Walter Lang

Walter Lang

Nacimiento : 1896-08-10, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Muerte : 1972-02-07

Historia

Walter Lang was an American film director.

Perfil

Walter Lang

Películas

The Searching Eye
The boy
The simple actions of a young boy on the beach provide visual metaphors for the normally unseen world. The camera adds a profound dimension to what the boy has seen, giving us a deeper understanding of visual awareness.
Blancanieves y los tres vagabundos
Director
Adaptación del clásico cuento infantil de los hermanos Grimm. Comedia musical protagonizada por los humoristas The Three Stooges, que interpretan el papel de los tres vagabundos que deberán cuidar a Blancanieves, una patinadora sobre hielo.
The Marriage-Go-Round
Director
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!
Can-Can
Director
París, 1896. Aunque el descocado Can-Can ha sido prohibido, en el café de una encantadora mujer (MacLaine) se sigue bailando para deleite de sus clientes. Y puede hacerlo impunemente porque su astuto abogado (Sinatra) tiene a un juez corrupto (Chevalier) entre la espada y la pared. Pero el lucrativo negocio se va al garete, con la llegada de un nuevo juez (Jourdan), que decide prohibir definitivamente ese baile tan inmoral.
No soy para ti
Director
Russell Ward, un viejo productor de Broadway, no acaba de ponerse de acuerdo con el autor de la obra que se propone financiar. Su secretaria, les sugiere que cambien el argumento: en lugar de que el protagonista sea un hombre mayor que trata de seducir a una joven, lo sea una muchacha que se enamora de un hombre joven.
Su otra esposa
Director
Bunny Watson, una persona de prodigiosa memoria, tiene a su cargo los archivos de una importante cadena televisiva. Pero, cuando llega a la empresa el ingeniero Richard Summer, que acaba de inventar un revolucionario cerebro electrónico, la incertidumbre se apodera no sólo de Watson, sino también de todos los empleados, que temen perder sus puestos de trabajo.
El rey y yo
Director
Adaptación de un musical basado en una novela de Margaret Landon. En 1862, Anna Leonowens, una institutriz inglesa, llega al palacio real de Siam para hacerse cargo de la educación de los hijos de un autoritario monarca, quien, cautivado por su gran personalidad, la convierte en su confidente.
Luces de candilejas
Director
Los Donahue son una familia de actores que vive pelenamente dedicada al mundo del espectáculo. De escenario en escenario, representando los números más variopintos, los Donahue hacen las delicias del público.
Llámeme señora
Director
Sally Adams es una rica viuda famosa por las fiestas que celebra en Washington. Amiga del presidente, será enviada como embajadora a un pequeño país de Centroeuropa. A pesar de que no tener ni experiencia ni formación para el puesto intentará hacerlo lo mejor posible. (FILMAFFINITY)
Con una canción en mi corazón
Director
Jane Foreman es una famosa cantante que sufre un accidente de avión a consecuencia del cual queda paralítica. (FILMAFFINITY)
En la costa azul
Director
Comedia acerca del notable parecido entre un cantante y un héroe del ejército francés.
Cuidado con los inspectores
Director
Cuenta la historia de un individuo felizmente casado, con trabajo y dos niños, cuya vida cambia radicalmente cuando gana un concurso radiofónico de preguntas y respuestas, convirtiéndose en una celebridad.
Trece por docena
Director
En un día de verano de 1921, el ingeniero Frank Gilbreth llega a casa de un largo viaje, trayendo un regalo para cada uno de sus once hijos.
You're My Everything
Director
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Director
Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.
Niñera moderna
Director
Tacey y Harry King, acaban de quedarse sin niñera para sus tres traviesos chicos. Cualquier otro intento de hacerse a una nueva babysitter resulta frustrado... hasta que a Tacey (Maureen O'Hara), se le ocurre poner un anuncio en el periódico que pronto recibe respuesta de Lynn Belvedere, pero, cuando ellos esperan a una eficiente joven, llega un elegante caballero (Clifton Webb) que traerá consigo un montón de cambios y sorpresas. Entonces, este genio, hará que Harry (Robert Young) conozca los celos y otras cosas de su propia personalidad. Y entre tanto, los cotillas de Hummingbird Hill, tendrán otro espacio para inmiscuirse
Siempre en tus brazos
Director
Primera colaboración entre Betty Grable y Dan Dailey, una pareja con mucho menos glamour que la formada por la mítica Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, pero que alcanzó en Estados Unidos cierta popularidad -en especial la "pin up" Miss Grable que ofrece aquí una de sus mejores y más aclamadas interpretaciones-. Un musical colorido y con cierto encanto cuyo mayor atractivo es su nostálgica banda sonora -ganadora del Oscar-. (FILMAFFINITY)
Conflicto sentimental
Director
Imposibilitados para tener hijos, Julie (una actriz), y su marido, Bill (productor de Broadway), adoptan una niña huérfana. Pero Julie muere al poco tiempo y Bill debe ocuparse de la niña, con quien no le resulta nada fácil entenderse.
Claudia and David
Director
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
La feria del Estado
Director
Los Frake, una familia de granjeros, acuden a la feria del estado de Iowa. En el primer día de la feria la hija de los Frake, la siempre descontenta Margy, conoce al apuesto Pat Gilbert...
Greenwich Village
Director
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Se necesitan maridos
Director
Eddie Johnson va a Coney Island para encontrarse con Joe Rocco. Eddie está decidido a obtener una participación en el nuevo local de Joe, en el que actúa Kate Farley. Eddie convence a un amigo para convertir su local en un "harén turco" con bailarinas. Su idea es un éxito y aleja a los clientes de Joe. Eddie envía a sus matones a destruir el local
Así vivo yo
Director
Cuando el propietario de una escuela dedicada a enseñar a la gente a tener éxito ve que está a punto de quebrar, se le ocurre una idea: buscar revitalizar su negocio convirtiendo a un fracasado en un tipo famoso. Encuentra su conejillo de indias ideal en la figura de un tal Tad Page, que se toma las cosas con calma alquilando barcos en verano y no haciendo otra cosa que meditar en invierno... Comedia con guión de George Seaton que retomaba argumentos de Frank Capra sobre el hombre de pueblo que, con su ingenuidad y falta de malicia, da una lección a los señoritos de la gran ciudad.
Song of the Islands
Director
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.
A la Habana me voy
Director
La empleada de unos almacenes de Nueva York es premiada con un crucero con destino La Habana. La compañía envía a uno de sus directivos para asegurarse de que el viaje se desarrolla sin problema alguno, pero no advierte a la muchacha que el acompañante en cuestión tiene novia. Decepcionada por la falta de interés del caballero, la joven acepta el galanteo de un atractivo jugador – con gran enfado de su compañera y cantante – que la toma por una rica millonaria en vacaciones. El apuesto ejecutivo no tarda en comprender que está comprometido con la mujer equivocada.
Moon Over Miami
Director
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil (Don Ameche) and Jeff (Robert Cummings), who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
Tin Pan Alley
Director
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
The Great Profile
Director
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Star Dust
Director
When the studios reject her because she"s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.
El pájaro azul
Director
Mytyl es una niña egoísta y no aprecia los esfuerzos que su encantadora familia hace por ella. Pero un duende la transporta, junto a su hermano, en un viaje fantástico con el fin de hallar “el pájaro que significa la felicidad".
La pequeña princesa
Director
Cuando un oficial del ejército es llamado a las armas, deja a su única hija Sara en un internado femenino. Apodada “la princesita” porque su padre insiste en que ella reciba lo mejor de lo mejor, sin buscarlo pronto se gana la antipatía de las empleadas y otras niñas del internado. Un día el padre de Sara desaparece y es dado por muerto en la guerra, Sara se convierte en una huérfana sin dinero que tiene que trabajar como sirvienta en la escuela para poder sobrevivir. Sin perder la esperanza Sara empieza una búsqueda por todos los hospitales militares, determinada a encontrar a su padre.
I'll Give a Million
Director
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
The Baroness and the Butler
Director
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Second Honeymoon
Director
Una mujer recién casada en segundas nupcias y que encuentra a su marido, un hombre de negocios, aburrido, se topa por casualidad con su adinerado y playboy primer marido.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Director
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Top of the Town
Director
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Love Before Breakfast
Director
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Hooray for Love
Director
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
Carnival
Director
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
The Mighty Barnum
Director
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
The Party's Over
Director
Bruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his money-grubbing family sponging off of him, and decides to partake of a different side and slice of life. A blonde secretary helps guide him.
Whom the Gods Destroy
Director
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
Meet the Baron
Director
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
The Warrior's Husband
Writer
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
The Warrior's Husband
Director
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
No More Orchids
Director
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
Hell Bound
Director
Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
Command Performance
Director
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
The Costello Case
Director
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
The Big Fight
Director
Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
Cock o' the Walk
Director
Carlos López es un apuesto deportista argentino, al que temen y detestan casi todos los hombres casados de Buenos Aires.
Hello Sister
Director
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
The Spirit of Youth
Director
The Desert Bride
Director
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.
The Night Flyer
Director
Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietress of the local lunch counter. His rival, Bat Mullins, is engineer of the new mail train scheduled to make a competition run. When Mullins overturns the new train, Bradley completes the run and earns the contract for his company by delivering the mail in record time on No. 99. A promotion to engineer helps him win Kate.
El héroe del colegio
Director
El jugador de fútbol americano Bob Cantfield se inscribe en Carver College. Se le asigna a Jim Halloran como compañero de cuarto y consigue una cita con Vivian, la atractiva hermana de Sampson Saunders. Los celos de Jim por el éxito de Bob en el equipo y con su novia, le llevan a lesionarlo deliberadamente. A pesar de todo, Bob logra el touchdown con el que gana Carver. Luego, la conciencia de Jim le superará.
Sally in Our Alley
Director
Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. However, this happy home is broken up when Sally wealthy aunt appears on the scene and takes Sally back to her luxurious penthouse in order to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.
The Satin Woman
Screenplay
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.
The Satin Woman
Story
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.
The Satin Woman
Director
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.
The Golden Web
Director
After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes. The former owner of the mine is framed for a murder, and his daughter and the new owner work to save him from the gallows.
The Earth Woman
Director
The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine. A drink-benumbed hillbilly tries to rape heroine Sally Tilden (Priscilla Bonner), setting off a chain reaction of violence, murder, and false confessions.
The Red Kimona
Director
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.