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John Taintor Foote is a Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 29 march 1881 at Leadville (USA)
John Taintor Foote (March 29, 1881 - January 28, 1950) was an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter.
Foote studied at Kenyon Military Academy, Gambier Ohio. He began as a writer of sporting stories. His first story was published in The American Magazine in 1913. He wrote horse stories featuring the roguish track character Blister Jones, and the story upon which the Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious is loosely based. He also wrote or collaborated on five plays, among them the comedy Toby's Bow (1919) and the dramas Tight Britches (1934), and Julie the Great (1936).
Foote came to Hollywood in 1938 to work on the screenplay of his book The Look of Eagles, which was retitled Kentucky, starred Loretta Young, and won an Academy Award for Walter Brennan. Foote’s subsequent scripts included The Mark of Zorro, Broadway Serenade, Swanee River, The Story of Seabiscuit and The Great Dan Patch.
Foote is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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Nationality USA
Birth 29 march 1881 at Leadville (USA)
Death 28 january 1950 (at 68 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 29 march 1881 at Leadville (USA)
Death 28 january 1950 (at 68 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Foote studied at Kenyon Military Academy, Gambier Ohio. He began as a writer of sporting stories. His first story was published in The American Magazine in 1913. He wrote horse stories featuring the roguish track character Blister Jones, and the story upon which the Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious is loosely based. He also wrote or collaborated on five plays, among them the comedy Toby's Bow (1919) and the dramas Tight Britches (1934), and Julie the Great (1936).
Foote came to Hollywood in 1938 to work on the screenplay of his book The Look of Eagles, which was retitled Kentucky, starred Loretta Young, and won an Academy Award for Walter Brennan. Foote’s subsequent scripts included The Mark of Zorro, Broadway Serenade, Swanee River, The Story of Seabiscuit and The Great Dan Patch.
Foote is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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The Great Dan Patch (1949)
, 1h34Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell, Ruth Warrick, Charlotte Greenwood, Henry Hull, John Hoyt
Roles Writer
Rating58%
In the last decade of the 19th century, chemist David Palmer returns to Oxford, Indiana, after living in Chicago for a few years. The return is brought on by his upcoming marriage to school teacher Ruth Treadwell.
The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
, 1h38Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister, Rosemary DeCamp, Donald MacBride, Pierre Watkin
Rating60%
Notorious (1946)
, 1h41Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Noir, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault
Roles Story
Rating78%
Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the American daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, is recruited by government agent T. R. Devlin (Cary Grant) to infiltrate an organisation of Nazis who have moved to Brazil after World War II. When Alicia refuses to help the police, Devlin plays recordings of her fighting with her father and insisting that she loves America.
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
, 1h34Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, Children's films, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette, J. Edward Bromberg
Rating74%
Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is urgently called home by his father. To all outward appearances, he is the foppish son of wealthy ranchero and former Alcade Don Alejandro Vega (Montagu Love), having returned to California after his military education in Spain. Don Diego is horrified at the way the common people are mistreated by the corrupt Alcalde, Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg), who had forced his father from the position. Don Diego then adopts the guise of El Zorro ("The Fox"), a masked outlaw, who becomes the defender of the common people and a champion for justice. Meanwhile, he romances the Alcalde's beautiful and innocent niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), whom he grows to love. As part of his plan, Don Diego simultaneously flirts with the Alcalde's wife Inez (Gale Sondergaard), filling her head with tales of Madrid fashion and culture and raising her desire to move there with her corrupt husband. In both his guises, Don Diego must contend with the governor's ablest henchman, the malevolent Captain Esteban Pasquale (Basil Rathbone). He eventually dispatches the Captain in a fast-moving rapier duel-to-the-death, forcing a regime change, Don Diego's plan all along.
Broadway Serenade (1939)
, 1h54Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Ian Hunter, Frank Morgan, Wally Vernon, Rita Johnson
Roles Story
Rating57%
À New York, la chanteuse Mary Hale (Jeanette MacDonald) et son mari le pianiste-compositeur Jimmy Seymour (Lew Ayres) vivotent dans des boîtes de nuit, lorsque Mary est remarquée par Larry Bryant (Ian Hunter), producteur à Broadway. Il lui obtient une audition auprès de Cornelius Collier Jr. (Frank Morgan) qui se prépare à monter son prochain spectacle. Séduit à son tour par la voix de la jeune femme, il l'engage...
Swanee River (1939)
, 1h24Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart, Chick Chandler, Russell Hicks
Rating62%
The family of Stephen Foster (Ameche) insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs. Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no faith in Stephen, who wants to write "music from the heart of the simple people of the South." The struggling composer is content to sell "Oh! Susanna" for fifteen dollars to minstrel singer E. P. Christy and allows Christy to take credit as its writer.
Kentucky (1938)
, 1h35Directed by David Butler, Otto Brower
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Horse sports in film
Actors Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Douglass Dumbrille, Moroni Olsen, Edmund Mortimer
Rating61%
During the Civil War, Thad Goodwin (Charles Waldron) of Elmtree Farm, a local horse breeder resists Capt. John Dillon (Douglass Dumbrille) and a company of Union soldiers confiscating his prize horses. He is killed by Dillon and his youngest son Peter (Bobs Watson) cries at the soldiers riding away with the horses.
Convoy (1927)
Directed by Lothar Mendes
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lowell Sherman, Dorothy Mackaill, William Collier Jr., Lawrence Gray, Ian Keith, Gail Kane
Roles Story
Rating61%
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The Great Dan Patch (1949)
, 1h34Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell, Ruth Warrick, Charlotte Greenwood, Henry Hull, John Hoyt
Roles Producer
Rating58%
In the last decade of the 19th century, chemist David Palmer returns to Oxford, Indiana, after living in Chicago for a few years. The return is brought on by his upcoming marriage to school teacher Ruth Treadwell.