Walter DeLeon

Nacimiento : 1884-05-03, Oakland, California, USA

Muerte : 1947-08-01

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter DeLeon (May 3, 1884 – August 1, 1947) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 69 films that were released between 1921 and 1953, and acted in one film. He was born in Oakland, California, and died in Los Angeles, California.

Películas

Una herencia de miedo
Screenplay
Una joven hereda un castillo, situado en una isla, que según la leyenda está habitado por fantasmas cuyos gritos se oyen todas las noches. Pese a todo, la joven decide visitar la propiedad en compañía de un cantante y un conductor de autobús, pero éstos quedan atrapados en el interior del castillo y tendrán que vérselas con unos muertos vivientes.
El fantasma huye
Screenplay
Los dos cómicos encarnan a sendos espíritus que fueron tachados por error de traidores. Como es lógico no pueden descansar en paz, así que deciden volver para probar su inocencia.
El pequeño fenómeno
Screenplay
Un ingenuo campesino llamado Benny Miller, de Cucamonga, California, ha estado tomando clases por correspondencia en materia de ventas. Al finalizar el curso, deja a su madre y a su novia Martha para labrarse un porvenir en Los Ángeles. Va en busca de su tío Clarence, contable de una empresa, quien le va a facilitar una entrevista para trabajar en el departamento de ventas. El día de la entrevista, el corrupto gerente de ventas, John Morrison, lo confunde con uno de los modelos para una nueva campaña de ventas y le pide que se quite la ropa. La esposa secreta de Morrison, Hazel Temple, descubre el error y sugiere que Benny sea contratado para evitar que esa equivocación trascienda a la opinión pública...
Detengan a esa rubia
Screenplay
Comedia romántica. Sally Martin (Veronica Lake) es una ladrona de joyas que se enamora del extravagante millonario Ogden Spencer Trulow III (Eddie Bracken), que padece de cleptomanía.
Out of This World
Screenplay
After struggling to become a success, Betty Miller and her all-girl orchestra finally hit pay dirt when crooner Herbie Fenton comes on board. Problems arise when Betty and her girls try to find backers to invest in Herbie and they sell 125 percent of him.
Delightfully Dangerous
Screenplay
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected
La favorita de los dioses
Screenplay
Tres marineros mercantes huyen de Japón y se refugian en una isla del Pacífico, donde se encuentran con un médico y su hija, que se ocupan de los nativos, una tribu hostil que quiere matar a los marineros por pisar su suelo sagrado.
En la cumbre de la felicidad
Writer
Ann Castle es una cantante y reina del burlesque que decide regresar al lugar que la vio nacer, Arizona, cuando su padre está a punto de perder una de sus minas de plata.
Happy Go Lucky
Screenplay
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
Rivales por un beso
Screenplay
El tímido marinero Casey Kirby se convierte de repente en un lobo de mar cuando es fotografiado al lado de una actriz famosa. Sus compañeros entonces hacen una apuesta, para ver si es capaz de conquistar a una fría cantante de night-club conocida como la Condesa.
El nacimiento del blues
Writer
Jeff crece cerca de Basin Street, en Nueva Orleans, tocando el clarinete en el muelle de estibadores. Forma una banda, La Basin Street Hot-Shots, que incluye a Memphis, un trompetista. Sufren para que su música jazz sea aceptada en los cafés de la ciudad. Betty Lou, una cantante, se une a la banda y consigue conciertos para ésta. Jeff y Memphis se enamoran de Betty Lou.
El arca de oro
Screenplay
James Stewart toca la armónica en una pequeña banda que se propone actuar en un programa de radio, pero no dispone de medios para ensayar en un estudio, así que tiene que conformarse con hacerlo en el tejado de una pensión, cuya propietaria tiene una hija de la que James se ha enamorado. La situación se complica cuando un magnate los denuncia porque su música le molesta; lo peor es que el magnate es uno de los patrocinadores del programa de radio en el que la banda desea actuar.
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Screenplay
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
The Man Who Talked Too Much
Writer
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
El castillo maldito
Screenplay
Después de que la intrépida trabajadora Mary Carter se convierta en la nueva dueña de una mansión, presuntamente encantada, ubicada en Black Island, cerca de la costa cubana, un extraño le advierte de que se mantenga alejada del castillo. Sin desanimarse, Mary zarpa hacia Cuba con un polizón en su baúl, Larry Lawrence, un locutor de radio que ayuda a Mary a llegar al fondo de la magia vudú, los zombis y los fantasmas que parecen maldecir la propiedad fantasmal.
El gato y el canario
Screenplay
Veinte años después de la muerte de un excéntrico multimillonario su familia es llamada para la lectura de su testamento. De hecho, se trata de una grabación hecha de él mismo realizada antes de su muerte, donde nombra como su heredera a su familiar más lejano. La única condición impuesta es que mantenga la mente sana, pero por la noche la aparición de fantasmas hará que todos empiecen a dudar de su cordura.
Unión Pacífico
Screenplay
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
Zenobia
Original Story
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
College Swing
Screenplay
En 1738, ante la incapacidad de su nieta para graduarse, Tully Marshall toma la decisión de dejar toda su fortuna a la Universidad, si en los próximos 200 años ninguna mujer de su familia consigue graduarse. En 1938, Gracie Alden se propone graduarse para conseguir la herencia.
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Screenplay
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
Artists & Models
Screenplay
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Waikiki Wedding
Screenplay
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Screenplay
A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!
Rhythm on the Range
Screenplay
Comedia musical en la cual un cowboy (Bing Crosby) regresa a su tierra después de algunos años, enamorándose de una rica ranchera (Frances Farmer).
The Princess Comes Across
Screenplay
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Strike Me Pink
Screenplay
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Collegiate
Writer
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
Cazadores de estrellas
Screenplay
El propietario de una emisora de radio es secuestrado por una admiradora, una condesa insaciable.
Nobleza obliga
Screenplay
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
College Rhythm
Screenplay
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
You Belong to Me
Writer
When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.
You're Telling Me!
Screenplay
Sam Bisbee es un inventor cuyos trabajos (por ejemplo, un buscador de cerraduras para borrachos) solo le han traído pobreza. Su hija está enamorada del hijo del snob del pueblo. Los acontecimientos conspiran para arruinar su neumático a prueba de balas justo cuando el éxito parece estar cerca. Otro de sus inventos le prohíbe suicidarse, por lo que Sam decide seguir viviendo.
Six of a Kind
Screenplay
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
Her Bodyguard
Writer
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. However, soon the bodyguard and the star begin to become attracted to each other.
Casa internacional
Screenplay
El profesor Wong ha inventado un televisor e invita a todo el mundo a verlo durante una feria china. Cada vez que Tommy Nash intenta casarse con su novia cae enfermo, y cuando irrumpe en el hotel se decreta la cuarentena. A este hotel llega el profesor Quail en su autogiro...
A Lady's Profession
Screenplay
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
The Phantom President
Writer
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
Hold 'Em Jail
Screenplay
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Make Me a Star
Screenplay
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
A Fool's Advice
Screenplay
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Union Depot
Screenplay
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
The Big Gamble
Screenplay
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
Meet the Wife
Writer
Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to arrive shortly from England. Gertrude is also laying plans to marry Doris Bellamy, her ward and the sister of her first husband, to Victor Staunton.
Lonely Wives
Writer
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours. Live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line.
Big Money
Story
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Big Money
Screenplay
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Won by a Neck
Dialogue
Won by a Neck is a 1930 Comedy short.
Night Work
Story
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
Red Hot Rhythm
Writer
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
Big News
Writer
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
The Sophomore
Writer
Joe Collins (Eddie Quillan) arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
Upstage
Story
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, thinking she is the reason, meets a handsome leading man and joins up with him but, before long, he discovers 'she ain't a trouper' and she is soon performing with 4th-class acts in Tank Town America
The Little Giant
Writer
Having been brought up by his Uncle Clem, an itinerant peddler, Elmer Clinton has no trouble becoming the sales manager for a company that manufactures washing machines. Royce Enfield, the son of the company's president, wants his father to sell the business and therefore undermines Elmer's sales campaign. In a real effort to help Elmer, Uncle Clem obtains numerous orders for washing machines, but these are intercepted by Royce before they can be filled. Elmer is fired and, finding out the reason why, whips Royce in a fight.
Born Rich
Writer
When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with a "flapper". When the wife returns home, she finds out about her husband's affair. In order to make him jealous, she leads him to believe she has fallen for a jazz musician. However, instead of making him jealous it drives him into depression and he takes refuge in booze and even more affairs.
Rags to Riches
Writer
A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him. -from IMDB.com
The Ghost Breaker
Writer
A young man and his manservant, escaping from a backwoods family feud, are persuaded by a beautiful young heiress to help her rid her newly-gained Spanish castle of ghosts.