J.P. McEvoy

Películas

Dixie Dugan
Writer
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
Just Around the Corner
Writer
Penny ayuda a su padre arquitecto idealista a conseguir su sueño de un proyecto de limpieza de barrios marginales; La pequeña señorita baila con el cabo Jones.
College Holiday
Screenplay
Con la esperanza de montar un espectáculo musical, unos estudiantes universitarios de baile y canto van a parar a un ruinoso hotel, donde servirán de conejillos de Indias de un experimento eugenésico.
Love in Bloom
Adaptation
A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.
It's a Gift
Musical
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Ready for Love
Writer
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
The Pursuit of Happiness
Screenplay
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Many Happy Returns
Writer
El propietario de unos grandes almacenes paga a un pretendiente de su entrometida hija para que se la lleve.
You're Telling Me!
Dialogue
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.
La mujer acusada
Author
Glenda O´Brien está viviendo una de las temporadas más felices de su vida en compañía de Jeffrey Baxter, el hombre de la que está enamorada. Su felicidad se ve amenazada con el retorno de un posesivo y violento ex-amante...
Big Money
Writer
In the fifth of WB's Potter Family series, based on the characters created by J.P.McAvoy, Pa Potter (Lucien Littlefield) gets a job as a professional divorce-case correspondent. He is hired by a lawyer to make love to the wife of a man seeking a divorce. The problem is that Pa forgets to tell Ma (Lucille Ward) it is all make-believe.
Su éxito
Story
La cantante (Alice White) de un club nocturno de Nueva York es descubierta por un productor de cine y es llevada a Hollywood para convertirla en la siguiente gran estrella cinematográfica.
Getting a Raise
Writer
First in a series of shorts based on J. P. McEvoy's Tuttle Family characters. Pa Tuttle (Lucien Littlefield), with three kids to feed, strives to talk his skin-flint boss, (Dell Henderson), of a raise. Boss has an attitude that faithful employees should be happy just to be working for him.
Show Girl
Novel
An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.
The Potters
Novel
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?