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P. J. Wolfson is a Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer and Additional Dialogue American born on 22 may 1903 at New York City (USA)
P. J. Wolfson, (New York, 22 mai 1903 - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, 16 avril 1979), né Pincus Jacob Wolfson, est un écrivain américain devenu scénariste et producteur de cinéma.
Bodies Are Dust, publié à 2 reprises en français sous 2 titres différents, est qualifié de «chef-d'œuvre» par Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Birth name Pincus Jacob Wolfson
Nationality USA
Birth 22 may 1903 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 april 1979 (at 75 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 22 may 1903 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 april 1979 (at 75 years)
Biography
P. J. Wolfson publie son premier roman Bodies Are Dust en 1931. Son succès ainsi que celui des 3 suivants l’amène à travailler comme scénariste et producteur à Hollywood. Jusqu’à la fin de sa vie, il travaille pour les plus grandes sociétés de production Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures… Il écrit de très nombreux scénarios pour le cinéma et la télévision.Bodies Are Dust, publié à 2 reprises en français sous 2 titres différents, est qualifié de «chef-d'œuvre» par Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Boy Slaves (1939)
, 1h12Directed by P. J. Wolfson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Anne Shirley, Walter Tetley, Charles Lane, Alan Baxter, Arthur Hohl
Rating62%
Runaway boy Jesse Thompson, hoping to earn enough money to support his mother, follows a gang of other boys. After an infraction gets them all in trouble, they are forced to work in a fenced and guarded turpentine camp, climbing and tapping trees. They are free to leave only if they can first pay off bills they ran up at the company store (peonage). Trapped in a state of de facto slavery, they decide to strike for better food after one boy gets dizzy from hunger and falls from a tree, resulting in the amputation of his arm. When their protest fails, the boys decide to write a letter about the conditions of their detention to the U.S. President's wife, but it is intercepted. The boys believe one of their number is a "snitch", but later discover differently.
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The Perils of Pauline (1947)
, 1h36Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest, Constance Collier, Frank Faylen
Roles Story
Rating63%
Pearl White (Betty Hutton) is a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become a dramatic actress. She joins a touring theatrical troupe managed by handsome but pompous Mike (John Lund), but fame and fortune elude her because she's unable to suppress her natural rambunctiousness. In desperation, White takes a job at a movie studio, where she promptly finds herself in the middle of a slapstick pie fight. With the help of bombastic director Mac (William Demarest), top-hatted villain portrayer Timmy (Billy De Wolfe), and imperious dramatics coach Julia (Constance Collier), Pearl soon becomes world-famous as the star of such cliffhanging, tied-to-the-railroad-tracks serials as The Perils of Pauline.
Suddenly It's Spring (1947)
, 1h27Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Arleen Whelan, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Faylen
Roles Histoire
Rating63%
Saigon (1947)
, 1h33Directed by Leslie Fenton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell, Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky
Rating61%
World War II has ended and Major Larry Briggs finds out that his friend Mike has only a short time to live but doesn't know yet. Determined to show Mike a good time before he dies, Larry takes a flying job working for a profiteer, Maris. Everything is set until Maris' secretary Susan Cleaver gets shoved on board. Mike falls for Susan and Larry convinces her to play along. Susan, however, has fallen for Larry.
Pacific Rendezvous (1942)
, 1h16Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Russell Hicks, Mona Maris, Carl Esmond, Paul Cavanagh
Rating58%
They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
, 1h25Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Allen Jenkins, Ivan F. Simpson
Rating63%
Margaret Drew (Crawford) runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes (Douglas) who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings.
Bullets for O'Hara (1941)
, 50minutesDirected by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Joan Perry, Roger Pryor, Roger Pryor, Anthony Quinn, Maris Wrixon, Dick Purcell
Roles Story
Rating54%
Escape to Glory (1940)
, 1h4Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Pat O'Brien, Constance Bennett, John Halliday, Edgar Buchanan, Alan Baxter, Melville Cooper
Roles Writer
Rating62%
La formule Grand Hôtel qui était si surchargé de travail dans les années 1930 a fait une apparition encore dans Escape to Glory 1940. L'histoire est donnée en temps opportun en plaçant les personnages sur un navire marchand britannique le jour même que la Seconde Guerre mondiale est déclarée. Le navire est attaqué par un nazi U-Boat, ce qui entraîne dans une variété de réactions des divers passagers - dont l'un (Erwin Kalser) est un médecin allemand. Constance Bennett est glamour, Pat O'Brien est boozy, John Halliday est pensive, et tout le monde (à l'exception du medico allemand) est simple peur.
Vigil in the Night (1940)
, 1h42Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Robert Coote, Peter Cushing, Ethel Griffies
Rating66%
In Great Britain, Vigil in the Night nurse Anne Lee (Carole Lombard) takes the blame for a fatal error made by her sister Lucy (Anne Shirley), also a nurse, and is forced to leave the hospital where they both work. She moves to a large city where she procures a job at another hospital and falls in love with Dr. Robert Prescott (Brian Aherne). Overcoming obstacles and personal tragedy along the way, Anne and Prescott work together to bring about better conditions for the care of the sick as well as fighting an epidemic which threatens to overwhelm all those around them.
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
, 1h21Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Actors Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy, Wilfrid Lawson, Robert Barrat
Rating62%
In the south western Pennsylvania area of colonial America in the 1760s, colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders. Local adventurer James Smith (John Wayne) and his followers complain to British officials, pressuring them to make it illegal to trade weapons to the native population. Trader Ralph Callender (Brian Donlevy) and other businessmen are not happy with the new laws, seeing as it cuts into their profit. They begin to trade with the local native American population, hiding rifles and rum inside military supply trains. When the British authorities fail to do anything to prevent this, James Smith organizes his men and heads out to intercept the wagon train. Smith's spirited and bold girlfriend, Janie McDougall (Claire Trevor), assists him and his men in posing as Indians to intercept the gun shipments.
Vivacious Lady (1938)
, 1h30Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi, Franklin Pangborn, James Ellison, Charles Coburn
Rating70%
Vivacious Lady is a story of love at first sight between a young botany professor named Peter Morgan Jr. (Stewart) and a nightclub singer named Francey (Rogers). The film also has comedic elements, including repeatedly frustrated attempts by the newlywed couple to find a moment alone with each other.
Shall We Dance (1937)
, 1h49Directed by Mark Sandrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan, Ben Alexander
Roles Adaptation
Rating73%
Peter P. Peters (Fred Astaire), an American ballet dancer billed as "Petrov", dances for a ballet company in Paris owned by the bumbling Jeffrey Baird (Edward Everett Horton). Peters secretly wants to blend classical ballet with modern jazz dancing, and when he sees a photo of famous tap dancer Linda Keene (Ginger Rogers), he falls in love with her. He contrives to meet her, but she is less than impressed. They meet again on an ocean liner traveling back to New York, and Linda warms to Petrov. Unknown to them, a plot is launched as a publicity stunt "proving" that they are actually married. Outraged, Linda becomes engaged to the bumbling Jim Montgomery (William Brisbane), much to the chagrin of both Peters and Arthur Miller (Jerome Cowan), her manager, who secretly launches more fake publicity. Peters and Keene, unable to squelch the rumor, decide to actually marry and then immediately get divorced. Linda begins to fall in love with her husband, but then discovers him with another woman, Lady Denise Tarrington (Ketti Gallian), and leaves before he can explain. Later, when she comes to his new show to personally serve him divorce papers, she sees him dancing with dozens of women, all wearing masks with her face on them: Peters has decided that if he cannot dance with Linda, he will dance with images of Linda. Seeing that he truly loves her, she happily joins him onstage.
Sea Devils (1937)
, 1h28Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Victor McLaglen, Preston Foster, Ida Lupino, Donald Woods, Helen Flint, Gordon Jones
Rating55%
A Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer's personality conflict with his younger counterpart gets physical when the seaman casts his eye on the Chief's librarian daughter, among iceberg destruction missions, dramatic boat rescues, and fistfights.
The Bride Walks Out (1936)
, 1h21Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Robert Young, Ned Sparks, Helen Broderick, Willie Best
Rating57%
Carolyn Martin has expensive tastes despite husband Michael not earning much money. They split up and she is wooed by a millionaire.
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
Rating57%