Monta Bell

출생 : 1891-02-05, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

사망 : 1958-02-04

참여 작품

The Big Parade of Comedy
(archive footage)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
China's Little Devils
Director
In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppressors.
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Producer
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
Birth of the Blues
Producer
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Aloma of the South Seas
Producer
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
West Point of the Air
Producer
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Student Tour
Producer
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Men in White
Producer
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.
The Worst Woman in Paris?
Writer
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a local hero after injuring herself while saving a baby's life. While recovering at the home of the headmaster of a boy's school and his family, her veneer of oversophistications melts away and she finds herself fancying the small town life.
The Worst Woman in Paris?
Director
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a local hero after injuring herself while saving a baby's life. While recovering at the home of the headmaster of a boy's school and his family, her veneer of oversophistications melts away and she finds herself fancying the small town life.
Downstairs
Producer
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
Downstairs
Director
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
Personal Maid
Director
Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family.
Up for Murder
Producer
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
Up for Murder
Writer
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
Up for Murder
Director
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
East Is West
Director
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Laughter
Producer
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions of her longtime friend, the volatile sculptor Ralph Le Saint. When pianist Paul Lockridge arrives from Paris, he begs Peggy to run away with him to France, where they can share adventure and a full life -- but complications arise for Peggy when Gibson's attractive daughter visits.
The Big Pond
Producer
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.
Young Man of Manhattan
Producer
Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.
Young Man of Manhattan
Director
Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.
Behind the Make-Up
Producer
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.
The Battle of Paris
Producer
Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petrie), an American artist, the two fall in love.
박수갈채
Producer
This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps.
The Letter
Editor
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
The Letter
Producer
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
The Letter
Dialogue
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
The Bellamy Trial
Writer
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
The Bellamy Trial
Director
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
Man, Woman and Sin
Story
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy he and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man's affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.
Man, Woman and Sin
Director
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy he and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man's affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.
After Midnight
Story
When Joe, a hold-up man, tries to rob Mary, a nightclub hostess, she winds winds up knocking him out. She takes pity on him, however, and nurses him back to health. He decides to go straight and marry her. Mary buys a $1000 Liberty Bond as an investment, while Joe saves up and buys a taxi to start his own business. Then Maisie, Mary's wild and money-crazy sister, shows up, which leads to tragedy.
After Midnight
Director
When Joe, a hold-up man, tries to rob Mary, a nightclub hostess, she winds winds up knocking him out. She takes pity on him, however, and nurses him back to health. He decides to go straight and marry her. Mary buys a $1000 Liberty Bond as an investment, while Joe saves up and buys a taxi to start his own business. Then Maisie, Mary's wild and money-crazy sister, shows up, which leads to tragedy.
The Popular Sin
Story
Philandering husband George Montfort purchases railroad tickets for a weekend tryst in the mountains with his latest paramour. When his wife Yvonne finds the tickets, George hastily explains that they were bought as an anniversary present for her. Yvonne doesn't believe George, but she decides to use her ticket anyway, while George remains behind in Paris on "business."
Upstage
Director
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, thinking she is the reason, meets a handsome leading man and joins up with him but, before long, he discovers 'she ain't a trouper' and she is soon performing with 4th-class acts in Tank Town America
Torrent
Producer
A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
Torrent
Director
A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
The Boy Friend
Director
A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.
Lights of Old Broadway
Producer
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
Lights of Old Broadway
Director
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
The King On Main Street
Writer
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
The King On Main Street
Director
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
Pretty Ladies
Director
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
1925 Studio Tour
Self
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
Lady of the Night
Director
The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity, but worlds apart in life: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daughter of the judge who would send Molly's father to prison. The girls' lives come together as young women at eighteen as Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life free from reform school.
The Snob
Director
Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.
Broadway After Dark
Director
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set.
How to Educate a Wife
Director
Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as a means of winning customers.
파리의 여인
Editor
마리(Marie St. Clair: 에드나 퍼비안스 분)는 계부의 반대를 피해 애인 장과 도망치기로 한다. 그런데 아버지가 쓰러지는 바람에 장은 약속을 지키지 못하고, 마리 혼자 파리로 온다. 파리에서 사교계에 등장한 마리는 소문난 부자 리벨(Pierre Revel: 아돌프 멘조 분)과 가까워진다. 어느날 우연히 파티장에서 장(Jean Millet: 칼 밀러 분)과 그의 어머니를 만나고, 마리는 장의 청혼을 받아들여 결혼을 결심한다. 그러나 결혼을 반대하는 어머니에게 연민 때문에 결혼한다고 장이 말하는 것을 듣고는 결혼을 포기한다. 다시 리벨에게 돌아온 마리는 전보다 더 화려하게 그와 돌아다니고, 장은 자신의 무력감을 느기고 자살한다. 장의 시체앞에서 우는 마리를 보고 장의 어머니도 그녀를 이해하게 된다. 세월이 흘러 마음의 상처는 치유되고 마리와 장의 어머니는 시골에서 고아들을 돌본다. 어느날 마리는 마차를 타고 지나가는데 엇갈려서 리벨이 롤스로이스를 타고 지나간다. 그러나 둘은 서로를 보지 못한다.
모험가
Man (uncredited)
탈옥수 찰리는 경찰의 눈을 피해 필사적으로 도망친다. 우연히 그는 물에 빠진 여성을 구하게 되고, 그녀의 딸인 어여쁜 여인을 만나 선장 행세를 하게 된다. 여인과의 즐거운 시간을 보내고 있는 도중 파티장에 탈옥수를 잡으러 온 경찰들이 들이닥치는데···