Known for Writing
Born
April 21, 1903
Died
July 13, 1957 (age 54)
Birthplace
Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Filmography
30 films


Confessions of Felix Krull
1957 · 1h 48m · DE
Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.


September Affair
1950 · 1h 44m · US
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they're reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to increasing stress.


My Daughter Joy
1950 · 1h 21m · UK
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.


Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950 · 1h 22m · US
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey, the mission causes the deaths of many bystanders -- among them, Carey believes, his Italian girlfriend, Giulia de Graffi. Back home, Carey stumbles across evidence that might uncover the identity of the informant. But, when he returns to Italy to get even, Carey is stunned by what he finds.


An Act of Murder
1948 · 1h 31m · US
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.


Singapore
1947 · 1h 19m · US
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.


Temptation
1946 · 1h 38m · US
After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.


O.S.S.
1946 · 1h 47m · US
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.


Mrs. Parkington
1944 · 2h 4m · US
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.


Rage in Heaven
1941 · 1h 25m · US
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.


Hotel Imperial
1939 · 1h 19m · US
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".


The Tamer
1938 · 1h 25m · FR
A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring.