Marc Connelly

Marc Connelly

Nacimiento : 1890-12-13,

Muerte : 1980-12-21

Perfil

Marc Connelly

Películas

The Ten-Year Lunch
Himself - Participant
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
The Borgia Stick
Davenport
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
Les Verts Pâturages
Theatre Play
A French TV movie directed by Jean-Christophe Averty , broadcast on December 24, 1964 . The Old Testament set in Louisiana with an all black cast.
Černošský Pánbůh a proroci
Theatre Play
Me casaré contigo
Professor Charles Osman
Una estudiante que va a la universidad básicamente a encontrar marido (Jane Fonda) se enamora de un jugador de baloncesto.
El héroe solitario
Father Hussman
El audaz Charles A. Lindbergh se propone cruzar el Atlántico sin escalas, en un vuelo sin precedentes. Desde Nueva York a París, el piloto vive en su avión treinta y seis horas de soledad que suponen una hazaña histórica.
Crowded Paradise
Writer
A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.
The Pink Hussar
The Host
A famed Hungarian playwright arrives in American and, in order to secure the success of his new play, his friends dope him up and take him to the hospital with the idea of telling the world that he as become stricken and is dying. Of course, the critics are fooled and they give the playwright and his play all the favorable publicity and reviews. As a result, the playwright and all his friends get the opportunities they had long awaited.
Merton of the Movies
Theatre Play
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Una cabaña en el cielo
Writer
Joe es un jugador profesional que se debate entre dos amores. En el suburbio en el que reside vive una bella mujer por la que se siente tentado. Mientras, su mujer sufre en silencio una existencia llena de desengaños.
Reunión en Francia
Screenplay
Michelle de la Becque está enamorada del diseñador industrial Robert Cortot. Juntos disfrutan en París de una vida lujosa hasta que Michelle descubre que su amante se relaciona con oficiales nazis y que sus fábricas trabajan para el ejército alemán. Al mismo tiempo, ayuda a un aviador americano cuyo avión ha sido derribado y acaba enamorándose de él.
Me casé con una bruja
Screenplay
Siglo XVII. Cuando Jennifer, acusada de brujería, está a punto de ser quemada en la hoguera, lanza una maldición sobre su acusador: todos sus descendientes serán infelices en sus matrimonios. En 1942, Wallace Wooley, al tiempo que se presenta como candidato a gobernador, está preparando su boda con la presumida de Estelle Masterson. Un rayo golpea el árbol junto al cual fue quemada la bruja y ésta cobra vida. Desde entonces, intentará arruinar la vida de Wallace.
The Wild Man of Borneo
Screenplay
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
Dulcy
Theatre Play
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Capitanes intrépidos
Screenplay
Harvey, el hijo arrogante y malcriado de un padre poco cariñoso, cae por la borda de un barco de vapor transatlántico y es rescatado por un barco de pesca en el Gran Banco de Terranova. Harvey trata de convencerles para que lo lleven a tierra alardeando de su riqueza ante la tripulación, aunque nadie le toma en serio. El capitán le ofrece un trabajo mal pagado hasta que regresen a puerto. El duro trabajo como uno más de la tripulación convierte al joven en un hombre maduro y considerado.
The Green Pastures
Story
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
The Green Pastures
Director
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
Contrastes
Theatre Play
Historia ambientada en el siglo XIX que supuso el debut cinematográfico de Henry Fonda, que previamente había interpretado el mismo papel en la obra de teatro en la que se basa el film. Narra la historia de un granjero que trabaja en el canal para poder así ganar dinero con el que comprar una granja. Allí conoce a la cocinera del barco del canal, y se enamora de ella, pero la mujer no quiere dejar la viajera vida del barco por la rutina de una granja.
Cradle Song
Writer
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Make Me a Star
Writer
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.
Cómicos que pasan
Story
Una eterna aspirante a primera actriz, encargada del guardarropa, un joven deslumbrado por las "stars" de Broadway que busca trabajo de lo que sea... Ella le apadrinará para entrar en el teatro de la farándula y esto acarreará mil situaciones complicadas y divertidas. (Eddie Constanti)
Beggar on Horseback
Writer
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?
Merton of the Movies
Writer
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.
To the Ladies
Theatre Play
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
Dulcy
Theatre Play
Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner. Though at first thoroughly confusing the deal, she does get her husband a bigger share than he bargained for.The film is now considered to be lost.
The Sleep of Cyma Roget
Cyma Roget, a beautiful young woman, has fallen under the influence of the evil Hindu scientist Chandra Dak, who can cast her at will into a hypnotic state resembling death. Chandra Dak's power over Cyma wanes as his love for her grows, however, and one night she escapes and takes refuge in the atelier of three young and struggling Bohemian artists. During her stay at the atelier, she becomes an artist's model and forms an attachment to one of the artists, Paul Bridere, but soon Chandra Dak falls out of love with Cyma and sends her into a hypnotic coma.