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Arthur Sheekman is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Additional Writing American born on 5 february 1901
Arthur Sheekman (February 5, 1901 - January 12, 1978), a graduate from the University of Minnesota, started his career as columnist and drama critic during the 1920s and the early 1930s for the Manhattan Newspaper. He then entered the film industry in 1931 when he became a scenarist for the Marx Brothers' movie Monkey Business where he befriended Groucho Marx. Groucho first found out about Arthur Sheekman while reading Sheekman's show business column on the Chicago Sunday Times and wrote a guest column replying to Sheekman saying that he liked his style and wanted him to help work on his productions in Hollywood. From then on it was known throughout the film production business during that time that Groucho detested the other writers and favored Sheekman over them. This was seen in the movie Monkey Business where Groucho rejected S. J. Perelman's script which he complained was too literary (Perelman said that Groucho's sole response to his script was, "It stinks!"). Groucho also rejected Ned Tennant's script and instead chose to use Sheekman's script in the end (even though ironically much of Sheekman's script was based upon Perelman's original ideas).
(1958)
(Scriptwriter)
(1945)
(Original Story)
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Horse Feathers (1932)
, 1h8Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, Reginald Barlow
Roles Typing Sportswriter (uncredited)
Rating74%
The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Many of the jokes about the amateur status of collegiate football players and how eligibility rules are stretched by collegiate athletic departments remain remarkably current. Groucho plays Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, and Zeppo is his son Frank, who convinces his father to recruit professional football players to help Huxley's team. There are also many references to Prohibition. Baravelli (Chico) is an "iceman", who delivers ice and bootleg liquor from a local speakeasy. Pinky (Harpo) is also an "iceman", and a part-time dogcatcher. Through a series of misunderstandings, Baravelli and Pinky are recruited to play on Huxley's football team; this requires them to enroll as students at Huxley, which creates chaos throughout the school.
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Blue Skies (1946)
, 1h44Directed by Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Sol C. Siegel, Mark Sandrich, Arthur Sheekman, Irving Berlin, Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Olga San Juan, Billy De Wolfe, Frank Faylen
Rating63%
The story is told in a series of vignettes and musical numbers that serve to show events in flashback. Our narrative link is New York radio star Jed Potter, who once was a renowned Broadway hoofer. The conceit is that he is on the air, telling his life story... which does not yet have an ending. The tale starts just after World War I and centers on two men who became friends while serving in the Army: rising dancer Potter and the business-minded Johnny Adams. While young, hardworking Potter dreams of and works for stardom, the more laid-back and less disciplined Adams has hopes of becoming a successful nightclub owner. In time, dancer Potter falls in love with a band singer, a "very pretty girl" named Mary O'Hara. He takes Mary to Adams' nightclub, and she takes a shine to Adams. Potter warns Mary that his old buddy is not the marrying kind. So, of course, she marries Adams. The union is not a happy one, despite the birth of a child. Adams' nightclub business is anything but a resounding success, and it turns out Potter was right: Adams is self-centered and unable to commit to his nightclubs, his marriage, or his daughter. The couple divorces, and Mary tries again with Potter. The two even become engaged. But Mary can't go through with the wedding and takes off. A devastated Potter turns to booze and subsequently suffers an accident that puts an end to his dancing career. He winds up behind a radio microphone, sharing his story with his audience, hoping that wherever Mary is, she can hear him.
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Ada (1961)
, 1h49Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Political films
Actors Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ralph Meeker, Martin Balsam, Frank Maxwell
Rating65%
Bo Gillis (Dean Martin) is a guitar-playing good old boy from a Southern state who is a candidate for governor there. He ends up elected after his opponent's wife is revealed to have a dark secret, a fact that Bo's campaign mastermind, Sylvester Marin (Wilfrid Hyde-White), makes sure becomes known to all.
Some Came Running (1958)
, 2h17Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, John Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates
Rating71%
Dave Hirsh is a cynical Army veteran who winds up in his hometown of Parkman after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated. Ginny Moorehead, a woman of seemingly loose morals and poor education, has taken the same bus.
Bundle of Joy (1956)
, 1h38Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Musical films
Actors Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy Noonan, Nita Talbot, Una Merkel
Rating60%
Call Me Madam (1953)
, 1h54Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Helmut Dantine, Billy De Wolfe
Rating66%
A wealthy Washington, D.C., socialite, Sally Adams, has political connections and is appointed U.S. ambassador to the tiny country of Lichtenburg, even though nothing in her background qualifies her for the job. A young journalist, Kenneth Gibson, persuades her to let him tag along as her press attache.
Young Man with Ideas (1952)
, 1h24Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Glenn Ford, Ruth Roman, Denise Darcel, Nina Foch, Donna Corcoran, Ray Collins
Rating59%
Maxwell Webster is a Montana attorney whose career isn't going as well as wife Julie feels it should be. She gets tipsy at a country club and praises her husband's work in front of colleagues, then urges him to ask boss Edmund Jethrow for a partnership. Instead, he loses his job.
Mr. Music (1950)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Haydn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Groucho Marx, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Robert Stack
Rating60%
New York theater producer Alex Conway (Charles Coburn) travels with composer Paul Merrick (Bing Crosby) to Lawford College, Paul's alma mater, where one of his musicals is being revived by the students. The current campus hero is handsome athlete Jefferson Blake (Robert Stack) so Katherine Holbrook (Nancy Olson), class valedictorian and chairman of the welcoming committee for returning alumni, asks Paul to work in a phrase about Jeff in one of his songs. Paul balks at the suggestion, but Kate's matter-of-fact manner leaves no room for discussion.
Dear Wife (1949)
, 1h28Directed by Richard Haydn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Harry von Zell, Billy De Wolfe, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold
Rating63%
Miriam Wilkins is a teenage girl going door-to-door, trying to get Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, elected to the state senate. However, Bill has no idea that Miriam is doing this, and he has no wish to become a senator. He is a middle-aged war veteran who works at a bank. He feels like a loser and is frustrated by having to live with his wife Ruth's family. Bill wants to be more independent and stand on his own two feet.
Dream Girl (1948)
, 1h25Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Betty Hutton, Macdonald Carey, Patric Knowles, Virginia Field, Walter Abel, Lowell Gilmore
Roles Writer
Rating54%
Hazard (1948)
, 1h35Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Paulette Goddard, Macdonald Carey, Fred Clark, Frank Faylen, Stanley Clements, Percy Helton
Rating60%
A compulsive gambler, Ellen Crane owes a large debt to Lonnie Burns, a club owner. He cuts a deck of cards with her—if she wins, Burns will forget the IOU, but if she loses, Ellen must marry him. She loses.
Blaze of Noon (1947)
, 1h31Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix, Sterling Hayden, Howard Da Silva
Rating61%
Early in the 1920s, the four McDonald brothers are performing in a carnival as a stunt flying team, when they are hired by Mercury Airlines in Newark, New Jersey, to fly the national air mail for the US Air Mail Service.
Dear Ruth (1947)
, 1h35Directed by William D. Russell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold, Billy De Wolfe, Mary Philips
Rating71%
Welcome Stranger (1947)
, 1h47Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, Wanda Hendrix, Elizabeth Patterson, Frank Faylen
Rating67%
Crusty Dr. McRory (Barry Fitzgerald) of Fallbridge, Maine, hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson (Bing Crosby) don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted to stay, once he meets teacher Trudy Mason (Joan Caulfield). The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancée. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy.
Saigon (1947)
, 1h33Directed by Leslie Fenton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell, Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky
Roles Ecrivain
Rating62%
World War II has ended and Major Larry Briggs finds out that his friend Mike has only a short time to live but doesn't know yet. Determined to show Mike a good time before he dies, Larry takes a flying job working for a profiteer, Maris. Everything is set until Maris' secretary Susan Cleaver gets shoved on board. Mike falls for Susan and Larry convinces her to play along. Susan, however, has fallen for Larry.