Writing

George S. Kaufman

Born — Died

1889-11-16 — 1961-06-02

Place of birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Tonight Starring Jack Paar poster
7.5

Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

The Cocoanuts poster
6.5

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

The Cocoanuts

1929

A Night at the Opera poster
7.4

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

A Night at the Opera

1935

Animal Crackers poster
6.9

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

Animal Crackers

1930

Make Me a Star poster
6.4

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

Make Me a Star

1932

The Senator Was Indiscreet poster
6.2

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.

The Senator Was Indiscreet

1947

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Cocoanuts poster
6.5

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

The Cocoanuts

1929

A Night at the Opera poster
7.4

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

A Night at the Opera

1935

Animal Crackers poster
6.9

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

Animal Crackers

1930

Make Me a Star poster
6.4

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

Make Me a Star

1932

The Senator Was Indiscreet poster
6.2

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.

The Senator Was Indiscreet

1947

Star Spangled Rhythm poster
6.2

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.

Star Spangled Rhythm

1942

First Lady poster
6.6

A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

First Lady

1937

You Can't Take it With You poster
NR

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

You Can't Take it With You

1984

Merton of the Movies poster
8.0

A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lost.

Merton of the Movies

1924

The Royal Family poster
8.0

George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber collaborated on this 1927 hit comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan. A Barrymore-like brood, the Cavendishes are as flamboyant offstage as they are on. Their real-life family drama occurs in a Manhattan apartment when the grand matriarch, Fanny Cavendish, learns that her daughter and granddaughter may both be giving up the stage for marriage. Theatre legends Rosemary Harris, Eva LeGallienne, Sam Levene and Ellis Rabb have great fun portraying characters they know all too well from their years on stage.

The Royal Family

1977

Beggar on Horseback poster
6.5

Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?

Beggar on Horseback

1925

Love for Everyone poster
NR

When a hardworking girl meets the love of her life, her happiness is ruined when she discovers that her sweetheart is the son of the owner of the company where she works and his wealthy family adamantly opposes their marriage.

Love for Everyone

1965

No artwork available
9.0

Alias "the Dancer," fashionable society crook Jimmy Burke is hot on the trail of the Brent diamonds. Upon learning that Molly Brent and her diamonds are the stars of an amateur play, Jimmy obtains the leading man's part and devises a plan to steal the jewels. Molly falls in love with her leading man, who plans to switch the gems with fakes during the performance. After the play, the police question the couple and Molly declares that the robbery was part of the drama. When she discovers Jimmy's deed, she begins to cry and "the Dancer," realizing that he is in love with his victim, renounces his profession.

Someone in the House

1920

The Good Fellows poster
8.0

The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.

The Good Fellows

1943

No artwork available
9.0

Two hotel guests are told the hotel is on fire, but the other guests and firefighters seem unconcerned.

The Still Alarm

1930