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Cortland Fitzsimmons

Cortland Fitzsimmons
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Birth 19 june 1893
Death 25 july 1949 (at 56 years)

Cortland Fitzsimmons, né le 19 juin 1893 dans Brooklyn, à New York, et mort le 25 juillet 1949 à Los Angeles, en Californie, est un écrivain et un scénariste américain, auteur de roman policier.

Biography

En 1928, il publie son premier roman, Better Bridge puis, en 1930 La Fin des Manville (The Manville Murders) qui « témoigne d'une grande originalité » et est « considéré comme un des joyaux de la collection L'Empreinte ». Ce roman « raconte la fin violente et inexorable des derniers membres d'une famille dégénérée ».

En 1936, son second roman traduit en français, L'Écouteur invisible (The Whispering Window) est une intrigue « pur produit de l'école du « Si j'avais su » mis à la mode par Mary Roberts Rinehart ». Néanmoins, « même si ce roman peut s'interpréter comme un habile pastiche des œuvres de Rinehart et de Mignon G. Eberhart, on est loin de la sanglante anarchie du premier titre ».

De 1936 à 1942, il écrit plusieurs scénarios pour le cinéma.

Best films

Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)
(Original Story)

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Cortland Fitzsimmons (10 films)

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The Devil with Hitler, 44minutes
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Alan Mowbray, Bobby Watson, George E. Stone, Douglas Fowley, Herman Bing, Sig Arno
Roles Story
Rating52% 2.6245752.6245752.6245752.6245752.624575
In the pits of Hell, the board of directors decides to replace Satan (Alan Mowbray) with Adolf Hitler (Bobby Watson). Satan persuades them to give him 48 hours to save his job by getting Hitler to perform a single good deed.
All-American Co-Ed, 53minutes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, Noah Beery, Jr, Esther Dale, Harry Langdon, Alan Hale Jr.
Rating49% 2.466432.466432.466432.466432.46643
Mar Brynn college is failing, as a scheme to perk-up attendance a newspaper reporter stages a show featuring "Odd girls" from all over the country. For publicity Mar Brynn's President Aunt Matilda Collinge (Esther Dale) begins poking fun of the Quincton college Zeta frat. For revenge the Quincton Zeta frat sends a man dressed in drag to participate in a free admission contest. After falling in love with Virginia Collinge (Frances Langford) Bob Sheppard/Bobbie DeWolfe (Johnny Downs) comes clean and for revenge stages a "Zeta" publicity shot at the end of the show.
Fiesta
Fiesta (1941)
, 45minutes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Western
Themes Musical films
Actors Jorge Negrete, Ann Ayars, Armida, George Givot, Antonio Moreno
Rating49% 2.4509952.4509952.4509952.4509952.450995
Don Juan Hernández's niece Cholita returns to her village from Mexico City announcing she will not marry José, her village boyfriend, bur rather the radio star Fernando Gómez who has accompanied her home. José enlists two of his friends to pose as bandits to frighten the arrogant and cowardly Fernando and win Cholita back.
Jim Hanvey, Detective, 1h11
Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Catherine Doucet, Edward Gargan, Edward Brophy, Helen Jerome Eddy
Roles Adaptation
Rating60% 3.0022253.0022253.0022253.0022253.002225
This script must be run from the command line
The Mandarin Mystery, 1h6
Directed by Philip Ford, Ralph Staub
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Eddie Quillan, Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Wade Boteler, Franklin Pangborn, George Irving
Rating53% 2.660362.660362.660362.660362.66036
This script must be run from the command line
Death on the Diamond
Directed by Edward Sedgwick, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy, C. Henry Gordon, Paul Kelly
Roles Book
Rating60% 3.002323.002323.002323.002323.00232
Un propriétaire de club de baseball recrute Larry Kelly, un jeune lanceur très prometteur de la ligue du Texas, pour son équipe de St. Louis Cardinal.