Writing
Edward Eliscu
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.3An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Sis Hopkins
1941
6.5Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
Out of the Blue
1947
5.5This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and puppets.
Alice in Wonderland
1949
7.0A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
Paddy O'Day
1936
Sheriff Bell inadvertently ends up as owner of a lingerie salon.
Hip Zip Hooray
1933
7.5A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Little Miss Nobody
1936
8.0Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
Hey, Rookie
1944
6.5A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
Something to Shout About
1943
5.3An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Music Is Magic
1935
5.8Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
High Tension
1936
8.0Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939
5.4When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Three Husbands
1950
7.0First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Every Saturday Night
1936
7.0Romance with a lovely senorita convinces a contractor to abandon his plans to take over a Mexican housing district.
The Gay Senorita
1945
6.8A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Isle of Missing Men
1942
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
His Exciting Night
1938
4.3Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart.
School for Romance
1934
6.5Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.
Silk Hat Kid
1935
