Ernest Pagano
Рождение : 1901-01-16, Colorado
Смерть : 1953-04-29
История
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
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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
В семействе Акунио дочери выходят замуж по старшинству, очередь за Марией. А та ждет прекрасного принца и не замечает никого. Любящий отец решил разбудить её чувства необычным способом: сам еженедельно пишет дочери анонимные любовные письма и отправляет вместе с букетами орхидей. О, ужас! Дочь неверно понимает источник ухаживаний и влюбляется в нищего танцора. Папаша в ярости.
Screenplay
Импресарио Мартин Кофтленд, намереваясь приударить за Шейлой, лучшей танцовщицей своей труппы, покупает ей в подарок бриллиантовый браслет. Жене он покупает… чесалку для спины. Увы, он путает подарки и браслет попадает в руки ревнивой жены. Чтобы отвести подозрения от шефа, хореограф Роберт Кёртис, завзятый холостяк, объявляет браслет своим и начинает демонстративно ухаживать за Шейлой. Но события принимают такой оборот, что даже уход на службу в армию не спасает Роберта от любовного безумия.
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
Однажды юрист Стивен Арден приходит на прием к своему другу психиатру Тони Флаггу с просьбой вывести его из запоя, связанного с его предстоящей женитьбой на популярной радиозвезде Аманде Купер, которая оказалась весьма непредсказуемой особой. Волею судьбы Аманда оказывается в кабинете Тони, и случайно включив фонограф, слышит нелестное мнение доктора о своей персоне. Девушка решает досадить врачу за его слова, но у неё получается с точностью наоборот, она влюбляется в Тони. Психиатр, желая помочь другу вернуть любовь, гипнотизирует Аманду, заложив в неё ненависть к себе, добавив в конце сеанса слова, — «ненавижу и пристрелю, как бешеного пса». Аманда, под действием гипноза, устроила настоящее сафари во время загородной прогулки. Хрупкая девушка едва не убила Тони. Чтобы вывести её из транса парню пришлось проявить немалую прыть и сообразительность…
Screenplay
Питер Морган — молодой профессор биологии в Старом Шаронском университете, приезжает срочно в Нью-Йорк, чтобы вернуть «заблудшую овцу» двоюродного брата Кита Моргана домой. Когда он, наконец, находит брата, неожиданно для себя знакомится, влюбляется и скоропалительно женится на певичке из ночного клуба Фрэнси. По возвращении домой в небольшой городок, которым заправляет Питер Морган-старший — его консервативный отец, с диктаторскими замашками, Питер никак не может набраться смелости, чтобы поставить в известность о своей женитьбе тирана-отца и больную матушку. Он просит Фрэнси поселиться у Кита, пока он придумает выход из создавшегося положения…
Screenplay
Романтичная жизнь леди Элис Маршмортон - тема большого количества сплетен и разных пари среди служащих замка Топли фамильного владения Маршмортонов. Чтобы победить в одном из очередных споров на тему: «Кто станет мужем юной графини» молодой служащий, подделав почерк девушки, пишет любовное письмо гастролирующему по Англии американскому танцору Джерри Холидэю, с которым она случайно за день до этого имела короткий разговор в Лондоне. Джерри попадается на эту уловку и приезжает в замок, ведь он давно ищет спутницу жизни из приличной семьи. Здесь ему предстоит столкнуться с массой конкурентов, которые не прочь также получить руку и сердце отнюдь не бедной и красивой наследницы замка...
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
Танцовщик Пит Питере — гениальный мастер своего жанра. Его импресарио и продюсер Джеффри, чтобы заинтриговать публику, выдает его за русского по фамилии Петров. Однако «Петрова» все время тянет танцевать что-то «несерьезное», в основном степ.
К тому же он неравнодушен к танцовщице и актрисе Линде Кин, которая успешно выступает с танцевальными номерами. И он решает, что девушка должна танцевать только с ним. Чтобы познакомиться и завоевать сердце красавицы, танцор идет на различные ухищрения, порой очень комичные…
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
Современные женщины стали интересоваться новостями по радио и игрой в бридж. Что же делать мужьям?
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
Adaptation
Элмер очень беден и работает в химчистке. Он безумно любит звезду сцены Трилби Дрю. На каждое ее выступление он надевает чужой смокинг и мчится в театр. Когда партнер Трилби по спектаклю обручается, она в отместку выходит замуж за Элмера, предполагая, что Элмер — миллионер. Но она ясно все еще любит своего партнера...
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?