Known for Sound
Born
September 27, 1897
Died
April 10, 1981 (age 83)
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Filmography
38 films


Desire in the Dust
1960 · 1h 42m · US
Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile accident. He revives his love affair with Melinda Marquand........


Carmen Jones
1954 · 1h 45m · US
In this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War.


Woman's World
1954 · 1h 34m · US
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.


The Raid
1954 · 1h 23m · US
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.


Inferno
1953 · 1h 23m · US
When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two of them are really lovers who are leaving Carson to die in the heat. Slowly, Carson realizes he is on his own and vows revenge on the traitorous couple. Having had a privileged life, Carson must now use his wits to stay alive.


The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1952 · 1h 21m · US
Four undesirables run out of a mining town and become marooned in a deserted mountain cabin during a raging snowstorm.


Belles on Their Toes
1952 · 1h 29m · US
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.


With a Song in My Heart
1952 · 1h 57m · US
Jane Froman, an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross, whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon, and she is partially crippled. Unable to walk without crutches, Jane nevertheless goes on to entertain the Allied troops in World War II.


The Secret of Convict Lake
1951 · 1h 23m · US
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.


The 13th Letter
1951 · 1h 25m · US
A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman.


Mister 880
1950 · 1h 30m · US
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.


My Blue Heaven
1950 · 1h 35m · US
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.


Love That Brute
1950 · 1h 25m · US
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.


Unfaithfully Yours
1948 · 1h 45m · US
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.


That Lady in Ermine
1948 · 1h 29m · US
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...


I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947 · 1h 44m · US
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's


Miracle on 34th Street
1947 · 1h 36m · US
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.


Cluny Brown
1946 · 1h 40m · US
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.


The Bullfighters
1945 · 1h 1m · US
Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.


This Above All
1942 · 1h 50m · US
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.


Moon Over Miami
1941 · 1h 31m · US
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.


The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939 · 1h · US
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.


Jesse James
1939 · 1h 46m · US
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.


Suez
1938 · 1h 44m · US
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.


You Can't Have Everything
1937 · 1h 40m · US
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...


This Is My Affair
1937 · 1h 40m · US
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.


Charlie Chan at the Circus
1936 · 1h 12m · US
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.


Caravan
1934 · 1h 41m · US
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.


Music in the Air
1934 · 1h 25m · US
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.


Renegades
1930 · 1h 24m · US
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War. Deucalion spots Eleanor, a spy who had done him dirt and after tangling with the local gendarmes, they take her and head back for Morocco where they are charged with desertion, and have to go out and defeat some more marauding natives, and dodge the machine-gun fire directed at them by the highly-displeased Eleanor, and one thing just follows another.


On Your Back
1930 · 1h 10m · US
On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett, H. B. Warner, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Shilling and Ilka Chase.


Such Men Are Dangerous
1930 · 1h 23m · US
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.


Not Quite Decent
1929 · 58m · US
On her way to New York for her first stage appearance, Linda Cunningham meets Mame Jarrow, a nightclub singer; Linda later drops by to hear Mame sing, accompanied by their angel, Paul Nicholson, a wealthy roué. Mame gradually comes to realize that Linda is her own daughter, from whom she was separated years before by pious relatives. Using all her wiles, Mame attempts to keep Linda from falling prey to Nicholson, and when all else fails, she sends for Jerry Connor, Linda's small town sweetheart.