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Elizabeth Meehan is a Scriptwriter and Cinematography British born on 22 august 1894 at Isle of Wight (United-kingdom)

Elizabeth Meehan

Elizabeth Meehan
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 august 1894 at Isle of Wight (United-kingdom)
Death 24 april 1967 (at 72 years) at New York City (USA)

Elizabeth Meehan (1894–1967) was a British screenwriter who worked in both Britain and Hollywood. During the late 1930s she was employed by the studio head Walter C. Mycroft to work for British International Pictures. Meehan frequently collaborated with the Irish director Herbert Brenon.

Best films

The Case of Sergeant Grischa
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
(1930)
(Adaptation) Sorrell and Son
Sorrell and Son
(1927)
(Adaptation)

Usually with

Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon
(13 films)
Leo Tover
Leo Tover
(4 films)
James Wong Howe
James Wong Howe
(3 films)
Bernard Siegel
Bernard Siegel
(4 films)
J. Roy Hunt
J. Roy Hunt
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Elizabeth Meehan (24 films)

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Scriptwriter

Northwest Outpost
Northwest Outpost (1947)
, 1h31
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Nelson Eddy, Hugo Haas, Ilona Massey, Joseph Schildkraut, Elsa Lanchester, Lenore Ulric
Rating62% 3.1408653.1408653.1408653.1408653.140865
The film is set at the Russian imperial post at Fort Ross in California in the early Nineteenth Century. A visiting American army offices becomes romantically involved with an aristocratic woman whose criminal husband is being held as a prisoner at the Fort.
Parachute Nurse
Parachute Nurse (1942)
, 1h3
Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Marguerite Chapman, William Wright, Louise Allbritton, Frank Sully, Shirley Patterson, Douglas Wood
Roles Story
Rating56% 2.8004052.8004052.8004052.8004052.800405
A cross section of American nurses enlists in the Aerial Nurse Corps during World War II. The film shows their training including being dropped by parachute to provide aid to wounded soldiers.
Mr. Reeder in Room 13
Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (1938)
, 1h18
Directed by Norman Lee
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Peter Murray-Hill, Sally Gray, Gibb McLaughlin, Bobbie Comber, George Merritt
Rating50% 2.52852.52852.52852.52852.5285
Mr. J.G. Reeder (Gibb McLaughlin) is called in by the Bank of England to investigate a gang of forgers. Reeder enlists the aid of a younger man, Capt. Johnnie Gray (Peter Murray Hill), to infiltrate the gang by going undercover in Dartmoor jail.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist (1933)
, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Irving Pichel, Dickie Moore, Doris Lloyd, William Boyd, Alec B. Francis, Barbara Kent
Roles Dialogue
Rating50% 2.5199652.5199652.5199652.5199652.519965
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
Girl of the Rio
Girl of the Rio (1932)
, 1h10
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Dolores del Río, Leo Carrillo, Norman Foster, Ralph Ince, Lucile Gleason, Stanley Fields
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.995232.995232.995232.995232.99523
South of the U.S. border, Don José Tostado, a Mexican cabellero, falls in love with Dolores Romero, a dance-hall girl. Owning one of the larger ranches in the area, Tostado is not used to people telling him no. When Romero resists his advances, using a fictional boyfriend as her excuse, this only increases his interest in her, and his attempts to win her favor. As part of that attempt, he plans to throw a gala in her honor.
Beau Ideal
Beau Ideal (1931)
, 1h19
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure, Romance
Themes French war films
Actors Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, Lester Vail, Irene Rich, Bernard Siegel, Otto Matieson
Roles Writer
Rating50% 2.5249952.5249952.5249952.5249952.524995
The last two surviving members of a French Foreign Legion detachment, who know each other as Smith and Brown, are consigned to a grain pit in the desert to die slowly. As they await death the two soldiers eventually realize that they were childhood friends, John Geste (Ralph Forbes) and Otis Madison (Lester Vail), respectively.