Myles Connolly
출생 : 1897-10-07, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
사망 : 1964-07-15
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Myles Connolly (October 7, 1897 – July 15, 1964) was an author and a Hollywood screenwriter/producer.
Myles Connolly was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. After graduating from Boston College in 1918 and serving one year in the U.S. Navy during World War I, Connolly worked as a newspaper reporter with The Boston Post. As a reporter, he was able to lay claim to being one of the few journalists ever granted the opportunity to interview President Calvin Coolidge. Both he and his Nashville socialite wife, Agnes (née Bevington), were devout Roman Catholics and each had a sister who was a nun.
Joseph P. Kennedy convinced Connolly to leave Boston to work at the Hollywood movie studio that Kennedy financed, Film Booking Office (FBO), which eventually became RKO. At RKO, Connolly served as associate producer for that studio's earliest Wheeler & Woolsey vehicles. In 1933, his work as a screenwriter-producer of dramatic films was introduced with The Right to Romance.
Connolly eventually befriended director Frank Capra at a cast and crew party for Ladies of Leisure (1930) after actor Alan Roscoe invited Connolly to tag along with him to the event.
Though Connolly chided Capra for turning out frivolities when he thought Capra could produce thought provoking pieces, Connolly did not necessarily follow his own advice. He produced numerous pieces of escapist entertainment such as the Tarzan pictures of the 1940s.
Myles Connolly helped write and produce over forty films. Screenwriting credits include The Right to Romance (1933), Palm Springs (1936), Youth Takes a Fling (1938), and the Charles Vidor film Hans Christian Andersen (1952). Connolly co-wrote the Ann Sothern-Lew Ayres film Maisie Was a Lady (1941) with Elizabeth Reinhardt. In addition, he worked with Sam Fuller to create It Happened in Hollywood. While Myles Connolly collaborated with Frank Capra on State of the Union (1948) and Here Comes the Groom (1951), he was also an uncredited contributor to the Capra films Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. His last screenwriting credit was MGM's musical biography of Hans Christian Andersen with Danny Kaye (1952).
Myles Connolly was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for Music for Millions (1944). 1n 1951, he shared the nomination for a Hugo award (Best Dramatic Presentation) for the screenplay of Harvey. In 1952, he was nominated for the Best Written American Musical award by the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) for Here Comes the Groom.
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A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
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작은 마을에 사는 제퍼슨 부부는 신앙심이 깊고, 투철한 애국심을 가진 미국의 보통 가족이다. 둘째와 셋째 아들이 입대한 뒤 얼마 후, 워싱턴에서 연방 정부 관련 일을 하는 장남 존이 오랜만에 부모님을 찾아온다. 그런데 부모님은 물론, 신부님도 함께 한 자리에서 존은 도발적인 발언을 쏟아 내고, 부모님과 마을 사람들은 존의 언행을 납득하지 못한다. 결국 존과 아버지가 언쟁을 하고 만다. 미국의 매카시즘이 절정을 향했던 시기에 만들어진 반공산주의 영화. (2018년 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 레오 맥커리 특별전)
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Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
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맘씨좋은 동네 주정뱅이 엘우드 P. 다우드에게는 하비라는 좋은 친구가 있다. 문제가 있다면 그 하비라는 친구가, 키가 6피트가 넘는 거대한 하얀 토끼라는 거고, 엘우드 이외에는 아무도 그 토끼를 보지 못한다는 것. 당연히 엘우드는 동네 놀림감이 되고 그의 정신나간 행동을 견뎌내지 못한 엘우드의 누나 비타는 동생을 요양원에 집어넣으려 한다. 하지만 하비의 마술에 씌였는지 일은 점점 엉뚱한 방향으로 틀어져 가는데...
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공화당을 지지하는 언론계의 거물 케이 손다이크는 자신이 사랑하는 남자 그랜트를 미국의 대통령 자리에 앉히기로 결심한다. 그녀가 원하는 것은 대통령이 된 연인 뒤에서 실질적인 권력을 휘두르는 것이다. 케이는 자신의 신문사를 이용해 민주당 전당대회를 교착 상태에 빠트리고, 결국에는 뜻밖의 다크호스인 그랜트의 지지율을 높인다. 한편, 소원해졌던 그랜트의 아내 메리는 남편과 케이의 관계를 알면서도 남편의 선거운동을 돕기로 하고, 메리와 함께하면서 그랜트는 점차 자신의 목소리를 내기 시작한다. 퓰리처상을 수상한, 러셀 크루즈와 하워드 린제이의 동명희곡을 영화화했다. 정치극으로 다시 돌아온 카프라는 원작에서 다룬 논쟁적인 주제들을 다소 유화시키면서도, 당대 미국 정치판의 추악한 이면에 대한 분노와 슬픔을 주인공 그랜트가 선거운동을 하면서 변해가는 모습을 통해 그려냈다. (영화의 전당)
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A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.
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Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
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Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then reappears as his nonexistent twin brother. It's all part of Gregory's master scheme to pin his "murder" on innocent John Randall (Don Douglas), the husband of Ellen (Jean Rogers), the woman Gregory loves.
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Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.
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A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
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서커스를 위한 사자들을 잡으러 정글로 간 서커스 주인 버크 랜드와 동물 조련사 마운트포드는 보이가 동물들과 지내는 모습에 반해서 보이를 뉴욕으로 납치한다. 보이를 구하러 뉴욕으로 간 타잔과 제인은 재판정에 서게 되지만 타잔이 난폭하게 행동하는 바람에 투옥 당하게 된다.
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서커스를 위한 사자들을 잡으러 정글로 간 서커스 주인 버크 랜드와 동물 조련사 마운트포드는 보이가 동물들과 지내는 모습에 반해서 보이를 뉴욕으로 납치한다. 보이를 구하러 뉴욕으로 간 타잔과 제인은 재판정에 서게 되지만 타잔이 난폭하게 행동하는 바람에 투옥 당하게 된다.
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A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold.
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Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
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Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt (George Raft) sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda (Joan Bennett), testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma (Lloyd Nolan), who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan (Walter Pidgeon), who knows nothing about her past.
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McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
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A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
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A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
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A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
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A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Associate Producer
To divorce, or not to divorce. That is the question pondered by a married couple of 10 years who miss their burning desire for each other (Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard) in this 1934 film directed by Worthington Miner.
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Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young). Drama.
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Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone she despises.
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A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
Associate Producer
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.
Associate Producer
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
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A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
