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J. Grubb Alexander is a Scriptwriter and Continuity American born on 25 december 1887 at Scranton (USA)
Joseph Grubb Alexander (25 December 1887 – 11 January 1932) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 98 films between 1916 and 1932.
He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Florence Grubb Alexander. His father was from Scotland and his mother was the daughter of Capt. Evan P. Grubb, a Civil War veteran. Joseph died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 44, and is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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Nationality USA
Birth 25 december 1887 at Scranton (USA)
Death 11 january 1932 (at 44 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 25 december 1887 at Scranton (USA)
Death 11 january 1932 (at 44 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Florence Grubb Alexander. His father was from Scotland and his mother was the daughter of Capt. Evan P. Grubb, a Civil War veteran. Joseph died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 44, and is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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The Hatchet Man (1932)
, 1h14Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films based on plays, Gangster films
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges, Edmund Breese, Leslie Fenton, Tully Marshall
Rating61%
Wong Low Get (Edward G. Robinson) is the most highly respected hatchet man of his Tong. Having sworn total allegiance, he cannot turn down an order, even one to kill his best friend Sun Yat Ming (J. Carrol Naish). His friend forgives him in advance of his execution, begging only that Wong raise his daughter Toya San (Loretta Young) as his own. Wong does as he has sworn, but as she grows up, he falls in love with her. She marries him out of a sense of obligation, but a handsome younger gangster, Harry En Hai (Leslie Fenton), gets her to leave Wong, disgracing him and leading to a shocking turn of events.
So Big! (1932)
, 1h21Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Bette Davis, Alan Hale, Lionel Belmore, Hardie Albright
Rating67%
Following the death of her mother, Selina Peake (Barbara Stanwyck) and her father (Robert Warwick) move to Chicago, where she enrolls in finishing school. Her father is killed, leaving her penniless, and Selina's friend Julie Hemple (Mae Madison) helps her find a job as a schoolteacher in a small Dutch community. Selina moves in with the Poole family and tutors their son Roelf (George Brent). Selina eventually marries immigrant farmer Pervus De Jong (Earle Foxe) and gives birth to Dirk (Hardie Albright), nicknamed "So Big", who becomes the primary focus of her life. When Pervus dies, Selina struggles to keep the farm afloat so she can afford to finance her son's education, hoping he will become an architect.
The Mad Genius (1931)
, 1h21Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Themes Dance films, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Cook, Charles Butterworth, Luis Alberni, Carmel Myers
Rating62%
A crippled puppeteer, Ivan Tsarakov (Barrymore), is frustrated that he will never dance ballet. He adopts a protegé, Fedor Ivanoff (Cook), whom he makes into the greatest dancer in the world. Fedor falls in love with a dancer, Nana Carlova (Marsh), but Tsarakov fears that she will ruin Fedor as a dancer. He tries to separate them and ultimately fires Nana from the ballet troupe. Fedor runs away with Nana to Paris, but Tsarakov has blacklisted him, and he cannot get ballet jobs and is reduced to working in a cabaret. Nana begs Tsarakov to give Fedor his job back. Tsarakov agrees, if Nana will leave Fedor and marry another man; she agrees. Fedor returns embittered; he sees Nana on opening night and realizes that she still loves him; he refuses to dance. Tsarakov threatens to kill him, but the ballet master, under the influence of drugs that Tsarakov has given him, kills Tsarakov. Fedor is reunited with Nana.
Svengali (1931)
, 1h21Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Actors John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp, Bramwell Fletcher, Carmel Myers, Luis Alberni
Rating67%
The ending of the novel is changed in this film to a highly dramatic one by having Trilby die after Svengali is stricken with a fatal heart attack, instead of dying of a mysterious illness a few days later. She faints after he collapses in the stage box, but Svengali revives long enough to gasp, "Oh God, grant me in death what you denied me in life—the woman I love". Trilby regains consciousness, smiles happily, utters "Svengali!", then dies, followed by Svengali, who dies smiling. In the film Billee survives.
Demon of the Sea (1931)
, 1h21Directed by William Dieterle, Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about disabilities
Actors William Dieterle, Lissy Arna, Anton Pointner, Karl Etlinger, Philipp Lothar Mayring, Bert Sprotte
Rating42%
The Road to Singapore (1931)
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Marian Marsh, Louis Calhern, Alison Skipworth, Lumsden Hare
Rating63%
On an ocean liner from Colombo to Singapore, black sheep Hugh Dawltry tries, but fails to become better acquainted with fellow passenger Philippa Crosby. He is pleasantly surprised to find that they are both getting off at Khota. Ashore, she rebuffs his advances again, informing him that she has come to marry Dr. George March, Dawltry's neighbor.
Moby Dick (1930)
, 1h20Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Cétacé, Films about disabilities, Mise en scène d'un cétacé
Actors John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Walter Long, Lloyd Hughes, Noble Johnson, Nigel De Brulier
Rating56%
The film tells of a sea captain's maniacal quest for revenge on a great white whale who has bitten off his leg. Ahab meets and falls in love with the daughter of the local minister, after disembarking in New Bedford. She falls in love with Barrymore and is heartbroken when he leaves on another voyage. During his next voyage, Ahab loses his leg to a large white whale. When he returns to New Bedford, he mistakenly believes that the woman he loves no longer wants to see him due to his disfigurement. He vows revenge against the whale, and to kill it or be killed in the process, and returns to sea.
General Crack (1930)
, 1h37Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance
Actors John Barrymore, Philippe De Lacy, Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Armida, Hobart Bosworth
Roles Writer
Rating74%
The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack (John Barrymore). His father had been a respectable member of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria (Lowell Sherman) after demanding the sister of the emperor in marriage as well as half of gold of the Empire. Before he has finished his work, however, he meets a gypsy dancer (Armida) and weds her. Complications arise when he takes his gypsy wife to the Austrian court and falls desperately in love with the emperor's sister (Marian Nixon). The court sequence was originally in Technicolor and proved to be Barrymore's last appearance in color.
Isle of Escape (1930)
, 1hDirected by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Monte Blue, Myrna Loy, Betty Compson, Noah Beery Sr., Ivan F. Simpson, Nina Quartero
Rating62%
Monte Blue, a young miner, manages to escape from some cannibals in the South Seas who have killed all of his companions. He arrives at the island of Samora with a bag of gold which he managed to save. Here he meets a brutal man, played by Noah Beery, and a pitiable woman, played by Betty Compson, who had been forced into a secret marriage with Beery. They both run a small hotel. Compson immediately sympathizes with the plight of Blue while Beery sets his greedy eyes on his gold. After the death of Compson's mother, Blue escapes with her to another island. Here they meet an exotic native girl, played by Myrna Loy, who falls in love with Blue and desperately tries to divert his love away from Compson. Eventually, Beery discovers the whereabouts of his wife and arrives on the island.
Murder Will Out (1930)
, 1h9Directed by Clarence G. Badger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee, Noah Beery Sr., Malcolm McGregor, Tully Marshall, Alec B. Francis
Roles Writer
Leonard Staunton (Mulhall), a young wealthy New York club-man is engaged to Jeanne Baldwin (Lee), daughter of a U.S. Senator (Francis). Mulhall is preparing to spend a weekend at the Senator's estate. He becomes involved in the affairs of a gang of blackmailers through his efforts to help a fellow club member. When Alan Fitzhugh (Allister), a fellow club-member, arrives with a note, imprinted with a purple hieroglyph, in which he, Fitzhugh, is threatened with a horrible death. Since Fitzhugh is nervous and terrified, Leonard agrees to stay with him at his apartment that night.
Outward Bound (1930)
, 1h23Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Helen Chandler, Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges, Alec B. Francis
Rating64%
Henry and Ann (Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Helen Chandler), a pair of young lovers, are planning to commit suicide and are worried about what will happen to their dog when they are gone. The scene then changes to a disparate group of passengers who find themselves aboard a darkened, fog-enshrouded crewless boat, sailing to an unknown destination.
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
, 1h3Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Claudia Dell, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Torrence, June Collyer, Lionel Belmore, Tom Ricketts
Rating52%
Kitty Bellairs (Claudia Dell), a famous flirt of her day, comes to Bath for the season. Early on in the film she declares that "in spite of her thirty or forty affairs, I've lost not a bit of my virtue." Her path is strewn with a number of conquests, including an enamored highwayman, a lord and some others who hang on her every word. A highwayman stops her coach as she is on her way to Bath and is immediately raptured by Kitty Bellairs. He trades the loot from the passengers for a kiss from Kitty who feels she should "yield" in order to protect Lord Varney's (Walter Pidgeon) life who has gallantly come to defend her honor.
A Notorious Affair (1930)
, 1h9Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Billie Dove, Basil Rathbone, Kay Francis, Kenneth Thomson, Montagu Love, Malcolm Waite
Rating53%
Billie Dove plays Lady Patricia, a socialite who, despite being engaged to an aristocrat, shocks her friends and social class by marrying a poor Italian violinist Paul Gherardi (Rathbone). Through her wealth and influence, Patricia makes Paul famous and wealthy. In spite of this, Paul falls for the charms of a vamp, Countess Olga Balakireff (Francis) who likes to fool around with rich men. Eventually Paul has a nervous breakdown due to overwork and collapses.
Evidence (1929)
, 1h19Directed by John G. Adolfi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Pauline Frederick, William Courtenay, Conway Tearle, Lowell Sherman, Alec B. Francis, Myrna Loy
Roles Scenario Writer
Rating71%
The Gamblers (1929)
, 1h11Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Jason Robards Sr., George Fawcett, Johnny Arthur, Frank Campeau
Roles Writer
Rating53%
Jason Robards Sr. (Carvel Emerson) and George Fawcett (Emerson Jr.) play a father-and-son team of cons, who gamble their firm’s assets. Emerson Jr. is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart, Catherine Darwin's husband. This situation gives the DA an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.