Known for Sound
Born
February 7, 1914
Died
June 26, 1997 (age 83)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
62 films


Mail Order Bride
1964 · 1h 23m · US
An aging cowhand tries to help a young rancher settle down by buying him a wife.


Ride the High Country
1962 · 1h 34m · US
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.


Middle of the Night
1959 · 1h 58m · US
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.


Mayerling
1957 · 1h 25m
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.


The Joe Louis Story
1953 · 1h 28m · US
The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.


Marty
1953 · 51m · US
Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.


The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947 · 1h 45m · US
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.


A Letter for Evie
1946 · 1h 29m · US
During World War II, Evie O'Connor, a secretary at Trojan Shirt Company, yearns for a tall, strong man to love her. When she slides an anonymous note into a shirt-pocket meant for a dashing man, oafish Edgar 'Wolf' Larson receives the shirt and disregards the letter. After hearing Evie's words, short and bumbling John McPherson writes back, claiming to be Wolf. But trouble arises when Evie asks to meet him in person.


Two Smart People
1946 · 1h 33m · US
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.


The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 · 1h 53m · US
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.


Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945 · 1h 23m · US
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.


The Clock
1945 · 1h 30m · US
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.


The Canterville Ghost
1944 · 1h 35m · US
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.


Whistling in Brooklyn
1943 · 1h 27m · US
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.


Young Ideas
1943 · 1h 17m · US
A widowed lecturer's two grown children try to break up what they believe is her inappropriate romance with a staid college professor.


Cabin in the Sky
1943 · 1h 38m · US
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.


Ship Ahoy
1942 · 1h 35m · US
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.


Go West
1940 · 1h 20m · US
A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.


Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939 · 1h 12m · US
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.


Babes in Arms
1939 · 1h 33m · US
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.