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Howard Lindsay is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 29 march 1889 at New York City (USA)

Howard Lindsay

Howard Lindsay
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Nationality USA
Birth 29 march 1889 at New York City (USA)
Death 11 february 1968 (at 78 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Howard Lindsay est un scénariste, acteur et producteur américain né le 29 mars 1889 à Waterford, New York (États-Unis), décédé le 11 février 1968 à New York (États-Unis).

Best films

The Sound of Music (1965)
(Scriptwriter)
Swing Time (1936)
(Scriptwriter)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Howard Lindsay (14 films)

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Scriptwriter

The Sound of Music, 2h54
Directed by Robert Wise, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Musical theatre, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Bill Lee, Bill Lee, Richard Haydn
Rating80% 4.0475254.0475254.0475254.0475254.047525
Maria is a free-spirited young Austrian woman studying to become a nun at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg in 1938. Her love of music and the mountains, her youthful enthusiasm and imagination, and her lack of discipline cause some concern among the nuns. The Mother Abbess, believing Maria would be happier outside the abbey, sends her to the villa of retired naval officer Captain Georg von Trapp to be governess to his seven children—Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, and Gretl. The Captain has been raising his children alone using strict military discipline following the death of his first wife. At first, the children treat Maria as they did their former governesses—playing tricks on her as a way of gaining their father's attention. Maria responds with kindness and patience, and soon the children come to trust and respect her.
Tall Story
Tall Story (1960)
, 1h28
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Sports films, Théâtre, Basketball films, Films based on plays
Actors Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Anne Jackson, Murray Hamilton, Robert Redford
Rating58% 2.9494052.9494052.9494052.9494052.949405
At Custer University, Ray Blent (Anthony Perkins) is an honor student and college basketball star. June Ryder (Jane Fonda) has come to the university to study home economics and to find a husband. Both students and faculty are scandalized by Ryder's unashamed pursuit of Blent. She joins the pom-pom girls and attends all the classes taken by Blent to ensure she has maximum contact with him. Everyone is aware of her designs on the sexually naive Blent, except for him. She succeeds in convincing him that she has an intelligent, inquiring mind that he admires, although this is all done through deception. She eventually gets Blent to fall for her and propose marriage. However, they need several thousand dollars to set up a home.
Anything Goes, 1h46
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Robert Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris, Kurt Kasznar, Richard Erdman
Rating60% 3.048663.048663.048663.048663.04866
Showbiz partners Bill Benson and Ted Adams each travel to Paris to sign a dancer to star in their new show. The problem? There is only one role, and the men have unknowingly cast two dancers, Patsy Blair and Gaby Duval. It is up to the men to sort out their mess on the cruise back to America.
How To Be Very, Very Popular, 1h29
Directed by Nunnally Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Tommy Noonan, Charles Coburn, Orson Bean
Rating52% 2.6186952.6186952.6186952.6186952.618695
{Seen on-screen in opening scene: "San Francisco"} Stormy Tornado and Curly Flagg are two showgirls from a San Francisco cabaret who witness the murder of one of their fellow performers and can identify the killer. Not wanting to get mixed up in a murder rap, the girls flee the scene and hide out at Bristol College, disguising themselves as boys. However the need for attention makes the girls want to stand out in their stage costumes and then the trouble begins.
Woman's World, 1h34
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl
Rating68% 3.445333.445333.445333.445333.44533
When the general manager of Gifford Motors dies, company owner Ernest Gifford (Clifton Webb) invites the three candidates for the position to New York so he can personally evaluate them and their wives. Bill and Katie Baxter (Cornel Wilde and June Allyson) are a loving couple from Kansas City. Elizabeth Burns (Lauren Bacall) is becoming estranged from her driven husband Sidney (Fred MacMurray) because his work is consuming him and undermining his health; she fears a promotion would eventually kill him. Jerry Talbot (Van Heflin), who has a sexy, ambitious wife, Carol (Arlene Dahl), rounds out the trio.
Call Me Madam, 1h54
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Helmut Dantine, Billy De Wolfe
Rating66% 3.344323.344323.344323.344323.34432
A wealthy Washington, D.C., socialite, Sally Adams, has political connections and is appointed U.S. ambassador to the tiny country of Lichtenburg, even though nothing in her background qualifies her for the job. A young journalist, Kenneth Gibson, persuades her to let him tag along as her press attache.
Stop, You're Killing Me, 1h26
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes Mafia films, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Gangster films
Actors Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Sheldon Leonard, Virginia Gibson, Harry Morgan, Margaret Dumont
Rating61% 3.0977453.0977453.0977453.0977453.097745
The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron's plans to crash high society.
State of the Union, 2h4
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Howard Smith, Adolphe Menjou
Rating71% 3.593883.593883.593883.593883.59388
Republican newspaper magnate Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) intends to make her lover, aircraft tycoon Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy), President of the United States with her as the power behind the throne. Thorndyke plans to use her newspaper chain's influence to deadlock the 1948 Republican National Convention, so it will choose Matthews as a compromise dark horse candidate instead of Dewey, Taft, or another.
Life with Father, 1h58
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, Zasu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon
Rating70% 3.5461053.5461053.5461053.5461053.546105
Clarence Day (William Powell), is a benevolent despot of his 1880s New York City household. His wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne), is the real head of the household. The anecdotal story encompasses such details as the romance of Clarence (Jimmy Lydon) with pretty out-of-towner Mary (Elizabeth Taylor). Vinnie tries to get her headstrong husband baptized, else he'll never be able to enter the Kingdom of God.
The Big Broadcast of 1938, 1h34
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors W. C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross, Lynne Overman, Ben Blue
Rating60% 3.048823.048823.048823.048823.04882
In what is being billed as "The Race of the Ages," the new forty-million-dollar “radio powered” ocean liner S.S. Gigantic (“America’s Challenge for Crossing Record”) is about to race its rival, the slightly smaller S.S. Colossal across the Atlantic from New York’s Pier 97 to Cherbourg in two-and-a-half days. Gigantic owner T. Frothingill “T.F.” Bellows (W.C. Fields) intends to send his nearly identical younger brother S.B. (also Fields) to sail aboard the Colossal, hoping he will cause trouble and sabotage the rival ship, enabling the Gigantic and his own Bellows Line to win.
A Slight Case of Murder, 1h25
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Gangster films
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, John Litel, Willard Parker
Rating69% 3.491323.491323.491323.491323.49132
With the end of Prohibition, bootlegger Remy Marko becomes a legitimate brewer; but he slowly goes broke because the beer he makes tastes terrible, and everyone is afraid to tell him so. After four years, with bank officers preparing to foreclose on the brewery, he retreats to his Saratoga summer home, only to find four dead mobsters who meant to ambush him, but were killed by their confederate whom they meant to betray. More and more problems begin to pop up in the life of the former bootlegger, as he has taken in a bratty orphan, and his daughter comes home with a fiancé that turns out to be a state cop.
Swing Time
Swing Time (1936)
, 1h43
Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick, Frank Jenks
Rating74% 3.7442753.7442753.7442753.7442753.744275
John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire) is a gambler and dancer. He is set to marry Margaret (Betty Furness), but his friends hold him up so that he is late for the wedding. Margaret's father phones to call off the wedding, but Lucky doesn't get that message. His friends bet him that he won't be getting married and he agrees to the bet. Margaret's father tells Lucky that he must earn $25,000 in order to demonstrate his good intentions.

Producer

The Hasty Heart, 1h42
Directed by Vincent Sherman, Cliff Owen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Richard Todd, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Anthony Nicholls, Perry King, Howard Marion-Crawford
Roles Producer
Rating72% 3.642283.642283.642283.642283.64228
In Burma during the Pacific War in 1945, a group of wounded Allied soldiers are at makeshift British military hospital in the jungle. As they've all been there for quite some time, they have a strong bond. "Yank" (Ronald Reagan) is the lone American there, recovering from malaria, along with Tommy (Howard Marion-Crawford), the Englishman, Kiwi (Ralph Michael), the New Zealander, Digger (John Sherman), the Australian, and Blossom (Orlando Martins), the African. They are all under the care of the friendly nurse, Sister Margaret Parker (Patricia Neal).