Myles Connolly
Nacimiento : 1897-10-07, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
Muerte : 1964-07-15
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Myles Connolly (October 7, 1897 – July 15, 1964) was an author and a Hollywood screenwriter/producer.
Myles Connolly was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. After graduating from Boston College in 1918 and serving one year in the U.S. Navy during World War I, Connolly worked as a newspaper reporter with The Boston Post. As a reporter, he was able to lay claim to being one of the few journalists ever granted the opportunity to interview President Calvin Coolidge. Both he and his Nashville socialite wife, Agnes (née Bevington), were devout Roman Catholics and each had a sister who was a nun.
Joseph P. Kennedy convinced Connolly to leave Boston to work at the Hollywood movie studio that Kennedy financed, Film Booking Office (FBO), which eventually became RKO. At RKO, Connolly served as associate producer for that studio's earliest Wheeler & Woolsey vehicles. In 1933, his work as a screenwriter-producer of dramatic films was introduced with The Right to Romance.
Connolly eventually befriended director Frank Capra at a cast and crew party for Ladies of Leisure (1930) after actor Alan Roscoe invited Connolly to tag along with him to the event.
Though Connolly chided Capra for turning out frivolities when he thought Capra could produce thought provoking pieces, Connolly did not necessarily follow his own advice. He produced numerous pieces of escapist entertainment such as the Tarzan pictures of the 1940s.
Myles Connolly helped write and produce over forty films. Screenwriting credits include The Right to Romance (1933), Palm Springs (1936), Youth Takes a Fling (1938), and the Charles Vidor film Hans Christian Andersen (1952). Connolly co-wrote the Ann Sothern-Lew Ayres film Maisie Was a Lady (1941) with Elizabeth Reinhardt. In addition, he worked with Sam Fuller to create It Happened in Hollywood. While Myles Connolly collaborated with Frank Capra on State of the Union (1948) and Here Comes the Groom (1951), he was also an uncredited contributor to the Capra films Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. His last screenwriting credit was MGM's musical biography of Hans Christian Andersen with Danny Kaye (1952).
Myles Connolly was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for Music for Millions (1944). 1n 1951, he shared the nomination for a Hugo award (Best Dramatic Presentation) for the screenplay of Harvey. In 1952, he was nominated for the Best Written American Musical award by the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) for Here Comes the Groom.
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Dinamarca, siglo XIX. El zapatero Hans Christian Andersen tiene alborotada a toda la chiquillería del lugar con el relato de sus fantásticas historias. El alcalde, presionado por el maestro, que considera nefasta la influencia de Andersen sobre los niños, lo obliga a abandonar el pueblo. Biografía del célebre escritor danés, autor de cuentos como "El patito feo", "El soldadito de plomo" o "Las zapatillas rojas"
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In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
Screenplay
Pete Garvey, un corresponsal estadounidense en Francia, se ve en el brete de tener que casarse en el plazo de una semana para poder quedarse con dos huérfanos de guerra con los que se ha encariñado durante su estancia en París.
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Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) es un hombre afable, cariñoso y siempre dispuesto a ayudar a los demás. Su único problema es que va a todas partes acompañado por un imaginario conejo gigante al que llama Harvey. La familia de Elwood no sabe qué hacer y opta por llevarlo a un psiquiátrico.
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Un industrial inicia su carrera política en el partido republicano como candidato a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos, pero su tarea requerirá compromisos incómodos tanto en el terreno político como matrimonial.
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Meg (Margaret O'Brien), una joven huérfana estudiante de ballet, idolatra a Ariane Bouchet (Cyd Charisse) gran estrella de la danza. Esa admiración la lleva a provocar un grave accidente durante la representación de la obra "El lago de los cisnes", que supone una fractura de la columna vertebral de una nueva bailarina (Karin Booth). Lo que ocurre es que la niña cree, erróneamente, que la recién llegada constituye una seria amenaza para la supremacía de Ariane.
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Biografía del compositor Jerome Kern a través de distintos números musicales, que van recreando su trayectoria profesional desde sus duros inicios en Nueva York, hasta su triunfo en 1927.
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Dos muchachas de Boston deciden trasladarse a Nueva York. Una de ellas trabaja como cantante en el local de un viejo amigo de la familia, mientras que la otra se enamora del hijo de un importante mecenas de la ópera.
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The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then reappears as his nonexistent twin brother. It's all part of Gregory's master scheme to pin his "murder" on innocent John Randall (Don Douglas), the husband of Ellen (Jean Rogers), the woman Gregory loves.
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Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Historia de dos hermanas. Una de ellas, que está embarazada y forma parte de una orquesta, se preocupa por el destino de su marido en el frente.
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A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
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Boy, el hijo de Tarzán y Jane, que cree que sus padres han muerto, es raptado por unos hombres que quieren llevarlo a los Estados Unidos para que actúe en un espectáculo con un elefante. Sus padres no dudarán en viajar a la "Gran Manzana" para rescatar a su hijo. Una de las más populares películas del mítico Tarzán, que cambia esta vez la jungla africana por la selva de cemento neoyorquina.
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Boy, el hijo de Tarzán y Jane, que cree que sus padres han muerto, es raptado por unos hombres que quieren llevarlo a los Estados Unidos para que actúe en un espectáculo con un elefante. Sus padres no dudarán en viajar a la "Gran Manzana" para rescatar a su hijo. Una de las más populares películas del mítico Tarzán, que cambia esta vez la jungla africana por la selva de cemento neoyorquina.
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Una expedición científica descubre oro en el territorio de Tarzán. Los malvados Medford y Vandermeer secuestran a Jane y a Boy para conseguir que el rey de la selva les indique el emplazamiento exacto del dorado metal...
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Maisie es contratada como criada de una familia de ricos excéntricos.
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Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt (George Raft) sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda (Joan Bennett), testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma (Lloyd Nolan), who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan (Walter Pidgeon), who knows nothing about her past.
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McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Screenplay
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Producer
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
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A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
Associate Producer
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Associate Producer
To divorce, or not to divorce. That is the question pondered by a married couple of 10 years who miss their burning desire for each other (Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard) in this 1934 film directed by Worthington Miner.
Associate Producer
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young). Drama.
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Dos pintores de carteles viajan por Nueva Inglaterra en busca de trabajo. Después de que uno de ellos utiliza a Madge como modelo, la esconde en su carreta. Los pintores están a punto de ser acusados de secuestro, hasta que ella promete casarse con su enamorado...
Associate Producer
Mary Brown y Steve no parecen tener suerte en el amor. Los dos son abandonados por sus parejas, quedando desencantados y convencidos de que jamás podrán volver a enamorarse. Es así como deciden embarcarse en un matrimonio de conveniencia, pero cuando sus antiguos amantes intenten acercarse de nuevo a ellos deberán decidir qué es lo que realmente les importa...
Associate Producer
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.
Associate Producer
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
Associate Producer
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
