Writing

Devery Freeman

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

17 titles

American writer, screenwriter, and union activist.

Known for

The Thrill of Brazil poster
6.2

Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda. Because of this they all get small problems.

The Thrill of Brazil

1946

The Yellow Cab Man poster
6.9

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.

The Yellow Cab Man

1950

Dance with Me, Henry poster
5.2

Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.

Dance with Me, Henry

1956

The Guilt of Janet Ames poster
5.8

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

The Guilt of Janet Ames

1947

Ain't Misbehavin' poster
5.7

Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.

Ain't Misbehavin'

1955

Francis in the Navy poster
5.6

In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note urges Pete to hurry to the Coronado, California naval base, where Francis is about to be sold as surplus. Pete rushes to the train station, but before he can board, nurse Betsy Donevan mistakes him for her shell-shocked brother, Navy boatswain Slicker Donevan. She tries to forcibly remove his uniform so he will not get into trouble for impersonating an Army officer. Finally she realizes that Pete is not Slicker but merely his mirror image.

Francis in the Navy

1955

Behind the camera

The Thrill of Brazil poster
6.2

Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda. Because of this they all get small problems.

The Thrill of Brazil

1946

The Yellow Cab Man poster
6.9

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.

The Yellow Cab Man

1950

Dance with Me, Henry poster
5.2

Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.

Dance with Me, Henry

1956

The Guilt of Janet Ames poster
5.8

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

The Guilt of Janet Ames

1947

Ain't Misbehavin' poster
5.7

Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.

Ain't Misbehavin'

1955

Francis in the Navy poster
5.6

In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note urges Pete to hurry to the Coronado, California naval base, where Francis is about to be sold as surplus. Pete rushes to the train station, but before he can board, nurse Betsy Donevan mistakes him for her shell-shocked brother, Navy boatswain Slicker Donevan. She tries to forcibly remove his uniform so he will not get into trouble for impersonating an Army officer. Finally she realizes that Pete is not Slicker but merely his mirror image.

Francis in the Navy

1955

The Fuller Brush Man poster
6.4

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.

The Fuller Brush Man

1948

Miss Grant Takes Richmond poster
5.6

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

1949

Borderline poster
5.6

The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many botched attempts to get at the crook, they resort to having cop Madeleine go undercover and seduce her way into Ritchie's circle. Before she can get anywhere, she's abducted by Johnny, a government agent posing as a thug. But Johnny and Madeleine have no idea they're on the same side of the law.

Borderline

1950

The First Traveling Saleslady poster
5.6

At the turn of the century Rose and ex-showbiz friend Molly get involved in selling steel. When they come unstuck with corsets they embark on the even more hazardous project of selling barbed wire to highly suspicious Texas cowboys.

The First Traveling Saleslady

1956

Francis Joins the WACS poster
6.1

Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!

Francis Joins the WACS

1954

Three Sailors and a Girl poster
7.0

A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

Three Sailors and a Girl

1953

The Girl Most Likely poster
3.3

Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon finds out that he is just a boat mechanic. They have fun on their date and Pete proposes and Dodie accepts. Then Dodie meets Neil Patterson who is rich. They go to Mexico on his yacht and have fun on their date. Neil proposes and Dodie accepts. Now she has to choose.

The Girl Most Likely

1958

Public Pigeon No. 1 poster
6.3

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

Public Pigeon No. 1

1957

Dear Brat poster
5.6

Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.

Dear Brat

1951

Confession poster
NR

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

Confession

1956

Watch the Birdie poster
5.5

A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.

Watch the Birdie

1950