George Abbott

George Abbott

Рождение : 1887-06-25, Forestville, New York, USA

Смерть : 1995-01-31

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than eight decades. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Abbott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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George Abbott

Фильмы

Damn Yankees
Writer
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
Damn Yankees
Theatre Play
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
Damn Yankees
Theatre Play
Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.
Damn Yankees
Screenplay
Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.
Damn Yankees
Director
Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.
Приятель Джои
Musical
Шикарный мюзикл с Фрэнком Синатрой в роли отчаянного ловеласа Джои, любителя блондинок и брюнеток, толстых и худых, молодых и не очень. Скрываясь от очередного обманутого мужа в маленьком городе, он становится постановщиком ревю и соблазняет и спонсора постановки Веру Симпсон и главную звезду Линду
Пижамная игра
Theatre Play
На фабрику по пошиву пижам «Спокойных снов!» приходит новый управляющий Сид Сорокин. Здесь он знакомится с представителем комитета по жалобам Бэйб Уильямс. Между ними возникает роман. В это время местный профсоюз начинает активную борьбу за надбавку в 7,5 центов. Сид и Бэйб оказываются по разные стороны баррикад.
Пижамная игра
Screenplay
На фабрику по пошиву пижам «Спокойных снов!» приходит новый управляющий Сид Сорокин. Здесь он знакомится с представителем комитета по жалобам Бэйб Уильямс. Между ними возникает роман. В это время местный профсоюз начинает активную борьбу за надбавку в 7,5 центов. Сид и Бэйб оказываются по разные стороны баррикад.
Пижамная игра
Director
На фабрику по пошиву пижам «Спокойных снов!» приходит новый управляющий Сид Сорокин. Здесь он знакомится с представителем комитета по жалобам Бэйб Уильямс. Между ними возникает роман. В это время местный профсоюз начинает активную борьбу за надбавку в 7,5 центов. Сид и Бэйб оказываются по разные стороны баррикад.
Где Чарли?
Novel
Британская музыкальная комедия "Где Чарли?" является киноверсией одноимённого мюзикла, который, в свою очередь, основан на пьесе Брэндона Томаса "Тётка Чарлея".
Mary Lou
Adaptation
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.
Mary Lou
Director
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.
Beat the Band
Writer
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
Broadway
Theatre Play
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Broadway
Writer
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Highway West
Theatre Play
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Too Many Girls
Director
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
The Boys from Syracuse
Writer
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
On Your Toes
Theatre Play
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Three Men on a Horse
Writer
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Straight Is the Way
Original Story
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
Heat Lightning
Writer
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Lilly Turner
Theatre Play
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Those We Love
Writer
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
The Cheat
Director
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingston, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
My Sin
Music
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
My Sin
Producer
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
My Sin
Adaptation
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
My Sin
Director
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
Secrets of a Secretary
Adaptation
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
Secrets of a Secretary
Director
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
Circus shadows
Writer
Stolen Heaven
Writer
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
Stolen Heaven
Director
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
The Sea God
Writer
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.
The Sea God
Director
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.
Manslaughter
Adaptation
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before.
Manslaughter
Director
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before.
The Fall Guy
Writer
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
На западном фронте без перемен
Screenplay
Рассказ о простых немецких школьниках старших классов, которые под действием патриотической пропаганды идут на войну, принимая её как игру, и не знают, что впереди их ждет только смерть.
Half Way to Heaven
Writer
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.
Half Way to Heaven
Director
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.
Night Parade
Writer
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
The Saturday Night Kid
Theatre Play
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
Why Bring That Up?
Writer
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
Why Bring That Up?
Director
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
Broadway
Writer
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Coquette
Theatre Play
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Four Walls
Theatre Play
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
Four Walls
Script
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
Hills of Peril
Theatre Play
Sheriff is aided by Laramie who pretends to be an outlaw to infiltrate a gang of bootleggers. Laramie is attracted to Ellen, who is trying to activate an old mine. He helps her with the mine and captures the bootleggers.