Frances Hyland

Writing

Frances Hyland

Born

1904-01-01 (122)

Place of birth

Stuttgart, Arkansas, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

41 titles

American screenwriter.

Known for

A Shriek in the Night poster
5.2

Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.

A Shriek in the Night

1933

Guilty or Not Guilty poster
7.0

Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known.

Guilty or Not Guilty

1932

The Cheaters poster
6.2

An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.

The Cheaters

1945

The Sin of Nora Moran poster
5.5

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.

The Sin of Nora Moran

1933

The Cisco Kid and the Lady poster
5.4

An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.

The Cisco Kid and the Lady

1939

In Old California poster
5.3

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.

In Old California

1942

Film credits

Behind the camera

A Shriek in the Night poster
5.2

Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.

A Shriek in the Night

1933

Guilty or Not Guilty poster
7.0

Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known.

Guilty or Not Guilty

1932

The Cheaters poster
6.2

An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.

The Cheaters

1945

The Sin of Nora Moran poster
5.5

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.

The Sin of Nora Moran

1933

The Cisco Kid and the Lady poster
5.4

An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.

The Cisco Kid and the Lady

1939

In Old California poster
5.3

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.

In Old California

1942

Free, Blonde and 21 poster
7.3

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

Free, Blonde and 21

1940

Charlie Chan in Reno poster
6.5

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.

Charlie Chan in Reno

1939

While New York Sleeps poster
7.0

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

While New York Sleeps

1938

City Girl poster
6.5

In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend, who has just been promoted to assistant district attorney, to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. Unfortunately, the luxury and comfort come with a life of crime and soon she is wanted for murder and jail-breaking.

City Girl

1938

The Thirteenth Guest poster
5.2

Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.

The Thirteenth Guest

1932

In Old Sacramento poster
6.8

Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.

In Old Sacramento

1946

Murder in the Music Hall poster
5.3

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

Murder in the Music Hall

1946

A Woman's Man poster
6.5

A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.

A Woman's Man

1934

Star for a Night poster
7.0

Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

Star for a Night

1936

Extravagance poster
4.5

Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice's mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mom blows what's left of her fortune to provide the best trousseau that money can buy when Alice marries Fred Garlan, and then wishes Fred lots of luck. Now, Alice is trying to coax Fred into buying her a new sable coat while Fred is busily trying to borrow enough money to keep his business afloat.

Extravagance

1930

The Girl from Avenue A poster
7.5

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

The Girl from Avenue A

1940

Everybody's Baby poster
8.0

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

Everybody's Baby

1939

No artwork available
7.0

A swift moving drama of ritzy crooks and the New York Police. Pitfalls and dangers in the love story of a beautiful girl who was a "come on" for a gang of crooks, and a young Irishman who was "rarin' to go" in the brass buttons of a policeman

The House of Scandal

1928

Someone to Remember poster
7.7

An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.

Someone to Remember

1943

Officer Thirteen poster
6.6

A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the justice system--in his town. When the killer is freed because of perjured testimony and the corrupt legal system, the dead officer's partner quits the force and vows to bring the killer to justice.

Officer Thirteen

1932

Island in the Sky poster
7.0

A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.

Island in the Sky

1938

Smart Girl poster
7.0

Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).

Smart Girl

1935

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Two Men and a Maid

1929

Under Your Spell poster
7.3

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.

Under Your Spell

1936

Peacock Alley poster
5.0

Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.

Peacock Alley

1930

The Intruder poster
4.6

A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.

The Intruder

1933

You're Telling Me poster
10.0

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.

You're Telling Me

1942

The Crime of Dr. Forbes poster
10.0

Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder.

The Crime of Dr. Forbes

1936

Morals for Women poster
4.1

A kept secretary in the big city must rethink her choices when her hometown flame comes back into her life.

Morals for Women

1931

The Power of Silence poster
10.0

Would An Innocent Woman Keep Silent? Would the fear of a murderer's death shake her from the Sphinx-like silence that shielded- who?

The Power of Silence

1928

The Lost Zeppelin poster
5.8

Explorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must struggle for survival in the land of eternal snow and ice.

The Lost Zeppelin

1929

The Third Alarm poster
10.0

The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.

The Third Alarm

1930

Change of Heart poster
7.0

While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.

Change of Heart

1938

Keep Smiling poster
8.0

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

Keep Smiling

1938

Women's Wares poster
8.0

Salesgirl Dolly Morton becomes disillusioned about men after an incident with her boyfriend, so she becomes, with the help of her roommate, a gold digger who takes advantage of men without giving anything in return. However, after the gift of an apartment from a millionaire only results in scorn towards her, she decides to return to her original boyfriend.

Women's Wares

1927

Winner Take All poster
10.0

When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place.

Winner Take All

1939

No artwork available
8.0

Early talkie starring Eve Southern and Walter Pidgeon.

The Voice Within

1929

45 Fathers poster
4.5

An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.

45 Fathers

1937

The Single Sin poster
7.0

A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, she has not revealed her shady past to him, and when friends from her smuggling days suddenly show up as employees, mayhem ensues.

The Single Sin

1931