Elizabeth Meehan

Writing

Elizabeth Meehan

Born — Died

1894-08-22 — 1967-04-24

Place of birth

Isle of Wight - England - UK

Known for

Writing

Credits

17 titles

From Wikipedia Elizabeth Meehan (1894–1967) was a British screenwriter who worked in both Britain and Hollywood. During the late 1930s she was employed by the studio head Walter C. Mycroft to work for British International Pictures. Meehan frequently collaborated with the Irish director Herbert Brenon.

Known for

Behind the camera

Headin' for God's Country poster
8.0

In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.

Headin' for God's Country

1943

Laugh, Clown, Laugh poster
7.4

A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

1928

Girl of the Rio poster
5.6

A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.

Girl of the Rio

1932

Beau Ideal poster
4.5

An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

Beau Ideal

1931

Girl from God's Country poster
9.0

Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....

Girl from God's Country

1940

Northwest Outpost poster
8.0

US cavalry officer James Laurence arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin, who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova, the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin.

Northwest Outpost

1947

Harmony Lane poster
4.5

The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.

Harmony Lane

1935

The Harvester poster
9.0

In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.

The Harvester

1936

God Gave Me Twenty Cents poster
9.0

The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when hip-swinging temptress Cassie Lang sashays into view.

God Gave Me Twenty Cents

1926

West of Singapore poster
10.0

Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.

West of Singapore

1933

A Gentleman's Gentleman poster
10.0

A valet thinks his master is a murder, and tries a little blackmail.

A Gentleman's Gentleman

1939

Oliver Twist poster
5.1

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

Oliver Twist

1933

Over She Goes poster
7.0

Three friends plan to marry their sweethearts, but when the former fiancée of one of them shows up threatening breach of promise because she's after his aristocratic title, they must think on their toes and resurrect his dead uncle, leading to comedic chaos.

Over She Goes

1937

The Rescue poster
7.5

The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.

The Rescue

1929

The Telephone Girl poster
8.0

Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake.

The Telephone Girl

1927

No artwork available
9.0

A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.

She Couldn't Say No

1939

No artwork available
NR

The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.

Beautiful Dreamer

1935