George Abbott
Nacimiento : 1887-06-25, Forestville, New York, USA
Muerte : 1995-01-31
Historia
Productor, actor y director teatral, director y guionista cinematográfico estadounidense, nacido en Forestville (Nueva York). Estudió en las Universidades de Rochester y Harvard, demostrando un especial interés por la literatura y el teatro, campo éste al que se dedicará desde muy temprana edad como actor y autor. Como actor profesional se inició en el Fulton Theatre de Nueva York, en 1913. Broadway le acogió durante varias décadas, demostrando una gran creatividad literaria que siempre arropó con un personalísimo estilo a la hora de dirigir todo tipo de puestas en escena. Entre su obras se pueden mencionar, Thee men on a horse, The boys from Syracuse, On your toes, Flora the red menace, que en buena parte fueron llevadas al cine. En Hollywood trabajó primero como guionista para la Paramount, pero su trayectoria cinematográfica no fue excesivamente larga, destacando varias colaboraciones con Stanley Donen a finales de los cincuenta, llevando a la pantalla dos de sus obras El juego del pijama (1957) y malditos Yanquis (1958), de las que además fue coproductor. Tuvo una dilatada vida, que alcanzó los 107 años.
Writer
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
Theatre Play
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
Theatre Play
El destino de un equipo de béisbol en dificultades cambia con la sugestiva intervención de una diablesa llamada Lola y de un fanático seguidor del equipo que pacta con el diablo a cambio de recuperar su juventud y poder jugar con ellos.
Screenplay
El destino de un equipo de béisbol en dificultades cambia con la sugestiva intervención de una diablesa llamada Lola y de un fanático seguidor del equipo que pacta con el diablo a cambio de recuperar su juventud y poder jugar con ellos.
Director
El destino de un equipo de béisbol en dificultades cambia con la sugestiva intervención de una diablesa llamada Lola y de un fanático seguidor del equipo que pacta con el diablo a cambio de recuperar su juventud y poder jugar con ellos.
Musical
Joey (Frank Sinatra), un cantante atractivo y mujeriego, consigue que la acaudalada viuda Vera Simpson (Rita Hayworth) financie el local nocturno que ha abierto en San Francisco. Vera y Joey parecen estar hechos el uno para el otro, pero la llegada de Linda English (Kim Novak), una encantadora jovencita, trastocará su plácida existencia. Basada en un musical de Broadway.
Theatre Play
Bebe Williams (Doris Day), que trabaja en una fábrica de pijamas, es enviada por sus compañeros a negociar un incremento salarial. Con lo que no contaba era con enamorarse del atractivo superintendente Sid Sorokin (John Raitt), lo que complicará la negociación. Musical basado en un gran éxito de Broadway, con coreografías de Bob Fosse.
Screenplay
Bebe Williams (Doris Day), que trabaja en una fábrica de pijamas, es enviada por sus compañeros a negociar un incremento salarial. Con lo que no contaba era con enamorarse del atractivo superintendente Sid Sorokin (John Raitt), lo que complicará la negociación. Musical basado en un gran éxito de Broadway, con coreografías de Bob Fosse.
Director
Bebe Williams (Doris Day), que trabaja en una fábrica de pijamas, es enviada por sus compañeros a negociar un incremento salarial. Con lo que no contaba era con enamorarse del atractivo superintendente Sid Sorokin (John Raitt), lo que complicará la negociación. Musical basado en un gran éxito de Broadway, con coreografías de Bob Fosse.
Novel
Musical version of the comedy by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up.
Adaptation
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.
Director
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.
Writer
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
Theatre Play
Antes de iniciarse en el cine, George Raft se vio envuelto en un caso de tiroteo entre bandas rivales sucedido en el club donde trabajaba de bailarín.
Writer
Antes de iniciarse en el cine, George Raft se vio envuelto en un caso de tiroteo entre bandas rivales sucedido en el club donde trabajaba de bailarín.
Theatre Play
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Director
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
Writer
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Theatre Play
Un joven bailarín abandona el vodevil para convertirse en compositor, y acaba uniéndose a una compañía de ballet rusa.
Writer
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Original Story
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
Writer
Melodrama que entronca con el estilo de cine negro que su director, Mervyn LeRoy, había adoptado en otras cintas como "Soy un fugitivo" (1932). Su argumento proviene de una obra teatral escrita por Leon Abrams y George Abbott, que se estrenó en Broadway en 1933. Considerada un antecedente de otra producción Warner, "El bosque petrificado" (1936), su acción transcurre en una perdida estación de servicio en California. Allí, durante 24 horas, una serie de personajes van a cruzar sus caminos con el nexo en común de Olga, la dueña del local. Ella se va a relacionar con una pareja de criminales, uno de ellos un antiguo amante.
Theatre Play
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Writer
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
Director
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingston, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
Music
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
Producer
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
Adaptation
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
Director
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
Adaptation
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
Director
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
Writer
Greta, Nick y Tony son trapecistas en el Dixon Circus, pero Nick, enamorado de Greta, está celoso de la amistad que ella mantiene con Tony.
Writer
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
Director
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
Writer
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.
Director
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.
Adaptation
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before.
Director
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before.
Writer
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
Screenplay
Mítica película antibélica que plasma los sentimientos, sensaciones y desilusiones de un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes que son enviados al frente en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Es una adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor alemán Erich María Remarque. Su estreno provocó enfrentamientos entre nazis y comunistas.
Writer
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.
Director
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.
Writer
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
Theatre Play
Mayme y su hermana Janie son vendedores de unas grandes almacenes. Mayme está enamorada de su compañero Bill, pero Janie se lo intenta robar.
Writer
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
Director
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
Writer
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Theatre Play
Una coqueta belleza sureña está comprometida con uno de sus galanes.
Theatre Play
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
Script
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
Theatre Play
Sheriff is aided by Laramie who pretends to be an outlaw to infiltrate a gang of bootleggers. Laramie is attracted to Ellen, who is trying to activate an old mine. He helps her with the mine and captures the bootleggers.
