Buddy G. DeSylva

출생 : 1895-01-27, New York City, New York, USA

사망 : 1950-07-11

약력

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Gard "Buddy" DeSylva (January 27, 1895 – July 11, 1950) was an American songwriter, film producer and record executive. He wrote or co-wrote many popular songs and along with Johnny Mercer and Glenn Wallichs, he founded Capitol Records. DeSylva was born in New York City, but grew up in California and attended the University of Southern California, where he joined the Theta Xi Fraternity. His father, Aloysius J. De Sylva, was better known to American audiences as the Portuguese-born actor, Hal De Forrest. His mother, Georgetta Miles Gard, was the daughter of Los Angeles police chief George E. Gard. DeSylva's first successful songs were those used by Al Jolson on Broadway in the 1918 Sinbad production, which included "I'll Say She Does". Soon thereafter he met Jolson and in 1918 the pair went to New York and DeSylva began working as a songwriter in Tin Pan Alley. In the early 1920s, DeSylva frequently worked with composer George Gershwin. Together they created the experimental one-act jazz opera Blue Monday set in Harlem, which is widely regarded as a forerunner to Porgy and Bess ten years later. In April 1924, DeSylva married Marie Wallace, a Ziegfeld Follies dancer. In 1925, DeSylva became one third of the songwriting team with lyricist Lew Brown and composer Ray Henderson, one of the top Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the era. The team was responsible for the song Magnolia (1927) which was popularized by Lou Gold's orchestra. The writing and publishing partnership continued until 1930, producing a string of hits and the perennial Broadway favorite Good News. The popularity of this team was so great that Gershwin's mother supposedly chided her sons for not being able to write the sort of hits turned out by the trio. DeSylva joined ASCAP in 1920 and served on the ASCAP board of directors between 1922 and 1930. He became a producer of stage and screen musicals. DeSylva relocated to Hollywood and went under contract to Fox Studios. During this tenure, he produced movies such as The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel, Captain January, Poor Little Rich Girl and Stowaway. In 1941, he became the Executive Producer at Paramount Pictures, a position he would hold until 1944. At Paramount, he was also an uncredited executive producer for Double Indemnity, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Story of Dr. Wassell and The Glass Key. The Paramount all-star extravaganza Star Spangled Rhythm, which takes place at the Paramount film studio in Hollywood, features a fictional movie executive named "B.G. DeSoto" (played by Walter Abel) who is a parody of DeSylva. In 1942, Johnny Mercer, Glenn Wallichs and DeSylva together founded Capitol Records, which continues to this day. He also founded the Cowboy label.

참여 작품

A Matter of Time
Lyricist
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
굿 뉴스
Songs
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
굿 뉴스
Theatre Play
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
Two Years Before the Mast
Producer
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
The Stork Club
Screenplay
Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fitzgerald, Don Defore, Andy Russell, Iria Adrian and Robert Benchley.
유토피아로 가는 길
Executive Producer
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
The Great Moment
Executive Producer
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
이중 배상
Executive Producer
보험사 직원인 월터는 고객 관리를 위해 디트리히슨의 집을 방문한다. 디트리히슨의 아내 필리스를 만나게 된 월터는 그녀의 매력에 곧 빠져들고, 남편을 살해할 음모를 품고 있는 필리스의 유혹에 쉽게 넘어간다. 결국 월터와 필리스는 사고를 가장해 남편을 살해하는데, 머지 않아 그녀의 어두운 과거가 드러난다.
더 스토리 오브 닥터 와셀
Executive Producer
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
공포의 내각
Executive Producer
보호감호를 마치고 막 출소한 스테판 닐은 어느 자선 바자회에서 먹을 거리를 산 까닭에, 첩보전의 소용돌이에 휘말린다. 그 속에는 비밀 정보가 수록되어 있었기 때문. 역시 영화화되었던 〈제3의 사나이〉등 많은 첩보 소설을 쓴 영국 소설가 그레이엄 그린의 동명 소설을 원작으로 한 영화로, 히치콕의 그림자를 진하게 느낄 수 있는 작품이다. (2007년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 프리츠 랑의 아메리카 특별전)
The Hitler Gang
Producer
This movie shows us the rise of Adolf Hitler from a small radical political adventurer to the dictator of Germany in the way of a gangster film. Exept for some minor inaccuracies the historical facts are given in a correct way.
언인바이티드
Executive Producer
런던에서 콘월의 작은 마을에 놀러온 로더릭과 파멜라 남매는 절벽 위에서 서 있는 낡은 저택을 발견하고 한 눈에 매료됩니다. 남매는 거의 충동적으로 집을 사들이지만 곧 저택에 이상한 일들이 일어난다는 사실을 알게 되지요. 집에서 기르는 개는 2층에 올라가지 않으려 하고 방 어딘가에는 찬기가 흐르며 동이 틀 무렵에는 여자의 흐느끼는 울음 소리가 들립니다. 저택의 비밀을 캐던 남매는 10여년 전에 저택에 있었던 멜로드라마틱한 살인과 죽음에 대해 알게 되고...
True to Life
Executive Producer
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Riding High
Executive Producer
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they've been flim-flammed, but a last minute "miracle" saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it's only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.
So Proudly We Hail
Executive Producer
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Du Barry Was a Lady
Theatre Play
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
누구를 위하여 종은 울리나
Executive Producer
1937년 파시스트와 공화정부파로 갈라져 싸우던 스페인 내전에서 미국 청년 로버트 죠단은 정의와 자유를 위해 공화 정부파의 의용군에 투신하여 게릴라 활동에 종사하고 있다. 죠단에게 내려진 새로운 임무는 적군의 진격로에 해당하는 산중의 대철교를 3일 후에 폭파시키라는 것이다. 죠단은 안세르모라는 늙은 짚시를 안내로 삼고, 목적하는 산지로 찾아들어간다. 한편, 철교를 폭파시키기 위해서는 이 산악지방의 집시의 힘을 빌지 않고서는 불가능하다. 이 짚시의 두목은 술을 좋아하는 파블로로 그는 이일에 선뜻 협력하려들지 않는다. 그래서 죠단은 파블로의 아내 필라와 이 일을 협의하게 된다. 그녀는 자진하여 집시를 지휘해서 이 계획을 원조할 것을 제의한다. 파블로의 부하는 전원 필라의 명령에 따라 착착 계획을 진행하는데 이러는 중에 스페인의 소녀 마리아는 뜨겁게 죠단을 사랑하게 된다. 드디어 3일째인 이른 아침, 죠단일행은 철교 폭파에 성공한다. 그러나 그는 말을 몰고 달리는 순간, 적군의 포화에 쓰러지는데...
다섯 개의 무덤
Executive Producer
2차 대전 중의 북아프리카. ‘사막의 여우’ 롬멜 장군이 지휘하는 악명 높은 독일 아프리카 군단에 패한 영국 탱크 부대. 홀로 살아남은 상병 존 브램블은 사막을 헤매다 파리드와 프랑스 여인 모슈가 있는 외딴 호텔에 다다른다. 얼마 후, 롬멜 장군의 부대가 호텔에 도착하고, 존은 살기 위해 이미 살해당한 호텔 직원 다보스 행세를 한다. 그런데 롬멜 장군과 대면한 존은 다보스가 독일 첩자였다는 것과 롬멜의 야심 찬 계획에 대해 알게 된다. 조셉 폰 스턴버그의 (1928)의 원안을 쓴 헝가리 출신 작가 라조 비로의 희곡을 바탕으로 한 전쟁 영화.
The Crystal Ball
Producer
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
모로코 가는 길
Executive Producer
제프(빙 크로스비 분)와 터키(밥 호프 분)가 밀항을 한 상선이 항해를 하던 중 사고로 침몰하면서 두 사람의 모험이 시작된다. 극적으로 생존한 두 사람은 아프리카 해안에 도착하고, 어렵게 사막을 건너 모로코로 가게 된다. 빈털터리였지만 굶주림에 지친 두 사람은 무작정 식당에 들어가 배불리 음식을 먹는데, 그때 나타난 노예상인이 제프에게 돈을 지불하고 터키를 노예로 산다. 터키가 팔려간 후, 양심의 가책을 받고 괴로워하던 제프는 결국 터키를 찾아 나선다. 그리고 웅장한 궁전에 잠입한 제프는 노예로 팔려간 줄 알았던 터키가 모로코 공주(도로시 라무르 분)와 멋진 시간을 보내고 있는 모습을 보고 깜짝 놀란다. 사실 공주는 세력가인 카심(안소니 퀸 분)과 결혼하기로 되어 있었지만, 첫 남편이 비명횡사하게 된다는 점성술사의 예언을 들은 공주가 터키를 희생양으로 선택한 것이었다. 한편, 공주는 터키를 찾아온 제프에게 반하게 되고, 마침 점성술사로부터 예언이 틀렸다는 말을 전해 듣자마자 제프와 결혼식을 올리게 된다. 하지만 소식을 전해들은 카심이 부하들을 이끌고 쳐들어와 공주와 하녀를 납치해 가고, 제프와 터키는 사막에 버려진다. 하지만 두 사람은 사막을 헤매다 카심의 본거지를 찾아내고, 우여곡절 끝에 공주와 하녀를 구출해낸다. 그리고 두 쌍의 남녀는 함께 미국으로 떠난다.
내 사랑 마녀
Executive Producer
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
The Glass Key
Executive Producer
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
웨이크 아일랜드
Executive Producer
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
백주의 탈출
Executive Producer
2차 세계대전기간 동안의 샌프란시스코. 옷을 벗지도 못한 채 새벽 늦게 잠들었던 냉혹한 살인청부업자 필립 레이븐은 새로운 임무를 실행하기 위해 다시 깨어난다. 그 새로운 임무는 니트로케미컬 코퍼레이션이 생산하는 독가스의 제조공식을 갖고 있는 화학자 앨버트 베이커를 살해하는 일이다. 레이븐은 베이커와 그의 비서를 제거하고 공식을 가져다 준 댓가로 니트로케미컬의 간부이며 한 나이트클럽의 사장인 윌라드 게이츠에게 2만불을 받는다. 하지만 곧 게이츠의 음모에 걸려든 레이븐은 쫒기는 신세가 된다. 그레이엄 그린의 소설인 에 기초한 영화. 풍부한 심리적 분위기와 어두운 뉘앙스를 지닌 이 영화는 살인청부업자 필립 레이븐의 고통받은 영혼 속으로의 여행이다. 특히 이 영화를 통해 최초로 호흡을 맞춘 알랜 래드와 베로니카 레이크가 완벽한 앙상블 연기를 보여준다.
My Favorite Blonde
Executive Producer
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
리프 더 와일드 윈드
Executive Producer
키웨스트에 해적들이 우글거리면서 배를 일부러 난파 시켜 화물을 건지고 이익을 얻고 있었다. 주빌리의 선장인 잭 스튜어트도 부선장이 해적과 손을 잡고 배신을 해서 화물을 잃게 되었다. 키웨스트에서 록시 클레이본을 만나게 되고 사랑을 하게 된다. ​ 데보로사가 있는 찰스턴으로 돌아간 잭은 킹 커틀러의 짓이라는 걸 알지만 아무도 증거를 찾지 못한다. 데보로사의 직원인 잭은 증기선인 써던크로스를 지휘하는 것이 소원이지만 배가 난파하여 펠리칸호를 타고 대기하게 됐다. 록시는 데보로 준장을 만나기 위해 찰스턴으로 가지만 데보로사의 변호사인 스티브 톨리버를 만나게 된다. ​ 잭을 돕기 위해 스티브를 계속 만나는데 스티브는 록시를 사랑하게 된다. 록시는 잭과 결혼을 하려고 하지만 스티브가 그걸 막는다. 킹 커틀러는 잭과 스티브를 고래잡이 배에 팔아 넘기려고 하지만 실패한다. 잭은 자신이 써던크로스의 지휘를 맡게 된 사실을 알게 된다. 하지만 아팠던 데보로 준장이 죽고 스티브가 데보로 회장이 된다. 그렇게 되면 자신이 지휘를 하지 못하게 될 거란 걸 킹으로부터 들은 잭은 킹과 돈을 잡고 일부러 써던크로스를 난파 시키기로 한다. ​ 써던크로스는 난파당하고 재판을 하게 된다. 재판을 하는 과정에서 배에 록시의 사촌인 드루실라가 몰래 탔다는 사실이 드러난다. 증거를 찾기 위해 잭과 스티브는 난파당한 배를 찾아간다. 바다 속에서 왕문어가 나타나 스티브가 위험에 빠진다. ​ 잭은 스티브를 구하고 자신은 죽는다. 해적들의 모든 소행이 밝혀지자 킹의 동생인 댄을 사랑하는 드루실라가 죽은 걸 알고, 킹의 모든 짓을 이야기하려 하지만 킹은 동생을 쏴 죽인다. 위기의 상황에서 필 선장은 킹을 죽이고 록시와 스티브는 연인으로 발전한다.
Louisiana Purchase
Story
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
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.
Nothing But the Truth
Executive Producer
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle T.T. Ralston will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.
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.
Caught in the Draft
Producer
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
레이디 이브
Producer
프레스턴 스터지스가 시나리오를 쓰고 직접 감독한 고전적인 로맨틱 코미디로 헨리 폰다와 바바라 스탠윅이 주연을 맡았다. 재기 넘치고 생기발랄한 남녀간의 밀고 당기는 싸움을 그린 이 영화에서 헨리 폰다는 대부호의 상속자, 찰스 파이크를 연기했다. 뱀에 관한 전문가인 찰스는 아마존에서 일년간의 연구를 마치고 뉴욕으로 돌아오는 여객선에 오른다. 승선하자마자 찰스는 능력 있는 결혼상대자를 찾는 배 안의 미혼여성들의 관심의 초점이 되는데, 찰스를 주의 깊게 보는 사람들 중에 전문도박사들인 해리 해링턴 대령(찰스 코번)과 그의 파트너 제랄드, 그리고 대령의 딸 진(바바라 스탠윅)이 있었다. 만찬장에서 모든 여성들이 찰스에게 눈독 들이는 걸 지켜보던 진은 찰스의 발을 걸어 그의 관심을 끄는데 성공한다. 대령과 제랄드는 찰스를 속이기 쉬운 상대로 보고 게임을 하려고 하지만 진 역시 찰스에게 끌리는 자신을 발견하고는 놀란다. 그러던 중, 어린 시절부터 찰스를 돌봐온 경호원 먹시는 대령과 진이 전문도박사임을 증명하는 사진을 찰스에게 보여준다. 충격을 받은 찰스는 진에게 사기꾼임을 알고 거짓으로 그녀에게 끌리는 척했다고 말한다. 화가 난 진은 복수를 다짐하고 영국의 귀족 여인, 레이디 이브로 행세하며 다시 찰스 앞에 나타난다. 찰스는 진과 똑같이 생긴 레이디 이브를 보며 혼란스러우면서도 또다시 이브에게 빠져드는데…
7월의 크리스마스
Producer
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
위대한 맥긴티
Producer
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
버첼러 마더
Producer
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
러브 어페어
Songs
유럽에서 뉴욕으로 향하는 호화 여객선. 유명한 프랑스 화가 미셸은 미국 거부의 상속녀와 결혼할 예정이다. 매혹적인 전직 클럽 가수 테리 역시 애인에게로 돌아가는 길이다. 배에서 만난 미셸과 테리는 서로에게 이끌리고, 다른 승객들의 시선을 피해 만남을 이어간다. 배가 뉴욕에 다다랐을 때, 이미 사랑에 빠진 두 사람은 6개월 뒤에 엠파이어 스테이트 빌딩의 꼭대기에서 다시 만나기로 약속한 뒤 헤어진다. 6개월 후, 약속 장소로 가던 테리가 그만 사고를 당하고 만다. ⓒ Reel Media International(USA) (2018년 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 레오 맥커리 특별전)
The Rage of Paris
Producer
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
You're a Sweetheart
Producer
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Merry Go Round of 1938
Producer
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
Born to Dance
Story
Ted meets and falls in love with Nora Paige, an aspiring Broadway dancer who tries out for a show starring Lucy James. After Ted rescues Lucy's pet dog during a public relations campaign on his submarine, Lucy falls for him. Ted is ordered to meet Lucy for a date at a night club, who later sees their picture in the newspaper and no longer wants anything to do with him.
The Littlest Rebel
Associate Producer
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
Welcome Home
Producer
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
Doubting Thomas
Producer
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Have a Heart
Story
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.
Bottoms Up
Producer
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
Bottoms Up
Screenplay
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
Bottoms Up
Story
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
My Weakness
Story
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
My Weakness
Producer
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
My Weakness
Dialogue
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
Flying High
Book
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
Indiscreet
Writer
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Indiscreet
Story
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Just Imagine
Producer
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
Just Imagine
Writer
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
Follow Thru
Author
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
Queen High
Screenplay
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year.
Hold Everything
Theatre Play
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
Sunny Side Up
Producer
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
Sunny Side Up
Story
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.