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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1940
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1931
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An early example of a "vanity" production, this feature-length documentary is comprised of glorified home movies taken by...
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Dialogue Writer
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1931
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds...
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Screenwriter
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1947
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In this romantic comedy a demanding French actress is upset because she has not recently received the proper adulation from...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Echec au Roi (The King Checkmated) was adapted from The Queen's Husband, a play by Robert E. Sherwood. The story concentrates...
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Play Author
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1931
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Escape in the Desert is a thinly disguised remake of The Petrified Forest (1936), updated with a WW II angle. Cynical Dutch...
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Play Author
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1945
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The third film version of Robert E. Sherwood's play Waterloo Bridge, Gaby is also the most antiseptic of the three. In the...
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Play Author
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1956
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Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1939
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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Play Author
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1955
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Another of Raoul Walsh's "lost" silent films, Lucky Lady stars Gretta Niessen as the title character. Convent-bred to assume...
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Screenwriter
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1926
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Elia Kazan directed this drama inspired by a true story. Karel Cernik (Fredric March) is the leader of a troupe of...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for...
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Screen Story
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1938
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Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason...
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Play Author
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1936
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An angel wonders if love can be Heaven on Earth in this family-themed romantic fantasy. Rev. Henry Biggs (Courtney B. Vance)...
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Screen Story
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1996
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Play Author
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1955
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Play Author
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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Screen Story
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1933
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A wimpy king is forced to take responsibility for his little North Sea island kingdom after his iron-fisted wife goes on a...
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Play Author
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1931
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Screenwriter
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1934
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In this satire of British-American relations, Edward G. Robinson stars as Dan Armstrong, a hard-sell American saleman whose...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Play Author
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1932
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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Play Author
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1940
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Mae Clarke had the best role of her career as the heroine of Waterloo Bridge, the first of three filmizations of...
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Play Author
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1931
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