Writing

Viola Brothers Shore

Born — Died

1890-05-26 — 1970-03-27

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

16 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Viola Brothers Shore (May 26, 1890 – March 27, 1970) was an American author who worked in a variety of mediums from the 1910s through the 1930s. Married three times, she began her writing career as a poet and a writer of short stories and articles or magazines. Towards the end of the silent film era, she began writing screenplays, and eventually expanded into theatrical plays and novels. Her daughter, Wilma Shore, was also a successful writer. Shore was named during the hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, along with her third husband, Haskoll Gleichman, and her daughter. In her later years she taught at New York University (NYU). …

Known for

Behind the camera

Smartest Girl in Town poster
5.8

A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.

Smartest Girl in Town

1936

The Life of the Party poster
6.2

A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

The Life of the Party

1937

Sailor Be Good poster
8.0

A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.

Sailor Be Good

1933

The Shield of Honor poster
6.0

Diamond thieves have infiltrated the staff of O'Day Jewelry. The Los Angeles Police Dept. employs their newest weapon, an airplane, to help smash the diamond theft ring.

The Shield of Honor

1927

Walking on Air poster
6.3

A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.

Walking on Air

1936

The Devil's Skipper poster
10.0

The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas.

The Devil's Skipper

1928

The Life of the Party poster
6.6

Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.

The Life of the Party

1930

Husband's Holiday poster
9.0

A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.

Husband's Holiday

1931

Men Are Such Fools poster
7.0

An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.

Men Are Such Fools

1932

Blond Cheat poster
7.3

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.

Blond Cheat

1938

Breakfast for Two poster
5.9

After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.

Breakfast for Two

1937

Chicken Wagon Family poster
10.0

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.

Chicken Wagon Family

1939

No artwork available
NR

A scrapping married couple, Franklin Pangborn and Bernice Elliott, are going to Reno to get a divorce. They have a scheme in order to obtain cruelty against the husband for divorce grounds but, in the process, find out they don't really want a divorce.

Reno or Bust

1930

The Arkansas Traveler poster
6.7

The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.

The Arkansas Traveler

1938

Night Life poster
8.0

In post-World War I Vienna, a confidence trickster falls in love with a struggling waitress.

Night Life

1927

No Limit poster
6.0

Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.

No Limit

1931