Gertrude Purcell
Рождение : 1895-06-14, New York City, New York, USA
Смерть : 1963-05-01
История
Purcell (who was described by a friend as a "masculine, funny, and hard-drinking woman") worked as a freelancer for much of her career, penning scripts for most of the major studios. During the McCarthy era she became an important informer due to her communist past, but before the process she attempted suicide. She then retired from her cinema career, but lived a decade more.
Screenplay
Девушка с фермы имеет роман с лыжным инструктором.
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Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
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Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
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История о неразлучной троице Тони, Китти, и Ник Вест которая покорила весь Голливуд своим актерским мастерством и, не испугавшись трудностей военной жизни, внесла свой вклад в борьбу с нацистами в Европе. Великолепный музыкальный фильм созданный для развлечения зрителей и сегодня смотрится легко и непринужденно благодаря великолепной игре актеров и превосходно поставленным музыкальным номерам.
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Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
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Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.
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Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, Ellery and his police-inspector father are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack. There've been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to the bottom of things.
Adaptation
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
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Сумасшедший профессор Гиббс изобретает машину невидимости и начинает искать подходящую подопытную свинку. Он довольно быстро находит её в лице фотомодели Китти Кэрролл, но всё осложняется, когда его изобретение крадут несколько местных гангстеров.
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Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
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A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
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Опытная проститутка, испытавшая в этой жизни абсолютно все, перебывала в объятиях сотни мужчин, но не утратила нежного, ранимого сердца, которое, как и много лет назад, открыто любви и верности, которое готово раскрыться навстречу искреннему чувству. Даже если это будет стоить жизни. И вот в маленьком, захолустном американском городишке появляется странноватый парень по имени Том Дестри. Он вежлив, вроде умен, довольно красив. И он один встает против всего города, чтобы навести порядок и установить торжество закона.
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После окончания школы-интерната сирота Конни попадает в дом своих богатых, но очень неприветливых родственников.
Так начинается история современной американской «Золушки», которая, как и положено, закончится счастливым концом и встречей героини с настоящим принцем.
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Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
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Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
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A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
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Певица ночного клуба обладает замечательным голосом и вместо развлекательных джазовых песен мечтает подняться на новые высоты и стать певицей «Метрополитен Опера». Она даже ссорится со своим женихом, дирижером джаз-бенда, с которым она выступает. Ее увидел на сцене клуба помощник богатого чудака и мецената, считающего себя великим продюсером и знатоком оперы. Девушка пыталась с ним встретиться, но он отказался, сославшись на свою занятость подготовкой к предстоящему путешествию на сафари. И тогда помощник идет на хитрость. Он уговаривает девушку сыграть роль легендарной «девушки-птицы», отправившись вслед за ними в Африку. Услышав ее пение на природе, меценат пришел в восторг и решил, что он открыл новый талант. Он привозит «чудо-птицу» в свой дом, устраивает ей несколько уроков с учителем пения и решает продемонстрировать всему миру свое найденное и открытое им чудо, а заодно утереть нос директору театра «Метрополитен Опера», который обвинил его в невежестве…
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An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
Adaptation
Юная Стелла Мартин, дочь фабричного рабочего, влюблена в Стивена Далласа — выходца из когда-то богатого рода, служащего на фабрике мелким начальником. Стивен бросает свою давнюю возлюбленную Хелен, так как боится, что недостаточно богат и высокопоставлен для неё. Стелла нечаянно сталкивается с ним, когда приходит на фабрику, чтобы отнести обед брату Чарли, и Стивен увлекается ею.
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A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
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An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
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Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker.
Writer
Кей Колбай, красивая девушка из семьи аристократов, провожает своего жениха, который вынужден срочно уплыть в Японию по делам фирмы. В порту она встречает своего знакомого миллионера Скота Миллера, который также провожает свою подругу графиню Камплейнлле с целым выводком маленьких собачек в страну восходящего солнца.
Все опечалены расставанием и когда корабль отчаливает, Кей и Скот, чтобы успокоить, нервы, отправляются в бар выпить по чашке кофе. Во время беседы Кей узнает, что оказывается, миллионер давно в нее влюблен, он специально отправил свою подружку в плавание и организовал срочную командировку жениха Кей, перед этим купив фирму в которой тот работал.
Девушка возмущена до глубины души, и требует прекратить такие навязчивые формы ухаживания. Но богач не сдается. Он делает все, чтобы женщина, которую он полюбил, осталась с ним, тем более мама девушки очень симпатизирует нагловатому будущему зятю...
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У автомобильного магната Джеймса Бьюкенена есть невеста, которая совершенно его не любит, и совет директоров, который никогда к нему не прислушивается. Как-то раз, сидя в раздумье на скамейке в парке, он знакомится с безработной Джоан Хоуторн, прекрасной поварихой, которая как раз ищет себе партнера, чтобы устроиться на работу «парой» (дворецкий / повар) к изысканному гурману — бывшему бутлегеру Майку Россини. Ошеломленный таким предложением, Бьюкенен без лишних слов соглашается на роль дворецкого. Но ведь когда-нибудь обязательно настанет день расплаты…
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An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
Story
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
Additional Writing
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
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Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
Adaptation
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
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Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.
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Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
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Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
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A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal rocks his administration, Tracy has his girl friend marry Dillaway, a writer friend, so that the press will leave him alone.
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A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
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Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
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Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.
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Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
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Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.