Samuel Hoffenstein
Nascimento : 1890-10-09, Kera, Russia
Morte : 1947-10-06
História
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Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, he emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for the rest of his life and where he wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These movies included Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Miracle Man (1932), Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Tales of Manhattan (1942), Flesh and Fantasy (1943), Laura (1944), and Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946).
In addition, Hoffenstein, along with Cole Porter and Kenneth Webb, helped compose the musical score for Gay Divorce (1933), the stage musical that became the film The Gay Divorcee (1934).
He died in Los Angeles, California. A book of his verse, Pencil in the Air, was published three days after his death to critical acclaim. Another book of his work was published in 1928, titled Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. The book contained some of his work that had been formerly published in the New York World, the New York Tribune, Vanity Fair, the D. A. C. News, and Snappy Stories.
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A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
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Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.
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Uma jovem menina Inglesa, com aspirações de se tornar uma encanadora, vem ajudar um jovem cuja pia fica entupida enquanto ele está dando uma festa. Ela conhece um escritor checo, e lhe são dados vários cocktails. Quando seu tio, o encanador, chega, ele fica horrorizado, e dá um jeito para ela ir num serviço em uma casa rica. Lá, ela conhece o escritor tcheco novamente.
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An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
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Baseado em um conto de Vera Caspary, este mistério sobre o assassinato da personagem principal mostra um detetive se apaixonando pelo retrato dessa bela vítima. Ele investiga três suspeitos para tentar solucionar o crime: um jornalista, o noivo de Laura, a vítima, e sua tia.
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Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
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Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.
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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.
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Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
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Breves histórias ligadas por um casaco azarado, uma boa oportunidade para ver algumas grandes estrelas no seu auge. A primeira história é um triângulo amoroso com Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, e Thomas Mitchell. O casaco vai para outro proprietário, um conto fantasioso com Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, e Cesar Romero. Em seguida é comprado por Elsa Lanchester para seu marido (da vida real), Charles Laughton, dando má sorte ao músico e compositor. Depois ele vai para as mãos de um advogado expulso, Edward G. Robinson, que encontra um colega de classe, George Sanders, em uma muito elegante reunião da faculdade. O casaco é levado por dois bandidos que o perdem e então é encontrado pelos mais pobres dos pobres da comunidade negra na depressão de 1930, interpretados pelo famoso cantor Paul Robeson e a grande Ethel Waters, que vão ao seu pastor, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, para quem o casaco finalmente traz algo de bom.
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Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
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Na Londres do século XIX, o médico e pesquisador Harry Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) crê que bem e mal existam em todas as pessoas. Jekyll tem muita determinação para provar sua teoria, que é criticada por quase todos que conhece, inclusive Charles Emery (Donald Crisp), o pai de sua noiva Beatrix (Lana Turner). Após trabalhar incansavelmente em seu laboratório, Jekyll elabora uma fórmula. Não querendo colocar em risco a vida de ninguém, ele mesmo a bebe. Como resultado, seu lado demoníaco é revelado, que ele chama de Mr. Hyde. Mas o pior ainda estava por vir, pois inicialmente Jekyll acreditava poder controlar as aparições de Hyde e logo ele veria que estava completamente enganado.
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A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
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Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.
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Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
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Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
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A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
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A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
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Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
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Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women. Here the four women plan to spend the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.
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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.
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Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
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On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides in her room, she falls in love with him. He explains that after he spoke out about the rights of man to a crowd, a riot ensued, during which a policeman was killed. Como took the gun from the killer, but is thought to be guilty of the crime himself. Como, who reciprocates Mary's love, spends the night with her, but leaves to keep her out of danger. He joins the crew of a ship sailing to China after he is befriended by Turk, a big lumbering sailor who is also in love with Mary. Each man is unaware that they love the same woman.
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Uma mulher não consegue decidir entre dois homens que a amam, e o trio concorda em tentar viver juntos em um relacionamento amigável platônico.
Dois americanos que partilham um apartamento em Paris, o dramaturgo Tom Chambers (Fredric March) e o pintor George Curtis (Gary Cooper), são seduzidos pelo espírito livre de Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins). Quando ela não consegue decidir com qual deles ela prefere ficar, propõe um "acordo de cavalheiros": Ela vai morar com eles como uma amiga e crítica de seus trabalhos, mas nunca vão ter relações sexuais. Mas quando Tom vai a Londres para supervisionar a produção de uma de suas peças, deixando Gilda sozinha com George, por quanto tempo o Acordo de Cavalheiros vai durar?
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A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.
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After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love. A patron of Richard's, Baron von Merzbach, develops an interest in Lily that may not be with the best of intentions.
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Alfaiate parisiense se encontra fingindo ser um barão para ganhar um dinheiro de um aristocrata, somente para acabar se apaixonando por um jovem e despreocupada princesa.
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A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
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O Dr. Henry Jekyll acredita que há dois lados distintos para os homens: Um lado bom e um mal. Ele acredita que, ao separar os dois, o homem pode se libertar. Ele tem êxito em seus experimentos com produtos químicos, se transforma em Hyde e comete crimes horríveis. Quando ele interrompe o uso da droga, já é tarde demais ...
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A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
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A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
