Writing

Dorothy Howell

Born — Died

1899-05-10 — 1971-06-08

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

26 titles

American screenwriter.

Known for

Behind the camera

Song of Love poster
4.7

Tom and Anna Gibson, along with their little boy, Buddy, form a successful vaudeville song-and-dance act and a happy family. Anna, however, is worried about her son's future when she finds him playing ball, forgetting a performance.

Song of Love

1929

Ten Cents a Dance poster
6.7

A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

Ten Cents a Dance

1931

Men in Her Life poster
6.1

A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".

Men in Her Life

1931

Whirlpool poster
6.4

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

Whirlpool

1934

For the Love o' Lil poster
10.0

A virtuous lawyer falls for a beautiful but extravagant woman, leading him into financial trouble as he tries to keep up with her wasteful spending, ultimately testing their relationship and his principles.

For the Love o' Lil

1930

Submarine poster
5.8

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.

Submarine

1928

The Street of Illusion poster
10.0

Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Virginia Valli, Ian Keith, Harry Myers, Kenneth Thomson.

The Street of Illusion

1928

Virgin Lips poster
3.3

In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel. But her American aviator boyfriend, Barry Blake (John Boles), is flying to her rescue. He does just that but, alas, they are quickly captured by a gang of outlaws. Possibly the many expensive pieces of jewelry she has gathered from the many male friends she has made along the way, including El Presidente, captured the outlaws' attention.

Virgin Lips

1928

Alias the Lone Wolf poster
10.0

Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, is sailing to America when he meets pretty Eve de Montalais. Eve wants to sneak her valuable necklace through U.S. customs so that she can use the money from its sale to help straighten out her brother. The only problem is that there is a gang of jewel thieves on board who are just as determined to steal the necklace.

Alias the Lone Wolf

1927

Rain or Shine poster
6.5

Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.

Rain or Shine

1930

Arizona poster
4.8

A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.

Arizona

1931

The Last of the Lone Wolf poster
7.5

In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Majesty learns that his wife has given the ring he gave to her to her lover, the King plans a large ball and demands the she wear the token. As her lover is a military attache, he is not in the palace, and the queen must send her lady-in-waiting to bring it back. En route, the lady meets a thief and they team up. She does not know that he has been dispatched by the King to steal ring from the attache.

The Last of the Lone Wolf

1930

Sally in Our Alley poster
10.0

Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. However, this happy home is broken up when Sally wealthy aunt appears on the scene and takes Sally back to her luxurious penthouse in order to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.

Sally in Our Alley

1927

Fifty Fathoms Deep poster
3.7

In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older diver, and his younger protege. They become enemies when a gold-digger marries the latter. She soon leaves him in favor of a wealthy yachtsman. She is aboard his boat when an accident occurs. The two divers must salvage the costly boat before it sinks.

Fifty Fathoms Deep

1931

The College Hero poster
5.2

A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpectedly to play for his team in the season's key game.

The College Hero

1927

Men Without Law poster
8.0

Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.

Men Without Law

1930

Runaway Girls poster
8.0

Runaway Girls is a lost 1928 silent film drama directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Shirley Mason and Hedda Hopper. It was produced by Harry Cohn and distributed by his Columbia Pictures, then a fledgling studio.

Runaway Girls

1928

Fighting Youth poster
NR

Dick Covington is a society athlete who is quick with his fists. His fiancée, Jean Manley, hates his fighting and convinces him to stop. But then his rival tricks him into accepting an offer to fight Murdering Mooney at a charity show. At first Jean is chagrined, but when the rival insults her, she is anxious for Covington to beat his opponent.

Fighting Youth

1925

Soldiers and Women poster
3.0

Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom is married to a Marine Captain. One of the husbands is murdered, and Branch, Helen and Brenda each find themselves high on the list of suspects.

Soldiers and Women

1930

Birds of Prey poster
6.5

Helen Wayne and Archie Crossley, two clever pickpockets, rob J. Hamilton Smith, a well-known metropolitan banker, and he is later recognized by one of their gang as a former prisonmate; they demand a price for their silence, and he is forced to accede.

Birds of Prey

1927

The Donovan Affair poster
7.5

Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.

The Donovan Affair

1929

The Last Parade poster
9.0

During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a racketeer.

The Last Parade

1931

The Big Timer poster
4.6

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

The Big Timer

1932

Say It with Sables poster
7.0

In this silent film, now considered lost, Doug Caswell falls for Irene, his wealthy father's mistress. It's up to Doug's stepmother Helen to put things right.

Say It with Sables

1928

The Romantic Age poster
8.0

Engaged to middle-aged Eugene O'Brien, Alberta Vaughn develops a yen for O'Brien's handsome younger brother Stanley Taylor. But when Taylor succumbs to her charms, she spurns him with a severe tongue-lashing. Understandably confused, the mild-mannered Taylor turns nasty, causing a rift between himself and O'Brien. The two brothers are reconciled when one saves the other from a burning building.

The Romantic Age

1927

Black Lightning poster
9.5

A WWI drama in which a Red Cross dog saves a man.

Black Lightning

1924