Walter Lang

Walter Lang

출생 : 1896-08-10, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

사망 : 1972-02-07

약력

Walter Lang was an American film director.

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Walter Lang

참여 작품

The Searching Eye
The boy
The simple actions of a young boy on the beach provide visual metaphors for the normally unseen world. The camera adds a profound dimension to what the boy has seen, giving us a deeper understanding of visual awareness.
Snow White and the Three Stooges
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Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Fortunia, a noble king and his lovely young queen lack but one blessing to make their joy complete. The queen gives birth to a daughter named Snow White, but dies soon after. The king mourns her, but in time, he remarries because of the pleading of his people. His new queen is a beautiful, but evil woman who soon becomes jealous of Snow White's beauty.
The Marriage-Go-Round
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An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!
캉캉
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Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, lawyer François Durnais.
But Not for Me
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Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn, plots to end his new relationship.
사랑의 전주곡
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버니는 TV 네트워크를 관리하는 연방 방송국의 연구부를 통솔하는 아주 유능한 직원이다. 그러던 어느날 사장은 이 부서에 컴퓨터를 할당해놓고 리차드에게 버니의 부서에서 매일매일 활동을 잘 감시하도록 지시한다. 그러자 컴퓨터가 모든 직원을 대신하게 되어 직원들이 해고당할 위기에 처하게 된다. 날이 갈수록 문제는 심각해져서 버니와 리차드 사이에 극도의 긴장감이 감돌기 시작한다. 결국 버니와 직원들은 컴퓨터가 해결하지 못하는 어려운 문제들을 해결해 나가고 컴퓨터는 복잡한 문제를 해결하느라 덜덜덜 거리다가 마침내 고장나 버린다.
왕과 나
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젊은 미망인 안나(Anna Leonowens: 데보라 카 분)는 시암(Siam: 태국) 왕의 초청을 받고 아들 루이(Louis Leonowens: 렉스 톰슨 분)와 함께 방콕에 도착하지만 도착한 첫날부터 자신과의 약속을 지키지 않는 왕(King Mongkut of Siam: 율 브린너 분)에게 실망, 영국으로 돌아가려한다. 정숙한 영국 여인 안나는 다소 거칠고 자기밖에 모르는 왕과 사사건건 충돌하지만 그러는 사이 시암의 근대화를 위해 다방면으로 노력하는 왕에게 묘한 애정을 느낀다. 한편, 시암의 왕을 야만인이라고 모함하는 말이 영국 여왕의 귀에 들어가자 왕은 심각한 고민에 빠진다. 이에 안나는 영국 대사에게 성대한 연회를 베풀어 왕이 야만인이 아니라는걸 보여주자고 제안한다. 안나의 지도하에 만찬 주연은 잘 이루어지고, 연회의 하이라이트인 연극은 시암왕에게 선링무롤 바쳐진 링버마의 공주 텁팀(Tuptim: 리타 모레노 분)에 의해 성황리에 끝이나 영국대사 일행에게 깊은 감동을 안겨준다. 하지만 텁팀은 자신을 수행하고 온 사신, 룬타(Lun Tha: 카를로스 리바스 분)와 사랑하는 사이다. 안나의 도움으로 연회 때 톰 아저씨의 오두막을 각색한 텁팀은 자신의 처지를 빗대어 왕에게 의미있는 메시지를 전하지만 왕은 노예를 쫓던 왕의 죽음을 찬미하는 대목에서 크게 분노한다. 텁팀이 도망간 사실을 안 왕은 안나와 크게 언쟁을 하고 결국 안나는 영국으로 돌아갈 것을 결심한다. 이때부터 왕은 잠도 안자고 먹지도 않고 서재에 특어박혀 책만 읽다 병을 얻는다. 왕이 위독해지자 비로소 왕과 화해를 하게 된 안나는 영국으로 떠나는 것을 보류하고 시암의 근대화를 위해 헌신할 것을 약속한다. 왕은 황태자 출라룽콘(Prince Chulalongkorn: 패트릭 아디아티 분)의 신년계획을 들으며 조용히 눈을 감는다.
쇼처럼 즐거운 인생은 없다
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브로드웨이 최고의 쇼무대를 꾸미고 있는 몰리(Molly: 에델 머만 분)와 테렌스 도나휴(Terence Donahue: 댄 데일리 분) 부부는 세 자녀가 성장하자 그들과 함께 가족 쇼단을 꾸민다. 부모의 재능과 끼를 물려받은 스티브(Steve Donahue: 조니 레이 분), 케이트(Katy Donahue: 미치 게이너 분) 팀은 춤과 노래에서 발군의 실력을 보이고 ‘도나휴 쇼단’은 승승장구 빅히트를 기록한다. 그러던 어느날 맏아들 스티브가 신부가 되겠다는 폭탄 선언을 한다. 게다가 여자와 술을 지독히도 좋아하는 막내팀은 놀랄만한 미모의 가수 지망생 빅키(Vicky: 마를린 몬로 분)와 사랑에 빠져 불행을 자초한다. 캐이트, 빅키, 팀 세 사람이 함께하는 새로운 공연이 막을 올리는 날, 빅키에 대한 짝사랑에 상심해 있던 팀은 자동차와 함께 전복되는 사고를 당하는데...
Call Me Madam
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Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
With a Song in My Heart
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Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon, and she is partially crippled. Unable to walk without crutches, Jane nevertheless goes on to entertain the Allied troops in World War II.
헨리의 사랑찾기
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나이트 클럽 코미디언 잭 마틴(Jack Martin: 대니 케이 분)은 식상한 연기 때문에 사장에게 질책을 당하고, 참신한 오락 거리를 찾아내지 못하면 해고당할 위기에 처한다. 잭은 새로운 내용을 구상하느라 고심하던 중, TV에서 비행기 회사의 재정 고문인 헨리 듀란(Henri Duran: 대니 케이 분)의 인터뷰를 보게 되고 자신과 외모가 아주 비슷하자 헨리의 분장을 하고 무대에 서기로 한다. 잭의 연기는 나이트 클럽 사장은 물론, 많은 사람들의 호응을 얻는데, 특히 헨리의 바람기에 초점을 둔 연기에 헨리의 아내 릴리(Lilli: 진 티어니 분)가 큰 관심을 갖는다. 한편 갑자기 사업상 문제가 생겨 자금을 지원 받아야 할 상황이 된 헨리는 목적을 달성하기 위해 외국으로 떠나는데, 오히려 자금을 지원해 줄 만한 사람이 집에 와서 헨리를 만나고자 한다. 이때 잭이 헨리의 집을 방문하자 급한 불을 끄기 위해 회사 경영주는 잭에게 빌 행세를 할 것을 부탁한다. 큰돈까지 주겠다는 제의에 잭은 흔쾌히 이를 승낙하고 헨리의 노릇을 하며 릴리와 다정한 모습을 보여주는데...
The Jackpot
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Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred.
치퍼 바이 더 더즌
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"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
You're My Everything
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In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
When My Baby Smiles at Me
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Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.
Sitting Pretty
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Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
마더 워 타이츠
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In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
센티멘털 저니
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An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
Claudia and David
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The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
State Fair
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During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
Greenwich Village
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In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
코니 아일랜드
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1905년, 에디 존슨(Eddie Johnson : 죠지 몽고메리 분)은 옛 친구인 존 로코(Joe Rocco : 세사 로메로 분)가 경영하는 코니 아일랜드의 화려한 영업소, '오션 가든스'을 찾는다. 하지만 존 로코는 그를 그다지 반기지 않고 에디는 로코의 가게 건너편에서 가게를 하고 있는 프랭키(Frankie : 필 실버스 분)와 함께 사업을 구상한다. 한편 에디는 조의 여자인 불같은 성미의 댄서 케이트 팔리(Kate Farley: 베티 그레이블)가 스타가 될 잠재성이 있다고 생각하고 케이트를 다듬어 가기 시작한다. 결국 케이트는 일류 연예인의 자질을 갖추게 되고 윌리엄 해머스타인(William Hammerstein : 매트 브리그스)의 후원 아래 브로드웨이의 일류 뮤지컬 스타가 된다. 하지만 정작 케이트를 열심히 키우던 에디는 조의 계략으로 케이트와 헤어지고 이후 케이트는 에디의 라이벌이 돼 버린 존 로코와 사귀게 된다. 하지마 머지않아 케이트는 자신이 사랑하는 에디의 품으로 돌아간다.
The Magnificent Dope
Director
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
Song of the Islands
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With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.
Week-End in Havana
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A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer, a department store salesgirl who wants her vacation NOW, not later. Jay is instructed to take Nan to Havana and set her up in the best hotel and keep her entertained. She visits a night club where the star attraction is Rosita Rivas, and meets Rosita's worthless manager, Monte Blanca, who makes a play for her. Trouble also comes in the form of Jay's fiancée, Terry McCracken, when a romance develops between Nan and Jay.
Moon Over Miami
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After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil (Don Ameche) and Jeff (Robert Cummings), who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
Tin Pan Alley
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Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
The Great Profile
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An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Star Dust
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When the studios reject her because she"s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.
The Blue Bird
Director
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of happiness, meeting friends and foes along the way.
소공녀
Director
모든게 갖추어진 부유한 환경의 세라 크루. 육군 대령인 백만장자 아버지 밑에서 상상력을 키우며 행복하게 사는데 어느 해 전쟁이나고 아버지가 참전하게 되자 세라는 인도를 떠나 사립기숙학교에 들어간다. 그런데 까다롭고 통제가 심한 기숙학교 사감 미스 민친은 평소에도 자유스런 분위기의 세라를 미워했지만, 세라의 아버지가 전사했다는 소식이 들려오자 본격적으로 그녀를 구박하기 시작한다. 빈털터리 신세의 세라는 결국 학생 신분에서 쫓겨나 하녀로 전락하는데...
I'll Give a Million
Director
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
The Baroness and the Butler
Director
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Second Honeymoon
Director
Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys Raoul's presence - in part because Vicky is his not Raoul's and in part because Raoul is a lot of fun. The fun wears thin for Bob as his seriousness and possessiveness take over. When Bob leaves for a few days to settle a labor dispute at his factory, Vicky and Raoul spend time together, Winchell's column implies untoward behavior, Bob barks at Vicky, and that gets her back up. Can things be sorted out? Help comes from Raoul's upright valet, McTavish, and a principled cigarette girl, Joy, whom Raoul picks up.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Director
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Top of the Town
Director
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Love Before Breakfast
Director
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Hooray for Love
Director
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
Carnival
Director
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
The Mighty Barnum
Director
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
The Party's Over
Director
Bruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his money-grubbing family sponging off of him, and decides to partake of a different side and slice of life. A blonde secretary helps guide him.
Whom the Gods Destroy
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Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
Meet the Baron
Director
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
The Warrior's Husband
Writer
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
The Warrior's Husband
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The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
No More Orchids
Director
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
Hell Bound
Director
Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
Command Performance
Director
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
The Costello Case
Director
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
The Big Fight
Director
Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
Cock o' the Walk
Director
Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires.
Hello Sister
Director
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
The Spirit of Youth
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The Desert Bride
Director
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.
The Night Flyer
Director
Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietress of the local lunch counter. His rival, Bat Mullins, is engineer of the new mail train scheduled to make a competition run. When Mullins overturns the new train, Bradley completes the run and earns the contract for his company by delivering the mail in record time on No. 99. A promotion to engineer helps him win Kate.
The College Hero
Director
A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpectedly to play for his team in the season's key game.
Sally in Our Alley
Director
Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. However, this happy home is broken up when Sally wealthy aunt appears on the scene and takes Sally back to her luxurious penthouse in order to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.
The Satin Woman
Screenplay
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.
The Satin Woman
Story
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.
The Satin Woman
Director
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.
The Golden Web
Director
After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes. The former owner of the mine is framed for a murder, and his daughter and the new owner work to save him from the gallows.
The Earth Woman
Director
The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine. A drink-benumbed hillbilly tries to rape heroine Sally Tilden (Priscilla Bonner), setting off a chain reaction of violence, murder, and false confessions.
The Red Kimona
Director
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.