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James Kevin McGuinness is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Associate Producer American born on 19 december 1893 at New York City (USA)
James Kevin McGuinness (20 December 1893 – 4 December 1950) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 36 films between 1927 and 1950. He wrote for The New Yorker magazine.
He was born in Ireland and immigrated to New York in 1904. He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1920s at the dawn of the "talkies" era and thereafter worked in the film industry as a writer and later a producer. He died in New York in 1950 from a heart attack.
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(1942)
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Nationality USA
Birth 19 december 1893 at New York City (USA)
Death 4 december 1950 (at 56 years) at New York City (USA)
Birth 19 december 1893 at New York City (USA)
Death 4 december 1950 (at 56 years) at New York City (USA)
He was born in Ireland and immigrated to New York in 1904. He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1920s at the dawn of the "talkies" era and thereafter worked in the film industry as a writer and later a producer. He died in New York in 1950 from a heart attack.
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December 7th (1943)
, 34minutesDirected by Gregg Toland, John Ford
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Walter Huston, Dana Andrews, Harry Davenport, George O'Brien, Paul Hurst, James Kevin McGuinness
Roles Narrator (voice)
Rating60%
Jugée trop « compatissante » envers les japonais, et coupée au montage par l’État-Major américain, cette reconstitution hautement réaliste reçut néanmoins l’Oscar® du meilleur documentaire en 1943.
Scriptwriter
Brain Donors (1992)
, 1h19Directed by Dennis Dugan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors John Turturro, Mel Smith, Bob Nelson, Teri Copley, John Savident, Julianna Donald
Rating68%
After the death of tycoon and philanthropist Oscar Winterhaven Oglethorpe, a ballet company is founded in his name by his widow, Lillian (Nancy Marchand). The formation of the ballet company leads to ambulance-chasing attorney Roland T. Flakfizer (John Turturro) vying against Oglethorpe's former attorney Edmund Lazlo (John Savident) to be director of the company. Lazlo is chosen to be director of the company after signing the greatest ballet dancer in the world, "The Great Volare" (George de la Pena) to dance for the company. Flakfizer, however — with assistance from his two associates Rocco (Mel Smith) and Jacques (Bob Nelson) — earns a spot as co-director by wooing the wealthy widow and by signing the company's leading ballerina (Juliana Donald, billed as Juli Donald) and her dancer boyfriend Alan Grant (Spike Alexander). The ensuing struggle between Flakfizer and Lazlo leads to comic hijinks, including a badger game involving a chorus girl (Teri Copley), and an opening-night performance ludicrously sabotaged by Flakfizer and his cohorts.
Rio Grande (1950)
, 1h45Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr., Harry Carey, Jr., Victor McLaglen
Rating69%
In Rio Grande, Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke (John Wayne) is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress between the Apaches using Mexico as a sanctuary from pursuit and by a serious shortage of troops of his command. The action of the movie is set in the summer of 1879 ("fifteen years after the Shenandoah").
The Battle of Midway (1942)
, 18minutesDirected by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Children's films
Actors Henry Fonda, Donald Crisp, Jane Darwell, Irving Pichel
Roles Writer
Rating60%
The film begins with a male narrator (Ray Milland) explaining where Midway Island is and its strategic importance. About five minutes into the film the format changes somewhat, with more leisurely pictures of the G.I.s at work on the island, and then a female voice over. The female voice over (Verna Felton) takes the personality of a middle aged woman from Springfield, Ohio, who is a mother-type figure pointing out how she recognizes a boy from her home town. The boy is Army Air Force pilot William E. "Junior" Kinney. Then stock footage of the Kinney family back home is introduced.
Men of Boys Town (1941)
, 1h46Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson, Darryl Hickman, Henry O'Neill, Mary Nash
Rating65%
Des hommes vivront : Le père Flanagan est soucieux à l'idée de rencontrer Dave Morris, le prêteur sur gages qui l'a aidé à fonder "Boys Town", un lieu pour recueillir des orphelins. Une fois de plus, la dette est élevée. Ce dernier s'en plaint et refuse une aide supplémentaire. Ted Martley, un jeune infirme qui déteste la terre entière, arrive à "Boys Town" .....
I Take This Woman (1940)
, 1h38Directed by Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg, W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Jack Carson, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor, Louis Calhern
Rating62%
On the way to New York in a ship, a famous psychiatrist, Dr. Karl Decker (Spencer Tracy), sees a young girl, Georgi (Hedy Lamarr) attempting suicide by jumping from the top because of a failed romance with Phil Mayberry (Kent Taylor). The doctor rescues her and makes her understand how to live by doing real work.
Florian (1940)
, 1h31Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Young, Charles Coburn, Irina Baronova, Lee Bowman, Reginald Owen, Lucile Watson
Roles Writer
Rating71%
Placée dans le contexte de la Première Guerre mondiale en Europe, un homme et une femme de classes différentes sont réunies par leur amour des chevaux Lippizan.
Bridal Suite (1939)
, 1h10Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Annabella, Robert Blake, Robert Young, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart
Rating56%
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films, Sports d'hiver, Patinage artistique
Actors Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone, Lionel Stander, Wade Boteler
Rating52%
Larry Hall (James Stewart) and Eddie Burgess (Lew Ayres) have a successful skating act until Larry falls in love with Mary McKay (Joan Crawford), an inept skater whom Larry insists upon including in the act. Fired from job after job because of Mary's ineptitude, Larry keeps up his spirits by dreaming of producing a colossal ice show. Following their latest dismissal, the couple elope, and Mary, feeling guilty for damaging her husband's career, convinces Douglas Tolliver, Jr. (Lewis Stone), the head of Monarch Studios, to offer her a movie contract.
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
, 1h21Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton, Monty Woolley
Roles Story
Rating65%
René Farrand est amoureux de Lorraine de Grissac, belle aristocrate, qui se laisse aussi faire la cour par un certain Steve Emerson, détective privé et ex-agent du F.B.I. Mais voilà qu'un collier d'émeraudes est dérobé à l'oncle de Lorraine, le comte de Grissac. Et Steve Emerson suspecte son rival, René Farrand, d'être en fait Arsène Lupin, le célèbre gentleman-cambrioleur.
Boys Town (1938)
, 1h36Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Darryl Hickman, Gene Reynolds
Rating71%
The story opens when a convicted murderer asks to make his confession on the day of his execution. The condemned man is visited by an old friend, Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) who runs a home for indigent men in Omaha, Nebraska. When the prison officials suggest that the condemned man owes the state a debt, Father Flanagan witnesses the condemned man's diatribe to prison officials and a reporter that describes his awful plight as a homeless and friendless boy who was a ward in state institutions. After the convicted man asks the officials to leave, Father Flanagan provides some comfort and wisdom. On the train back to Omaha, Father Flanagan is transformed in his humanitarian mission by revelations (echoed in the words) imparted by the condemned man's litany of hardships experienced as a child without friends or family as a ward of the state.
Lord Jeff (1938)
, 1h25Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Charles Coburn, Herbert Mundin, Terry Kilburn, Gale Sondergaard
Roles Writer
Rating65%
Young "Lord" Geoffrey Braemer (Freddie Bartholomew) is supposedly an English aristocrat. In fact, he is an orphan and willing accomplice to con artists Jim Hampstead (George Zucco) and Doris Clandon (Gale Sondergaard), who took him in when his parents died in a train wreck. He conveniently faints in a jewelry store, distracting the employees and allowing Jim to steal a valuable necklace. However, an astute insurance investigator catches him. He is sent to Russell-Cotes, a mercantile marine school, one of many vocational schools run by Dr. Barnardo's home for orphaned boys, with the warning that if he does not behave himself, he will be transferred to a reformatory.
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
, 1h21Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Actors Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton, Monty Woolley
Roles Story
Rating65%
Madame X (1937)
, 1h12Directed by Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal, Reginald Owen, William Henry, Henry Daniell
Rating70%
A woman who cheated on her loving husband is thrown out of her home by said husband. Twenty years later, she finds herself accused of murder for saving her son, who does not know who she is as he was raised without her. He finds himself defending her without knowing her background.
China Seas (1935)
, 1h27Directed by Tay Garnett, William A. Wellman, Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley
Rating68%
Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) is the captain of a tramp steamer chugging between Singapore and Hong Kong. Dolly Portland (Jean Harlow) is Alan's former girlfriend who books passage on the steamer at the same time that another of Alan's former loves, aristocratic Sybil Barclay (Rosalind Russell), shows up. Jamesy McArdle (Wallace Beery) is a passenger, who is actually in league with a gang of pirates who plan to steal the gold shipment being carried on the steamer.