James V. Kern
Nacimiento : 1909-09-22, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1966-11-09
Historia
James V. Kern (September 22, 1909, New York City, New York – November 9, 1966, Encino, California) was an American singer, songwriter, screenwriter, actor, and director.
Educated at the Fordham Law School, Kern worked for a while as an attorney. He sang with the George Olsen Trio, and appeared with the Olsen orchestra in the musical Good News. From 1927 to 1939, he sang with and wrote for the Yacht Club Boys quartet, with whom he appeared in several motion pictures.
He became a screenwriter and later a director. In film, he directed mainly "B" pictures, but after he moved to television, he directed hundreds of series episodes. He was one of the house directors on I Love Lucy in the 1950s. He directed My Three Sons for most of two seasons in the 1960s. When he died suddenly of a heart attack at age 57, several episodes of the show remained only partially completed for the 1966/67 season, so director James Sheldon was brought in by series producers to round out the season.
He joined ASCAP in 1955. His popular-song compositions include "Easy Street," "Lover, Lover," "Little Red Fox," and "Shut the Door."
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Director
The "boys" from Pine Ridge visit Europe and try to help a Yugoslavian ballerina find her American lover, become involved with French jewel thieves, and take on posh society in Monte Carlo.
Producer
The "boys" from Pine Ridge visit Europe and try to help a Yugoslavian ballerina find her American lover, become involved with French jewel thieves, and take on posh society in Monte Carlo.
Director
A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.
Director
La película comienza con un “flashback” al estilo de “Rebecca” (A. Hitchcock 1940). Ellen Foster, de visita en casa de su tía en la costa de California, conoce al vecino Jeff Cohalan y su ultra-moderna casa ubicada en la cima del acantilado. Ellen se siente muy atraída hacia Jeff, quien está siendo perturbado por una serie de accidentes inexplicables. ¿Mala suerte, persecución… o paranoia? Advertida de que Jeff puede ser un hombre peligroso, Ellen teme que en realidad sea él quien esté en peligro, a medida que los sucesos amenazantes se agravan.
Director
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
Director
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.
Screenplay
Phil y Ellen Gayley llevan divorciados un año. Su hija de 8 años, Flip, se siente muy desgraciada porque sus padres no están juntos. Así, comienza a cartearse con un marino, enviándole una foto de su guapa madre. Cuando el marino aparece para conocerla, Ellen aprovecha la oportunidad para dar celos a su ex-marido.
Director
Phil y Ellen Gayley llevan divorciados un año. Su hija de 8 años, Flip, se siente muy desgraciada porque sus padres no están juntos. Así, comienza a cartearse con un marino, enviándole una foto de su guapa madre. Cuando el marino aparece para conocerla, Ellen aprovecha la oportunidad para dar celos a su ex-marido.
Original Story
A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman.
Director
Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely holds the WB house record for a 20-minute film containing footage from the most different titles in their inventory. It's theme of a singing guided tour of the lot (and some of the footage) is from 1944's "Musical Movieland", the former title holder, and it contains clips from 1939's "Quiet, Please" and "Royal Rodeo"; "Sunday Roundup" from 1936 and 1940's "The Singing Dude." Pieces from "Out Where the Stars Begin" and "Swingtime in the Movies" may also be used, but it's hard to tell since they all tend to run together and show up in a lot of places during the 1940's Warner shorts. Its title of "Movieland Magic" is most apt considering the sleight-of-hand performed by the WB Shorts and Sales departments in once again selling the same film clips for the 3rd, 4th or more times.
Screenplay
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
Screenplay
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.
Director
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.
Screenplay
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Screenplay
Musical en el que las estrellas de la Warner cantan una serie de canciones para animar a los soldados americanos que estaban combatiendo en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945).
Screenplay
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
Story
Fibber McGee pide ayuda a Edgar Bergen y Charlie McCarthy para convencer a un fabricante de aviones que instale una fábrica en su pueblo.
Screenplay
Fibber McGee pide ayuda a Edgar Bergen y Charlie McCarthy para convencer a un fabricante de aviones que instale una fábrica en su pueblo.
Story
El representante de la banda de Kay Kyser les consigue un contrato para actuar en la fiesta de cumpleaños de una rica heredera, en una mansión aterradora, donde fuerzas siniestras intentan matarla.
Screenplay
El representante de la banda de Kay Kyser les consigue un contrato para actuar en la fiesta de cumpleaños de una rica heredera, en una mansión aterradora, donde fuerzas siniestras intentan matarla.
Story
Un obrero de la construcción se hace cargo de la hija de un compañero, muerto en accidente laboral. Va con la chica a Nueva York para localizar a su tío. Cuando le encuentra, descubre que el hombre ha invertido los ahorros de toda su vida en un restaurante que es una ruina. Toma la decisión de ayudar a la chica y a su tío en convertir el local en un éxito.
Screenplay
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
Writer
Por extrañas circunstancias, un hombre se ve convertido en padre de un niño de diez meses y se involucra en la vida turbulenta de su familia.
Jimmie
Howdy Nelson no cree en el amor, y que puede establecerse un romance con cualquier persona del sexo opuesto. Tan convencido está que ha montado un campamento de verano a tal efecto, y escrito una obra sobre el tema...
Yacht Club Boys Member
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
The Yacht Club Boys
El equipo de fútbol de un pequeño pueblo de Texas deberá enfrentarse al prestigioso equipo de Yale.
The Yacht Club Boys Member
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
