David Butler

David Butler

Рождение : 1894-12-17, San Francisco, California, USA

Смерть : 1979-06-14

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Butler (December 17, 1894 – June 14, 1979) was an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director. Butler was born in San Francisco, California. His mother was an actress and his father was a theater stage manager. His first acting roles were playing extras in stage plays. He later appeared in two D. W. Griffith films, The Girl Who Stayed Home and The Greatest Thing in Life. He also appeared in the 1927 Academy-Award winning film 7th Heaven. The same year, Butler made his directorial debut with High School Hero, a comedy for Fox. During Butler's nine-year tenure at Fox, he directed over thirty films, including four Shirley Temple vehicles. Butler's last film for Fox, Kentucky, won Walter Brennan an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Butler worked with Bing Crosby in Road to Morocco and If I Had My Way. He directed many films starring Doris Day, among them It's a Great Feeling, Tea for Two, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Lullaby of Broadway, April in Paris, and Calamity Jane. During the late '50s and 1960s, Butler directed primarily television episodes, mainly for Leave It to Beaver and Wagon Train. For his contributions to the film industry, Butler was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 with a motion pictures star located at 6561 Hollywood Boulevard.

Профиль

David Butler

Фильмы

C'mon, Let's Live a Little
Director
Standard boy-girl malt shoppe doings, with a free speech on campus sub-plot dropped in.
Hollywood My Home Town
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
The Right Approach
Director
An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
The Girl He Left Behind
Director
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.
Glory
Director
A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.
Jump Into Hell
Director
Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand against the Communist forces. Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina.
Ричард Львиное Сердце
Director
Ричард I «Львиное Сердце» — английский король из рода Плантагенетов, правивший в 1189 — 1199 гг. Сын Генриха II и Элеоноры Гиенской. Этот фильм рассказывает о самых бурных годах правления Ричарда «Львиное сердце». В лейтмотив картины положены правдивые истории летописей о любви шотландца Кеннета, и кузины короля — Леди Эдит, а также о влиянии на правление монарха предводителя арабов Саладина, который под видом лекаря проник в лагерь христиан и стал одним из самых приближенных к королю
Капитан
Director
Армейский доктор без боевого опыта находится в составе пограничного отряда штата, охраняющего земли от набегов индейцев. После одной из стычек и гибели командира, он вынужден взять командование конным отрядом и сопровождать поезд, следующий через враждебную индийскую территорию.
Джейн-катастрофа
Director
Городок Дейдвуд в штате Дакота славится своим мужским населением. Здесь проживают солдаты, бойскауты, разведчики новых земель, фермеры-ковбои, и все эти веселые парни любят выпить крепкий виски и пострелять из своих кольтов. Среди них обитала и бестия Джейн, считающая себя девушкой-скаутом, которая ничем не хуже мужчин. Она ловчее и смелее многих местных забияк, а её кнут и револьвер проучат любого нахала. Однажды Джейн на спор с мужчинами вызывается привести из далекого Чикаго настоящую Приму варьете, но, не разобрав, кто есть кто, привозит её костюмершу Кэти. Однако мужчины городка в восторге от нового личика и каждый готов отдать Кэти своё сердце! Джейн, чтобы избавить певицу от назойливых поклонников, берет шефство над Кэти и приглашает пожить у себя в хижине. Певица и «гроза ухажеров» становятся неразлучными подругами. Девушка-скаут даже не осознает, что ждет её впереди — ведь именно с этой минуты начнется её перевоспитание из грубой девицы в настоящую леди…
В свете серебристой луны
Director
Дорис Дэй в роли сорвиголовы из колледжа, которая доставляет много проблем окружающим. Все меняется, когда приходится заняться проблемами брата…
April in Paris
Director
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
Где Чарли?
Director
Британская музыкальная комедия "Где Чарли?" является киноверсией одноимённого мюзикла, который, в свою очередь, основан на пьесе Брэндона Томаса "Тётка Чарлея".
Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
Director
The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.
Lullaby of Broadway
Director
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
Чай для двоих
Director
Богатая наследница, мечтающая стать артисткой, заключила пари со своим дядей и опекуном на 25 тысяч долларов: в течение 48 часов она должна на все вопросы отвечать только «нет». В случае выигрыша она получит возможность вложить деньги в бродвейское шоу и, конечно же, сыграть в нем главную роль. Но она не знает, что ее дядя разорился…
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Director
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
The Story of Seabiscuit
Director
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit, and fights to convince the horse's owner that the tiny horse with big knees will become a top-notch racehorse. Meanwhile, Margaret begins a tentative relationship with jockey Ted Knowles, but is haunted by her brother's death in a steeplechase spill. Written by Ray Hamel
Это великое чувство
David Butler (uncredited)
Кинопродюссер Артур Трент, в затруднительном положении. В пятницу должны начаться съемки фильма «Мадемуазель Фифи», с участием актеров Дэнниса Моргана и Джека Карсона. Но никто из голливудских режиссеров, не желает работать с Карсоном. Тренту не остается ничего другого, как предложить Карсону самому снять фильм. Но это еще не все. Нужна исполнительница главной женской роли, так как ни одна уважающая себя актриса, также не станет сниматься с Карсоном, тем более под его руководством. Тогда Морган предлагает Карсону, пригласить на главную роль молоденькую официантку Джуди Адамс.
Это великое чувство
Director
Кинопродюссер Артур Трент, в затруднительном положении. В пятницу должны начаться съемки фильма «Мадемуазель Фифи», с участием актеров Дэнниса Моргана и Джека Карсона. Но никто из голливудских режиссеров, не желает работать с Карсоном. Тренту не остается ничего другого, как предложить Карсону самому снять фильм. Но это еще не все. Нужна исполнительница главной женской роли, так как ни одна уважающая себя актриса, также не станет сниматься с Карсоном, тем более под его руководством. Тогда Морган предлагает Карсону, пригласить на главную роль молоденькую официантку Джуди Адамс.
Ища серебряную подкладку
Director
Это музыкальный байопик звезды 20-х годов Мэрилин Миллер, которая проделала путь от подмостков в Финдли, штат Огайо, до Бродвея. На пути к славе она всегда могла рассчитывать на поддержку своего наставника – танцора Джека Донахью.
John Loves Mary
Director
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
Two Guys from Texas
Director
Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
My Wild Irish Rose
Director
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Director
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Director
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.
Сан-Антонио
Director
События фильма разворачиваются в 1877 году в штате Техас. Ковбой Клэй Хардин задался непростой целью положить конец бесчинствам Роя Стюарта, главаря банды воров, которые угоняют скот у ранчеро. Борьба происходит не только с бандитами, но и в его сердце - Хардин полюбил Жанну Старр, певицу из принадлежащего его врагу салуна.
Принцесса и пират
Director
На одном и том же фрегате Британского Королевского флота плыли неудачливый бродячий актер Сильвестр (Боб Хоуп) и скрывавшаяся от своей королевской семьи принцесса Маргарет, но ужасный пират по кличке Хук, имеющий вместо руки металлический крюк, захватывает корабль и требует у королевской семьи выкуп за принцессу. Между тем, переодетый в цыганку Сильвестр, демонстрируя тупость, трусость и плоское чувство юмора, но все-таки, устраивает побег с пиратского парусника и спасает принцессу, надеясь на ее взаимное чувство к нему.
Shine on Harvest Moon
Director
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Благодари судьбу
Director
Почти все звезды Голливуда играют в этом фильме-ревю самих себя, и только трое из них являются исполнителями с вымышленными именами. Вокруг них и разворачивается действие картины. Продюсер Барни Джексон желает заполучить в свой новый проект звезду шоу Эдди Кантора — Дайану Шер. Но он прекрасно знает, что Эдди не отпустит ее одну — обязательно попросит, чтобы и он участвовал в проекте…
They Got Me Covered
Director
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington, D.C., he convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his job back. The pair soon find themselves in several awkward predicaments as they track the criminals down in a night club, a burlesque show, and face a final showdown at a beauty salon.
Дорога в Марокко
Director
Оставшиеся в живых после кораблекрушения безбилетные пассажиры Джефф и Орвайл попадают на северо-африканское побережье и скачут на верблюдах через пустыню в Морокко. В надежде купить еду, Джефф продает Орвайл в рабство, но владелицей Орвайла оказывается принцесса Шалмар, которая освобождает его и становится его женой. Но не бескорыстно...
Playmates
Director
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
Caught in the Draft
Director
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
Вы узнаете
Producer
Менеджер Кэй Кайзер и его оркестр отправляются на празднование дня рождения Джэнис Беллакрест, богатой наследницы, в роскошную усадьбу, выстроенную покойным Элмером Беллакрестом, известным финансовым магнатом и исследователем. Добравшись до особняка, гости замечают, что в доме царит таинственный заговор и какие-то «зловещие темные» силы пытаются убить Джэнис ...
Вы узнаете
Story
Менеджер Кэй Кайзер и его оркестр отправляются на празднование дня рождения Джэнис Беллакрест, богатой наследницы, в роскошную усадьбу, выстроенную покойным Элмером Беллакрестом, известным финансовым магнатом и исследователем. Добравшись до особняка, гости замечают, что в доме царит таинственный заговор и какие-то «зловещие темные» силы пытаются убить Джэнис ...
Вы узнаете
Director
Менеджер Кэй Кайзер и его оркестр отправляются на празднование дня рождения Джэнис Беллакрест, богатой наследницы, в роскошную усадьбу, выстроенную покойным Элмером Беллакрестом, известным финансовым магнатом и исследователем. Добравшись до особняка, гости замечают, что в доме царит таинственный заговор и какие-то «зловещие темные» силы пытаются убить Джэнис ...
If I Had My Way
Story
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
If I Had My Way
Producer
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
If I Had My Way
Director
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
That's Right - You're Wrong
Producer
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
That's Right - You're Wrong
Story
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
That's Right - You're Wrong
Director
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
East Side of Heaven
Story
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
East Side of Heaven
Director
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
Kentucky
Director
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Straight, Place and Show
Director
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Kentucky Moonshine
Director
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
You're a Sweetheart
Director
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Али-Баба едет в город
Director
Голливудский киноактер Эл Бэбсон, снимающийся в фильме по мотивам арабских сказок, принимает болеутоляющее и просыпается в какой-то средневековой арабской стране. Там его принимают за сына Али-Бабы. Султан тут же назначает Эла своим главным министром, и путешественник во времени приступает к кардинальным преобразованиям. Разумеется, он наживает себе немало врагов среди лиц, приближенных к султану. Чтобы избежать неминуемой гибели, Элу пришлось воспользоваться ковром-самолетом...
Кожаный парад
Director
Pigskin (свиная кожа) - так называется мяч для игры в американский футбол. По недоразумению Йельский университет приглашает к себе на домашний матч захудалую команду из Техасского университета. Так случилось, что неё как раз прикупили нового "большого" тренера - вдохновлённые совпадением, техасцы рьяно начинают тренировки. Дебют Джуди Гарланд в большом кино.
White Fang
Director
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Captain January
Director
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.
The Littlest Rebel
Director
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
Doubting Thomas
Director
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
The Little Colonel
Director
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
Bright Eyes
Story
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
Bright Eyes
Director
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
Have a Heart
Story
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.
Have a Heart
Director
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.
Handy Andy
Director
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome son of the town doctor. Finally the druggist decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands.
Bottoms Up
Screenplay
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
Bottoms Up
Story
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
Bottoms Up
Director
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
My Weakness
Director
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
Hold Me Tight
Director
Hold Me Tight is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by David Butler and written by Gladys Lehman.
Handle with Care
Story
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.
Handle with Care
Director
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.
Down To Earth
Director
Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.
Business and Pleasure
Director
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes embroiled in a feud between two Arab tribes.
Delicious
Director
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Янки из Коннектикута
Director
Экранизация знаменитого пародийного романа Марка Твена "Янки из Коннектикута при дворе короля Артура". Водевильный комик Уилл Роджерс в роли делового янки конца XIX века Хэнка Мартина, который после сильного удара по голове теряет сознание и в забытьи попадает в эпоху короля Артура - героя многих рыцарских романов. Там коннектикутского парня в соломенной шляпе ждут удивительные приключения.
Представьте себе
Director
В 1980 году воздушный транспорт вытесняет автомобильные средства передвижения. Граждане именуются по номерам, и правосудие постоянно вторгается в частную жизнь людей - например, для того, чтобы решить, кто из двух соперников женится на обожаемой ими девушке. Тот, постановляют судьи, кто совершит наиболее славный подвиг. Итак, у Джей-21 есть всего 4 месяца, чтобы свершить героическое деяние и завоевать руку и сердце Эл-Эн-18. Один учёный предлагает ему экспедицию на Марс. Джей-21 и его лучший друг отправляются туда, прихватив с собой третьего компаньона - мошенника, умершего в 1930 году, но оживлённого благодаря научному прогрессу.
High Society Blues
Story
After selling his business in Iowa, Eli Granger and his family move to an exclusive Scarsdale area in New York, where by chance he occupies a house adjacent to Horace Divine, a wealthy businessman with whom he made his business transaction...
High Society Blues
Director
After selling his business in Iowa, Eli Granger and his family move to an exclusive Scarsdale area in New York, where by chance he occupies a house adjacent to Horace Divine, a wealthy businessman with whom he made his business transaction...
С улыбкой к миру
Producer
Молли и Би, милые молодые девушки, живут в дешевой комнате над продуктовым магазином в Нью-Йорке. Кумир Молли, богатый Джек Кромвелл, живет в особняке на Лонг-Айленде, но он заметно менее счастлив, поскольку его невеста Джейн постоянно флиртует со своими многочисленными поклонниками. Прибыв в Нью-Йорк, Джек попадает на вечеринку в честь Дня независимости, где встречает Молли...
С улыбкой к миру
Director
Молли и Би, милые молодые девушки, живут в дешевой комнате над продуктовым магазином в Нью-Йорке. Кумир Молли, богатый Джек Кромвелл, живет в особняке на Лонг-Айленде, но он заметно менее счастлив, поскольку его невеста Джейн постоянно флиртует со своими многочисленными поклонниками. Прибыв в Нью-Йорк, Джек попадает на вечеринку в честь Дня независимости, где встречает Молли...
Salute
Navy Coach
A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
Salute
Director
A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
Masked Emotions
Director
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Writer
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Director
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
Prep and Pep
Director
A boy finds it difficult to live up to his father's reputation at his school.
Win That Girl
Director
A gridiron rivalry between two colleges is entering its third generation, and the Norton family (father and grandfather were members of teams defeated by rival squads captained by members of the Brawn family) rears Johnny Norton, 3d, to be a star football player. The lad is underweight, however, and initially shows a talent only for drop kicking. During the big game, Johnny is substituted for another player and leads his team to victory, winning for himself the love of Gloria Havens.
Should Second Husbands Come First?
The Widow's Older Son
A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.
High School Hero
Story
High School Hero
Director
Седьмое небо
Gobin
События разворачиваются в Париже накануне Первой мировой войны. Молодая девушка Diane терпит побои от своей старшей сестры, которая обвиняет её во всех неудачах. В очередной момент насилия над Diane ей на помощь приходит молодой красавец Chiko — работник городской канализации. Путём хитрой авантюры дабы запутать полицию, Diane попадает в дом Chiko, где и рождается между ними светлое чувство. Влюблённые готовы пожениться, но начинается война, добавляя драматизма в и без того нелёгкую жизнь бедных парижан.
The Quarterback
'Lumpy' Goggins
Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still in school and is a classmate of his son, Jack. Other than driving a milk wagon in his spare time, Jack is also the quarterback of the football team. A matter of his eligibility comes up but he is cleared and goes out to do-or-die for Colton against State University. Maybe they will win The Big Game, and Jack's father can get a life...and a job.
Womanpower
Mallory
Womanpower (1926)
The Blue Eagle
Nick 'Dizzy' Galvani
Waterfront rivals George Darcy and Big Tim Ryan are both in love with Rose Kelly, and continue their feud when they join the Navy. After the war, they call a temporary truce to take on dope peddlers who are destroying their neighborhood.
Oh, Baby!
Billy, a diminutive manager of prizefighters, is priming Jim Stone for the heavyweight championship when Charley Burns (Arthur Graham?) discloses that for the past 8 years he has invented a mythical wife and daughter for the benefit of his Aunt Phoebe, who now requests a visit from them. He finally persuades Billy to pose as his daughter, Evangeline, while Miss Brennan, a magazine writer, consents to take the role of his wife.
Пластмассовый век
James Henley
В колледж Прескотт поступает новичок — прилежный студент и чемпион по бегу Хью Карвер. Он с первого взгляда влюбляется в Синтию Дэй, звезду студенческого городка, которая прославилась своим разгульным образом жизни. Хью и Синтия начинают встречаться. В колледже на Хью возлагают большие надежды, однако затягивающиеся заполночь свидания с Синтией выматывают его настолько, что на спортивные тренировки не остается сил. Родители юноши и тренер Хенли приходят в отчаянье. После одной безумной ночи, когда Хью спасает своего соперника Карла Петерса от преследования полиции, Синтия понимает, что толкает его на кривую дорожку и принимает благородное решение больше с ним не встречаться. Хью быстро восстанавливает спортивную форму, и благодаря ему футбольная команда колледжа побеждает на соревнованиях. Наградой самому Карверу становится любовь Синтии.
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Bud Matthews
His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
Tracked in the Snow Country
Terry Moulton
When Rin-Tin-Tin's master is found murdered, Rinty is accused of the crime.
Code of the West
Bid Hatfield
Code of the West (1925)
The Narrow Street
Ray Wyeth
Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
The Arizona Express
Steve Butler
A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who's helping her discover information that may clear him, but they have to get to the governor in time to present their new evidence and get a stay of execution.
Hoodman Blind
Jack Yeulette
It is a remake of a 1913 film of the same name directed by James Gordon and a 1916 William Farnum Fox feature titled A Man of Sorrow and based on the play Hoodman Blind.
The Temple of Venus
Nat Harper
Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.
Cause for Divorce
Tom Parker
David Butler and Fritzi Brunette star in this melodrama about an agricultural student whose wife longs for life in the city.
Mary of the Movies
David Butler (uncredited)
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Жёны бедняков
Jim Maherne
Лора Бедфорд выходит замуж за бедного таксиста Джима Маберна, а ее подруга Кларибель — за богача Ричарда Смит-Блантона. Спустя несколько лет судьба вновь сводит женщин вместе. Кларибель приглашает Лору на бал, и та с радостью соглашается. Так как Лора очень бедна, она вынуждена взять бальное платье напрокат. На празднике у Кларибель за ней начинает увиваться Смит-Блантон, но Лора не реагирует на его авансы. После бала дети Лоры нечаянно портят взятое напрокат платье, и женщине приходится возместить убыток, заплатив все скудные сбережения Джима. Узнав об этом, Джим выгоняет ее, однако затем ему приходится защитить жену от навязчивого ухаживания Смит-Блантона, и между супругами вновь воцаряется мир.
The Fog
Si Plumb
Silent World War I (WWI) romantic melodrama (based on the novel by William Dudley Pelly) .
The Village Blacksmith
Bill Hammond
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled. As adults, Anson and the blacksmith's daughter Alice (Valli) fall in love, which angers the blacksmith, who chastises his daughter. The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident. Anson steals $480 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession. Alice is struck by lightning. The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent.
According to Hoyle
"Boxcar" Simmons
"'Boxcar' Simmons, a tramp, represents himself as a mining millionaire in a small town. The population accepts him at his own valuation, and two of the town's 'slickers' make desperate efforts to 'take him for his roll.' One of their schemes is to sell him a worthless ranch, but he turns the tables on them by making them believe that the ranch is a veritable bed of silver ore, and then, after they buy it, he presents the major part of the proceeds to the girl who owns the place and with whom he had fallen in love." (Moving Picture World, 24 Jun 1922, p. 736.)
The Sky Pilot
Bill Hendricks
Arthur Moore, a missionary preacher, attempts to fit into the cowboy community so he can set up a church in the local saloon. Gwen, daughter of the "Old Timer," is injured in a stampede and loses her ability to walk. Though rejected by the townsfolk, the preacher's wisdom and love are needed if the young girl is to be healed. Shot in 'Vidor Village', Vidor's ill-fated studio property in California's High Sierra.
The County Fair
Joel Bartlett
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man's son. While she's dead set against it, the niece is a sweet thing and would do anything to help her aunt--even marry the rich jerk. However, a possible way out is presented. When a poor young man is taken in and fed, he turns out (naturally) to be a jockey and thinks he can win the $3000 prize at the fair and save the farm.
Fickle Women
Calvin Price
The Triflers
Janet Randall, a department store clerk who longs for a fling at high society, ignores the love of the poor but honest Dan Cassidy. When vacation time comes, Janet goes to a fashionable hotel and there meets her idol, society favorite Monte Moreville. Upon requesting the bill at the end of four days, Janet discovers that the tariff is more than she can afford, and Monte comes to her rescue by offering to bail her out. In exchange, Janet must pose as his wife to fend off a woman who is threatening a breach of promise suit.
The Pointing Finger
Mary Murphy, the oldest waif in an orphanage, steals a dress and three dollars, then escapes to the city. Grosset, the superintendent of the institution, steals $10,000 on the same night, and Mary is suspected of the theft.
The Other Half
Cpl. Jimmy
Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
A Petal on the Current
Ed Kinealy
Nugget Nell
Big Hearted Jim
Big Hearted Jim, the sheriff, loves the tomboyish Nugget Nell ( Dorothy Gish ), who runs a hash house in the mining country, but although she has romantic feelings, they are not aroused by Jim. Nell agrees to an old miner friend's request to care for his "child," Nell is shocked to meet the six-foot girl, but she cares for her just the same. Nell falls in love with the City Chap, out West to look after his mining property, but he barely notices her, having become intrigued by the Ingenue, whom he met on the stagecoach. The jealous Nell steals stylish clothes to allure him, but she has trouble walking in French high-heels.
Better Times
Peter Van Alstyne
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Johann August Kant
Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.
The Greatest Thing in Life
Mr. Le Bebe
A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, comes in frequently ostensibly to buy cigarettes but in reality to talk to the daughter Jeannette, and he is soon in love with the little shop girl. Leo is homesick for his native France, but lacks the funds to make the passage. Edward, learning of their plight, sends $1,000 with a note saying that the money is payment for a good deed. Leo accepts the money and he and Jeannette embark at once.
Нетерпимость
Babylonian Soldier (uncredited)
Фильм «Нетерпимость» — один из этапных в развитии мирового киноискусства; — это сложная сюжетная конструкция из четырех перемежающихся новелл, показывавших четыре различные эпохи. В ленте, снятой с грандиозным постановочным размахом, был затронут широкий круг философских и моральных проблем. Нетерпимость трактована как зло, отравляющее жизнь во все времена и у всех народов. Обратившись к огромному историческому и мифологическому материалу, Гриффит использовал при его воплощении необычные для того времени кинематографические средства и приемы, определившие новаторское значение фильма.
Рождение нации
Northern Soldier / Confederate Soldier
Счастливая семья Камерон живет в доме в Пьемонте, в Южной Каролине. У доктора и г-жи Камерон три сына: Бенджамен, Уэйд и Дюк — и две дочери: старшая Маргарет и младшая Флора. К ним в гости приезжают друзья из Пенсильвании: Тед и Фил. Фил влюбляется в старшую дочь Камерона, а Бен Камерон, влюбляется в Элзи Стоунмен, увидев ее фотографию.