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George Wells is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Script American born on 8 november 1909 at New York City (USA)

George Wells

George Wells
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 november 1909 at New York City (USA)
Death 27 november 2000 (at 91 years) at Newport Beach (USA)

George Wells (November 8, 1909 - November 27, 2000) was an American screenwriter.

Along with co-writer Harry Tugend, Wells was nominated for the 1950 Writers Guild of America Award in the category of "Best Written American Musical" for Take Me Out to the Ball Game. They lost to Betty Comden and Adolph Green, for On the Town.

Best films

Designing Woman (1957)
(Scriptwriter)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of George Wells (32 films)

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Director

Angels in the Outfield, 1h39
Directed by Clarence Brown, George Wells, Dorothy Kingsley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Sports films, Baseball films, Films about angels
Actors Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Lewis Stone, Donna Corcoran, Spring Byington
Rating70% 3.5454253.5454253.5454253.5454253.545425
With baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates in last place, their combative, foul-mouthed manager Guffy McGovern has plenty to complain about. All this changes when, while wandering through Forbes Field in search of his good luck charm one night, Guffy is accosted by the voice of an angel (voice of James Whitmore), who hints at having been a ballplayer during his earthly life.

Scriptwriter

Angels in the Outfield, 1h42
Directed by William Dear
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Baseball films, Films about angels, Children's films
Actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Danny Glover, Tony Danza, Brenda Fricker, Ben Johnson, Jay O. Sanders
Roles Ecrivain
Rating61% 3.098193.098193.098193.098193.09819
Young foster child Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his friend J.P. (Milton Davis, Jr.) love to sneak into baseball games of the hopelessly dreadful California Angels.
Cover Me Babe, 1h29
Directed by Noel Black
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Forster, Sondra Locke, Sam Waterston, Ken Kercheval, Michael Margotta, Susanne Benton
Roles Writer
Rating44% 2.24952.24952.24952.24952.2495
Tony Hall is a film-school student who does not care to make conventional films. His first avant-garde effort features Melisse, who soon becomes Tony's lover and moves in with him.
The Impossible Years, 1h32
Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors David Niven, Lola Albright, Chad Everett, Ozzie Nelson, Cristina Ferrare, Michael McGreevey
Rating56% 2.803992.803992.803992.803992.80399
The comedy revolves around Jonathan Kingsley, a teaching psychiatrist at the local university, his wife, and their two teenaged daughters. Complications arise when the older one develops an active interest in the opposite sex and her younger impressionable sister begins to emulate her misadventures.
Penelope
Penelope (1966)
, 1h37
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Carl Ballantine, Jerome Cowan, Jonathan Winters
Rating61% 3.097843.097843.097843.097843.09784
Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) is the wife of wealthy banker James Elcott (Ian Bannen). Penelope decides to disguise herself as an old woman and rob her husband's bank. While the police, including Lieutenant Horatio Bixbee (Peter Falk), rush to get to the bank, Penelope escapes in a red wig and yellow suit. She donates some of the stolen money to a Salvation Army worker and donates the suit to a second-hand thrift shop. Con artists Sabada (Lila Kedrova) and Ducky (Lou Jacobi) immediately recognize the suit as an original designer outfit from Paris, and purchase it for a mere $7.
The Horizontal Lieutenant, 1h30
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter, Jim Backus, Charles McGraw, Miyoshi Umeki
Rating59% 2.950862.950862.950862.950862.95086
Merle Wye, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army stationed in Hawaii, is attracted to nurse Molly Blue, but she barely gives him the time of day.
The Horizontal Lieutenant, 1h30
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jim Backus, Charles McGraw, Jack Carter, Miyoshi Umeki
Rating59% 2.950862.950862.950862.950862.95086
À Hawaï, Merle Wye, un lieutenant du service de renseignement de l'armée, tombe amoureux d'une infirmière, Molly Blue, une ancienne camarade d'école. À cause de ses faibles aptitudes au baseball, il est transféré dans l'île de Rotohan, avec la mission de capturer un certain Kobayashi, un Japonais qui vole des denrées "vitales" à l'armée, comme du poisson ou du soda. Après plusieurs tentatives infructueuses, il est sur le point d'être transféré vers un poste encore plus éloigné lorsqu'il découvre par hasard avec Molly, nouvellement affectée à l'hôpital de la base, la cachette du voleur.
The Honeymoon Machine, 1h27
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger, Jack Weston
Roles Writer
Rating61% 3.05123.05123.05123.05123.0512
Civilian scientist Jason Eldridge (Hutton) runs Magnetic Analyzer Computing Synchrotron (MACS), a vacuum-tube computer aboard the USS Elmira. He and his friend Lt. Ferguson Howard (McQueen) realize that, by using MACS to record a roulette table's spins over time, the computer can predict future results. Howard and LTJG Beauregard Gilliam (Mullaney) check into a Venice casino's hotel dressed as civilians with Eldridge, defying Admiral Fitch's (Jagger) order that naval officers on shore avoid the casino and wear uniforms. They plan to use signal lamps to communicate with a confederate manning MACS on the Elmira.
The Gazebo
The Gazebo (1960)
, 1h40
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner, Martin Landau, John McGiver, Mabel Albertson
Rating67% 3.3976053.3976053.3976053.3976053.397605
Television writer and director Elliott Nash (Glenn Ford) is being blackmailed by Dan Shelby (Stanley Adams) over nude photographs of his wife Nell (Debbie Reynolds), taken when she was 18 years old. Elliott does not inform Nell, the star of a Broadway musical, what is going on, but works feverishly to make enough money to pay off the ever-increasing demands.
Where the Boys Are, 1h39
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Road movies
Actors Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton
Rating66% 3.345993.345993.345993.345993.34599
The main focus of Where the Boys Are is the "coming of age" of four girl students at a Midwestern university during spring vacation. As the film opens, Merritt Andrews (Dolores Hart), the smart and assertive leader of the quartet, expresses the opinion in class that premarital sex might be something young women should experience. Her speech eventually inspires the insecure Melanie Tolman (Yvette Mimieux) to lose her virginity soon after the young women arrive in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Tuggle Carpenter (Paula Prentiss), on the other hand, seeks to be a "baby-making machine," lacking only the man to join her in marriage. Angie (Connie Francis) rounds out the group as a girl who is clueless when it comes to romance.
Ask Any Girl, 1h38
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young, Rod Taylor, Jim Backus, Elisabeth Fraser
Roles Auteur
Rating64% 3.24543.24543.24543.24543.2454
A wide-eyed Meg Wheeler comes to New York City and takes a job in market research for a large firm. She's also keeping an eye open to meet the right man, her research making her aware that the United States has five million more females than males.
Party Girl
Party Girl (1958)
, 1h39
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly
Roles Ecrivain
Rating69% 3.496293.496293.496293.496293.49629
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending Chicago mobsters in court. At a party for mob boss Rico Angelo, he meets chorus girl Vicki Gaye, who accepted $100 to attend the party and another $400 from another gangster, Louis Canetto, from his gambling winnings.
Designing Woman, 1h58
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Dolores Gray, Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck, Sam Levene, Tom Helmore, Mickey Shaughnessy
Rating66% 3.3479153.3479153.3479153.3479153.347915
While on vacation, sports reporter Mike Hagen (Gregory Peck) meets fashion designer Marilla Brown (Lauren Bacall). The two instantly bond and quickly get married, only to realize they have little in common.
Don't Go Near the Water, 1h47
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.0441453.0441453.0441453.0441453.044145
Lieutenant (j.g.) Max Siegel and other US Navy personnel are stuck in a public relations unit far from the fighting. Lieutenant Commander Clinton T. Nash, their commanding officer and a stockbroker in civilian life, refuses to allow anyone to transfer out. Much of Siegel's time is spent showing war correspondents (like obnoxious Gordon Ripwell) and visiting Congressmen around the island.