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Sally Benson is a Scriptwriter American born on 3 september 1897 at St. Louis (USA)
Sally Benson est une scénariste américaine née le 3 septembre 1897 à Saint-Louis, Missouri (États-Unis), décédée le 19 juillet 1972 à Woodland Hills (États-Unis).
(1949)
(Scriptwriter)
(1946)
(Scriptwriter)
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The Singing Nun (1966)
, 1h38Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalbán, Greer Garson, Agnes Moorehead, Chad Everett, Katharine Ross
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Sister Ann (Debbie Reynolds) leaves the Dominican convent near Antwerp for her assignment at Samaritan House in a depressed area of Brussels. Sister Ann loves to play the guitar and sing, and when she joins in the traditional evensong at Samaritan House, she impresses the other nuns and Father Clementi (Ricardo Montalbán). She becomes fond of Dominic Arlien (Ricky Cordell), a motherless child whose father is an unemployed drunkard and who is loved only by his 17-year-old sister, Nicole (Katharine Ross). Sister Ann composes the song Dominique for the boy. Father Clementi persuades Robert Gerarde (Chad Everett), a partner in a recording firm, to listen to Sister Ann's music in the hope of having it recorded. When Robert meets Sister Ann, he discovers that she was his classmate at the Paris Conservatory of Music 5 years ago. Later, while visiting the Arlien house, Sister Ann discovers pictures of Nicole in provocative poses; the girl defiantly tells the nun that she posed to get food and rent money for her family. Her father overhears them, strikes Nicole, and orders the nun out of the house. The Mother Prioress (Greer Garson) later admonishes Sister Ann for allowing the young girl's secret to be made known to the father. Robert, whose attraction to Sister Ann has been rekindled, obtains permission from church authorities to have her record an album; "Dominique" becomes a worldwide hit, and Ed Sullivan brings a television crew to Brussels to film Sister Ann for his show.
Joy in the Morning (1965)
, 1h43Directed by Alex Segal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux, John Arthur Kennedy, Oskar Homolka, Joan Tetzel, Sidney Blackmer
Roles Ecrivain
Rating57%
Eighteen-year-old Brooklynite Annie McGairy has moved to the Midwest to marry her law-student love Carl Brown. The couple must overcome many obstacles including disapproval from their parents, who knew each other before emigrating to America from Ireland, financial problems, and Annie's sexual insecurities. These problems are all compounded when Annie discovers she is pregnant.
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
, 1h25Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair, Jack Carter
Rating62%
Lucky Jackson (Elvis) goes to Las Vegas, Nevada to participate in the city's first annual Grand Prix Race. However, his race car, an Elva Mk. VI, is in need of a new motor (engine) in order to compete in the event.
Signpost to Murder (1964)
, 1h18Directed by George Englund
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, Alan Napier, Hedley Mattingly
Rating61%
Summer Magic (1963)
, 1h40Directed by James Neilson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Deborah Walley, Eddie Hodges, Michael J. Pollard
Rating68%
Financial problems force young Boston widow Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire) and her 3 children to move out of their home. Nancy (Hayley Mills), the dramatic and kind-hearted eldest, remembers a large yellow house that the Careys had admired when they visited the small town of Beulah, Maine, and makes an inquiry about it. Upon the sale of the family's treasured piano ("Flitterin'"), Nancy reveals that the house is vacant and the family decides to relocate to the country ("Beautiful Beulah").
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)
, 1h21Directed by Henry Levin, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Dale Robertson, Thelma Ritter, John Carroll, Gwen Verdon, Eddie Foy, Jr.
Rating53%
During the 19th century, where Molly Larkin (Betty Grable), the girlfriend of rough-and-tumble canal-boat captain Jotham Klore (John Carroll) she hires mild-mannered farmer Daniel Harrow (Dale Robertson) to work on the boat. Molly and Dan fall in love and marry.
No Man of Her Own (1950)
, 1h38Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger, Jane Cowl, Henry O'Neill
Roles Ecrivain
Rating73%
Helen Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is eight months pregnant and unmarried. When she goes to her unfaithful boyfriend Morley for help, all he gives her is a train ticket back to where she came from.
Little Women (1949)
, 2h1Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about families, Political films, Children's films
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Peter Lawford
Rating72%
In the small town of Concord, Massachusetts, during the Civil War, the March sisters — Meg (Janet Leigh), Jo (June Allyson), Amy (Elizabeth Taylor) and Beth (Margaret O'Brien) — live with their mother in a state of genteel poverty, their father having lost the family's fortune to an unscrupulous businessman several years earlier. While Mr. March (Leon Ames) serves in the Union Army, Mrs. March (Mary Astor), affectionately referred to as "Marmee" by her daughters, holds the family together and teaches the girls the importance of giving to those less fortunate than themselves, especially during the upcoming Christmas season. Though the spoiled and vain Amy often bemoans the family's lack of material wealth and social status, Jo, an aspiring writer, keeps everyone entertained with her stories and plays, while the youngest March, the shy and sensitive Beth, accompanies Jo's productions on an out-of-tune piano.
Conspirator (1949)
, 1h27Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Honor Blackman, Harold Warrender, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Roles Adaptation
Rating60%
Come to the Stable (1949)
, 1h34Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Mike Mazurki
Rating70%
One winter's night, two French nuns, Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, come to the small New England town of Bethlehem (most likely modeled after Bethlehem, Connecticut – given the Abbey of Regina Laudis in that real town and the proximity to New York City), where they meet Amelia Potts, a painter of religious pictures. The Sisters announce that they have come to build a hospital there, and Chicago-born Sister Margaret explains that during the war she was in charge of a children's hospital in Normandy when it became a potential target during a military campaign. As many of the children could not be evacuated, Sister Margaret made a personal plea to an American general not to shell the hospital, which the Germans were using as an observation post. The hospital was spared but at the cost of American lives, and Sister Margaret made a promise to God that, in gratitude for saving the children, she would return to America to build a children's hospital.
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
, 2h8Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, Gale Sondergaard, Laurette Luez
Rating69%
Anna Owens (Irene Dunne) and her son Louis (Richard Lyon) arrive in Bangkok in 1862 to tutor the King's (Rex Harrison) children. She believes she is sufficiently acquainted with Asian customs to know what is proper in Siam, having read a book summarizing the same. However, when the Kralahome or Prime Minister (Lee J. Cobb) comes out to welcome her, he asks her a number of personal questions, and she does not know that this is common courtesy in Siam. Her letter from the King asking her to come to Siam includes a promise that she will have a house of her own away from the Palace, but the Kralahome says she will have to stay in the harem for now (although she'll have a private room there).
Junior Miss (1945)
, 1h34Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Peggy Ann Garner, Allyn Joslyn, Stephen Dunne, Mona Freeman, Faye Marlowe, Sylvia Field
Roles Novel
Rating72%
Lively and imaginative sisters Judy and Lois Graves, thirteen and sixteen years old, live in a small apartment in New York City with their forgiving and patient mother and father, Harry, a lawyer, and Grace, a housewife. Judy's equally energetic friend Fuffy Adams frequently visits, and the two girls have their own ideas about the relations of the grown-ups surrounding them. They often use movie plots to interpret the reality around them.
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
, 1h53Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Musical films
Actors Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main
Roles Novel
Rating74%
The backdrop for Meet Me in St. Louis is St. Louis, Missouri in the year leading up to the 1904 World's Fair.
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
, 1h48Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Serial killer films
Actors Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Hume Cronyn, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers
Rating77%
Charlotte "Charlie" Newton is a bored teenager living in the idyllic town of Santa Rosa, California. She receives wonderful news: her mother's younger brother (her namesake), Charlie Oakley, is arriving for a visit. Two men appear, supposedly working on a national survey. One takes a photo of Uncle Charlie, who demands the roll of film because "no one takes my photograph." The younger surveyor, Jack Graham, asks young Charlie out, and she guesses that he is really a detective. He explains that her uncle is one of two suspects who may be the "Merry Widow Murderer". Charlie refuses to believe it at first, but then observes Uncle Charlie acting strangely. The initials engraved inside a ring he gave her match those of one of the murdered women. During a family dinner he reveals his hatred of rich widows, comparing them to fat animals deserving to be slaughtered.