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Leonard Praskins est un scénariste britannique né le 7 août 1896 à Meltham (Royaume-Uni), décédé le 2 octobre 1968.
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Three Violent People (1957)
, 1h40Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Forrest Tucker, Bruce Bennett, Elaine Stritch
Roles Story
Rating62%
Former Confederate cavalryman Capt. Colt Saunders comes home to Texas from the war. Carpetbaggers have taken control of his town, including a corrupt Yankee tax commissioner named Harrison and his deputy Cable. When he sees a Yankee insult a Southern belle named Lorna Hunter, the gallant Colt comes to her aid. He isn't aware of her past as a St. Louis dance-hall girl or her devious golddigging nature. Colt is knocked cold and Lorna takes him back to his room, where she steals $900 from him. Her former employer, saloon owner Ruby LaSalle, lets her know that Colt is a wealthy rancher, so Lorna hatches a scheme. She returns his missing $900 and impresses him with her "honesty." Colt falls in love and marries her.
Gorilla at Large (1954)
, 1h23Directed by Harmon Jones
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Circus films
Actors Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Burr, Lee Marvin, Peter Whitney
Roles Writer
Rating54%
Cyrus Miller's circus has come to the fairgrounds, where barker Joey Matthews invites the crowd to come see the great gorilla, Goliath.
Mister Scoutmaster (1953)
, 1h27Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn, George Winslow, Frances Dee, Veda Ann Borg, Lee Aaker
Rating68%
An arrogant, aloof television personality gets more than he's bargained for when he consents to be leader to a troop of Boy Scouts. The sponsor of Robert Jordan's (Clifton Webb) TV program says he might cancel the show because Jordan appeals only to a middle-aged following and is out of touch with a younger audience.
It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Loretta Young, John Forsythe, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh, Edgar Buchanan, Gregg Palmer
Roles Adaptation
Rating63%
A high-powered couple move from New York City to a small-town where they operate the local newspaper.
It Grows on Trees (1952)
, 1h24Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Richard Crenna, Joan Evans, Les Tremayne, Sandy Descher
Roles Original Story
Rating65%
The story is about a couple who discover two trees in their backyard that grow money. One morning a few days after Polly Baxter (Dunne) purchased a couple of trees and planted them in her backyard, a $5 bill floats in through an open window, spurring a curious turn of luck to her family's ongoing financial concerns.
It Grows on Trees (1952)
, 1h24Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Joan Evans, Richard Crenna, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis
Roles Original Story
Rating65%
The Winner's Circle (1948)
, 1h14Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Actors Jean Willes, Morgan Farley, William Gould, John Beradino, Forrest J Ackerman, Russ Conway
Roles Dialogue
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
, 1h12Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts, Fritz Kortner, Florence Bates
Roles Writer
Rating64%
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy widow, Elizabeth Murdock, to find a stolen coin called the Brasher Doubloon.
The Caribbean Mystery (1945)
, 1h5Directed by Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors James Dunn, Sheila Ryan, Reed Hadley, Roy Roberts, Robert Shaw, William Forrest
Roles Writer
Rating57%
Doll Face (1945)
, 1h20Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Vivian Blaine, Dennis O'Keefe, Carmen Miranda, Martha Stewart, Lex Barker, Stephen Dunne
Roles Writer
Rating57%
"Doll Face" Carroll is an entertainer looking to expand her reportoire. After a failed audition, where she is recognized as a burlesque performer from the Gayety Theatre, her manager and fiancé Mike Hannegan suggest she writes an autobiography to project a more literate image and he hires Frederick Manly Gerard as a ghostwriter. Doll Face agrees on the condition she is allowed to dedicate the book to Mike with "For the love of Mike".
Molly and Me (1945)
, 1h16Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Reginald Gardiner, Roddy McDowall, Natalie Schafer, Edith Barrett
Roles Writer
Rating68%
In 1937 London, struggling vaudeville actress Molly Barry (Gracie Fields) grows tired of the hopeless search for acting roles and instead applies for a job as housekeeper for upper class gentleman John Graham (Monty Woolley). She informs her friends and fellow actors, Lily (Queenie Leonard) and Julia (Edith Barrett), at the boardinghouse where she lives about her plans, but since she does not have any housekeeping references, she convinces former exotic dancer, Kitty Goode (Natalie Schafer), who has married into the peerage and become Lady Burroughs, to act as a fake reference.
The Big Bonanza (1944)
, 1h10Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Jane Frazee, Richard Arlen, George "Gabby" Hayes, Russell Simpson, Frank Reicher, Robert Livingston
Roles Original Story
Rating60%
My Pal, Wolf (1944)
, 1h14Directed by Alfred L. Werker, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Actors Sharyn Moffett, Jill Esmond, Una O'Connor, George Cleveland, Charles Arnt, Claire Carleton
Roles Writer
Rating61%
So This Is Washington (1943)
, 1h4Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Chester Lauck, Minerva Urecal, Alan Mowbray, Barbara Pepper, Sarah Padden, Jimmie Dodd
Rating55%
Abner Peabody runs the Jot 'Em Down general store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. When listening to the radio one day, he hears Chester Marshall, head of the Civilian Aid on the War Effort Board, plead to the people and asking for help to come up with inventions and ideas that could be used to improve the life during war times.
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films, Sports d'hiver, Patinage artistique
Actors Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone, Lionel Stander, Wade Boteler
Roles Story
Rating52%
Larry Hall (James Stewart) and Eddie Burgess (Lew Ayres) have a successful skating act until Larry falls in love with Mary McKay (Joan Crawford), an inept skater whom Larry insists upon including in the act. Fired from job after job because of Mary's ineptitude, Larry keeps up his spirits by dreaming of producing a colossal ice show. Following their latest dismissal, the couple elope, and Mary, feeling guilty for damaging her husband's career, convinces Douglas Tolliver, Jr. (Lewis Stone), the head of Monarch Studios, to offer her a movie contract.