Owen Davis

출생 : 1874-01-29, Portland, Maine, USA

사망 : 1956-10-14

참여 작품

The Great Gatsby
Theatre Play
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Mr. and Mrs. North
Theatre Play
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
제저벨
Theatre Play
약혼자 프레스톤에게 화가 난 줄리는 그들의 약혼이 발표될 예정인 뉴올리언스의 중요한 사교계 행사 올림포스 무도회에서 프레스톤을 난처하게 만들 계획을 세운다. 미혼 여성들은 관례상 흰 드레스를 입는데 줄리는 빨간 드레스를 입고 나타난다. 결과적으로 줄리의 기대와 어긋나게 약혼이 깨진다. 3년 후, 프레스톤은 아내와 함께 줄리의 농장을 방문하는데, 프레스톤이 뉴올리언스 전역에 유행하던 치명적인 황열병에 걸린다.
The 9th Guest
Writer
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
The 9th Guest
Theatre Play
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
Yours Sincerely
Story
A resort owner tries to marry his daughter to a millionaire, but his scheme doesn't turn out exactly as planned.
My Sin
Screenplay
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
The Girl Habit
Writer
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
A Connecticut Yankee
Writer
Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakening, Hank finds himself in the time of King Arthur. At Camelot Castle, Hank uses a cigarette lighter and his skill with a lasso to save himself from being executed as a demon. Hank so impresses Arthur that the king orders him to joust with one of his knights to save the life of Princess Alisande.
The Man Who Came Back
Writer
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
So This Is London
Screenplay
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man who profoundly distastes everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
Spring Is Here
Theatre Play
Musical about two sisters in love with the same man.
They Had to See Paris
Writer
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
The Donovan Affair
Theatre Play
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
The Haunted House
Theatre Play
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
Through the Breakers
Writer
Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, and winds up shipwrecked on the island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he dumps her for his London sweetheart, she is killed by her native lover, who then commits suicide. This causes the London lady to decide to stay!
Easy Come, Easy Go
Theatre Play
Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from his job, Parker enters into an amusing series of misadventures with veteran bank robber Jim Bailey (Charles Sellon).
Chinatown Charlie
Story
A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.
The Shamrock and the Rose
Author
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.
Forever After
Novel
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
레이지본즈
Theatre Play
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
The Lighthouse by the Sea
Writer
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
Broadway After Dark
Theatre Play
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.
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Story
Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the death of her benefactor, she becomes a model in a fashionable shop. There she falls into the hands of her mother's unscrupulous nephew, who contrives to do away with her in order to obtain her fortune. ....
Icebound
Theatre Play
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
Blow Your Own Horn
Theatre Play
World War I veteran Jack Dunbar who, like a lot of veterans then and now, is finding it hard to land a job. When he fixes the broken down auto of the newly rich Nicholas Small, he finally runs into some luck. The blustery Small explains that the way to get ahead is to blow your own horn, and then he takes Dunbar to an estate, where he is introduced as a millionaire.
The Simp
Director
A simpleton finds love but can't get past a pesky dog and some no-good kids.
Mile-a-Minute Kendall
Theatre Play
Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a layabout.
Big Jim Garrity
Theatre Play
Hearts in Exile
Writer
In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor. She dispenses food, medicine, and funds to the needy, from a busy charity headquarters. Two men, separate in station, are in love with Ivanovna: Poor doctor Paul helps as much as he can, and wealthy merchant Serge donates money. The relentless and lascivious Chief of Police, also attracted by Ivanova's beauty and virtue, determines to possess her, and sentences all three to fifteen years in Siberia and East Russia on false charges.
Lola
Theatre Play
A scientist resurrects his dead daughter, only to realize she now lacks a soul.
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
Theatre Play
Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confidence."