Directing
Aubrey Scotto
Born — Died
1895-08-21 — 1953-06-24
Known for
Directing
Credits
33 titles
Known for
7.0Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer.
Uncle Moses
1932
8.0A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
Palm Springs
1936
A pair of borrowed pants are an obstacle to a sailor's romance.
Naughty-Cal
1932
7.5A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
Ticket to Paradise
1936
8.0A reporter is frustrated with women after a string of failed relationships. But then he finds himself taking up the cause of a young women he believes is falsely accused of killing her husband.
I Hate Women
1934
A Cossack pretends to be a musician to save his bride from marriage to another Cossack.
The Cossack's Bride
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Behind the camera
7.0Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer.
Uncle Moses
1932
8.0A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
Palm Springs
1936
A pair of borrowed pants are an obstacle to a sailor's romance.
Naughty-Cal
1932
A pair of borrowed pants are an obstacle to a sailor's romance.
Naughty-Cal
1932
7.5A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
Ticket to Paradise
1936
8.0A reporter is frustrated with women after a string of failed relationships. But then he finds himself taking up the cause of a young women he believes is falsely accused of killing her husband.
I Hate Women
1934
A Cossack pretends to be a musician to save his bride from marriage to another Cossack.
The Cossack's Bride
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5.8Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
$1,000 a Minute
1935
7.8Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
Hitch Hike Lady
1935
9.0An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
Follow Your Heart
1936
6.0George, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty.
Your Hat
1932
7.0Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
Smart Girl
1935
7.0A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
Happy Go Lucky
1936
5.5Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees, as judge and jury, try three musical misdemeanors; the last defendant is a live-action Betty Boop, who sings a duet with Rudy.
Musical Justice
1931
10.0Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
Little Miss Roughneck
1938
Vaudeville comic Tom Howard meets a man about to shoot himself and takes him into his store to try and talk him out of it. But Tom may prove to be crazier than the guy he's trying to help.
Breaking Even
1932
8.5Burns and Allen have a dizzy conversation in a bookstore.
The Babbling Book
1932
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
I Was a Convict
1939
Singer Irene is in Reno for a divorce, though her friend Bob tries to convince her it's all a mistake. Then husband Cliff shows up.
Ireno
1932
6.2A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
1932
8.0Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.
Let's Dance
1933
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
Gambling Ship
1938
This Educational short features Tom Howard teamed with George Shelton.
Vest With A Tale
1932
10.0Two young hoods from the city are sent to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the mountains to try to turn them away from the life of crime they're headed for.
Blazing Barriers
1937
Assigned to investigate a lawyer's murder, a detective finds that his chief suspect is his own secretary--who is also the woman he loves.
The Divorce Racket
1932
6.3Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine.
Walking the Baby
1933
A woman sundered from her sweetheart sings the title song as a duet with a personified Old Man Blues, in fog-shrouded woodland.
Old Man Blues
1931
Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most of the American miners and all of the women must ship out on a vessel bound for San Francisco, but her boyfriend has been ordered to remain.
Be Like Me
1931
Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most of the American miners and all of the women must ship out on a vessel bound for San Francisco, but her boyfriend has been ordered to remain.
Be Like Me
1931
The Boswell sisters are trying to improve agricultural production on a farm by singing.
Close Farm-ony
1932
Caught in a 5th Avenue traffic jam, as they are riding in side-by-side taxicab and limousine, Jack Benny (Jack Benny) and Helen Hunt (Francetta Malloy), engage in conversation that leads to a hasty marriage. It isn't long before Benny is calling on the justice-of-peace again to sever the marriage.
Taxi Tangle
1931
George Shelton asks Tom Howard to help him impress his girl as a he-man. Howard is to insult him, and then Shelton comes up and punches out Howard. The gag works, so Howard tries to use the same gag, recruiting Donald MacBride as his foil.
The Acid Test
1932
Tom Howard gets into a poker game on the train with some guys who make up their own rules.
Aces Wild
1933
