Harry Segall

Writing

Harry Segall

Born — Died

1892-04-10 — 1975-11-25

Known for

Writing

Credits

14 titles

Harry Segall (April 10, 1892 – November 25, 1975) was an American playwright, screenwriter and television writer. Segall was born in Chicago. Harry Segall's writing career spans from 1933 to 1959. Segall's plays, including Lost Horizons, appeared on Broadway in the mid-1930s. In 1933, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought Segall to Hollywood as a contract writer. In 1936, he moved to RKO Pictures, where he wrote and co-wrote screenplays for films such as The Outcasts of Poker Flat, based on a story by Bret Harte, and Blind Alibi, starring Richard Dix. During this time, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios also produced his screenplays. In 1941, Segall won an Academy Award for Best Original Stor…

Known for

Agatha poster
6.1

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

Agatha

1979

Angel on My Shoulder poster
6.5

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

Angel on My Shoulder

1946

There Goes My Girl poster
7.5

Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.

There Goes My Girl

1937

The Powers Girl poster
7.0

Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.

The Powers Girl

1943

She's Got Everything poster
5.8

The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.

She's Got Everything

1937

Coast Guard poster
6.0

Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.

Coast Guard

1939

Film credits

Behind the camera

Angel on My Shoulder poster
6.5

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

Angel on My Shoulder

1946

There Goes My Girl poster
7.5

Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.

There Goes My Girl

1937

The Powers Girl poster
7.0

Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.

The Powers Girl

1943

She's Got Everything poster
5.8

The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.

She's Got Everything

1937

Coast Guard poster
6.0

Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.

Coast Guard

1939

Everybody's Doing It poster
6.0

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

Everybody's Doing It

1938

Two Yanks in Trinidad poster
4.0

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).

Two Yanks in Trinidad

1942

Fight for Your Lady poster
5.6

Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.

Fight for Your Lady

1937

Blind Alibi poster
6.2

A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.

Blind Alibi

1938

The Lone Wolf Strikes poster
6.8

Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

The Lone Wolf Strikes

1940

Blond Cheat poster
7.3

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.

Blond Cheat

1938

The Outcasts of Poker Flat poster
6.3

The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

1937

Don't Turn 'em Loose poster
5.0

A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.

Don't Turn 'em Loose

1936