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Jane Murfin is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Continuity and Additional Dialogue American born on 27 october 1884 at Quincy (USA)
Jane Murfin (October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter.
Born in Quincy, Michigan, Murfin began her career with the play Lilac Time, which she co-wrote with Jane Cowl. The Broadway production opened on February 6, 1917 and ran for 176 performances. Later that year the two women collaborated on Daybreak, followed by Information Please (1918) and Smilin' Through (1919), for which they used the pseudonym Allan Langdon Martin.
Murfin's screen credits include Way Back Home (1931), Our Betters (1933), The Little Minister (1934), Spitfire (1934), Roberta (1935), Alice Adams (1935), The Women (1939), Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Dragon Seed (1944).
Murfin and Adela Rogers St. Johns were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for What Price Hollywood? (1932), but lost to Frances Marion for The Champ.
Murfin was married to film director Laurence Trimble from 1915 until 1926 and actor Donald Crisp from 1932 until 1944. She is buried near Jane Cowl at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Elle est enterrée, comme de nombreuses personnalités du cinéma, au Valhalla Memorial Park à North Hollywood.
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Nationality USA
Birth 27 october 1884 at Quincy (USA)
Death 10 august 1955 (at 70 years) at Brentwood (USA)
Birth 27 october 1884 at Quincy (USA)
Death 10 august 1955 (at 70 years) at Brentwood (USA)
Born in Quincy, Michigan, Murfin began her career with the play Lilac Time, which she co-wrote with Jane Cowl. The Broadway production opened on February 6, 1917 and ran for 176 performances. Later that year the two women collaborated on Daybreak, followed by Information Please (1918) and Smilin' Through (1919), for which they used the pseudonym Allan Langdon Martin.
Murfin's screen credits include Way Back Home (1931), Our Betters (1933), The Little Minister (1934), Spitfire (1934), Roberta (1935), Alice Adams (1935), The Women (1939), Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Dragon Seed (1944).
Murfin and Adela Rogers St. Johns were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for What Price Hollywood? (1932), but lost to Frances Marion for The Champ.
Murfin was married to film director Laurence Trimble from 1915 until 1926 and actor Donald Crisp from 1932 until 1944. She is buried near Jane Cowl at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Mariée en 1915 avec Laurence Trimble, elle divorce en 1926. Elle se consacre alors à l'écriture de scénarios pour RKO et la MGM. Elle est l'épouse de Donald Crisp de 1932 à 1944.Elle est enterrée, comme de nombreuses personnalités du cinéma, au Valhalla Memorial Park à North Hollywood.
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Brawn of the North (1922)
Directed by Laurence Trimble, Jane Murfin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Irene Rich, Lee Shumway
Scriptwriter
The Women (2008)
, 1h54Directed by Diane English
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen
Roles Adaptation
Rating50%
Clothing designer Mary Haines lives in a beautiful suburban Connecticut home with her wealthy financier husband Steven and their 11-year-old daughter Molly. Her best friend since college, Sylvie Fowler, is the editor of a prominent fashion magazine that dictates the latest in taste and style for New York City fashionistas. When Sylvie learns Steven is involved with Crystal Allen, a perfume salesgirl in Saks Fifth Avenue, from chatty manicurist Tanya, she confides in the ever-pregnant Edie Cohen but hesitates to tell Mary, who discovers the news from the same woman after getting a manicure herself. Despite her mother Catherine's exhortation to keep quiet about what she knows, Mary confronts Crystal first, in a lingerie store, and then Steven, before asking for a divorce.
Dragon Seed (1944)
, 2h28Directed by Jack Conway, Harold S. Bucquet, Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Turhan Bey, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Writer
Rating59%
Durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, un paisible village chinois est occupé par l'armée japonaise. Si la plupart des habitants acceptent le joug nippon, Jade le refuse. La rebelle entrepend de résister à l'envahisseur, au grand dam de son père.
Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
, 1h37Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ella Raines
Rating68%
The film tells the story of a mixed group of Army nurses stationed in Bataan during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the head nurse, Lt. Mary Smith (Margaret Sullavan) begs her superior, Capt. Alice Marsh (Fay Bainter) for more nurses to help deal with the excessive workload, but instead of professional nurses, she is assigned a group of civilians from various backgrounds. They lack experience and require training and find it difficult to settle in. Pat Conlin (Ann Sothern) rebels against Lt. Smith's strict nature, but the group begin to reveal stories from their past and become better acquainted. They also meet a male officer, Lt. Holt (Allan Byron), and Pat becomes infatuated with him, leading to jealousy between her and Lt. Smith who refuses to explain why she is offended by Pat's attention to him. During an air-raid one of the volunteers, Sue West (Dorothy Morris), is separated from the group, and some of the women, including her sister Andra (Heather Angel) search for her. After three days she is found alive, having spent the time trapped in a hut with the corpses of several soldiers who were killed during the attack.
Flight for Freedom (1943)
, 1h42Directed by Lothar Mendes
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall, Eduardo Ciannelli, Walter Kingsford, Hugh Beaumont
Roles Adaptation
Rating59%
Tonie Carter (Rosalind Russell) is a well-known aviatrix who is fighting the prejudice against women pilots in the aviation establishment of the 1930s. One of her rivals, pilot Randy Britton (Fred MacMurray), is attracted to her. After setting flight records, Tonie embarks on a solo circumnavigation of the globe.
Smilin' Through (1941)
, 1h40Directed by Frank Borzage, Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres War, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond, Ian Hunter, Wyndham Standing
Roles Theatre Play
Rating63%
Vieil aristocrate veuf, le solitaire John Carteret finit par adopter la délicieuse Kathleen, âgée de cinq ans, une nièce de sa femme décédée ..... Au fil des années, il retrouve dans les traits de l'orpheline grandissante, le souvenir de son amour qui fut tuée lors de la cérémonie nuptiale, par un prétendant jaloux. Et lorsque la demoiselle se sent bien des inclinaisons pour un fringant soldat Kenneth Wayne, qui s'avère être le fils du meurtrier, Carteret se braque ...
, 1h41Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, June Preisser, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara Haden
Rating65%
A week from the end of high school, Andy (Mickey Rooney) is keenly anticipating his graduation, but is putting more effort into running the various student committees - most of which he chairs - than studying for his examinations. His father, honorable judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) learns that Andy has been giving money for tuition to a fellow student, a girl named Kathryn Land (Kathryn Grayson). Judge Hardy also learns that Kathryn's father is poor.
Northwest Passage (1940)
, 2h5Directed by Jack Conway, Norman Foster, W. S. Van Dyke, King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Robert Barrat
Rating69%
The film opens in the year 1759 with the arrival of Langdon Towne (Robert Young) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The son of a cordage (rope)- maker and ship rigger, he returns from Harvard University after being expelled for complaining about college food and drawing an unflattering picture of the President of Harvard College. Though disappointed, Langdon's family greets him with love, as does Elizabeth Browne (Ruth Hussey), the daughter of a noted clergyman. Elizabeth's father (Louis Hector) is less welcoming, however, and denigrates Langdon's aspirations to becoming a painter. That evening, while drinking in the local tavern with friend Sam Livermore (Lester Matthews), Langdon makes indiscreet remarks disparaging Wiseman Clagett (Montagu Love), the king's attorney, and the Indian agent, Sir William Johnson, unaware that Clagett is sitting in the next room with another official. Facing arrest for his comments, Langdon fights the two men with the help of "Hunk" Marriner (Walter Brennan), a local woodsman and friend, before they both escape into the woods.
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
, 1h57Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edna May Oliver, Mary Boland, Edmund Gwenn
Rating73%
Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland) and her two eldest daughters, Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Elizabeth (Greer Garson), are shopping for new dresses when they see two gentlemen and a lady alight from a very expensive carriage outside. They learn that the men are Mr. Bingley (Bruce Lester), who has just rented the local estate of Netherfield, and Mr. Darcy (Laurence Olivier), both wealthy, eligible bachelors, which excites Mrs. Bennet. Collecting her other daughters, Mrs Bennet returns home, where she tries to make Mr. Bennet see Mr. Bingley, but he refuses, having already made his acquaintance.
The Women (1939)
, 2h14Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine
Rating76%
The Women follows the lives of Manhattan women, focusing in particular on Mary Haines (Norma Shearer), the cheerful, contented wife of Stephen and mother of Little Mary (Virginia Weidler). After a bit of gossip flies around the salon these wealthy women visit, Mary's cousin Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) goes to a Salon to get the newest, exclusive nail color: Jungle Red. She learns from a manicurist that Mary's husband has been having an affair with a predatory perfume counter girl named Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). A notorious gossip, Sylvia delights in sharing the news with Mary's friends; she sets up Mary with an appointment with the same manicurist so that she hears the rumor about Stephen's infidelity.
Stand Up and Fight (1939)
, 1h37Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Robert Taylor, Charles Bickford, Florence Rice, Barton MacLane, Helen Broderick
Rating63%
The Shining Hour (1938)
, 1h16Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, Fay Bainter, Allyn Joslyn
Rating63%
Olivia Riley (Joan Crawford), a New York City nightclub dancer, tires of the fast life and consents to marry Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas), a wealthy farmer from Wisconsin. Even before they engage to be married, however, Henry's brother David (Robert Young) is sent to New York by their domineering sister Hannah (Fay Bainter) to dissuade him from marrying Olivia. In private, Olivia slaps David when her integrity is questioned, but she marries Henry because she says he's the only person in her life who is endlessly positive. When Olivia moves to her new husband's farm in Wisconsin, she encounters trouble from her sister-in-law Hannah, who does not approve of her. Olivia finds an ally in David's wife, Judy (Margaret Sullavan), who is in a loveless marriage.
That Girl from Paris (1936)
, 1h44Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Jack Oakie, Lily Pons, Gene Raymond, Mischa Auer, Gregory Gaye, Lucille Ball
Roles Story
Rating57%
Come and Get It (1936)
, 1h39Directed by Richard Rosson, William Wyler, Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Andrea Leeds, Mary Nash
Rating68%
The story focuses on ruthless Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold), who will stop at nothing to achieve his goal as he rises in rank from lowly lumberjack to the head of the logging industry in 19th century Wisconsin. His determination to succeed eventually leads him to end his relationship with saloon singer Lotta Morgan (Frances Farmer) and marry Emma Louise Hewitt (Mary Nash), the daughter of his boss Jed Hewett (Charles Halton), in order to secure a partnership in his business.
Alice Adams (1935)
, 1h39Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable, Charley Grapewin, Hedda Hopper
Rating68%
Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) is the youngest daughter of the Adams family. Her father (Fred Stone) is an invalid employed as a clerk in a factory owned by Mr. Lamb (Charles Grapewin), who has kept Adams on salary for years despite his lengthy illness. Her mother (Ann Shoemaker) is embittered by her husband's lack of ambition and upset by the snubs her daughter endures because of their poverty. Alice's older brother, Walter (Frank Albertson), is a gambler who cannot hold a job and who associates with African Americans (which, given the time period in which the film is set, is considered a major social embarrassment). As the film begins, Alice attends a dance given by the wealthy Henrietta Lamb (Janet McLeod). She has no date, and is escorted to the occasion by Walter. Alice is a social climber like her mother, and engages in socially inappropriate behavior and conversation in an attempt to impress others. At the dance, Alice meets wealthy Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray), who is charmed by her despite her poverty.