Writing

Manuel Seff

Known for

Writing

Credits

20 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Footlight Parade poster
6.8

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Footlight Parade

1933

Three Godfathers poster
6.9

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).

Three Godfathers

1936

Housewife poster
7.2

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own advertising agency and helps him land his first client. Bill's former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and heats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

Housewife

1934

Love on the Run poster
6.5

A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.

Love on the Run

1936

Let's Make a Million poster
7.5

A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.

Let's Make a Million

1936

Gold Diggers of 1935 poster
6.5

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935

Breaking the Ice poster
6.1

The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.

Breaking the Ice

1938

Trouble for Two poster
6.5

A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.

Trouble for Two

1936

Kansas City Princess poster
4.9

Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.

Kansas City Princess

1934

Espionage poster
7.0

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

Espionage

1937

College Coach poster
4.6

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.

College Coach

1933

Side Streets poster
5.2

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

Side Streets

1934

Red Salute poster
6.0

The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.

Red Salute

1935

Easy to Love poster
5.1

Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.

Easy to Love

1934

Traveling Saleslady poster
6.1

A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.

Traveling Saleslady

1935

Woman Chases Man poster
5.9

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

Woman Chases Man

1937

Sailor's Holiday poster
7.0

In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.

Sailor's Holiday

1944

Kansas City Kitty poster
6.3

A piano teacher and her roommate decide to invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.

Kansas City Kitty

1944

Jam Session poster
7.0

A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.

Jam Session

1944

Terror Aboard poster
6.7

An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.

Terror Aboard

1933