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George Marion, Jr.
George Marion Jr. (August 30, 1899 – February 25, 1968) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 106 films between 1920 and 1940. Director Billy Wilder told Hollywood oral historian Max Wilk that, as a title writer for silent films, Marion "was the most sought after; the producers would bring him a picture with all the scenes finished—they wouldn't even know yet whether it was a comedy, very often, or whether they had a drama—until Marion finished writing the titles!" Marion also wrote lyrics for at least one Broadway musical revue: 1943's "Early To Bed" with music by Thomas "Fats" Waller. Collaborating with Karl Farkas, Marion wrote the libretto for Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán's 1945 operetta '' Marinka.'' Marion was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was actor and director George F. Marion. In 1929, Marion and his wife were involved in the trial of an income-tax adviser. Both of them were witnesses in the trial of J. Marjorie Berger in U.S. Distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Daddies
''Sweet Daddies'' is a 1926 American silent comedy crime film directed by Alfred Santell and starring George Sidney, Charles Murray, and Vera Gordon. The film foregrounds positive relationships between Jewish and Irish American characters, despite the presence of some stereotypes. The plot revolves around comedic mishaps in the bootleg liquor business. The romance between the daughter of the Jewish Finkelstein family and the son of the Irish O’Brien family ends happily. Cast * George Sidney as Abie Finklebaum * Charles Murray as Patrick O'Brien * Vera Gordon as Rose Finklebaum * Jobyna Ralston as Mariam Finklebaum * Jack Mulhall as Jimmy O'Brien * Gaston Glass as Sam Berkowitz * Aggie Herring as Mrs. O'Brien Reception The ''New York Times'' film critic described it thus: Impact Sidney and Murray, who portrayed the fathers of the two families, would go on to work together in many films that, focusing on Jewish and Irish relations, were often described as “ethnic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warming Up (1928 Film)
Warming Up may refer to: * ''Warming Up'' (1928 film), American film * ''Warming Up'' (1985 film), Australian film * Warming Up, an internet blog by British comedian Richard Herring * '' Warming Up!'', an album by Billy Taylor {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan Cocktail (film)
''Manhattan Cocktail'' (1928) was a part-talkie film, directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, and Lilyan Tashman. At the time this movie was made, Hollywood was already making the transition of silent to sound, either making all talking movies, part talking movies, or silent movies with their own soundtrack and sound effects. Preservation status ''Manhattan Cocktail'' is a lost film except for a one-minute montage sequence, "Skyline Dance" by Slavko Vorkapich, which was released in October 2005 on the DVD '' Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894–1941''. Music The film featured a theme song entitled "Another Kiss" that was composed by Victor L. Schertzinger. Victor Schertzinger also composed a song called "Gotta Be Good" that was also featured in the film. Both songs are sung by Nancy Carroll in the film. See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Hair (1928 Film)
''Red Hair'' is a 1928 silent film starring Clara Bow and Lane Chandler, directed by Clarence G. Badger, based on a 1905 novel by Elinor Glyn, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film had one sequence filmed in Technicolor, and is now considered a lost film except for the color sequence at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and a few film still, production stills. Plot A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a wealthy young man to whom she is attracted. Cast *Clara Bow as Bubbles McCoy *Lane Chandler as Robert Lennon *William Austin (actor), William Austin as Dr. Eustace Gill *Jacqueline Gadsden as Minnie Luther *Lawrence Grant as Judge Rufus Lennon *Claude King (actor), Claude King as Thomas L. Burke *William Irving (actor), William Irving as Demmy See also *List of lost films *List of early color feature films References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Arabian Knights
''Two Arabian Knights'' (1927) is an American silent comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd, Mary Astor, and Louis Wolheim. The film was produced by Howard Hughes and was distributed by United Artists. The screenwriters were James T. O'Donohue, Wallace Smith, and George Marion Jr. The film won the only Academy Award for Best Comedy Direction in 1929. The next year, AMPAS merged the categories Best Director of a Comedy Picture and Best Director of a Dramatic Picture to form the category Academy Award for Best Director. Plot During the First World War, two American soldiers become trapped in no man's land. Expecting to die, W. Dangerfield Phelps III (William Boyd) decides to fulfill his fondest desire: to beat up his sergeant since training camp, Peter O'Gaffney (Louis Wolheim). While they are brawling, the Germans sneak up and capture them. In a German prison camp, the two become friends when Phelps takes responsibility for an unflattering c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Woman To Another
''One Woman to Another'' is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and written by J.L. Campbell and George Marion Jr. based upon a play by Frances Nordstrom.Progressive Silent Film List: ''One Woman to Another'' at silentera.com The film stars , , , |
Underworld (1927 Film)
''Underworld'' (also released as ''Paying the Penalty'') is a 1927 American silent gangster film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent and George Bancroft. The film launched Sternberg's eight-year collaboration with Paramount Pictures, with whom he would produce his seven films with actress Marlene Dietrich. Journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht won an Academy Award for Best Original Story. Plot Boisterous gangster kingpin 'Bull' Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out 'Rolls Royce' Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two become confidants, with Rolls Royce's intelligence aiding Weed's schemes, but complications arise when Rolls Royce falls for Weed's girlfriend 'Feathers' McCoy. Adding to Weed's troubles are attempts by a rival gangster, 'Buck' Mulligan, to muscle in on his territory. Their antagonism climaxes with Weed killing Mulligan and he is imprisoned. Awaiting a death sentence, Rolls Royce devises an escape plan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rough House Rosie
''Rough House Rosie'' is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film produced and released by Paramount Pictures and directed by Frank Strayer. The film is a starring vehicle for Clara Bow who was then Paramount's most popular actress. Reed Howes, a model turned actor, is Bow's leading man. The film was based on the story of the same name by Nunnally Johnson that appeared in ''The Saturday Evening Post''. The story was adapted for the screen by Max Marcin, with a screenplay by Louise Long and Ethel Doherty and titles by George Marion, Jr. Plot Cast *Clara Bow as Rosie O'Reilly *Reed Howes as Joe Hennessey *Arthur Housman as Kid Farrell * Doris Hill as Ruth * Douglas Gilmore as Arthur Russell *John Miljan as Lew McKay *Henry Kolker as W.S. Davids Preservation ''Rough House Rosie'' is now presumed lost, but a 53-second trailer survives. Although more rediscovered fragments have appeared in a 2012 ''Documentary Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess'', however the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedding Bills
''Wedding Bills'' (also sometimes written as ''Wedding Bill$'') is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Raymond Griffith, Anne Sheridan, and Hallam Cooley Hallam Burr (February 8, 1895 – March 20, 1971), known by his stage name Hallam Cooley, was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1913 and 1936. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Tib ....McCaffrey & Jacob p. 141 It is considered lost. Cast References Bibliography * Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacob. ''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. External links * 1927 films 1927 comedy films Silent American comedy films Films directed by Erle C. Kenton American silent feature films 1920s English-language films Paramount Pictures films American black-and-white films 1920s American films English-language comedy films {{1920s-silent-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It (1927 Film)
''It'' (stylized in quotation marks) is a 1927 American silent film directed by Clarence G. Badger, and starring Clara Bow. It is based on the serialised novella of the same name, republished in ''"It" and Other Stories'' (1927), by Elinor Glyn, who adapted the story and appears in the film as herself. The film was a box office hit and served as Bow's star vehicle, turning her into one of the most popular actresses of the era. It popularized the concept of the " it girl", with the term "it" defined in the opening as the "quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force." The film had its world premiere in Los Angeles on January 14, 1927, followed by a New York showing on February 5, 1927. ''It'' was released to the general public on February 19, 1927. The picture was considered lost for many years; however, in the 1960s, a nitrate copy was discovered in Prague. In 2001, ''It'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Delivery (1927 Film)
''Special Delivery'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle starring Eddie Cantor, Jobyna Ralston and William Powell. It was written by Cantor, John F. Goodrich, and George Marion Jr. (with Larry Semon, uncredited). It was released by Paramount Pictures. The film's copyright was renewed in 1954, so it entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2023. Plot Eddie, a mailman, is in love with waitress Madge but finds amongst his rivals for her affections the dishonest promoter Harold Jones. Eddie, who cannot dance, impresses Madge at the postal ball by his energetic performance of the Black Bottom after a piece of ice falls down his shirt and wins a cup. He eventually unmasks Harold as a crooked swindler. Cast * Eddie Cantor as Eddie, The Mail Carrier * Jobyna Ralston as Madge, The Girl * William Powell as Harold Jones * Donald Keith as Harrigan, The Fireman * Jack Dougherty as Flannigan, a cop * Victor Potel as Nip, a detective * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
