Adela Rogers St. Johns

Nacimiento : 1894-05-20, Los Angeles, California, USA

Muerte : 1988-08-10

Películas

Final Verdict
Novel
A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.
Rojos
Herself - Witness
John Reed (1887-1920) es un legendario periodista y revolucionario americano, pionero del socialismo en Estados Unidos. Corresponsal en la revolución mexicana y la 1ª guerra mundial, es famoso por ser testigo directo de la Revolución de Octubre, que plasmó en su libro 'Diez días que estremecieron al mundo'. Convencido por aquellos acontecimientos, luchó por extender el bolchevismo en EEUU, y trabajó para la Komintern en la Rusia soviética. En 'Rojos', Warren Beatty escribe, produce, dirige y protagoniza un drama épico sobre su vida y la de su compañera —también escritora— Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). Con su romance como excusa, la película es un maravilloso retrato de la América de 1912-19, desde la vida bohemia de los artistas del Greenwich Village de Nueva York, al incipiente sindicalismo revolucionario de la Industrial Workers of the World, el movimiento antibélico o la fundación del comunismo americano, salpicado de un toque documental con entrevistas a testigos de aquella era.
Gable: The King Remembered
Herself
Friends and co-workers recall the life of Hollywood screen star Clark Gable.
The Girl Who Had Everything
Novel
Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.
Smart Woman
Adaptation
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
That Brennan Girl
Story
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
La chica del gobierno
Story
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, un fabricante de coches intenta construir aviones en Washington. Por suerte, o no, encuentra una secretaria que sabe desenvolverse en el laberinto político de la capital... y algunas cosas más.
Una gran señora
Story
Hannah Hoyt, una anciana centenaria, asiste a la inauguración de una estatua en homenaje a su marido, un pionero con el que, en 1848, vivió en las montañas, donde buscando oro corrieron toda clase de peligros.
Back in Circulation
Story
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
A Woman's Man
Story
Una temperamental estrella de cine abandona el plato para enzarzarse en una pelea con un ambicioso boxeador, ansioso de publicidad.
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Writer
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
The Animal Kingdom
Additional Writing
Un editor de éxito se da cuenta que al seleccionar a la que iba a ser su mujer se confundió. Ya antes de su matrimonio sostenía una relación sentimental con una mujer muy independiente, sin embargo, en el momento de casarse se decidió por otra más usual, y se arrepiente de su resolución.
Hollywood al desnudo
Story
Mary Evans es una camarera cuya amistad con Max Carey, un director de cine alcohólico, le permite relacionarse con peces gordos. De esta manera llama la atención del millonario Lonny Borden, un productor de Hollywood cansado de la vida de la costa este y de ser un segundón de Max. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un alma libre
Novel
Ace Wilfong, un joven gángster, se enamora de la bella hija de su abogado. Sin embargo, su relación sentimental se va deteriorando y acaba rompiéndose debido al mal carácter de Ace. Cuando ella vuelve con su antiguo novio Dwight, los celos se apoderan del mafioso.
The Single Standard
Novel
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
Scandal
Story
1929 picture starring Laura La Plante, Huntley Gordon, and John Boles.
El gran combate
Adaptation
Francia, Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Un grupo de aviadores son alojados en un campo cercano a la granja de la viuda de Berthelot. Su hija Jeannine siente curiosidad por los jóvenes combatientes y sus aeroplanos.
The Arizona Wildcat
Story
Tom Mix plays a California breeder of polo ponies in love with a society gal. The cowboy saves the day when a member of her brother's polo team is injured during an important match. Mix immediately replaces him and amazes the audience with his spectacular riding stunts.
The Patent Leather Kid
Adaptation
The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.
Singed
Short Story
Dance-hall girl Dolly Wall invests her life savings in an oil well. A gusher comes in, enriching not only Dolly but her ne'er-do-well socialite sweetheart Royce Wingate. While Wingate hobnobs with the Upper Crust, poor Dolly is left home alone, stigmatized by her "scandalous" past.
Los hijos del divorcio
Story
Un hombre no quiere casarse con la mujer que ama pues teme que el matrimonio acabe en divorcio, al igual que le pasó a sus padres.
The Broncho Twister
Story
Returning from the war, Tom Mason (Tom Mix) rides square into a raging feud between the his family and the neighboring Brady gang.
The Wise Guy
Adaptation
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.
The Red Kimona
Story
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
El jazz-Band del Follies
Story
Maggie es la primera actriz cómica del Follies, que anhela el tipo de relaciones románticas de sus más agraciadas compañeras de trabajo. Maggie, a resultas de caer en el tambor del batería de la orquesta, Al Cassidy, se enamora de éste. Se casan y tienen un hijo. Pero Selma Larson, una de las más guapas estrellas del Follies, se entrometerá en el matrimonio con el único fin de perjudicar a Maggie, ya que está celosa de ella por el éxito cómico de sus números...
Lady of the Night
Story
The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity, but worlds apart in life: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daughter of the judge who would send Molly's father to prison. The girls' lives come together as young women at eighteen as Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life free from reform school.
Inez from Hollywood
Writer
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But images are deceiving -- the parties (and police raids) are staged by Inez's press agent, and she is actually very devoted to her innocent younger sister, Fay Bartholdi.
Broken Laws
Story
Ignoring the advice of her husband, a mother indulges her son's every wish and demand all throughout his childhood. By the time she realizes her treatment of her son has spoiled him almost beyond belief, he is on trial for manslaughter.
The Secret Code
Writer
Sally Carter Rand, married to an elderly senator, is accused of espionage, but she is able to clear herself by proving that her mysterious knitting is actually a baby sweater.
Marked Cards
Story
Ellen Shannon, the daughter of self-made Irish politician Pat Shannon, is engaged to Ted Breslin, but because Pat began his career as a menial laborer, Ted's mother, Mrs. J. De Barth Breslin, refuses to sanction the marriage. Heartbroken, Ted takes up drinking and gambling with "Poker" LeMoyne and Don Jackson, while Ellen attends a finishing school hoping to improve herself. While trying to elude her chaperone, Ellen unwittingly dashes into a man's hotel room, and from the window, she witnesses Don and "Poker" playing cards, while Ted lies unconscious from too much drink. When the two gamblers quarrel, Don kills "Poker," but Ted is accused of the crime.
The Skyrocket
Novel
In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood star whose quick rise to fame leaves her self-centered, superficial, and a spendthrift. Ironically, the film that skyrocketed her to fame was written by Mickey. But her success is brief; and when it comes crashing to earth, Mickey is there to pick up the pieces.