Peter Milne

Nascimento : 1896-08-15, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 1968-03-29

Filmes

Glory
Screenplay
A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.
Geraldine
Screenplay
Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors.
She's Working Her Way Through College
Screenplay
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.
About Face
Screenplay
Three friends enter military school together, but 2 of them don't know that the 3rd one is secretly married.
Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
Screenplay
The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Screenplay
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
April Showers
Writer
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
My Wild Irish Rose
Screenplay
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
High Tide
Additional Dialogue
A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.
O Veredito
Screenplay
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
A Mão que Nos Guia
Screenplay
Robert L. Scott sonhou toda a sua vida de ser um piloto de caça, mas quando a guerra chega ele encontra-se voando em aviões de transporte na China. Na China, ele convence general Chennault para deixá-lo voar com os Tigres Voadores, famosos pilotos que estavam lutando contra os japoneses muito antes de Pearl Harbor. Scott consegue a sua chance de lutar, em última análise, enfrentar em combate o piloto japonês conhecido Tokyo Joe.
Step Lively
Screenplay
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
Lady, Let's Dance
Screenplay
Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita. The story begins as she travels to a California resort where she has been hired as a replacement for a dance team. The resort is run by a handsome fellow. As a result of the gig, the skater becomes a national star while the resort manager gets fired and becomes a drifter until he ends up in the Army. The Oscar nominated score includes the following songs: "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams", "Dream of Dreams", "Rio", "In the Days of Beau Brummel", "Lady, Let's Dance", "Happy Hearts", "Ten Million Men and a Girl", and the rhumba standard "Esperanza".
White Savage
Story
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.
They Meet Again
Screenplay
Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement charges.
They Meet Again
Story
Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement charges.
Private Affairs
Screenplay
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
Rancho Grande
Screenplay
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.
Rancho Grande
Story
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.
A Casa Mal-Assombrada
Screenplay
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Screenplay
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
San Quentin
Screenplay
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
God's Country and the Woman
Story
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
Polo Joe
Screenplay
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
Colleen
Screenplay
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
O Morto Ambulante
Screenplay
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Screenplay
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
Miss Pacific Fleet
Screenplay
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Mary Jane's Pa
Screenplay
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Gold Diggers of 1935
Story
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
Gold Diggers of 1935
Screenplay
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
A Mulher de Vermelho
Writer
A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.
Return of the Terror
Writer
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Registered Nurse
Screenplay
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
Convention City
Screenstory
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
From Headquarters
Screenplay
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
O Caso de Hilda Lake
Screenplay
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Belezas em Revista
Writer
Um diretor da Broadway, vendo sua carreira em declínio, decide investir na criação de prólogos, pequenas apresentações musicais encenadas em cinemas antes dos filmes. Porém, os planos são atrapalhados por concorrentes que tentam roubar suas ideias. Sua grande chance ocorre quando seus produtores fazem um acordo com um eminente empresário teatral, mas para isso ele precisa correr contra o tempo para impressionar o homem. Entretanto, está tão envolvido com o seu trabalho que não percebe que sua secretária está apaixonada por ele.
Come Across
Adaptation
Mary, a high society girl, wants to see how the other half lives, so she becomes a cabaret dancer in a New York nightclub. The owner of the nightclub, Pop Hanson, and his criminal friends, Harry and Cassie, scheme to rip off a Montana millionaire. Finding herself interested in Harry, Mary goes along with their plan and decides to pose as his wife. The gang moves into Mary's aunt's deserted mansion as their base of operations. A silent film with sound sequences.
Come Across
Scenario Writer
Mary, a high society girl, wants to see how the other half lives, so she becomes a cabaret dancer in a New York nightclub. The owner of the nightclub, Pop Hanson, and his criminal friends, Harry and Cassie, scheme to rip off a Montana millionaire. Finding herself interested in Harry, Mary goes along with their plan and decides to pose as his wife. The gang moves into Mary's aunt's deserted mansion as their base of operations. A silent film with sound sequences.
The Michigan Kid
Writer
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn't want his girl to find about it.
Say It with Sables
Story
In this silent film, now considered lost, Doug Caswell falls for Irene, his wealthy father's mistress. It's up to Doug's stepmother Helen to put things right.
Beware of Blondes
Writer
Jeffrey (Matt More), a jewelry store clerk prevents a robbery and, as a reward, given a vacation in Honolulu, provided that he transports a valuable emerald to the Hawaiian Islands. On the boat he meets a blonde named Mary (Dorothy Revier) whom he mistakes for a jewel thief called Blonde Mary (Hazel Howell).
The Way of the Strong
Writer
A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.
The Matinee Idol
Adaptation
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?
The Sporting Age
Writer
Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young male secretary Phillip Kingston )Carroll Nye), regains his eyesight. He keeps this from his wife, who continues her affair. Finally, he invites his young niece Nancy Driscoll (Josephine Borio) in the hopes she will fall for Philip and vice-versa. His ploy works, James reveals he can see again, and husband and wife are reconciled.
The Head of the Family
Writer
Silent Comedy film directed by Joseph C. Boyle
The Silver Slave
Writer
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver. Lavishing the greater part of her fortune on her daughter, Janet, Bernice determines to give her the advantages she herself lacked. Despite her mother's disapproval, Janet scorns the affection of Larry Martin, a life-long friend, after meeting Philip Caldwell, a wealthy sophisticate. Worried over Janet's growing attachment to Philip, Bernice determines to win Caldwell from her daughter, and in a confrontation involving the girl and Richards, now a millionaire, Janet is disillusioned in her mother and Caldwell. Learning of her mother's sacrifice, Janet forgives her and finds happiness with Larry.
The College Widow
Writer
Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes can be induced to come to Atwater, he will be asked to resign. Acting upon the suggestion of Professor Jelicoe, Jane, the professor's beautiful daughter, uses her personal charm to draw noted football stars from neighboring schools by a series of ruses at a vacationing spot. Billy Bolton, son of a financial magnate, falls for Jane and to prove himself registers under another name and works his way through school, attaining scholastic and athletic honors. Through the jealousy of another girl, Billy learns of Jane's trickery and persuades the athletes not to play;
The Great Mail Robbery
Writer
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant Donald Macready, assigned by his commanding officer to squelch a train-robbery gang. Going undercover, Macready infiltrates the gang and monitors their every move.
The Great Mail Robbery
Story
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant Donald Macready, assigned by his commanding officer to squelch a train-robbery gang. Going undercover, Macready infiltrates the gang and monitors their every move.
Little Italy
Writer
Rosa is told by her father that she must marry a man from her own clan. She refuses, and vows to marry the first man she meets. That man is Antonio, who is from a hated clan. Antonio is in love with Rosa, although she hates him. Despite this, she keeps her vow and marries him.