Dorothy Yost

Dorothy Yost

Nascimento : 1899-04-25, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Morte : 1967-06-10

Perfil

Dorothy Yost

Filmes

Smoky
Screenplay
A cowboy named Clint bonds with a beautiful wild stallion that he trains, but after the two are separated and the horse ends up in a rodeo, Clint is determined to set it free.
Saginaw Trail
Writer
Hamilton's Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers.
O Vaqueiro e os Peles-Vermelhas
Writer
Finding Indians stealing from his ranch, Gene learns they are suffering from malnutrition. Store owner Martin is cheating them and now he is after the Chief's valuable necklace. When the dying chief is found, having been attacked and robbed, Martin blames Lakhona who would become the new chief. When Gene helps Lakhona they soon find themselves fleeing from the law.
A Pantera
Screenplay
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.
Loaded Pistols
Screenplay
A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.
Loaded Pistols
Story
A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.
The Strawberry Roan
Screenplay
Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt, tries to shoot the horse but is stopped by his foreman, Gene Autry. The roan escapes and Autry, told to leave the ranch by Walt, finds and trains the horse, now named Champ, in hopes that by returning it to Joe it will provide him with the will to overcome his disability.
Furacão Negro
Screenplay
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch, but the head cowhand is doubtful about Clint and fears that since he refuses to talk about himself, he must have some dreadful secret in his past. Clint and Smoky become close to each other, weathering the hardships of Western life and the suspicions of others together, until one day, Smoky tragically vanishes. Will Clint ever see him again?
Thunderhead - Son of Flicka
Screenplay
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
Flores do Pó
Writer
Este drama biográfico do diretor Mervyn LeRoy mereceu uma indicação ao Oscar de melhor filme por retratar com grande sensibilidade a vida da engajada dona de casa Edna Gladney (Greer Garson). Após passar por amargas experiências de vida, ela se casa com o texano Sam Gladney (Walter Pidgeon). O casal tem um filho, que morre precocemente. Ao mesmo tempo, Edna descobre que não poderá ter outra criança e assim decide se dedicar a algo para preencher sua vida. Ao observar que o tratamento dado às crianças órfãs e abandonadas não é exatamente o que poderia chamar de terno, ela abre uma casa de adoção e encaminha as crianças a lares onde possam ter uma vida digna.
Sporting Blood
Screenplay
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
Forty Little Mothers
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.
Bad Little Angel
Screenplay
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Blackmail
Story
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
A História de Irene e Vernon Castle
Adaptation
Vernon Castle é um ator cômico se segunda categoria. Ele conhece Irene Castle em uma praia de Nova Jersey. Os dois logo se apaixonam e se casam. Após muito insistir, Irene convence Vernon a desistir da comédia para começarem uma nova carreira como bailarinos. A agente Maggie Sutton descobre o talento do casal e Vernon e Irene atingem o sucesso. Mas quando estão no auge da fama, inicia-se a 1ª Guerra Mundial.
Four Girls in White
Screenplay
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with there own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
There Goes the Groom
Screenplay
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
Too Many Wives
Writer
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Racing Lady
Screenplay
A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in order to get the trainer.
That Girl From Paris
Screenplay
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
M'Liss
Screenplay
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
Bunker Bean
Screenplay
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Murder on a Bridle Path
Writer
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
A Mulher Que Soube Amar
Screenplay
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
A Dog of Flanders
Adaptation
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
Laddie
Screenplay
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
A Alegre Divorciada
Screenplay
O filme conta a história de Guy Holden, um célebre bailarino estadunidense, que está viajando pela Europa com seu amigo, o advogado Egbert. No meio do caminho para a Inglaterra, conhece Mimi Glossop, que viaja com sua tia. Em Londres, os dois se encontram casualmente e Guy se apaixona por Mimi, mas sem saber que se trata de uma mulher casada em processo de divórcio. Mimi e sua tia voltam a se encontrar num hotel e começam os equívocos.
Hello, Everybody!
Screenplay
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
What Men Want
Screenplay
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
What Men Want
Adaptation
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
The Sea Bat
Story
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
Little Mickey Grogan
Screenplay
The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well. The fact that the heroine is spending time with a burly prizefighter would seem to confirm this.
Little Mickey Grogan
Adaptation
The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well. The fact that the heroine is spending time with a burly prizefighter would seem to confirm this.
Judgement Of The Hills
Adaptation
Spanish Film released in the USA on August 1, 1927
Judgement Of The Hills
Screenplay
Spanish Film released in the USA on August 1, 1927
Uneasy Payments
Writer
Mother
Screenplay
Hills of Kentucky
Story
Adapted from Dorothy Yost's story, "The Untamed Heart"
Kentucky Pride
Screenplay
This rare John Ford silent is a charming, sweetly sentimental tale of the relationship between humans and animals told largely from the point of view of a racehorse who observes as her breeder (Henry B. Walthall) is forced to sell her when he loses everything in a poker game. Several of the era’s most famous racehorses make appearances, including the legendary champion thoroughbred Man o’ War.
Marriage in Transit
Scenario Writer
A gang of crooks led by Holden steals a government code, and Cyril Gordon, a Secret Service agent who bears a strong resemblance to the gang leader, is assigned to recover the stolen documents.
The Hunted Woman
Writer
The Hunted Woman
Broadway or Bust
Writer
Virginia Redding inherits a fortune and goes to New York, leaving behind her suitor Dave, a rancher. Good fortune strikes Dave when radium deposits are discovered on his ranch, and he and his partner sell out, go to New York, and become society sensations.
Cause for Divorce
Writer
David Butler and Fritzi Brunette star in this melodrama about an agricultural student whose wife longs for life in the city.
The Footlight Ranger
Writer
Cowboy Bill sells his prize dogs to pay Janet's way back to New York and, in love with the girl, follows her to Manhattan where he obtains a job as a construction worker.
The New Teacher
Screenplay
The New Teacher
Adaptation
Little Miss Smiles
Scenario Writer
Jackie
Scenario Writer
For the Soul of Rafael
Writer
For the Soul of Rafael
Scenario Writer