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Gene Fowler is a Scriptwriter and Additional Writing American born on 8 march 1890

Gene Fowler

Gene Fowler
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 march 1890
Death 2 july 1960 (at 70 years)

Gene Fowler est un scénariste et acteur américain né le 8 mars 1890 à Denver, Colorado (États-Unis), mort le 2 juillet 1960 à Los Angeles (États-Unis).

Biography

Il est le père du monteur et réalisateur Gene Fowler Jr. (1917-1998).

Best films

What Price Hollywood? (1932)
(Writer)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
(Additional Writing)

Usually with

Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht
(5 films)
Rudolph Maté
Rudolph Maté
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Gene Fowler (24 films)

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Scriptwriter

Beau James
Beau James (1957)
, 1h40
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Political films
Actors Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith, Darren McGavin, Joe Mantell
Roles Book
Rating66% 3.3415853.3415853.3415853.3415853.341585
In 1925, New York's governor, Al Smith, persuades state senator James J. "Jimmy" Walker that the Democratic Party needs him to run for mayor of New York City. A concern on Jimmy's part is his estrangement from wife Allie, but he discovers that she is willing to go along with his political aims.
Big Jack
Big Jack (1949)
, 1h25
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main, Edward Arnold, Vanessa Brown, Clinton Sundberg
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.049273.049273.049273.049273.04927
À la frontière entre le Maryland et la Virginie en 1802, un jeune médecin est sur le point d'être pendu, lorsqu'il est sauvé par des hommes de la bande de Big Jack qui recherchent un médecin pour soigner le chef de la bande, blessé à la jambe.
Gentle Annie
Directed by Andrew Marton
Genres Romance, Western
Actors James Craig, Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Harry Morgan, Paul Langton, Barton MacLane
Roles Writer
Rating61% 3.092593.092593.092593.092593.09259
A frontierswoman turns her family into a band of bank robbers.
Somewhere I'll Find You, 1h48
Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Patricia Dane, Reginald Owen
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.0490953.0490953.0490953.0490953.049095
In October 1941, war correspondents and brothers "Jonny" (Clark Gable) and Kirk Davis (Robert Sterling) return to the still-neutral United States after being kicked out of Germany. Jonny's boss, isolationist New York Daily Chronicle publisher George L. Stafford (Charles Dingle), refuses to print his story about Japan and Germany's plans for the world, but Jonny tricks him into doing so, and gets fired for his trouble.
Billy the Kid, 1h34
Directed by Frank Borzage, David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Gangster films
Actors Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard, Gene Lockhart, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Rating56% 2.8471152.8471152.8471152.8471152.847115
The year is 1880 and William Bonney (Robert Taylor) is already a famous gunslinger, known as "Billy the Kid". In Lincoln, New Mexico, Billy helps his friend Pedro Gonzales (Frank Puglia) escape from jail, where he was put by mean sheriff Cass McAndrews (Cy Kendall).
The Earl of Chicago, 1h27
Directed by Victor Saville, Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen, Edmund Gwenn, E. E. Clive, Ronald Sinclair
Roles Story
Rating61% 3.096723.096723.096723.096723.09672
To remedy the ill doings of his past, Robert "Silky" Kilmount, ex-Chicago bootlegger who has opened up his own legal distillery, hires Quentin "Doc" Ramsey as manager of his company. Seven years ago, Silky got Doc sent to prison after framing him for a crime he didn't commit.
A Message to Garcia, 1h17
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Alan Hale, Herbert Mundin, Mona Barrie
Roles Ecrivain
Rating58% 2.9471252.9471252.9471252.9471252.947125
The film opens with the Maine Incident of 1898 in which an American warship blew-up in Havana harbor, allegedly following sabotage by Spain, triggering the outbreak of the Spanish–American War. President McKinley, wishing to make contact with General Calixto García, the leader of the Cuban revolt against Spain, summons an American army officer Andrew Summers Rowan to the White House and gives him a message which he is to personally deliver into Garcia's hands.
Call of the Wild, 1h35
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Frank Conroy, Katherine DeMille
Rating67% 3.392983.392983.392983.392983.39298
A prospector heading for the Alaska gold fields loses most of his money gambling. His luck changes when he pays $250 for a sled dog to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman, who is also headed for the Yukon. The prospector and his friend head off for the Yukon with a map showing the location of a major gold mine. Along the way, they rescue a woman whose missing husband owned the original map. After the dog wins them a thousand dollars used to purchase supplies, the three continue north in search of the gold mine.
Professional Soldier, 1h15
Directed by Tay Garnett
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew, Gloria Stuart, Constance Collier, Joseph Kenneth Shovlin, C. Henry Gordon
Rating62% 3.142963.142963.142963.142963.14296
Michael Donovan (McLaglen), a soldier of fortune and former Marine colonel, is fed up with his latest job: keeping spoiled playboy George Foster (Michael Whalen) out of trouble from women and liquor. Thus, he is eager to accept when revolutionaries Valdis (Lumsden Hare) and Ledgard (Walter Kingsford) want to hire him to kidnap King Peter II, ruler of a country somewhere in the Balkans. When a drunken Foster wakes up and interrupts their meeting, Donovan calls him his aide.
Twentieth Century, 1h31
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Dale Fuller, Edgar Kennedy, Ralph Forbes
Roles Ecrivain
Rating72% 3.6453353.6453353.6453353.6453353.645335
Ebullient Broadway impresario Oscar Jaffe (Barrymore) takes an unknown lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Lombard) and makes her the star of his latest play, despite the grave misgivings of everyone else, including his two long-suffering assistants, accountant Oliver Webb and the consistently tipsy Owen O'Malley. Through intensive training, Oscar transforms his protegée into the actress "Lily Garland", and both she and the play are resounding successes. Over the next three years, their partnership spawns three more smash hits, and Lily is recognized as a transcendent talent.