Manuel Seff

Фильмы

Walk Softly, Stranger
Story
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
Unmasked
Story
The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her when she gets a divorce. However, the husband refuses to grant her a divorce, and takes back all the money and jewelry he has given her. The editor sees her husband leaving her apartment and, seeing his opportunity, kills her, takes all his IOUs (and the jewelry) and frames the husband for the murder.
The Falcon's Alibi
Story
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
The Beautiful Cheat
Story
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
Kansas City Kitty
Screenplay
A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.
Jam Session
Screenplay
A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.
Sailor's Holiday
Writer
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
Beautiful But Broke
Adaptation
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
Married Bachelor
Story
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
Slightly Tempted
Story
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
Breaking the Ice
Screenplay
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
Woman Chases Man
Screenplay
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
Espionage
Writer
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Love on the Run
Screenplay
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.
Let's Make a Million
Writer
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
Trouble for Two
Screenplay
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
Three Godfathers
Screenplay
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
Поцелуй Рэд
Screenplay
Главная героиня — взбалмошная дочь генерала, занимающего высокий пост. Она скорее из чувства противоречия, а не по любви, готова выйти замуж за, невесть откуда взявшегося, политического агитатора, который митингует среди студентов, призывая их к беспорядкам в борьбе за лучшую жизнь, против существующих властей. Отец, чтобы уберечь дочь от несуразного поступка, хитростью заманивает ее в самолет и отправляет вместе с матерью в Мексику, но бунтарка и там пускается в бега. По дороге она знакомится с солдатом, который находится в самоволке и тоже бунтует, вот только сам не знает против чего. В итоге они объединяют свои усилия, чтобы добраться в Америку и начинаются их сумасбродные приключения, приправленные обоюдной неприязнью, которая постепенно перерастает в любовь, но они отчаянно не собираются в этом признаваться не только друг-другу, но и себе…
Traveling Saleslady
Screenplay
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
A Night at the Ritz
Additional Dialogue
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Золотоискатели 1935-го года
Screenplay
Скупая миллионерша Матильда Прентисс, ее угрюмая дочь Энн и, постоянно отвлекающейся на девушек, великовозрастный сынок, каждый год проводят лето в гостиничном комплексе на берегу красивого озера. В этом году к ним присоединяется помолвленный с Энн миллионер мистер Мосели Торп - мужчина средних лет пишущий монографию о табакерках. Обреченная на брак Энн, желая провести беспечное лето перед будущей свадьбой, просит мать нанять симпатичного клерка гостиницы Дика Куртиса сопровождать её в качестве кавалера, а иначе дочка откажется выходить за богача замуж. Алчная до денег мамаша соглашается, ведь слияние капиталов цель её жизни. Матильда Прентисс и не представляет, к чему приведут молодых людей прогулки при луне, катание на лодке и участие в постановке мюзикла на сцене местного театра...
Kansas City Princess
Screenplay
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
Side Streets
Screenplay
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
Домохозяйка
Screenplay
Нан Рейнольдс изо всех сил пытается вести домашнее хозяйство на скромную зарплату ее кроткого мужа Билла, офис-менеджера. Она призывает его искать лучшую работу в другом месте, но он не склонен к риску, и его отсутствие амбиций влияет на отношения супругов отрицательно. По прошествии времени, Билл всё же уступает жене, и открывает свое собственное агентство на деньги, которые она сумела сохранить. Вдохновленный Нан, он переманивает крупного клиента у своей бывшей фирмы и нанимает Пэт Беркли, которая училась вместе с Нан и Биллом в средней школе. Билл проводит много времени с Пэт и постепенно понимает, что чувства, которые он испытывал к ней в юности, пробудились с новой силой. Нан становится известно об их отношениях, но она предпочитает игнорировать их.
Easy to Love
Screenplay
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
College Coach
Story
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
College Coach
Screenplay
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
Парад в огнях рампы
Screenplay
Падение фондового рынка в 1929 году привело Америку к великой депрессии, и ко всему прочему, упал интерес зрителей к музыкальному театру, ведь на экраны вышло звуковое кино. В связи с этим театральный режиссер Честер Кент лишился работы на Бродвее, но он не из тех, кто привык отступать. Однажды зайдя в сетевую аптеку его, озарила мысль об организации сети актерских бригад, выступающих перед сеансами кино по всей Америке. И о чудо, идея сработала, и теперь его театрально развлекательное агентство стало лучшим в стране и возможно во всем мире…
Terror Aboard
Writer
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Blessed Event
Theatre Play
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.