William Rankin

참여 작품

South Sea Woman
Theatre Play
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.
Fighting Father Dunne
Story
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
하비 걸
Story
서부로 가는 기차여행. 신부인 수잔 브래들리는 여행객들을 위해 음식과 음료수를 제공하는 레스토랑 '하비 하우스'에서 유쾌한 직원을 만난다. 수잔과 그녀의 부끄러움 많은 청혼자가 서로 소원해졌을 때, 수잔은 하비 하우스에서 일하는 하비 걸로 합류하게 된다. 수잔은 사람의 마음을 끄는 유쾌함과 지혜로운 언변으로 인기를 끌게 되고 마침내, 하비 하우스의 소유자이자 매력적인 남자 네드 트렌트의 강렬한 눈빛을 느끼게 된다.
Hi, Beautiful
Story
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon falls in love with him. Although the pair are unmarried, they enter a marital contest intended to celebrate the "Happiest G.I. Couple." Winning the contest brings on all sorts of farcical troubles until the couple are able to be united for real. Songs include "Don't Sweetheart Me" and "Best of All."
Dixie
Story
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
Street of Missing Men
Story
An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to bring the paper down..
St. Louis Blues
Story
A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a scheme to put an end to the show before it begins.
A Girl with Ideas
Story
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
Love in a Bungalow
Original Story
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Humble," by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin.
Pennies from Heaven
Story
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Counterfeit
Writer
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
Tess of the Storm Country
Writer
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.