Edward Ward

Nascimento : 1900-04-03, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Morte : 1971-09-26

Filmes

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Music
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid. Bits include Lou's mirage sightings, one a New York newsboy ("they gave me a bad corner").
The Babe Ruth Story
Original Music Composer
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
Copacabana
Original Music Composer
Groucho Marx interpreta um agente de talentos que vende sua namorada para uma boate - como dois atos separados. A decepção e as mudanças constantes do traje são demasiado para sua garota.
Aconteceu na Quinta Avenida
Original Music Composer
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Climax
Music Director
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
Climax
Original Music Composer
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
Gypsy Wildcat
Music
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons them all in his castle. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger on a white horse has hidden the murder arrow and won the heart of gypsy belle Carla, to the discomfiture of her erstwhile fiancée Tonio. Baron Tovar is also fascinated by Carla...especially when he notices her heraldic pendant.
Mulher Cobra
Original Music Composer
Quando descobre que sua noiva tollea foi raptada, ramu e seu amigo kadu viajam para uma ilha do pacífico em busca de resgatá-la. O que eles não sabem é que esta ilha é habitada por um povo fanático, adoradores da deusa cobra, e que todos os visitantes desta ilha são assassinados ao chegarem para serem dados em sacrifício ao deus vulcão. A ilha é comandada pela maligna irmã de tollea, naja, a mulher cobra, que além de cair em desejo por seu novo prisioneiro, ramu, está pronta para eliminar todos à sua volta que a impeçam de realizar suas vontades, inclusive sua benevolente irmã.
Ali Babá e os Quarenta Ladrões
Original Music Composer
Liderados pelo perverso Ilulagu Khan, os mongóis tomam Bagdá e matam o califa. Porém, o jovem Ali, filho do califa, consegue escapar. Ali é adotado pelo velho Babá, líder de um grupo de ladrões. E ao lado de Babá e seus larápios, ele cresce e aprende todas as artimanhas que uma vida no castelo nunca poderia ter ensinado. Agora, já um homem feito, Ali deverá retornar ao castelo para vingar a morte de seu pai, retomar o seu lugar de direito no trono e resgatar seu grande amor: Amara.
O Fantasma da Ópera
Music
Este imortal e espetacular conto de terror de Gaston Leroux é estrelado por Claude Rains como o mascarado fantasma da Ópera de Paris, um compositor enlouquecido que planeja fazer de uma linda jovem soprano (Susanna Foster) a estrela da companhia de ópera e saciar sua vingança contra os que roubaram sua música. Nelson Eddy, o heróico barítono, tenta obter o afeto da garota enguanto persegue os passos do monstro que começa a matar aqueles que resiste a suas loucas exigências.
Nazty Nuisance
Original Music Composer
Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy's Mussolini and Japan's Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his buddies.
Yanks Ahoy
Original Music Composer
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
Prairie Chickens
Original Music Composer
Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattle.
Taxi, Mister
Original Music Composer
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
Fall In
Original Music Composer
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
The Devil with Hitler
Original Music Composer
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
Flying with Music
Original Music Composer
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with several pretty young ladies. Marjorie Woodworth plays the girl who helps Marshall in his escape, pausing occasionally to participate in a some lively but forgettable musical numbers.
About Face
Music
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
Dudes Are Pretty People
Original Music Composer
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
Brooklyn Orchid
Original Music Composer
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
Hay Foot
Original Music Composer
Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gun shy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb.
Fiesta
Original Music Composer
Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart José. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she is engaged. This makes José and Cholita's uncle more than a little bit put out as Fernando is not only not a Mexican, he is also a city slicker afraid of the country.
Miss Polly
Original Music Composer
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
All-American Co-Ed
Original Music Composer
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
Tanks a Million
Original Music Composer
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.
Herdeiro em Apuros
Music
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
Um Casal do Barulho
Music
Casal descobre que não está legalmente casado. Ann pensa que David irá pedi-la em casamento novamente, mas, quando isso não acontece, ela o expulsa de casa. David diz querer se casar com Ann, entretanto, ela já não o quer. David começa, então, a tentar reconquistá-la de qualquer forma. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
The Son of Monte Cristo
Original Music Composer
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
Kit Carson
Original Music Composer
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
Congo Maisie
Original Music Composer
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.
Remember?
Original Music Composer
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
Nick Carter, Super Detetive
Original Music Composer
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Original Music Composer
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
O Hotel dos Acusados
Music
O Coronel Burr MacFay suspeita que um jovem queira assassina-lo. Ele liga para Nick e Nora (com o novo bebê) para ajudá-lo.
Bad Little Angel
Music
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Thunder Afloat
Music
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Blackmail
Music
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
As Mulheres
Music
Esta adaptação para a tela, roteirizada por Anita Loos e Jane Murfin e dirigida por George Cukor, foi um tremendo sucesso no seu lançamento. Estrelada por Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford e Rosalind Russell. O filme deu continuidade à tradição das peças só com personagens de mulheres tagarelas. Dos glamorosos apartamentos da alta sociedade de Manhattan, até Reno onde todos se divorciam, o filme mostra um enfoque ácido de suas vidas e dos esforços dos maridos para fazerem suas esposas ricas e poderosas. Durante toda o filme não aparece um único homem se quer, embora sejam muito citados, e o tema central seja os relacionamentos das mulheres com eles.
Estas Grã-Finas de Hoje
Original Music Composer
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Andy Hardy é o Tal
Music
Andy jovem desenvolve uma queda por seu professor de teatro. Enquanto isso, o Juiz Hardy tem seus próprios problemas quando é levado a formar uma corporação de alumínio falso.
Stronger Than Desire
Music
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Maisie
Original Music Composer
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
6,000 Enemies
Music Score Producer
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
Afinal, o Mundo é Belo!
Original Music Composer
Quando um magnata é acusado de assassinato, o detetive particular que o procura vê-se preso como cúmplice e tenta fugir da polícia, sequestrando uma poetisa pelo caminho.
Broadway Serenade
Original Music Composer
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
The City of Little Men
Original Music Composer
The story of Boys Town, founded by Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 as a haven for wayward, homeless, and neglected boys.
Man's Greatest Friend
Music
An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.
A Mulher Proibida
Music
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
Hot on Ice
Music
How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.
Vacation from Love
Music
A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
Com os Braços Abertos
Original Music Composer
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
The Chaser
Original Music Composer
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
O Último Beijo
Original Music Composer
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over.
Pequeno Petulante
Music
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
The Toy Wife
Original Music Composer
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
Paradise for Three
Music
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
Namoro Mascarado
Original Music Composer
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Um Yankee em Oxford
Music
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Another Romance of Celluloid
Music
This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of current MGM productions.
Manequim
Original Music Composer
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
O Amor é uma Dor de Cabeça
Music
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Navy Blue and Gold
Original Music Composer
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
The Last Gangster
Original Music Composer
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.
Vive, Ama e Aprende
Music
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
Double Wedding
Original Music Composer
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Saratoga
Original Music Composer
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Night Must Fall
Original Music Composer
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
The Good Old Soak
Music
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
A Chave Noturna
Music
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Mama Steps Out
Music
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
A Comédia dos Acusados
Original Music Composer
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
Sinner Take All
Music
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Annie Laurie
Original Music Composer
In late 18th century Scotland, Annie Laurie and William Douglas love each other, but their clans are on opposite sides of the country's civil war. Their love is made immortal through the title song of this film.
The Longest Night
Music
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Sworn Enemy
Music Score Producer
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Women Are Trouble
Original Music Composer
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
São Francisco, a Cidade do Pecado
Music
Um Leão-de-Chácara da Costa Barbary e um empresário de Nob Hill são rivais pelos afetos de uma bela cantora, tanto pessoal quanto profissionalmente, na São Francisco de 1906.
Absolute Quiet
Additional Music
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
Moonlight Murder
Original Music Composer
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
Ciúmes
Original Music Composer
Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is built on unconditional trust, friends, and even Van's mother, caution Linda about the dangers of allowing Whitey, her husband's extremely sexy secretary, to continue to have access to him. Although Whitey has a faithful boyfriend, she secretly harbors unrequited feelings for her boss. When they take a business trip to Havana, circumstantial evidence convinces Linda that the rumors she's heard may have a basis in fact.
The Perfect Set-Up
Music
In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.
Exclusive Story
Original Music Composer
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
Raia Miúda
Original Music Composer
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
Whipsaw
Original Music Composer
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
Kind Lady
Original Music Composer
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
The Bishop Misbehaves
Music
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.
Mares da China
Compositor
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
Adeus Mulheres
Original Music Composer
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Public Hero Number 1
Original Music Composer
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Murder in the Fleet
Additional Music
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Two Hearts in Wax Time
Music
In this MGM Colortone Musical short, a department store custodian who overindulges in drink sees the mannequins in the store's display windows come to life.
Times Square Lady
Score Engineer
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
Memories and Melodies
Music
This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Original Music Composer
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
Music
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
Great Expectations
Original Music Composer
A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss Havisham and her niece, Estella, eventually becoming friends with the girl. Wealth comes to Pip via a mysterious benefactor and he goes off to London for an education. As adults, Pip and Estella become romantic, and Pip learns the identity of his patron.
Million Dollar Ransom
Music Director
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Million Dollar Ransom
Original Music Composer
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Gift of Gab
Original Music Composer
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Romance in the Rain
Original Music Composer
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
The Vanishing Shadow
Music
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Music
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
Hypnotized
Original Music Composer
A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.
Kismet
Music
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.