Writing
Joseph Moncure March
Born — Died
1899-07-27 — 1977-02-14
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Known for
Writing
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19 titles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Moncure March (July 27, 1899 New York City - February 14, 1977 Los Angeles, California) was an American poet and essayist, best known for his long narrative poems The Wild Party and The Set-Up. After serving in World War I and graduating from Amherst College (where he was a protégé of Robert Frost), March was managing editor of The New Yorker in 1925, and helped create the magazine's "Talk of the Town" front section. He left the magazine, and wrote the first of his two important long Jazz Age narrative poems, The Wild Party. Due to its risqué content, this violent story of a vaudeville dancer who throws a booze and sex-filled party could not fin…
Known for
7.4Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
The Set-Up
1949
7.3Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Two Alone
1934
7.0An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.
Hideaway Girl
1936
5.7Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Three Faces West
1940
6.3A sideshow bally girl sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager to get even with him for a friend that he jilted.
Hoopla
1933
5.6A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.
Forgotten Girls
1940
Film credits
Behind the camera
7.4Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
The Set-Up
1949
7.3Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Two Alone
1934
7.0An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.
Hideaway Girl
1936
5.7Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Three Faces West
1940
6.3A sideshow bally girl sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager to get even with him for a friend that he jilted.
Hoopla
1933
5.6A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.
Forgotten Girls
1940
5.4Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
Madame Butterfly
1932
3.3A woman doctor is divided between the dedication to her profession and the much needed attention to her husband and daughter. This will cause a serious crises when the husband is left for an emergency on their wedding anniversary, as he had planned something special for a celebration.
Woman Doctor
1939
7.6Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
Let 'em Have It
1935
6.5David Cook and twin brother Tom are poles apart in disposition and traits. When their father dies, Tom goes to New Mexico to live with his Uncle Hardtack while David remains behind to care for their mother. The grown Tom becomes an outlaw while brother David becomes a government lawman. David is charged with apprehending Tom...
Wagons Westward
1940
8.0An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
And Sudden Death
1936
7.5While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a beautiful jungle girl who is the only inhabitant of the island and is believed a goddess by the natives of the adjoining islands. The three are about to leave the island on a make-shift raft when a gang of savage tribesman land, headed by Kuasa, a half-mad potentate who informs them that all whites are his mortal enemies because an Englishwoman once spurned his love and he got his revenge by stealing her daughter, who is Tura.
Her Jungle Love
1938
5.7This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
5.8Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
Jealousy
1934
7.7A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
Flirting with Fate
1938
6.7In 1917 France, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
Journey's End
1930
10.0Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald's trio of sagebrush heroes, Lone Star Raiders finds Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Bob Steele) and Lullaby Joslin (Rufe Davis) defending elderly rancher "Granny" Phelps (Sarah Padden) from greedy neighbor Henry Martin (George Douglas).
Lone Star Raiders
1940
The history of American transportation from the horse and buggys of yesteryear to the progression of the motor car.
The American Road
1953
