Adela Rogers St. Johns

Рождение : 1894-05-20, Los Angeles, California, USA

Смерть : 1988-08-10

Фильмы

Final Verdict
Novel
A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.
Красные
Herself - Witness
Фильм рассказывает правдивую историю Джона Рида, радикального американского журналиста во время Первой Мировой Войны. Он встречается с замужней женщиной Луизой Бриант, которая бросает своего мужа ради него. После политических разногласий в США, они уезжают в Россию, в то время когда там идет октябрьская революция 1917 года. Они вдохновляются решимостью коммунистов и возвращаются в штаты, надеясь устроить такую же революцию.
Gable: The King Remembered
Herself
Friends and co-workers recall the life of Hollywood screen star Clark Gable.
The Girl Who Had Everything
Novel
Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.
Smart Woman
Adaptation
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
That Brennan Girl
Story
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
Government Girl
Story
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Леди Великого человека
Story
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Back in Circulation
Story
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
A Woman's Man
Story
A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Writer
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Царство зверей
Additional Writing
Издатель Том Коллье собирается жениться. Неожиданно в его жизнь возвращается бывшая любовница, художница Дейзи Сейдж, с которой теперь его связывают только дружба и деловые интересы. При встрече Дейзи признается в том, что мечтает выйти за Тома замуж и родить ему ребенка, и просит уехать с ней в Мексику, где она собирается серьезно заняться живописью. Несмотря на то, что Том поражен ее признанием, он по-прежнему может предложить девушке только дружбу. Проходит несколько месяцев. Том, узнав о первой персональной выставке Дейзи, собирается отправиться на открытие, однако его невеста Сесилия соблазняет его остаться дома. Далее Том все-таки навещает Дейзи, и после встречи с ним девушка уезжает в Новую Шотландию, дабы избежать искушения. Спустя какое-то время Сесилия приглашает ее и двух старых друзей Тома на вечеринку по случаю его дня рождения. Дейзи, заинтересованная мотивами Сесилии, побудившими ее пригласить соперницу на праздник, соглашается приехать.
Сколько стоит Голливуд?
Story
Официантка престижного ресторана, который часто посещают работники кино, Мэри Эванс мечтает стать актрисой. Однажды вечером, обслуживая подвыпившего знаменитого режиссера Макса Кэрри, она его очаровывает и он приглашает ее на премьеру своего фильма в китайский кинотеатр Граумон. Купив за 50 долларов «драндулет», он с эпатажем подъезжает к кинотеатру и отдает его в качестве «чаевых» парковщику стоянки, а Мэри представляет зрителям графиней. Прокутив всю ночь, он ничего не помнит на следующее утро. Доставившая его домой Мэри напоминает ему, что он обещал ей пробные съемки. Первое экранное испытание показывает, что девушка имеет гораздо больше амбиций, чем таланта и ей готовы отказать, но Мэри кроме амбиций еще и упорна…
Вольная душа
Novel
Экранизация книги Аделы Роджерс Ст. Джонс. Известный адвокат по уголовным делам Стивен Эш (Лайонел Бэрримор) живет в Сан-Франциско, сильно пьет, терпеть не может членов своей напыщенной семьи и обожает свою своенравную дочь Джен (Норма Ширер). Однажды Стивен блестяще выигрывает процесс, защищая перед судом присяжных от обвинения в убийстве гангстера Эйса Уилфонга (Кларк Гейбл). Вечером Эйс доставляет сильно выпившего адвоката в дом его родственников на день рождения матери. Вся семья в шоке по двум причинам: от вида Стивена и присутствия Эйса. Когда члены семьи высокомерно просят Эйса покинуть дом, Джен в знак протеста уходит вместе с ним, хотя на семейном торжестве присутствует ее жених Дуайт Уинтроп (Лесли Ховард)...
The Single Standard
Novel
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
Scandal
Story
1929 picture starring Laura La Plante, Huntley Gordon, and John Boles.
Lilac Time
Adaptation
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
The Arizona Wildcat
Story
Tom Mix plays a California breeder of polo ponies in love with a society gal. The cowboy saves the day when a member of her brother's polo team is injured during an important match. Mix immediately replaces him and amazes the audience with his spectacular riding stunts.
The Patent Leather Kid
Adaptation
The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.
Singed
Short Story
Dance-hall girl Dolly Wall invests her life savings in an oil well. A gusher comes in, enriching not only Dolly but her ne'er-do-well socialite sweetheart Royce Wingate. While Wingate hobnobs with the Upper Crust, poor Dolly is left home alone, stigmatized by her "scandalous" past.
Дети развода
Story
Китти, Тед и Джин — друзья детства, и все они дети разведенных родителей. Повзрослев, они полны решимости не совершать подобных семейных ошибок. Китти влюблена в Вико, но у него недостаточно денег, чтобы содержать ее так, как ей хотелось бы. У Теда есть деньги, но он и Джин любят друг друга. Не обращая внимания на счастье своей подруги, Китти обманывает пьяного Теда, выйдя за него замуж.
The Broncho Twister
Story
Returning from the war, Tom Mason (Tom Mix) rides square into a raging feud between the his family and the neighboring Brady gang.
The Wise Guy
Adaptation
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.
The Red Kimona
Story
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
Pretty Ladies
Story
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
Lady of the Night
Story
The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity, but worlds apart in life: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daughter of the judge who would send Molly's father to prison. The girls' lives come together as young women at eighteen as Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life free from reform school.
Inez from Hollywood
Writer
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But images are deceiving -- the parties (and police raids) are staged by Inez's press agent, and she is actually very devoted to her innocent younger sister, Fay Bartholdi.
Broken Laws
Story
Ignoring the advice of her husband, a mother indulges her son's every wish and demand all throughout his childhood. By the time she realizes her treatment of her son has spoiled him almost beyond belief, he is on trial for manslaughter.
The Secret Code
Writer
Sally Carter Rand, married to an elderly senator, is accused of espionage, but she is able to clear herself by proving that her mysterious knitting is actually a baby sweater.
Marked Cards
Story
Ellen Shannon, the daughter of self-made Irish politician Pat Shannon, is engaged to Ted Breslin, but because Pat began his career as a menial laborer, Ted's mother, Mrs. J. De Barth Breslin, refuses to sanction the marriage. Heartbroken, Ted takes up drinking and gambling with "Poker" LeMoyne and Don Jackson, while Ellen attends a finishing school hoping to improve herself. While trying to elude her chaperone, Ellen unwittingly dashes into a man's hotel room, and from the window, she witnesses Don and "Poker" playing cards, while Ted lies unconscious from too much drink. When the two gamblers quarrel, Don kills "Poker," but Ted is accused of the crime.
The Skyrocket
Novel
In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood star whose quick rise to fame leaves her self-centered, superficial, and a spendthrift. Ironically, the film that skyrocketed her to fame was written by Mickey. But her success is brief; and when it comes crashing to earth, Mickey is there to pick up the pieces.