermanas de caracteres muy diferentes realizan un aprendizaje, a veces doloroso, a veces fascinante, de la vida y del amor. A medida que van creciendo, abandonan, una a una, el hogar familiar para casarse y crear su propia familia. En casa sólo se queda Jo, que quiere ser escritora, y para conseguirlo se traslada a Nueva York, donde, gracias a su tenacidad y esfuerzo logra publicar su primera obra. Además, a pesar de estar convencida de que para ella el tiempo de la felicidad ya ha pasado, en Nueva York encontrará también el amor.
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Año 1903. El matrimonio Smith, afincado en San Luis, tiene cuatro preciosas hijas. Una de ellas, Esther, de diecisiete años, se enamora de un vecino que acaba de instalarse en la ciudad. Sin embargo; la familia, y especialmente Esther, tienen un enorme disgusto cuando su padre les anuncia que deben trasladarse a vivir a Nueva York por motivos de trabajo.
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Un joven con vocación de violinista entra en el mundo del boxeo para conseguir algo de dinero, y sin darse cuenta, empieza a alejarse de su verdadero sueño. El padre intenta recordarle que su pasión es la música, pero al hijo no le resulta fácil reemprender ese camino.
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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.
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El filántrópico doctor Hudson muere ahogado, pues la bombona de oxígeno que podría haberle salvado la vida se utilizó en beneficio del joven Robert Merrick (Robert Taylor), un frívolo heredero. Éste inmediatamente se da cuenta del rechazo que inpira a los demás, sobre todo, a Helen (Irene Dunne), la viuda del doctor, de la que se ha enamorado. Para conquistarla, decide convertirse en un filántropo anónimo como Hudson. Sin embargo, cuando Helen se queda ciega en un accidente, todos lo culpan a él. Robert decide entonces, oculto bajo una identidad falsa, llegar a ser un gran médico para poder devolverle la vista.
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El profesor Thalma presenta, en su casa, al prestigioso director de orquesta Franz Roberti (Charles Boyer) y a su alumna Constance Dane (Katharine Hepburn), la cual impresionará luego, con su belleza y su talento como compositora al notable director. Después de estar felizmente casados, comenzarán los problemas cuando, a la vida de Franz, regresa una atractiva amiga de los viejos tiempos.
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Los feligreses de una pequeña parroquia escocesa tratarán de impedir por todos los medios, las relaciones entre su clérigo y una bella joven de raza gitana. (FILMAFFINITY)
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An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
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Cuatro jóvenes hermanas realizan un aprendizaje, a veces doloroso, a veces fascinante, de la vida y del amor. Van creciendo y abandonando, una a una, el hogar familiar para casarse y crear sus propias familias. Sólo se queda Jo, que quiere ser escritora. A pesar de la sensación que tiene de que ya ha terminado su tiempo de felicidad, sigue escribiendo y consigue publicar su primera obra.
Bobby Jones instructs Joe E. Brown and the other members of their foursome in proper club grip.
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Cortometraje promocional lleno de estrellas de la época destinado a recaudar fondos para el sanatorio de tuberculosis National Variety Artists, producido en asociación con una compañía de cigarrillos. La trama sigue la investigación del robo de la joyería de Norma Shearer. Laurel & Hardy aparecen brevemente (como lo hace el resto del elenco) como dos detectives.
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Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.
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El famoso explorador Captain Spaulding vuelve de África y es invitado por la Srta. Rittenhouse a una fiesta de gala. Durante la fiesta, desaparece una pintura, y los Hermanos Marx ayudan a recuperarla.
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Una serie de números musicales interpretados por estrellas bajo contrato de la Paramount, haciendo cosas que nunca habían hecho en sus películas habituales.
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A musical short with Rosita Moreno & Nino Martini singing us some love songs. An itinerant troubadour serenades the woman he loves.
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Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talking of this and breaks with him. Then, with the help of her friend, Mazie, she metamorphoses into a ravishing beauty. Joe is remorseful, but the situation is made more complex when he suspects Eve of questionable relations with her boss.
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Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talking of this and breaks with him. Then, with the help of her friend, Mazie, she metamorphoses into a ravishing beauty. Joe is remorseful, but the situation is made more complex when he suspects Eve of questionable relations with her boss.
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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.
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Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down to the small Florida town of Fairfield to make a sale to the miserly Godfrey Queritt (Charles Dow Clark). When Corvan discovers that Sunday school teacher Margaret Leland is friends with the old man, he romances her. He also helps out the local charities and endears himself to the local folk. Corvan is too good at his tricks -- all this hard-won trust is turning him into an honest man.
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Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
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Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social secretary, but is reluctant to tell her about his past.
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Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social secretary, but is reluctant to tell her about his past.
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An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
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An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
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In the gold fields of the Canadian Northwest, a man is falsely accused of a crime and determines that a lookalike is responsible.
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Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.
