Arthur Wimperis
출생 : 1874-12-03, London, England, UK
사망 : 1953-10-14
약력
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Arthur Harold Wimperis (3 December 1874 – 14 October 1953) was an English playwright, lyricist and screenwriter, who contributed lyrics and libretti to popular Edwardian musical comedies written for the stage. But with the advent of talking films, he switched to screenwriting, finding even greater success in this medium.
Early in his career, Wimperis was an illustrator. For 25 years beginning in 1906, he became a lyricist and librettist for musical comedies, including the hit The Arcadians in 1909 and many others. After serving in the First World War, he resumed his career, writing for shows like Princess Charming (1926). Beginning in 1930, he moved into writing screenplays for British films, and, by 1940, for Hollywood films, contributing to dozens of screenplays. He won an Academy Award for his contribution to the screenplay of Mrs. Miniver (1942) and was nominated for another Oscar for his contribution to the screenplay of Random Harvest (1942). He continued writing screenplays until his death.
Original Film Writer
A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.
Additional Dialogue
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito. Re-used a great deal of stock footage from The Four Feathers (1939), including the entire final battle sequence.
Screenplay
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Screenplay
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Dialogue
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
Screenplay
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Screenplay
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries someone else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with her husband Tony. Mabel is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.
Screenplay
전투 도중 부상을 입고 기억 상실증에 언어장애까지 겹친 찰스(Charles Rainer/John 'Smithy' Smith: 로날드 콜맨 분)는 종전 되던 날 안개를 틈타 수용소를 몰래 빠져 나온다. 그 뒤 챨스는 아름다운 여인 폴라(Paula: 그리어 가슨 분)를 만나 건강도 되찾고 결혼해 아들도 낳는 한편 작가로 입문하는데 리버풀에 연재기사를 계약하러 혼자 갔다 교통사고를 당해 폴라와 같이 산 세월만 기억을 못하게 된다. 명문의 아들인 챨스는 그 뒤 고향으로 돌아가 사업가로 대성하나 기억하지 못하는 세월 때문에 뭔가 늘 허전해 하며 열쇠를 만지작 거리며 산다. 한편 폴라는 잡지에 난 챨스의 사진을 보고 챨스의 개인 비서로 일하게 되고 사실은 밝히지 않고 챨스를 훌륭히 보필하면서 기억이 되살아 나기만 기다리며 안타까와 한다. 챨스가 국회의원이 되자 둘은 결혼해 형식적인 부부가 되어 폴라는 챨스의 의정활동을 돕다가 끝내는 기억이 되살아나 재회하게 된다.
미니버 씨 부부(Kay Miniver: 그리어 가슨 분 / Clem Miniver: 월터 피전 분)와 그들의 3자녀 한가족은 영국의 평범한 중류 가정이다. 대학을 졸업한 큰 아들 네이는 갓 결혼한 신혼의 아내 라이트를 두고 공군 조종사로 출전한다. 미니버씨는 던커크 철수 작전에도 참가한다. 부인은 추락한 독일군 조종사와 맞부딪히기도 한다. 본격적인 독일의 공습이 시작되고, 방공호가 거의 일상적인 생활공간이 되다시피 하지만 가족은 굳건히 견디어 나간다. 그러나 어느날 공습에서 임신 중이던 며느리를 잃고 만다. 라스트에서 폐허가 된 교회에서 올려지는 예배.
Screenplay
미니버 씨 부부(Kay Miniver: 그리어 가슨 분 / Clem Miniver: 월터 피전 분)와 그들의 3자녀 한가족은 영국의 평범한 중류 가정이다. 대학을 졸업한 큰 아들 네이는 갓 결혼한 신혼의 아내 라이트를 두고 공군 조종사로 출전한다. 미니버씨는 던커크 철수 작전에도 참가한다. 부인은 추락한 독일군 조종사와 맞부딪히기도 한다. 본격적인 독일의 공습이 시작되고, 방공호가 거의 일상적인 생활공간이 되다시피 하지만 가족은 굳건히 견디어 나간다. 그러나 어느날 공습에서 임신 중이던 며느리를 잃고 만다. 라스트에서 폐허가 된 교회에서 올려지는 예배.
Additional Dialogue
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Story
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
Writer
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
Scenario Writer
이혼 전문 변호사 에버라드 로건(Everard Logan: 로렌스 올리비에 분)은 안개로 인하여 로얄 파크 호텔에 투숙하게 된다. 한편 그 호텔에서 열린 파티에 참석한 레슬리 스틸(Leslie Steele: 멀 오베론 분) 또한 안개로 인하여 집으로 돌아가지 못하고 호텔에서 머무르게 된다. 하지만 방은 이미 다 찼고 호텔 경영진은 파티 참석자들을 위해 투숙자들에게 방을 같이 쓰도록 부탁한다. 깐깐한 로건은 이를 응하지 않지만 레슬리는 그의 방으로 살금살금 들어가 그의 침대까지 차지한다. 침대에서 쫓겨난 로건은 거실에서 새우잠을 자게 되고 주객이 전도된 이 상황에 당황해 하지만 싫어 하는 기색은 보이지 않는다. 그건 바로 그녀에게서 사랑을 느끼게 된 것이다. 아침 식사를 하고 레슬리는 "잘 있어요, 레이디 X로부터"라는 메모만 남긴 채 떠나 버리고 로건은 그녀를 다시 만날 수 있길 바란다. 한편 로건을 찾은 미어 경은 자신의 부인이 어제 다른 남자와 로얄 파크 호텔에 투숙했다는 이유로 이혼을 하려 한다. 자초지정을 들은 로건은 미어 경의 부인이 어젯밤에 자기와 함께 있었던 레슬리라고 오해하게 된다. 하지만 미어 경이 이혼 할거라는 얘기에 다시 안도의 한숨을 내쉰다. 다시 만나게 된 레슬리와 로건. 레슬리는 로건이 자신을 미어 경의 부인으로 오해하고 있다는 걸 알게 되고 진짜 미어 경의 부인인 것처럼 행동하면서 로건을 당황스럽게 한다. 그러던 어느 날 진짜 미어 경의 부인이 로건의 사무실을 찾게 되고 레슬리와 미어 경 부인은 그곳에서 마주치게 되는데...
Writer
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
Screenplay
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It clearly is a trap, but nothing will keep the good old Pimpernel from carrying out his mission. He is up against the usual clods and dolts, after all.
Lyricist
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
Dialogue
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Dialogue
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
Scenario Writer
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
Writer
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
Scenario Writer
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
Dialogue
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
Writer
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
Writer
주인공 스칼렛 핌퍼넬은 프랑스 혁명 당시 단두대로 끌려가는 귀족들을 구출해 영국으로 넘기는 정체불명의 인물이다. 로베스피에르는 스칼렛 핌퍼넬을 잡기 위해 그의 심복 쇼블랑을 영국에 파견한다. 쇼블랑은 지금은 멍청한 영국 귀족 퍼시 블레이크니의 부인이 된 배우 마르그리트를 협박해서 스칼렛 핌퍼넬의 정체를 알아내려 한다.
Adaptation
Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which just happens to be ruled by the king she is betrothed to. Unfortunately, the new revolutionary government won't let citizens leave, which she actually doesn't mind all that much because she's not particularly jazzed about marrying the elderly king. He sends a young naval officer to bring her across the border, but in order to do so they are forced into a marriage of convenience. Complications ensue.
Continuity
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Story
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Writer
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
Scenario Writer
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Story
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Writer
A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
Writer
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
Dialogue
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
Writer
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
Writer
A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return the money and stay alive
Writer
An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.
Theatre Play
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
Writer
The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.
Writer
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
Theatre Play
While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed boyfriend General Lavoris.
