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James V. Kern is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter American born on 22 september 1909 at New York City (USA)
James V. Kern (September 22, 1909, New York City, New York – November 9, 1966, Encino, California) was an American singer, songwriter, screenwriter, actor, and director.
Educated at the Fordham Law School, Kern worked for a while as an attorney. He sang with the George Olsen Trio, and appeared with the Olsen orchestra in the musical Good News. From 1927 to 1939, he sang with and wrote for the Yacht Club Boys quartet, with whom he appeared in several motion pictures.
He became a screenwriter and later a director. In film, he directed mainly "B" pictures, but after he moved to television, he directed hundreds of series episodes. He was one of the house directors on I Love Lucy in the 1950s. He directed My Three Sons in the 1960s. When he died suddenly of a heart attack at age 57, several episodes of My Three Sons remained only partially completed for the 1966/67 season, so director James Sheldon was brought in by series producers to round out the season.
He joined ASCAP in 1955. His popular-song compositions include "Easy Street," "Lover, Lover," "Little Red Fox," and "Shut the Door."
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James V. Kern
Nationality USA
Birth 22 september 1909 at New York City (USA)
Death 9 november 1966 (at 57 years) at Encino, Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 22 september 1909 at New York City (USA)
Death 9 november 1966 (at 57 years) at Encino, Los Angeles (USA)
Educated at the Fordham Law School, Kern worked for a while as an attorney. He sang with the George Olsen Trio, and appeared with the Olsen orchestra in the musical Good News. From 1927 to 1939, he sang with and wrote for the Yacht Club Boys quartet, with whom he appeared in several motion pictures.
He became a screenwriter and later a director. In film, he directed mainly "B" pictures, but after he moved to television, he directed hundreds of series episodes. He was one of the house directors on I Love Lucy in the 1950s. He directed My Three Sons in the 1960s. When he died suddenly of a heart attack at age 57, several episodes of My Three Sons remained only partially completed for the 1966/67 season, so director James Sheldon was brought in by series producers to round out the season.
He joined ASCAP in 1955. His popular-song compositions include "Easy Street," "Lover, Lover," "Little Red Fox," and "Shut the Door."
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Thrill of a Lifetime (1937)
, 1h15Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Betty Grable, James V. Kern, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Adler, Franklin Pangborn, Ben Blue
Roles Jimmie
Rating57%
Director
Lum and Abner Abroad (1956)
, 1h12Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Chester Lauck
Rating67%
This script must be run from the command line
Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
, 1h46Directed by James V. Kern, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Bracken, Ann Miller, Barbara Lawrence
Rating55%
Frustrated singers Hannah Holbrook, Joyce Campbell and S. F. "Foxy" Rogers return dejectedly to New York on a bus, their out-of-town engagement in Vermont, arranged by small-time promoter Lew Conway, having been a huge flop.
The Second Woman (1950)
, 1h31Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky
Rating62%
This psychological thriller tells the story of Jeff Cohalan (Robert Young). He is a successful architect who is tormented because his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her death, Colahan spends his time alone, lamenting in the state-of-the-art cliff-top home he had designed for his bride-to-be.
April Showers (1948)
, 1h34Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Jack Carson, Ann Sothern, Robert Alda, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Ellis, Robert Ellis
Rating60%
Stallion Road (1947)
, 1h37Directed by Raoul Walsh, James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Peggy Knudsen, Harry Davenport, Frank Puglia
Rating59%
Based on the novel and screenplay by Stephen Longstreet, this film depicts the romance which flowers between a breezy young veterinarian (Ronald Reagan), and a lady who runs a breeding farm (Alexis Smith). The two horse-loving characters appear to be bound for an inevitable love story. And a friend of the vet (Zachary Scott), who also fancies the lady, quite obviously hasn't a chance.
Never Say Goodbye (1946)
, 1h37Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson, S.Z. Sakall, Forrest Tucker, Donald Woods
Rating66%
Divorced New York couple Phil and Ellen Gayley each buy a winter coat for their seven-year-old daughter Phillippa, known as "Flip". Flip has spent the last six months with her father but is about to move in with her mother.
The Doughgirls (1944)
, 1h42Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Ann Sheridan, Maurice Costello, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning
Rating61%
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The Second Woman (1950)
, 1h31Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky
Rating62%
This psychological thriller tells the story of Jeff Cohalan (Robert Young). He is a successful architect who is tormented because his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her death, Colahan spends his time alone, lamenting in the state-of-the-art cliff-top home he had designed for his bride-to-be.
Never Say Goodbye (1946)
, 1h37Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson, S.Z. Sakall, Forrest Tucker, Donald Woods
Rating66%
Divorced New York couple Phil and Ellen Gayley each buy a winter coat for their seven-year-old daughter Phillippa, known as "Flip". Flip has spent the last six months with her father but is about to move in with her mother.
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
, 1h20Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Guy Kibbee
Rating65%
Athanael (Jack Benny), the third trumpet player in the orchestra of a late night radio show sponsored by Paradise Coffee (motto: "It's Heavenly"), falls asleep listening to the announcer, who is doing his best to prove it is "the coffee that makes you sleep." Athanael dreams he is an angel (junior grade) and a trumpeter in the orchestra of Heaven. Due to the praise of his girlfriend Elizabeth (Alexis Smith), the assistant of the deputy chief of the department of small planet management (Guy Kibbee), he is given the mission of destroying planet 339001 (Earth) and its troublesome inhabitants by blowing the "Last Trumpet" at exactly midnight, signaling the end of the world.
Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
, 1h52Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Irene Manning, S.Z. Sakall, Marie Wilson
Rating62%
Film biographique sur les deux célébrités de Broadway qu'étaient la chanteuse Nora Bayes et son mari, le compositeur Jack Norworth.
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
, 2h4Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel
Rating67%
Theater producers (Horton and Sakall) staging a wartime charity program, only to have the production taken over by their egotistical star (Eddie Cantor). Meanwhile, an aspiring singer (Dennis Morgan) and his songwriter girlfriend (Joan Leslie) conspire to get into the charity program by replacing Cantor with their look-alike friend, tour bus driver Joe Simpson (Eddie Cantor).
Look Who's Laughing (1941)
, 1h19Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Edgar Bergen, Lucille Ball, Louis Payne, Harold Peary, Marian Driscoll Jordan, Dorothy Lovett
Rating60%
In New York, Edgar Bergen does his last radio performance of the season, a doctor's sketch with his puppet, Charlie McCarthy and his assistant, Julie Patterson (Lucille Ball). After the performance Bergen hosts an engagement party for Julie and his business partner, Jerry Wood. The next day, Bergen flies his new plane and he and Charlie are set for their summer vacation. En route, Bergen gets lost and lands in Wistful Vista, home of Fibber McGee and Molly.
Playmates (1941)
, 1h36Directed by David Butler, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors John Barrymore, Lupe Vélez, May Robson, Patsy Kelly, Peter Lind Hayes
Rating54%
Lulu Monahan, played by Patsy Kelly is a press agent for John Barrymore, who plays himself. Lulu tries to get a sponsor for his radio program. Lulu and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, playing himself, make up a story that the great Shakespearean actor will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare.