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H.M. Harwood is a Scriptwriter born on 29 march 1874
H.M. Harwood est un scénariste et auteur de pièces de théâtre britannique né le 29 mars 1874 à Eccles et décédé le 20 avril 1959 à Londres.
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Birth 29 march 1874
Death 20 april 1959 (at 85 years)
Death 20 april 1959 (at 85 years)
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Personal Property (1937)
, 1h24Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Robert Taylor, Jean Harlow, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor, Henrietta Crosman, E. E. Clive
Roles Theatre Play
Rating64%
Raymond Dabney (Robert Taylor) gets out of prison and is welcomed home by his mother (Henrietta Crosman); but his father (E. E. Clive) and brother Claude Dabney (Reginald Owen) offer him money to go away. Raymond likes London, and his mother tells him that Claude is engaged. Raymond goes out and meets Crystal Wetherby (Jean Harlow). He joins her box at the opera; but she leaves, and he follows. She is pestered by bill collectors, and Raymond meets a Bailiff (Forrester Harvey) at her door. A policeman tells Crystal that Raymond has a writ to stay there and make sure no one takes the furniture. Crystal's maid Clara (Una O'Connor) approves of marrying for money. Crystal tells Raymond that her husband shot the trophies and gives him his large pajamas, scaring him into the butler's room.
The Iron Duke (1934)
, 1h28Directed by Victor Saville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors George Arliss, Ellaline Terriss, Gladys Cooper, Emlyn Williams, A. E. Matthews, Lesley Wareing
Rating61%
With Napoleon defeated and exiled, the reluctant Duke of Wellington (George Arliss) is persuaded by Lord Castelreagh (Gerald Lawrence) to represent Great Britain's interests at the Congress of Vienna, where the victorious allies will decide the future of Europe. While there, his friend the Duchess of Richmond (Norma Varden) introduces the married man to the pretty Lady Frances Webster (Lesley Wareing), an ardent admirer, at her ball. During the course of the evening, however, Wellington receives an urgent message: Napoleon has escaped and has landed in France.
Queen Christina (1933)
, 1h39Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, Films about royalty, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen
Rating74%
Queen Christina of Sweden (Greta Garbo) is very devoted to her country and the welfare of her people. As queen, Christina favors peace for Sweden. At one point in the film she argues for an end to the Thirty Years' War, saying:
Looking Forward (1933)
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan, Phillips Holmes, Colin Clive
Roles Writer
Rating69%
With his upscale department store steadily losing money, Gabriel Service, Sr. (Lewis Stone) is forced to discharge some of his employees, including an unenterprising but loyal and long-serving Tim Benton (Lionel Barrymore). Then Service returns home to his mansion to inform his family of their own financial straits; he has kept the 200-year-old family firm afloat with his own money in recent times. Neither his young adult children, Caroline and Michael, nor their stepmother Isobel take him very seriously at first, despite his repeated warnings over the past few months. Isobel has also been seeing another man behind her oblivious husband's back.
Looking Forward (1933)
, 1h22Directed by Clarence Brown
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan, Phillips Holmes, Colin Clive
Roles Writer
Rating69%
Un commerçant est licencié pendant la Grande Dépression, après avoir travaillé pendant 40 ans dans le même magasin.
Cynara (1932)
, 1h20Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Henry Stephenson, Phyllis Barry, Paul Porcasi, Wilson Benge
Roles Theatre Play
Rating63%
In Naples, disgraced London barrister James "Jim" Warlock (Ronald Colman) prepares to part from his beloved wife Clemency (Kay Francis) and start anew in South Africa. When she asks him to explain the events leading to his downfall, a flashback ensues.
After the Ball (1932)
, 1h10Directed by Milton Rosmer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Esther Ralston, Basil Rathbone, George Curzon, Clifford Heatherley, Marie Burke
Roles Adaptation
Jack Harrowby (Basil Rathbone) believes he is drawing a diplomat's wife into an affair. Unbeknownst to him, he is actually seducing the maid.
The Man in Possession (1931)
, 1h24Directed by Sam Wood, W. P. Kellino
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Robert Montgomery, Charlotte Greenwood, Lupino Lane, Alan Mowbray, Maude Eburne, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Theatre Play
Rating69%
Raymond Dabney (Montgomery) returns to a mixed reaction from his middle-class family in London after serving a prison sentence for stealing a motorcar. His mother (Beryl Mercer) and the family servant (Maude Eburne) are delighted to see him, but his father (C. Aubrey Smith) and brother Claude (Reginald Owen) are less so. His father is particularly disappointed in him, having sent him to Cambridge. The two men offer him £500 to leave the country and never return; it seems Claude is engaged to a rich widow, and they are anxious to avoid any scandal that might endanger the marriage. Raymond turns it down, however, and departs the same day.
The Palm Beach Girl (1926)
, 1h10Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Actors Bebe Daniels, Lawrence Gray, Marguerite Clayton, Maude Turner Gordon
Roles Theatre Play
Rating60%
The Misleading Widow (1919)
Directed by John S. Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Billie Burke, Madelyn Clare, Fred Esmelton
Roles Writer
Rating56%
As summarized in an adaptation published in the September 1919 issue of Shadowlands, Betty Taradine, who lives in a British village near a army base, was abandoned by her husband for her spendthrift ways. She reports that he is dead to obtain insurance money. Later, British officer Captain Peter Rymill is assigned to be billeted at her house, but he turns out to be her husband living under an assumed name. There are various romantic triangles involving other villagers, and the identity of the missing husband and existence of the marriage is revealed after a dinner with the guests gathered in the widow's bedroom.
Please Help Emily (1917)
Directed by Dell Henderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ann Murdock, Amy Veness, Ferdinand Gottschalk
Roles Writer
As described in a film magazine, Professor Delmar (Druce) is sent to China to study child-life and decides to leave his daughter Emily (Murdock), who is always getting into trouble, with his good friends the Lethbridges. One night Emily runs away from a musicale and attends a cabaret. Not knowing how to explain matters and feeling sure that Trotters (McDougall), a friend, can help her out, she goes to his apartment. Waiting for him to return from the club, she takes a nap. Mrs. Lethbridge (Veness), not wishing her husband to know of Emily's escapade, tells him that Emily is staying with her aunt, who has the mumps. Trotter is told of the story and, wishing to make it good, plans to take Emily to her aunt's house. They stop at a hotel for lunch. Emily has her dog hidden and tells Trotter that it is lost and that she will not leave the hotel until it is found. Julia (Carlyle), the fiancee of Trotter, decides to visit the sick aunt. She is accompanied by Herbert Threadgold (Gottschalk) a nervous little body who is in love with Emily. Their automobile breaks down and they are forced to stay at the same hotel that Emily and Trotter are staying. Aunt Geraldine follows and they are all arrested for kidnapping Emily, but through the efforts of Lethbridge (Brown) they are all released. Julia marries Threadgold and, to avoid a scandal, Emily marries Trotter, not that either objects.