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Robert Z. Leonard is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 7 october 1889 at Chicago (USA)
Robert Zigler Leonard (October 7, 1889 – August 27, 1968) was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Divorcee and The Great Ziegfeld. Both were also nominated for Best Picture, and the latter won. One of the most odd credits in his filmography is the film noir thriller The Bribe 1949 with its sleazy settings, slippery characters and steamy atmosphere.
Robert Leonard died in 1968 in Beverly Hills, California and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Robert Leonard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6368 Hollywood Blvd.
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Robert Z. Leonard
Birth name Robert Zigler Leonard
Nationality USA
Birth 7 october 1889 at Chicago (USA)
Death 27 august 1968 (at 78 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Creator of Tiffany Pictures
Nationality USA
Birth 7 october 1889 at Chicago (USA)
Death 27 august 1968 (at 78 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Creator of Tiffany Pictures
Biography
He was born in Chicago, Illinois. At one time, he was married to silent superstar Mae Murray with the two forming Tiffany Pictures to film eight motion pictures that were released by MGM.He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Divorcee and The Great Ziegfeld. Both were also nominated for Best Picture, and the latter won. One of the most odd credits in his filmography is the film noir thriller The Bribe 1949 with its sleazy settings, slippery characters and steamy atmosphere.
Robert Leonard died in 1968 in Beverly Hills, California and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Robert Leonard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6368 Hollywood Blvd.
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, 1h23Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Rags Ragland, Lucille Ball, Bob Haymes, Jean Porter
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating62%
A barber, Buzz Curtis (Bud Abbott), and a porter, Abercrombie (Lou Costello), work for a Hollywood salon. They are sent to the office of agent Norman Royce (Warner Anderson) to give him a haircut and a shoeshine. On the way there they run into former co-worker Claire Warren (Frances Rafferty), who is about to star as the lead in a new musical. At the same time her co-star Gregory LeMaise (Carleton G. Young), whose fame is dwindling, arrives and invites her to join him at lunch. She declines, which angers him.
The Firefly (1937)
, 2h11Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films, Operetta films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William, Billy Gilbert, Douglass Dumbrille, Henry Daniell
Roles Café Patron (uncredited)
Rating67%
Secret agent Nina Maria Azara (Jeanette MacDonald) is working undercover for the King of Spain (Tom Rutherford) as a singer known as the "Mosca del Fuego" or "Firefly." Despite her love for Captain Andre (Allan Jones), she tricks him so that his general will change the French defensive positions, thus allowing the Duke of Wellington to win the Battle of Vitoria. In the end Nina and Andre leave together for a new life in peace.
Riptide (1934)
, 1h32Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Robert Z. Leonard, Herbert Marshall, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Rating63%
This script must be run from the command line
Peacock Alley (1930)
, 1h3Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Mae Murray, Jason Robards Sr., Richard Tucker, William L. Thorne, Phillips Smalley, E. H. Calvert
Rating47%
Claire Tree, une danseuse de revue, est amoureuse depuis longtemps de Clayton, millionnaire local. Elle le rencontre à l'hôtel Peacock Alley à New York. Lorsqu'il refuse à nouveau de l'épouser, elle annonce qu'elle épouse Jim Bradbury, son amour d'enfance du Texas. Jim, un jeune avocat ambitieux, arrive à New York et ils se marient. Mais quand il oublie de l'inscrire à l'hôtel, Dugan, le détective de la maison, leur refuse l'entrée de la chambre, insistant sur le fait que Claire y a passé la nuit précédente avec un autre homme. Jim insiste pour affronter Clayton, mais Claire est indignée qu'il ait si peu confiance en elle, et il la quitte finalement. Désillusionnée, Claire se lance dans un nouveau spectacle, mais lors de sa première, Clayton affirme qu'il croit maintenant au mariage, et Claire l'accepte.
Show People (1928)
, 1h23Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors William Haines, Marion Davies, Dell Henderson, Polly Moran, Tenen Holtz, Harry Gribbon
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating75%
Young Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) wants to be in motion pictures, so her father (Dell Henderson) drives her across the country from their home in Georgia to Hollywood. After some initial disillusionment, she meets Billy Boone (William Haines) in a studio commissary; he tells her to show up at his set if she wants work. Peggy goes, gets sprayed with seltzer water at her first entrance, and is at first shocked and dismayed to find she is doing slapstick comedy in low-budget "Comet" productions, but she decides to "take it on the chin" and, with Billy's loving support, becomes a success.
Circe the Enchantress (1924)
, 1h14Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mae Murray, James Kirkwood Sr., Tom Ricketts, Robert Z. Leonard, Charles K. Gerrard, William Haines
Rating58%
Cecilie Brunner (Murray) was once a good natured woman. After the death of her mother, she becomes a cynical vamp. She falls in love with surgeon Peter Van Martyn (James Kirkwood, Sr.). Peter makes clear he does not approve her life style. This results in Cecilie even partying more. She ends up gambling her home away.
Married Flirts (1924)
, 1h10Directed by Robert G. Vignola
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Pauline Frederick, Mae Busch, Conrad Nagel, Huntley Gordon, Alice Hollister, John Gilbert
Roles Himself, Guest at party
Nellie Wayne (Pauline Frederick) is a novelist who loses her husband to a vamp, who thereupon rejects him to marry another man, who subsequently is enticed away by the novelist.
The Master Key (1914)
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Ella Hall, Harry Carter, Robert Z. Leonard, Wilbur Higby, Jack Holt, Alfred Hickman
Roles John Dore (as Bob Leonard)
Rating55%
From Father to Son (1914)
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Actors Robert Z. Leonard, Joseph Singleton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Betty Schade
The Sea Urchin (1913)
, 15minutesDirected by Edwin August
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Lon Chaney, Jeanie Macpherson, Robert Z. Leonard, Gertrude Short
Roles The Boy / Bob
A hunchback fisherman finds a young girl tied to a mast, the sole survivor of a shipwreck, and raises her into womanhood with the intention of making her his wife. Ten years pass and the woman, out of gratitude, promises to marry him. The hunchback hires a handsome stranger, the boy. The boy and the girl fall in love, but the girl refuses to marry him. The hunchback sees the two embrace and threatens the boy with a knife. The next day, the three go fishing in the boat and an argument breaks out. During the argument the boat tips over and the girl is washed away. The hunchback and the boy search for her, until the boy becomes exhausted and collapses on the shore. The hunchback finds the girl on a rock and brings her ashore. As the two reunite, he sees how happy they are together and takes his leave.
Shon the Piper (1913)
, 30minutesDirected by Otis Turner
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Robert Z. Leonard, Joseph Singleton, Lon Chaney, Margarita Fischer, John Burton
Roles Shon the Piper
The synopsis of the film was provided in Moving Picture News as: "The action is laid in the latter part of the eighteenth century while the story revolves about a young Scotch duke who, determined not to marry one seeking his money, searches for adventure in the Highlands, disguised as a piper. He meets, during his wanderings, Madge, the daughter of Donald Maclvor. They fall in love at sight. Unaware of Shon's real identity, the old father refuses to sanction the match. He prefers to give his daughter to the wealthy Laird of the Isla. When the girl carries this news to her lover he tells her to "Be of good cheer, my bonny lass; I'll pipe them a tune of another class." The wedding day is fixed and the Laird leads his melancholy fiancee forth. Shon visits the feast in the garb of a harpist. He amuses the guests for a while and then, throwing off his disguise, escapes with Madge from a window. But previous to this, Shon has called his clan together and when speeding away to his mansion, they cover his retreat. What follows is a remarkably thrilling and fresh piece of business; a battle between two kilted Scotch clans. And then the title of the youth is discovered and all ends well.
The Diamond Makers (1913)
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Genres Drama
Actors Margarita Fischer, Robert Z. Leonard, Joseph Singleton
Roles le détective Westerly
The Wayward Sister (1913)
Directed by Otis Turner
Actors Robert Z. Leonard, Margarita Fischer
Roles Jim Hollis
The Scarlet Letter (1911)
Directed by Joseph Smiley, George Loane Tucker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors King Baggot, Lucille Younge, Anita Hendrie, Robert Z. Leonard, J. Farrell MacDonald
Roles (undetermined role)
Rating72%
Set in 17th century Massachusetts, it is the classic story of a young woman, Hester Prynne (played by Lucille Young), who is forced by her Puritan community to wear a scarlet "A" (for adultery) because she had a daughter by another man while her husband was away.
The Still Alarm (1911)
Directed by Francis Boggs
Origin USA
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Robert Z. Leonard, Herbert Rawlinson, Fred Huntley, Al Ernest Garcia, Betty Harte, Frank Clark
Roles Jock Manley