Ernest Pagano
Nascimento : 1901-01-16, Colorado
Morte : 1953-04-29
História
Ernest S. Pagano (January 16, 1901 – April 29, 1953) was an American screenwriter. He began in showbusiness as a "gag-man" in silent films. He wrote for 66 films between 1927 and 1947.
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Screenplay
Jovem sobrinho de um senador tem missão delicada: comprar a liberdade de dez mulheres, seqüestradas e escravizadas em Trípoli. O problema é que ele se apaixona por uma das garotas, e esta lhe rouba o dinheiro do resgate.
Writer
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
Producer
Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
Screenplay
Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
Producer
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.
Writer
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.
Producer
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
Writer
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
Writer
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Adaptation
Em 1922, um aspirante a compositor clássico se envolve com pessoas que estão fazendo uma revista musical.
O compositor novato Kenneth Harvey chega a Nova York vindo do Kansas, na esperança de publicar seu concerto. Ele conhece o dono de clube, Danny O'Mara, que espera fazer um show na Broadway. O projeto do Ken sofre uma reviravolta para melhor quando ele se apaixona pela cantora Bonnie Watson. Mas enquanto trabalha na orquestração, O'Mara está sub-repticiamente adaptando suas músicas para o espetáculo Alegrias de Greenwich Village. ( e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos )
Screenplay
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.
Producer
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Screenplay
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Writer
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Screenplay
O Acunas, uma rica família argentina, seguem a tradição de que as filhas têm de se casar em ordem, primeiro as mais velhas. Quando a irmã # 1 se casa, as irmãs # 3 e # 4, que já escolheram seus futuros maridos, fazem pressão sobre Maria a irmã # 2. Mas Maria ainda não conheceu um homem que goste. O pai Eduardo Acuna, acreditando que os homens não são românticos suficiente nos dias de hoje, envia para sua filha flores e cartas de amor anônimas, criando um "homem misterioso" para ela se apaixonar. Ele pretende escolher um rapaz apropriado para ela mais tarde, para ocupar o papel. Mas Robert Davis, um dançarino americano à procura de trabalho, surge em cena. Maria se apaixona por ele, mas o pai não aprova.
Screenplay
Depois que sua esposa descobre um bracelete de diamantes revelador, o empresário Martin Cortland tenta mostrar que ele não está correndo atrás da showgirl Sheila Winthrop. O coreógrafo Robert Curtis é pego no meio do esquema do patrão. O recrutamento pelo Exército oferece a Robert o local perfeito para fugir de seus problemas. Ou não é?
Screenplay
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.
Writer
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Screenplay
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Screenplay
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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...
Screenplay
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
Screenplay
Jerry Halliday, compositor norte-americano de comédias musicais luta contra as convenções da alta sociedade londrina para conquistar o coração de Lady Alyce Marshmorton. Ao contrário do que Jerry pensa, ela ama outra pessoa, mas com a ajuda de seus amigos George e Gracie, ele acredita que sua vitória está garantida.
Screenplay
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
Screenplay
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
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.
Writer
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Writer
When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
Story
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
Narrated by
An Educational Pictures Camera Adventure short depicting a female hunters capture of a wildcat.
Story
First entry in the Educational Pictures Moran and Mack series.
Writer
Hollywood Lights is a 1932 Comedy.
Screenplay
Mother's Holiday is a 1932 Comedy
Writer
Hollywood Luck is a 1932 Comedy short.
Writer
A pseudonymous Roscoe Arbuckle directs this comedy short about a man who goes insane because of his wife's bridge addiction.
Writer
Keep Laughing is a 1932 Comedy short
Writer
The owner of a medicine show falls for a young beauty who is in love with someone else.
Story
When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
Dialogue
When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
Writer
Billy Dooley is a suspicious husband who, as a private detective, takes a job from a woman who thinks her husband is running around with another woman. The latter is actually Billy's wife, who is buying a car from the man as a present for Billy. But Billy doesn't know that.
Writer
Idle Roomers is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
The Tamale Vendor is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
A 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
Writer
One Quiet Night is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
That's My Meat is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
Up Pops the Duke is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
This Educational Comedies one-reeler is all about Walter Catlett in his obnoxious mode as he somehow imposes himself completely on Al St. John and Dorothy Granger as they go on their honeymoon. Dorothy never seems to notice anything odd about this situation -- which renders it all the funnier -- while Al St. John builds up quite a head of steam in what amounts to a ten-minute slow burn, worthy of Edgar Kennedy at his best.
Writer
Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
Screenplay
The Back Page is a 1931 Comedy short.
Story
The Back Page is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.
Writer
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
Dialogue
Pete and Repeat is a 1931 Comedy short.
Writer
Phyllis, uma atriz contratada encontra Leota, uma atriz desempregada vagando no portão do estúdio e a leva para casa, onde ela mora com sua amiga Rita. Bill, que trabalha no estúdio, oferece um papel a Rita, que o recusa. Leota aceita o papel e torna-se uma grande estrela.
Adaptation
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Story
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?