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Robert Wallace Russell is a Scriptwriter and Sound American born on 19 january 1912

Robert Wallace Russell

Robert Wallace Russell
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Nationality USA
Birth 19 january 1912
Death 11 february 1992 (at 80 years)
Awards Bronze Star Medal

Robert Wallace Russell (January 19, 1912 – February 11, 1992) was an American writer for movies, plays, and documentaries. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Writing, Original Story and Best Writing, Screenplay on the 1943 film The More the Merrier.

He died in 1992 in New York City, shortly after his 80th birthday.

Best films

The More the Merrier (1943)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Frank Ross
Frank Ross
(3 films)
Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Wallace Russell (8 films)

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Scriptwriter

Walk Don't Run, 1h49
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Films about the Olympic Games
Actors Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton, George Takei, John Standing, Miiko Taka
Rating65% 3.297083.297083.297083.297083.29708
Sir William Rutland (Cary Grant) is an important English businessman who arrives in the city two days early and is greeted by the housing shortage caused by the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. While at the British Embassy seeking help, he notices an announcement of an available apartment and decides to check the place out. He finds himself at the residence of Christine Easton (Samantha Eggar), who insists that it would be improper to take him in as a housemate. She forgot to advertise that she would prefer to rent to a woman. Easton eventually lets Rutland stay—half because she is persuaded it is her patriotic duty to take him in and half because of Rutland’s own self-assured pushiness.
Come September, 1h52
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Joel Grey, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak
Rating68% 3.4474053.4474053.4474053.4474053.447405
Wealthy American businessman Robert Talbot (Rock Hudson) owns a villa on the Ligurian coast, where he and his Roman mistress Lisa Fellini (Gina Lollobrigida) spend September of each year. When Robert moves up his annual visit to July and calls her en route from Milano, she cancels her wedding to Englishman Spencer (Ronald Howard) and rushes to meet him. Upon his arrival at the villa, Robert discovers that, in his absence, his major domo, Maurice Clavell (Walter Slezak), has turned the villa into a hotel, currently hosting a group of teenage girls, including Sandy (Sandra Dee), and their chaperone, Margaret Allison (Brenda De Banzie). Their departure is delayed when Margaret slips on a champagne bottle cork dropped by Robert and is forced to spend a day in the hospital. Four teenage boys who irritated Robert on the drive to his villa, including Tony (Bobby Darin), set up camp right outside of the villa and begin courting the girls.
The Lady Says No, 1h20
Directed by Frank Ross
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Caulfield, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, Lenore Lonergan, Frances Bavier, Peggy Maley
Rating52% 2.610012.610012.610012.610012.61001
David Niven plays a globe-trotting author and photographer on assignment from LIFE magazine to do a photo story on best-selling author of the title book, "The Lady Says 'No'," Joan Caulfield. Rather than finding a dour spinster, as he expects, she is a young, attractive blonde, who finds her published theories against love and men set on their head.
The Well Groomed Bride, 1h15
Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Oscar Rudolph, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, Sonny Tufts, James Gleason, Constance Dowling, Percy Kilbride
Rating57% 2.8596852.8596852.8596852.8596852.859685
In the spring of 1945 in San Francisco, United States Navy lieutenant Dudley Briggs (Ray Milland) is promised a two-week furlough and a promotion by his ship's captain if he can acquire a bottle of French champagne by the next morning to be used in launching of the U.S.S. Vengeance, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier. Dudley heads to a liquor store and finds the last magnum of French champagne in the city—champagne having become rare during the war. Unfortunately, he loses the bottle to a beautiful young woman named Margie Dawson (Olivia de Havilland), who is about to be married to Army lieutenant Torchy McNeil (Sonny Tufts), an Oregon football star, whom she has not seen in two years. Margie plans to present the bottle as the centerpiece for her upcoming wedding reception.
The More the Merrier, 1h44
Directed by George Stevens, Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett, Frank Sully
Rating75% 3.794953.794953.794953.794953.79495
During World War II, retired millionaire Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) arrives in Washington, D.C. as an adviser on the housing shortage and finds that his hotel suite will not be available for two days. He sees an ad for a roommate and talks the reluctant young woman, Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur), into letting him sublet half of her apartment. Comedy ensues when the two clumsily get in each other's way while arising and preparing for work. Connie makes things work by keeping to an exacting schedule, including eating breakfast and leaving for work at precise times. Then Dingle runs into Sergeant Joe Carter (Joel McCrea), who has no place to stay while he waits to be shipped overseas. Dingle generously rents him half of his half.

Sound

Reach for Glory, 1h26
Directed by Philip Leacock
Genres Drama
Actors Harry Andrews, Kay Walsh, Michael Anderson Jr., Michael Trubshawe, Arthur Hewlett, Cameron Hall
Rating70% 3.541663.541663.541663.541663.54166
A group of boys, evacuated during World War II from London to a coastal town, form a gang and play war games. Too young to fight in the war and afraid it will be over by the time they come of age, the group members, who are also in the school's Army Cadet Force initiate a battle with the local teenagers. Curlew, a local youth, invites an Austrian Jewish refugee with whom he has formed a close relationship to take part in the shenanigans. At first the Jewish boy, Stein, is scorned because of his "Germanic" heritage but is later allowed to join. When Stein runs off during a fight, the youths decide to give him a fake court-martial and execution, but real bullets are used by a freak mistake and Stein is killed.
The Girl Most Likely, 1h38
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Jane Powell, Cliff Robertson, Keith Andes, Kaye Ballard, Tommy Noonan, Una Merkel
Rating58% 2.949562.949562.949562.949562.94956
Dodie lives with her parents and dreams of marrying a millionaire. At home in California, near the ocean, her boyfriend Buzz is a real-estate agent of modest means. He proposes marriage and she accepts, but tells her pal Marge that she has doubts.