Valentine DaviesFilmography

Born:: August 25, 1905
Occupation:: Screenwriter, Book Author
Biography:: American screenwriter Valentine Davies wrote his first screenplay in 1941. Prior to that he had been a novelist and a playwright. His two most famous films are Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won an Oscar, and The Benny Goodman Story (1955) which he wrote and directed. ~ Sandra...Read More

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Miracle on 34th Street

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, Mara Wilson, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: The 1947 holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street is transplanted to the 1990s with few changes in this family-oriented remake. The screenplay by the prolific John Hughes sticks close to the original outline, centering on Macy's executive Dorey Walker (Elizabeth Perkins) and her young daughter Susan Read More

1994
Miracle on 34th Street

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Sebastian Cabot

Synopsis: The 1947 film comedy Miracle on 34th Street starred Edmund Gwenn as a bearded gentleman named Kris Kringle, who was convinced that he was the genuine Santa Claus. The earlier Miracle was good enough as it stood, so why remake it? Still, the full-color 1973 Miracle on 34th Street has the Read More

1973
Bachelor in Paradise

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss

Synopsis: Bob Hope was in the first stages of his cinematic decline when he starred in Bachelor in Paradise. Hope plays a "romance expert" who is contracted to write an expose on the sexual habits of suburban California housewives. For research purposes, he moves into a subdivision called Paradise Read More

1961
It Started with a Kiss

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Gabor, Gustavo Rojo, Fred Clark

Synopsis: George Marshall directed this mild sex comedy about a showgirl who marries a U.S. Air Force sergeant and puts his love to the test by decreeing her body off-limits to him for a 30-day period (usually something built up to in the course of a marriage over a period of years). Debbie Reynolds plays Read More

1959
The Benny Goodman Story

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten, Herbert Anderson, Robert Simon

Synopsis: Steve Allen makes his dramatic film debut in The Benny Goodman Story. Outside of Goodman's conflicts with his parents over his career choice, and his early frustration over not being able to play his kind of music, the film tends to be more a series of musical highlights than a biography. The film Read More

1955
The Hour of Stars: Miracle on 34th Street

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Thomas Mitchell, Teresa Wright, Sandy Descher

Synopsis: The 20th Century-Fox Hour (later syndicated as The Hour of Stars) ran on CBS just shy of two years, from October 1955 through September 1957. An anthology program, the series typically featured readaptations of 20th Century-Fox feature films for a sixty-minute TV airslot. The 1955 production of Read More

1955
Strategic Air Command

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan, Alex Nicol

Synopsis: Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in the Korean War just as his baseball career was taking off, Strategic Air Command stars James Stewart as "Dutch" Holland, a star third baseman with the St. Louis Cardinals. Read More

1955
The Glenn Miller Story

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Charles Drake, George Tobias, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of his era. June Allyson is on hand as Miller's wife, Helen, who learns the value of patience when Glenn spends his wedding night jamming with Gene Krupa and Louis Armstrong. Read More

1954
The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by James Michener, this film stars William Holden as Harry Brubaker, a former military pilot who served in World War II. When he's called back into duty during the Korean conflict, Brubaker is angry, believing he's already served his country and needs to devote himself to his Read More

1954
Sailor of the King

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Jeffrey Hunter, Bernard Lee, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: Jeffrey Hunter plays a young British sailor, the out-of-wedlock son of a high-ranking naval officer (Michael Rennie). Hunter's ship is torpedoed, leaving him stranded on a German-occupied island. Armed with only a rifle, Hunter is able to shoot at a German cruiser docked for repairs, and to slow Read More

1953
On the Riviera

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet, Marcel Dalio, Jean Murat, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: On the Riviera is a remake of 1941's Weekend in Havana, which in turn was a remake of 1934's Folies Bergere. The plot remains the same in all three incarnations: for business purposes, a nightclub entertainer is coerced into posing as his look-alike, a powerful financier/aviator. This time it's Danny Kaye Read More

1951
It Happens Every Spring

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley, Sr., Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: Lloyd Bacon's baseball comedy stars Ray Milland as Vernon Simpson, a chemist who develops a product which repels wood. Signing on with a major league team as a pitcher, he throws screwballs doctored with his solution, becoming a sensation who strikes out every batter he faces. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

1949
Chicken Every Sunday

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend, Alan Young, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: George Seaton's 1948 comedy Chicken Every Sunday was based on the play by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein as well as the original memoirs of Rosemary Taylor. Set during the turn of the century on the American frontier, Emily Heffernan (eleste Holm) is the practical wife of foolish would-be Read More

1948
You Were Meant for Me

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Dan Dailey, Oscar Levant, Barbara Lawrence, Selena Royle

Synopsis: This musical romance is set during the Great Depression and centers upon the rocky marriage between a flapper script girl and her band-leader spouse. Prior to the big stock market crash, they spend much of their time touring. She tires of it and returns to her country home. Unable to find new Read More

1948
Miracle on 34th Street

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, Harry Antrim, Jerome Cowan, William Forrest, Herbert Heyes, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy's toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen O'Hara soon begins Read More

1947
Three Little Girls in Blue

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: June Haver, George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine, Celeste Holm

Synopsis: 20th Century-Fox pulled its script for Three Blind Mice out of mothballs once more for Three Little Girls in Blue. June Haver, Vera-Ellen and Vivian Blaine are the blue-clad trio, searching for wealthy husband in Atlantic City in 1905. As in all other versions of this Stephan Powys story, two of Read More

1946
Syncopation

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, George Bancroft, Ted North

Synopsis: This musical chronicles the history of jazz music and features many of the most popular musical acts from the early 1940s, including Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman. The story centers on a trumpet player who falls for a young woman with an equal passion for music. Unfortunately, the girl is still Read More

1942