Edward H. Griffith

Edward H. Griffith

Nacimiento : 1894-08-23, Bloomington - Illinois - USA

Muerte : 1975-03-03

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From Wikipedia Edward H. Griffith (August 23, 1894 – March 3, 1975) was an American motion picture director, screenwriter and producer. He directed 61 films from 1917 to 1946. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia and began his career in motion pictures as a screenwriter in 1916, and advanced to the position of a director of two-reelers. He directed actress Madeleine Carroll in several films including Honeymoon in Bali (1939). Griffith died on March 3, 1975 at the age of 80.

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Edward H. Griffith

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Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Self (archive footage)
Documentary looking at the life and career of 1930s film star Leslie Howard. It features exclusive home movie footage, including footage from the Gone with the Wind set. The film includes extensive interviews with Howard's daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie" Howard, and contributions from friends and colleagues.
Perilous Holiday
Director
A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.
El límite es el cielo
Director
Un héroe de la Segunda Guerra Mundial decide desaparecer durante un tiempo de la vida pública. Para ello, se toma unos días de descanso en Nueva York, como un civil más. Allí conocerá a una fotógrafa, obsesionada con la idea de ir al frente, de la que se enamorará perdidamente. Como él no quiere desvelar su verdadera identidad, y la intrépida periodista no le hace ningún caso, tendrá que buscar la forma de que se fije en él... (FILMAFFINITY)
Juventud ambiciosa
Producer
Un grupo de jóvenes y hambrientos actores se unen para compartir finanzas y un apartamento. Norman Reese (William Holden) prohíbe que haya amoríos entre los chicos y las chicas hasta que no se hayan abierto camino en la escena, pero Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) y Tony Dennison (James Beown) ya están casados en secreto. Una amiga se deja caer por el lugar para ver a Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll), se queda muy asombrada de ver que chicos y chicas comparten el mismo apartamento, e insiste que es su deber informar al padre de Dottie (Jay Fassett.) de estos hechos.
Juventud ambiciosa
Director
Un grupo de jóvenes y hambrientos actores se unen para compartir finanzas y un apartamento. Norman Reese (William Holden) prohíbe que haya amoríos entre los chicos y las chicas hasta que no se hayan abierto camino en la escena, pero Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) y Tony Dennison (James Beown) ya están casados en secreto. Una amiga se deja caer por el lugar para ver a Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll), se queda muy asombrada de ver que chicos y chicas comparten el mismo apartamento, e insiste que es su deber informar al padre de Dottie (Jay Fassett.) de estos hechos.
Bahama Passage
Producer
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth, descendant of many ancestors who have handled it over the years to the satisfaction of its 250 native residents. He is married to a woman who stays away from the island because she is lonely when there. Adrian doesn't want Carol or her father there, and they don't want to be there. Romance can't be lurking far behind the beautiful sunset.
Bahama Passage
Director
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth, descendant of many ancestors who have handled it over the years to the satisfaction of its 250 native residents. He is married to a woman who stays away from the island because she is lonely when there. Adrian doesn't want Carol or her father there, and they don't want to be there. Romance can't be lurking far behind the beautiful sunset.
One Night In Lisbon
Director
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
Virginia
Story
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Virginia
Director
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Safari
Director
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
Honeymoon in Bali
Director
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Cafe Society
Director
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
I'll Take Romance
Director
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Café Metropol
Director
En París vive el norteamericano Alexis, todo un galán que se dedica a la buena vida utilizando cualquier truco con tal de no dar un palo al agua. Lo malo es que no puede hacer frente a la deuda contraída con Monseuir Lobard, dueño de un café. Así que, para poder pagarle, éste propone a Alexis que saque el dinero cortejando a una rica heredera que acaba de llegar a la ciudad. Haciéndose pasar por un aristócrata ruso, Alexis se dispone a enamorarla y sacarle el dinero, dejándola rendida a sus pies. Pero nada sale como estaba previsto.
Jóvenes enamoradas
Director
Tres jovencitas –Loretta Young, Janet Gaynor y Constance Bennett– deciden arreglar sus vidas para siempre buscando maridos ricos. El enredo está servido cuando la primera de ellas seduce a un aristócrata (Tyrone Power), con la mala fortuna de que ya está comprometido. Así que, desesperada, decide suicidarse con veneno, pero la dosis – ciertamente menor– es bebida por error por su amiga Gaynor, que es atendida por un atractivo doctor (Don Ameche), del que se enamora. Al tiempo que Bennett hace caer en sus redes amorosas a un hombre de negocios de mediana edad (Wilfrid Lawson).
Cuando volvamos a amarnos
Director
La aspirante a actriz Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) pone su carrera en espera cuando se casa con el ambicioso periodista Christopher Tyler (James Stewart). Mientras tanto, Tommy Abbott (Ray Milland), que ama en secreto a Cicely, le reserva una gran oportunidad en Broadway. Cuando a Christopher se le asigna a la oficina de su periódico en Roma, provoca una ruptura en el matrimonio, pero pronto abandona su puesto cuando descubre que Cicely está embarazada y promete no dejarla nunca, lo cual provoca que pierda el empleo y tenga que comenzar de nuevo.
No más mujeres
Producer
Una mujer de la alta sociedad trata de reformar a su marido, un playboy, tratando de ponerle celoso.
No más mujeres
Director
Una mujer de la alta sociedad trata de reformar a su marido, un playboy, tratando de ponerle celoso.
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Producer
Un pintor de retratos se reúne con un antiguo amor, cuando las inminentes memorias de ésta amenazan su carrera política.
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Director
Un pintor de retratos se reúne con un antiguo amor, cuando las inminentes memorias de ésta amenazan su carrera política.
Another Language
Director
Stella y Victor se conocen en Europa, se enamoran y contraen matrimonio al poco. Al volver a Estados Unidos, Stella descubre que la familia de Victor está dominada por la madre, que la considera frívola y distante. El matrimonio empieza a desintegrarse cuando Victor hace más caso de su familia que de Stella.
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.
The Animal Kingdom
Director
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.
Una mujer con pasado
Director
Una chica rica de la alta sociedad neoyorkina con fama de aburrida se da cuenta de que se es mucho más popular entre los hombres cuando se pretende ser una chica "mala". De viaje en París conoce a Guy, un joven americano arruinado que le ayudará a inventarse esa "mala" fama para llamar la atención de la sociedad en la que se mueve y en particular la de su amado Donnie.
Rebound
Director
Una mujer le exige a su esposo que olvide a su antigua amante, quien ha regresado y se entromete ahora en su felicidad.
Holiday
Director
Julia quiere casarse con John, un apuesto hombre cuyas ideas no encajan con la tradicional forma de pensar de la familia de ella. Linda, la hermana pequeña de Julia, también se sentirá atraída por John. En 1938 George Cukor la versionó con Katharine Hepburn y Cary Grant como protagonistas.
Paris Bound
Director
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.
El capitán Fanfarrón
Director
Hugh Drummond se arruina viviendo demasiado alto y recurre al crimen para pagar sus cuentas.
Hold 'Em Yale
Director
Un joven argentino de buena familia se traslada a Yale para cursar sus estudios. Allí conocerá a la hija del director de la universidad y su enamoramiento le llevará a convertirse en una estrella del fútbol americano, no sin antes vivir algún episodio poco afortunado.
The Opening Night
Writer
When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?
The Opening Night
Director
When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?
Ladrones a bordo
Writer
Cuando Eve De Montalais (Lois Wilson) planea pasar de contrabando sus joyas a los Estados Unidos, sin saberlo viajando en el mismo barco, hay una banda de ladrones que planean robar las joyas. Michael Lanyard (Bert Lytell), alias The Lone Wolf, trastorna sus intrigas y Eve busca su ayuda para que las gemas pasen por los funcionarios de aduanas. Mientras está en un club nocturno de Nueva York, Eve se entera de que Lanyard es The Lone Wolf. Luego es engañada por un ladrón que asume el papel de un oficial de aduanas y la induce a entregar las joyas, Eve luego escapa al descubrir el engaño. Lanyard es dominado por la pandilla, pero logra liberarse y declara las joyas a los funcionarios de aduanas, quienes luego arrestan a los ladrones de inmediato. Eve se siente aliviada al descubrir que Lanyard es un agente del Servicio Secreto, y los amantes se reencuentran.
Ladrones a bordo
Director
Cuando Eve De Montalais (Lois Wilson) planea pasar de contrabando sus joyas a los Estados Unidos, sin saberlo viajando en el mismo barco, hay una banda de ladrones que planean robar las joyas. Michael Lanyard (Bert Lytell), alias The Lone Wolf, trastorna sus intrigas y Eve busca su ayuda para que las gemas pasen por los funcionarios de aduanas. Mientras está en un club nocturno de Nueva York, Eve se entera de que Lanyard es The Lone Wolf. Luego es engañada por un ladrón que asume el papel de un oficial de aduanas y la induce a entregar las joyas, Eve luego escapa al descubrir el engaño. Lanyard es dominado por la pandilla, pero logra liberarse y declara las joyas a los funcionarios de aduanas, quienes luego arrestan a los ladrones de inmediato. Eve se siente aliviada al descubrir que Lanyard es un agente del Servicio Secreto, y los amantes se reencuentran.
White Mice
Director
Roddy Forrester has formed the White Mice club with a pal. The purpose of the club is to help those in trouble. When Roddy's father sends him to the South American republic of Montebello, he gets his chance to be of service. General Rojas, the former president, is locked away in a prison and slowly dying. Roddy decides to rescue him, especially since he has been inspired by the general's pretty daughter, Inez.
Headlines
Director
Unseeing Eyes
Director
The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.
Dawn of the East
Director
Countess Natalya is a glamorous refugee from the Bolshevik revolution. Supporting herself and her ailing sister by dancing in a Shanghai dive, she's is talked into a marriage with a wealthy Chinese gentleman. She has been led to believe that this marriage of convenience is not binding, thus she sees no reason not to marry American diplomat Kenneth Harlan once she's arrived in the States.
The Land of Hope
Director
On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabinoff. Arriving and discovering her sister's poverty, she fails as a lady's maid and then arranges an introduction to a theatrical manager, though Sascha is opposed to her becoming a professional dancer.
If Women Only Knew
Director
Remotely derived from Balzac, the plot centers on Maurice Travers, who, through the self-sacrificing efforts of his mother, is able to attend college, though his love for sports and consequent neglect of his studies prevent his graduation. Madeline Marshall, an orphan living with Maurice's mother, loves him, but Maurice marries Donna Wayne, daughter of a wealthy New Yorker; and in the city they lead a carefree life. Her father insists that he support her, but he cannot. Following the blindness and death of his mother, Donna elopes with a rich suitor, and after a divorce Maurice finds happiness with the faithful Madeline.
A Philistine in Bohemia
Director
Mr. Brunelli, a roomer at a boarding house, has caught the eye of Kate, the daughter of the woman who owns the house. Kate knows her mother, who doesn't want her daughter to have anything to do with her tenants, will disapprove of Mr. Brunelli, but she soon discovers that Mr. Brunelli isn't quite who she thinks he is.
Fit to Win
Writer
A film on venereal disease made by the United States government. - From IMDB
Fit to Win
Director
A film on venereal disease made by the United States government. - From IMDB
The End of the Road
Writer
Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.
The End of the Road
Director
Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.
The Awakening of Ruth
Director
Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return.
Barnaby Lee
Director
Pirate melodrama.
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Scenario Writer
The story takes place in a small struggling mining town located in the foothills of the California mountains at the time of the gold rush. The camp is suffering from a long string of bad luck. With only one woman in their midst, it seems as though the miners have no future. However, the tide turns when a small boy is born. "Thomas Luck" is the first newborn the camp has seen in ages; things are looking up.
One Touch of Nature
Director
Bill Cosgrove, a hot new rookie for the New York Giants, hits a cold streak during the deciding game of the World's Series.
The Law of the North
Scenario Writer
The Law of the North is a silent 1917 Adventure film.
The Law of the North
Director
The Law of the North is a silent 1917 Adventure film.
The Last Sentence
Scenario Writer
George Crosby, a New York lawyer, with a passion for painting, wearied of his legal duties, sails for Brittany, where he meets Renée Kerouac, a fisher-maiden, and sketches her as a Corregan, a fairy who destroys the men who refuse her love. Hoel Kalloc, her betrothed, becomes jealous, and George marries her, after saving her from Hoel's brutality.