Writing
George Kelly
Born 1887-01-16 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
American playwright and screenwriter.
Acting credits
7.0Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
The Singing Kid
1936
6.3An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Artists & Models
1937
7.0"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
Thrill of a Lifetime
1937
Behind the camera
10.0Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
Old Hutch
1936
7.5A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Doubting Thomas
1935
NRTHE FATAL WEAKNESS, George Kelly’s last produced play, tells the story of Ollie Espenshade—an incurable romantic who discovers, after 28 years of marriage, that her husband is a lying cheat. It opened in New York on November 19, 1946 in a production starring Ina Claire. Although Claire’s triumphant return to Broadway after a five year absence garnered much of the press attention, Kelly’s play turned more than a few critics’ heads.
The Fatal Weakness
2014
7.0This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly
Finders Keepers
1929