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Allan Scott (American Screenwriter)
Allan Scott (May 23, 1906 – April 13, 1995) was a screenwriter who was nominated for an Academy Award for ''So Proudly We Hail!''. Career He co-wrote the screenplays for a number of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films: ''Top Hat'' (1935), ''Follow the Fleet'' (1936), ''Swing Time'' (1936), ''Shall We Dance'' (1937), and '' Carefree'' (1938), as well as ''Roberta'' (1935), in which they played supporting roles. Filmography :''As screenwriter, unless otherwise noted.'' * '' Goodbye Again'' (1933) (play) * ''Let's Try Again'' (1934) (uncredited) * '' By Your Leave'' (1934) * ''Roberta'' (1935) * ''Village Tale'' (1935) * ''Top Hat'' (1935) * '' In Person'' (1935) * '' I Dream Too Much'' (1935) (uncredited add. dialogue) * ''Follow the Fleet'' (1936) * ''Swing Time'' (1936) * '' Quality Street'' (1937) * ''Shall We Dance'' (1937) * '' Wise Girl'' (1937) (also story) * ''Joy of Living'' (1938) * '' Carefree'' (1938) (also uncredited minor acting role) * '' Man About Town'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlington, New Jersey
Arlington is a neighborhood in Kearny in the western part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Geography Arlington is located in the northwestern part of Kearny on the ridge between the New Jersey Meadowlands and the Passaic River. New Jersey Route 7, known as the Belleville Turnpike, creates the border with the Bergen County town of North Arlington, which takes its name in relation to this community. Kearny Riverbank Park runs along the neighborhood's Passaic River shore. Arlington Memorial Park cemetery is located on Schuyler Avenue. History The community was the location of the Arlington and West Arlington stations on New York and Greenwood Lake Railway, just east of the WR Draw over the river. These communities were part of NJ Transit's Boonton Line, which was discontinued with the opening of the Montclair Connection and Secaucus Junction. The planned Essex - Hudson Greenway will use the right of way. Arlington's history dates back to its founding in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodbye Again (1933 Film)
Goodbye Again may refer to: Books *'' Goodbye, Again'', a 2021 essay collection by Jonny Sun Film and television * ''Goodbye Again'' (1933 film), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Warren William and Joan Blondell ** ''Goodbye Again'', a 1928 play written by George Haight and Allan Scott, on which the film was based * ''Goodbye Again'' (1961 film), directed by Anatole Litvak, featuring Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand and Anthony Perkins * ''Goodbye Again'' (TV series), a 1968 TV series with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore * ''Goodbye Again'', a 2023 TV series starring Huang Pei-jia Music * "Goodbye Again", a 1972 song by John Denver from the album '' Rocky Mountain High'' * "Goodbye Again", a 2003 song by Vertical Horizon from the album '' Go'' {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Valley Serenade
''Sun Valley Serenade'' is a 1941 American musical film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, and Lynn Bari. It features the Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by the Nicholas Brothers. It also features Dorothy Dandridge, performing " Chattanooga Choo Choo", which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996, and was awarded the first Gold Record for sales of 1.2 million. Studio 20th Century Fox re-released the film in 1946 and in 1954 to tie-in with the biopic ''The Glenn Miller Story''. Plot Ted Scott ( John Payne) is a band pianist whose publicity manager decides that, for good press, the band should adopt a foreign refugee. The band goes to Ellis Island to meet the girl and soon discovers that the refugee isn't a 10-year-old child, but a young woman, Karen Benson (Sonja Henie). The surprise comes right before the band is to travel to Sun Valley, Idaho, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeymoon For Three (1941 Film)
''Honeymoon for Three'' is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starting Ann Sheridan. George Brent, Charlie Ruggles and Osa Massen. Future star Jane Wyman appears in a supporting role. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. It is a remake of the 1933 film '' Goodbye Again'', which was itself based on the 1932 play ''Goodbye Again''. Plot An author in love with his secretary gets into trouble when he encounters an infatuated fan. Cast * Ann Sheridan as Anne Rogers * George Brent as Kenneth Bixby * Charlie Ruggles as Harvey Wilson * Osa Massen as Julie Wilson * Jane Wyman as Elizabeth Clochessy * William T. Orr as Arthur Westlake * Lee Patrick as Mrs. Pettijohn * Walter Catlett as Waiter * Herbert Anderson as Floyd Ingram * Johnny Downs as Chester T. Farrington III Reception Bosley Crowther gave a negative review in ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Partners
''Lucky Partners'' is a 1940 American romantic comedy film starring Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers. Directed by Lewis Milestone for RKO Radio Pictures, it is based on the 1935 Sacha Guitry film '' Good Luck''. The picture was the only film pairing of Colman and Rogers, and Rogers' eleventh and final film written by Allan Scott. Plot Greenwich Village “sidewalk” portrait painter and caricaturist David Grant passes Jean Newton on the street. On a whim he wishes her good luck. She works in a book shop directly across the street from his small second floor studio. When Jean makes a delivery, a rich woman gifts her a dazzling new gown she never wants to see again because it reminds her of its purchaser. Believing David to bring her good luck, Jean asks him to go in halves with her on a ticket for a $150,000 sweepstakes horse race. He agrees only on condition that if they win she accompany him on a platonic trip to see the country before she settles down to staid married life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primrose Path (1940 Film)
''Primrose Path'' is a 1940 melodrama film from RKO starring Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea. Produced and directed by Gregory LaCava, it is an adaptation of the novel ''February Hill''. It follows the tragic romance of a young woman determined not to follow her mother and grandmother into prostitution. Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, and Miles Mander appear in support, with Rambeau receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Plot Tomboy Ellie May Adams (Ginger Rogers) keeps her virtue despite her difficult circumstances. Her alcoholic, Greek scholar father Homer (Miles Mander) is unemployable, leaving her mother Mamie (Marjorie Rambeau) to support the family through prostitution. Her retired-prostitute grandmother (Queenie Vassar) sees nothing wrong with their shared profession. One day, Ellie May warily accepts a ride to the beach from Gramp (Henry Travers). Gramp runs a beachside restaurant and gas station along with wisecracking Ed Wallace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Avenue Girl
''Fifth Avenue Girl'', sometimes stylized as ''5th Ave Girl'', is a 1939 RKO Radio Pictures comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, and James Ellison. The screenplay was written by Allan Scott with uncredited contributions by La Cava and Morris Ryskind. The film is about a rich industrialist with business problems who feels neglected by his family and hires a young woman to stir things up. Plot Wealthy industrialist Timothy Borden has problems both at work and at home. His employees at Amalgamated Pump are making demands that may drive the business that he has built from nothing into bankruptcy. His son Tim, who prefers playing polo, has neglected and lost a major customer. On his birthday, when Timothy returns to his Fifth Avenue mansion, he finds nobody there but the servants. His unfaithful wife Martha, his daughter Katherine and Tim have all forgotten, are busy or do not care. Feeling lonely, Timothy takes the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man About Town (1939 Film)
''Man About Town'' is a 1939 musical comedy film starring Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, and Edward Arnold. Then-Sen. Harry S. Truman saw the movie in Washington, and wrote in a letter home to his wife that he enjoyed it.Frank, Jeffrey, ''The Trials of Harry S. Truman'' (Simon & Schuster 2022), p. xx Plot A producer tries to get his leading lady to take him seriously romantically by pursuing other women. Cast *Jack Benny as Bob Temple *Dorothy Lamour as Diana Wilson *Edward Arnold as Sir John Arlington *Binnie Barnes as Lady Arlington *Monty Woolley as Henri Dubois *Isabel Jeans as Mme. Dubois *Phil Harris as Ted Nash *Betty Grable Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, and for 10 consecutive years (1942–1951) she p ... as Susan Hayes *Edward E. Clive, E. E. Clive as Hotchkiss *Eddie Anderson (comedian), Eddie Anderson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Of Living
''Joy of Living'' is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. with supporting performances from Alice Brady, Guy Kibbee, Jean Dixon, Eric Blore and Lucille Ball. It features the hit song "You Couldn't Be Cuter," written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. Plot Margaret "Maggie" Garret is the star of a new musical show, ''Glamour'', having come up the hard way, following the family tradition of stage performance. She now earns a large salary but is devastated to learn that she is deeply in debt. She has worked extremely hard to make the show a success, but spends huge sums on a palatial home, and supporting her parents Dennis and Minerva, her sister Salina (also her understudy) and Salina's work-shy husband, Bert Pine. After the show one night, she forces her way through her adoring fans and is accosted by Dan Webster, who latches on to her and won't be put off. Taking him as a "masher", she drives to the police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wise Girl (film)
''Wise Girl'' is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland and Walter Abel. The screenplay concerns a wealthy socialite who tries to gain custody of her orphaned nieces. Plot Susan Fletcher (Miriam Hopkins) and her millionaire father, Simon (Henry Stephenson), are eager to take care of her late sister's two daughters, Joan and Katie, but her deceased brother-in-law's will placed them in the custody of his brother, John O'Halloran (Ray Milland). Mr. Fletcher's lawyers inform him that there is nothing they can do, unless John can be shown to be unemployed. However, though he loses jobs frequently, he also seems to be able to find new ones just as quickly. Susan decides to investigate. She passes herself off as an impoverished actress and talks John's kindly landlord into giving her a place to stay. She becomes acquainted with John, a struggling painter, the two girls, and their friends, boxer/sculptor Mike Malloy ( Guinn W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quality Street (1937 Film)
''Quality Street'' is a 1937 American historical comedy film made by RKO Radio Pictures.''Harrison's Reports'' film review; March 20, 1937, page 47. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman. Set in 19th-century England, the film stars Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone. Joan Fontaine makes one of her early (uncredited) film appearances. The screenplay was by Allan Scott, Mortimer Offner, and Jack Townley, based on the 1901 play '' Quality Street'' by J. M. Barrie. This 1937 version was filmed at the RKO Encino movie ranch, RKO Forty Acres backlot, and RKO Hollywood Studios. ''Quality Street'' was a box office failure, recording a loss of $248,000.Richard Jewel, "RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951". ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', Vol 14 No 1, 1994; p. 44 It was Katharine Hepburn's fourth flop film in a row for RKO Pictures, which added to Miss Hepburn’s label as "box office poison" by the 1938 national group of movie exhibitors. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Dream Too Much (1935 Film)
I Dream Too Much may refer to: * ''I Dream Too Much'' (1935 film), a 1935 American romantic comedy film * ''I Dream Too Much'' (2015 film), a 2015 American comedy-drama film * ''I Dream Too Much'' (album), a 1984 album by Jimmy Knepper {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
