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Millions in the Air (1935)

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)

Camera Assistant

Plainsman and the Lady (1946)

Around the World (1944)

Original story and Screenplay

Higher and Higher (1943)

The Fleet's In (1942)

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Seven Days' Leave (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Get Out Of This Mood

Flying Deuces, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) At The Fish Market In Des Moines

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Millions in the Air (1935)

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)

Camera Assistant

Writer (Feature Film)

Plainsman and the Lady (1946)

Around the World (1944)

Original story and Screenplay

Higher and Higher (1943)

The Fleet's In (1942)

Seven Days' Leave (1942)

Original Screenplay

Sis Hopkins (1941)

Contr to Screenplay constr

The Smiling Ghost (1941)

Contr to Screenplay const

Down Argentine Way (1940)

The Flying Deuces (1939)

Original story and Screenplay

The Covered Trailer (1939)

Silent Barriers (1937)

Everybody Dance (1937)

King Solomon's Mines (1937)

Contract Writer

Smash and Grab (1937)

Florida Special (1936)

Contract Writer

Lady Be Careful (1936)

Contr to Screenplay const

The Winning Ticket (1935)

Two Fisted (1935)

The Casino Murder Case (1935)

Contract Writer

Going Highbrow (1935)

Here Comes the Band (1935)

Original Screenplay

The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

Contr to Screenplay const

West Point of the Air (1935)

Contract Writer

Murder in the Private Car (1934)

Student Tour (1934)

I'll Tell the World (1934)

The Band Plays On (1934)

Half a Sinner (1934)

Additional Dialogue

Death on the Diamond (1934)

Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934)

Additional Dialogue

Strictly Dynamite (1934)

The Loudspeaker (1934)

Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

The Warrior's Husband (1933)

Adapted and dial

Mr. Skitch (1933)

Her Bodyguard (1933)

Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

Sailor Be Good! (1933)

Speak Easily (1932)

The Crooked Circle (1932)

Fast Life (1932)

The Passionate Plumber (1932)

Prosperity (1932)

Contract Writer

Blondie of the Follies (1932)

Contract Writer

Peach-O-Reno (1931)

Adapted and dial

Cracked Nuts (1931)

Caught Plastered (1931)

Adapted and dial

Everything's Rosie (1931)

Laugh and Get Rich (1931)

Additional Dialogue

The Gorilla (1930)

Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)

Half Shot at Sunrise (1930)

Way Out West (1930)

Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)

The Gorilla (1930)

The Florodora Girl (1930)

Additional Dialogue

The Patsy (1928)

Excess Baggage (1928)

Show People (1928)

Bringing Up Father (1928)

Vamping Venus (1928)

Beau Broadway (1928)

Baby Mine (1928)

Excess Baggage (1928)

The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1928)

A Lady of Chance (1928)

A Little Bit of Fluff (1928)

The Lunatic at Large (1927)

The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)

The Taxi Dancer (1927)

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut (1927)

Orchids and Ermine (1927)

Tillie the Toiler (1927)

Lost at the Front (1927)

Adam and Evil (1927)

Spring Fever (1927)

Mademoiselle Modiste (1926)

Tin Hats (1926)

For Heaven's Sake (1926)

Hard Boiled (1926)

The Campus Flirt (1926)

Pals First (1926)

Too Much Money (1926)

It's the Old Army Game (1926)

The Savage (1926)

There You Are (1926)

Three Bad Men (1926)

Flying Fool (1925)

American Pluck (1925)

American Pluck (1925)

The Early Bird (1925)

Classified (1925)

Why Women Love (1925)

His Darker Self (1924)

The Speed Spook (1924)

The Custard Cup (1923)

A Friendly Husband (1923)

Six Cylinder Love (1923)

Let's Go (1923)

For Big Stakes (1922)

Sure Fire Flint (1922)

Do and Dare (1922)

A Self-Made Man (1922)

Chasing the Moon (1922)

The Oath (1921)

Hickville to Broadway (1921)

The Oath (1921)

The Rough Diamond (1921)

A Ridin' Romeo (1921)

Stranger Than Fiction (1921)

Roman Candles (1920)

Never Say Quit (1919)

On the Jump (1918)

This Is the Life (1917)

The Pride of New York (1917)

This Is the Life (1917)

Editing (Feature Film)

Six Cylinder Love (1923)

A Friendly Husband (1923)

Chasing the Moon (1922)

Do and Dare (1922)

For Big Stakes (1922)

A Self-Made Man (1922)

The Rough Diamond (1921)

Stranger Than Fiction (1921)

A Ridin' Romeo (1921)

Hickville to Broadway (1921)

Husband Hunter (1920)

Writer (Short)

The Rounder (1930)

Life Events

Videos

Seven Days' Leave (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Get Out Of This Mood Following complex machinations, G-I Johnny (Victor Mature) is about to confess to heiress Terry (Lucille Ball) that his romancing is motivated partly by a big inheritance, not realizing she’s way ahead of him, we cut to Ginny Simms with the Freddy Martin Orchestra, and another Jimmy McHugh/Frank Loesser tune, in RKO’s Seven Days’ Leave, 1942.

Flying Deuces, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) At The Fish Market In Des Moines Opening in fake Paris, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in a one-off independently produced picture, away from their Hal Roach studio home, start with word-play then introduce charming Parisienne Georgette (Jean Parker), Oliver?s love interest, in The Flying Deuces, 1939.

Flying Deuces, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) At Large In Seine In Paris, Oliver has been spurned by his French girlfriend, and presumes Stan will join him in a suicide dive, unaware of a giant shark cruising the Seine, in the independent Laurel & Hardy feature The Flying Deuces, 1939.

Flying Deuces, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Shine On Harvest Moon Stan (Laurel) and Oliver (Hardy) have just left a note for the (enraged) commandant (Charles Middleton) that they?re leaving the French Foreign Legion, since Oliver has now succeeded in forgetting his French girlfriend, pausing for a 1908 standard by Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth, in The Flying Deuces, 1939.

Show People (1928) -- (Movie Clip) The Various Moods Just arrived from Georgia, Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) mugs an audition at the "Mammoth Studios" casting office, encouraged by her father (Dell Henderson), soon hired and being not-charmed by Billy (William "Billy" Haines) in the cafeteria, in Show People, 1928.

Show People (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Who's That Little Guy? Maybe the most obvious cameo gag possible at the time, still funny, Peggy (Marion Davies) and Billy (William Haines) leave the screening of her comic-hit first picture (Harry Gribbon her director), catch a trailer for another King Vidor film, then meet Chaplin outside, in Show People, 1928.

Show People (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Miss Pepoire Is Fatigued New comedy star Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies), struggling in her first dramatic picture, is persuaded by leading man Andre (Paul Ralli) that she needs to meet better people, including Louella Parsons, columnist for the newspaper chain run by Davies' consort William Randolph Hearst, in Show People, 1928.

Death On The Diamond (1934) -- (Movie Clip) When I Say We Hot-shot rookie pitcher Larry (Robert Young) being introduced by Frances (daughter of the coach), to Dunk (Joe Sawyer), Frank (Robert Livingston), her dad (David Landau) and the premise, in real St. Louis Cardinals gear, in Death On The Diamond, 1934.

Death On The Diamond (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Give It To The Milk Fund Villain Karnes (C. Henry Gordon) aims to stop the streaking Cardinals, whose pitcher Larry (Robert Young) is practicing in a mirror when he gets a bribe, and consults with coach (David Landau), his daughter (Madge Evans) and reporter Downey (Paul Kelly) in MGM's Death On The Diamond, 1934.

Cracked Nuts (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Your Regal Shoes First scene for Robert Woolsey (as "Zander Ulysses Parkhurst"), gambling with King Oscar (Harvey Clark), from the 6th Wheeler & Woolsey comedy Cracked Nuts, 1931.

Cracked Nuts (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Venus De Milo Arms Opening scene, Wendell (Bert Wheeler) attempting to visit Betty (Dorothy Lee), who's being harangued by Aunt Minnie (Edna May Oliver), from the 6th Wheeler & Woolsey comedy, Cracked Nuts, 1931.

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