Marc Connelly

Marc Connelly

Рождение : 1890-12-13,

Смерть : 1980-12-21

Профиль

Marc Connelly

Фильмы

The Ten-Year Lunch
Himself - Participant
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
The Borgia Stick
Davenport
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
Les Verts Pâturages
Theatre Play
A French TV movie directed by Jean-Christophe Averty , broadcast on December 24, 1964 . The Old Testament set in Louisiana with an all black cast.
Černošský Pánbůh a proroci
Theatre Play
Tall Story
Professor Charles Osman
A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.
Дух Сент-Луиса
Father Hussman
Чарльз Слим Линдберг изо всех сил пытается найти финансирование, чтобы построить спроектированный им самолет, который сделает его перелет из Нью-Йорка в Париж первым сольным трансатлантическим перелетом.
Crowded Paradise
Writer
A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.
The Pink Hussar
The Host
A famed Hungarian playwright arrives in American and, in order to secure the success of his new play, his friends dope him up and take him to the hospital with the idea of telling the world that he as become stricken and is dying. Of course, the critics are fooled and they give the playwright and his play all the favorable publicity and reviews. As a result, the playwright and all his friends get the opportunities they had long awaited.
Merton of the Movies
Theatre Play
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Хижина на небесах
Writer
Заядлый игрок в кости и любитель женщин Литл Джо решает начать новую жизнь. Его жена Питунья давно молит Бога о том, чтобы он расстался с пагубными страстями, раскаялся и нашел работу. И такой день настал, Джо пришел в церковь на исповедь, но когда дошла его очередь причаститься, он сбежал со своими дружками в игорный клуб отыграться напоследок от долгов. В клубе его заподозрили в жульничестве и ранили выстрелом из револьвера. В предсмертном бредуДжо является Люцифер-младший со своей свитой, с целью забрать его в Ад, но Питуньяне зря просила и молила Бога за жизнь мужа и Ангелы также пришли к его постели. Междусилами добра и зла произошла разборка за душу азартного игрока, точку в которойпоставило решение Господа, дать Джо еще шесть месяцев на земле на исправление, но с одним условием - он не будет помнить эту встречу. Если за этот срок он обелит свою душу, то попадет в Рай, если же нет - тогда навсегда останется в лапах Люцифера.
Reunion in France
Screenplay
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Я женился на ведьме
Screenplay
В 1672 году, когда пуританец Джонатан Вули сжигает на костре двух колдунов, Дженнифер и ее отца Дэниела, они проклинают всю его семью на то, что потомки-мужчины будут всегда себе выбирать не тех жен. В 1942 году Дженнифер и Дэниел возвращаются, чтобы отомстить нынешнему потомку Джонатана Вули — Уолласу, который баллотируется в местные сенаторы и, чтобы укрепить свое положение, собирается жениться на Эстель Мастерсон. Но у колдунов свой план его неудачи — напоить любовным напитком накануне свадьбы. Нечаянно Дженнифер выпивает этот напиток и влюбляется в Уолласа.
The Wild Man of Borneo
Screenplay
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
Dulcy
Theatre Play
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Отважные капитаны
Screenplay
Избалованный сын американского миллионера во время путешествия в Европу случайно упал за борт океанского лайнера. Его подбирает португальский рыбак Мануэль, который учит его премудростям жизни на рыбацкой шхуне. Через три месяца шхуна берёт курс на новоанглийский порт Глостер, но Мануэль по дороге погибает. Привязанность мальчика к старшему товарищу такова, что в память о нём он решает связать свою жизнь с морем. Однако это противоречит планам его отца…
The Green Pastures
Story
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
The Green Pastures
Director
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
Фермер женится
Theatre Play
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Cradle Song
Writer
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Make Me a Star
Writer
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Exit Smiling
Story
Silent comedy about the travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company.
Beggar on Horseback
Writer
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?
Merton of the Movies
Writer
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.
To the Ladies
Theatre Play
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
Dulcy
Theatre Play
Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner. Though at first thoroughly confusing the deal, she does get her husband a bigger share than he bargained for.The film is now considered to be lost.
The Sleep of Cyma Roget
Cyma Roget, a beautiful young woman, has fallen under the influence of the evil Hindu scientist Chandra Dak, who can cast her at will into a hypnotic state resembling death. Chandra Dak's power over Cyma wanes as his love for her grows, however, and one night she escapes and takes refuge in the atelier of three young and struggling Bohemian artists. During her stay at the atelier, she becomes an artist's model and forms an attachment to one of the artists, Paul Bridere, but soon Chandra Dak falls out of love with Cyma and sends her into a hypnotic coma.