Allan Scott

Nascimento : 1906-05-23, Arlington, New Jersey, USA

Morte : 1995-04-13

História

Allan Scott (born May 23, 1906) was an American screenwriter who was nominated for an Academy Award for the feature film So Proudly We Hail!

Filmes

The Confession
Writer
Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.
Imitação da Vida
Screenplay
O ano é 1947 e Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) é uma aspirante a atriz, viúva, que mora com sua sua única filha, Susie (Sandra Dee), e vive ignorando-a, enquanto busca construir uma carreira. Quando ela conhece Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), uma afrodescendente também viúva e mãe solteira, convida-a a trabalhar na sua casa e criar as filhas das duas juntas. No momento em que Annie e sua filha Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) se mudam para a casa de Lora, a menina passa a renegar as suas origens: por ter a pele bem mais clara que sua mãe, ela se declara branca para todos. Já Susie se sente rejeitada pela mãe e acaba encontrando conforto nos braços de um homem mais velho (John Gavin).
Lábios Selados
Writer
A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.
Os 5.000 Dedos do Dr. T.
Screenplay
Bart tem um único inimigo: seu professor de piano, Dr. Terwilliker. Dr. T. tem o maluco plano de forçar 500 garotos a praticar no seu piano gigante 24h por dia. Bart é o único que pode salvar as crianças.
The Four Poster
Screenplay
In turn-of-the-century New York, the marriage of John and Abby Edwards unfolds over the years.
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Adaptation
At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and several others.
The Guy Who Came Back
Screenplay
Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.
Let's Dance
Writer
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
Tell It to the Judge
Writer
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
I Love a Soldier
Writer
During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn't count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.
Here Come the Waves
Screenplay
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
A Legião Branca
Writer
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.
Remember the Day
Screenplay
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Skylark
Writer
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.
Honeymoon for Three
Theatre Play
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
Boa Sorte
Screenplay
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
Quero Ser Feliz
Screenplay
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
A Garota da Quinta Avenida
Screenplay
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
Man About Town
Story
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
Dance Comigo
Screenplay
O psicanalista Tony Flagg aceita analisar a jovem Amanda Cooper, para ver se descobre porque ela rompeu o noivado com Stephen Arden três vezes. Amanda acaba por se apaixonar por ele, forçando-o a hipnotizá-la para incutir em seu subconsciente a ideia de que ela o odeia e ama Stephen. Porém, quando descobre que também foi fisgado por ela, Tony terá de desfazer tudo...
Joy of Living
Screenplay
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Wise Girl
Screenplay
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
Wise Girl
Story
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
Vamos Dançar?
Screenplay
Linda Keene é uma louvada dançarina de balé. Petrov é um exímio sapateador. O sonho dele é realizar uma apresentação artística ao lado dela e, após espalhar um rumor de que ele era casado com Linda, as coisas ficam confusas entre os dois.
Quality Street
Screenplay
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
Ritmo Louco
Screenplay
Um dançarino e apostador viaja a Nova York para levantar a quantia necessária para poder se casar com sua noiva. Chegando lá, ele acaba se envolvendo com uma bela dançarina novata.
Nas Águas da Esquadra
Screenplay
Quando a esquadra chega a São Francisco, o marinheiro Bake Baker tenta reacender a chama com sua antiga parceira, Sherry Martin, enquanto seu amigo Bilge Smith se interessa por Connie, irmã de Sherry. Mas nem tudo é um mar de rosas. Bake geralmente perde seus trabalhos para Sherry e, apesar dos sonhos de Connie, Bilge não está pronto para assumir um compromisso.
In Person
Writer
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
O Picolino
Screenplay
Um dançarino americano ensaia um número de sapateado em seu quarto de hotel em Londres e acaba incomodando a vizinha do quarto de baixo. Logo ambos começam a se apaixonar. Mas um certo mal-entendido pode colocar tudo a perder...
Village Tale
Screenplay
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
Roberta
Screenplay
John visita sua tia em Paris, junto de sua banda. Ela é dona de uma loja de moda gerenciada por sua assistente, Stephanie. Lá, eles encontram a cantora Scharwenka, com quem conseguem um trabalho. Enquanto isso, Madame Roberta vem a falecer e deixa os negócios para John, que entra em sociedade com Stephanie.
By Your Leave
Screenplay
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
Let's Try Again
Screenplay
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.
Mais Uma Vez Adeus
Theatre Play
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?