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Laurence Stallings is a Scriptwriter and Additional Dialogue American born on 25 november 1894 at Macon (USA)

Laurence Stallings

Laurence Stallings
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Birth name Laurence Tucker Stallings
Nationality USA
Birth 25 november 1894 at Macon (USA)
Death 28 february 1968 (at 73 years) at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Croix de guerre 1914–1918

Laurence Tucker Stallings (November 25, 1894 - February 28, 1968) was an American playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, literary critic, journalist, novelist, and photographer. Best known for his collaboration with Maxwell Anderson on the 1924 play What Price Glory, Stallings also produced a groundbreaking autobiographical novel, Plumes about his service in World War I, and published an award-winning book of photographs, The First World War: A Photographic History.

Best films

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
(Scriptwriter)
Jungle Book (1942)
(Adaptation)

Usually with

King Vidor
King Vidor
(6 films)
John Ford
John Ford
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Laurence Stallings (30 films)

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Scriptwriter

A Farewell to Arms, 2h32
Directed by John Huston, Charles Vidor, Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Elaine Stritch, Oskar Homolka, Mercedes McCambridge
Roles Theatre Play
Rating58% 2.9002352.9002352.9002352.9002352.900235
Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson) is an American officer serving in an ambulance unit for the Italian Army during World War I. While recovering from a wound in a British base hospital in northern Italy, he is cared for by Catherine Barkley (Jennifer Jones), a Red Cross nurse he had met earlier, near the front, and they engage in an affair. Frederick's friend, the doctor, convinces the army that Frederick's knee is more severely wounded than it actually is and the two continue their romance but never get married.
The Sun Shines Bright, 1h30
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Western
Actors Charles Winninger, John Russell, Arleen Whelan, Russell Simpson, Stepin Fetchit, Francis Ford
Rating68% 3.4420453.4420453.4420453.4420453.442045
Sur fond de campagne électorale en 1905 dans une petite ville du Kentucky, des hommes se déchirent pour une femme. Alcoolique notoire, le juge Priest se représente aux élections locales. Prenant la défense d'un jeune Noir accusé injustement d'un viol d’une Blanche et participe aux obsèques d’une prostituée notoire, ce qui lui vaut le respect des uns et l’hostilité des autres. De vieux secrets de familles resurgissent...
What Price Glory, 1h51
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, William Demarest, Robert Wagner, Henri Letondal
Roles Theatre Play
Rating60% 3.047293.047293.047293.047293.04729
Upon the United States entry into World War I, the first American units to arrive at the front in France are veteran Marine companies, one of which is commanded by captain Flagg, along with his Lieutenants, Moore and Aldrich. Flagg has developed a romantic relationship with the daughter of the local innkeeper, Charmaine, and resumes their relationship after returning from the front. However, he lies to her and tells her he is married when she wants to come with him on his leave to Paris. Replacements arrive and their lack of discipline and knowledge infuriate the Captain. But he is expecting the arrival of a new top sergeant, who he hopes will be able to train them properly. However, when the sergeant arrives, it is Quirt, Captain Flagg's long time rival, a rivalry which quickly re-ignites.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1h43
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr.
Rating71% 3.5969953.5969953.5969953.5969953.596995
On the verge of his retirement at Fort Starke, a one-troop cavalry post, aging US Cavalry Captain Nathan Cutting Brittles (John Wayne) is given one last mission: to take his troop and deal with a breakout from the reservation by the Cheyenne and Arapaho following the defeat of George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
On Our Merry Way, 1h47
Directed by John Huston, George Stevens, King Vidor, Leslie Fenton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Lamour
Roles Responsable de l'adaptation
Rating57% 2.8527452.8527452.8527452.8527452.852745
Oliver Pease, qui a menti à sa femme sur ce qu'il fait exactement au journal pour lequel il travaille, se voit obligé d'enquêter auprès du public sur "Quelle influence a eu un petit enfant sur votre vie ?". Il va recueillir ainsi différentes histoires...
3 Godfathers, 1h46
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Christmas films, Le désert
Actors John Wayne, Harry Carey, Jr., Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick, Jane Darwell
Rating69% 3.497693.497693.497693.497693.49769
Cattle rustlers Robert Hightower (John Wayne), Pedro "Pete" Rocafuerte (Pedro Armendáriz), and William Kearney (Harry Carey, Jr.) rob a bank in the town of Welcome, Arizona, but Kearney suffers a bullet wound and they have to flee into the desert, pursued by the posse of Sheriff Buck Sweet (Ward Bond), who puts a bullet in their water bag. They eventually lose their horses in a desert storm and end up walking. In their search for water, they come across a water hole, which has, however, been destroyed by the misguided efforts of a bumbling tenderfoot. In his covered wagon left nearby lies his wife (actually Sheriff Sweet's niece), who is pregnant and about to give birth. With the help of the trio, she has a boy, whom she names Robert William Pedro after her benefactors. Before dying, she extracts a promise from his three godfathers that they will take care of him. Moved by her plight, the three desperados uphold their promise despite the acute lack of water.
Christmas Eve, 1h30
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell, Virginia Field, Carl Harbord
Rating57% 2.8535252.8535252.8535252.8535252.853525
The greedy nephew Philip Hasting (Reginald Denny (actor)) of eccentric Matilda Reid (Ann Harding) seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; In an informal meeting with her nephew, the doctor Dr. Doremus and the judge Alston they convene that she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion, as any of them is the one she could trust, but not her nephew.
Salome, Where She Danced, 1h30
Directed by B. Reeves Eason, Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Musical, Romance, Western
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Rambeau
Rating54% 2.7089452.7089452.7089452.7089452.708945
The film opens in Virginia in 1865, shortly after General Lee's surrender at Battle of Appomattox Court House. A war correspondent Jim Steed exchanges comments with Count Von Bohlen, an arrogant Prussian army officer serving as a military attaché during the American Civil War. A year later Steed is in Vienna shortly before the outbreak of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. There he encounters a famous dancer, Anna Marie, who he persuades to spy for him on Von Bohlen, now a member of the Prussian General staff, who has become infatuated with her. However the secret plans which they manage to pass on to the Austrians are unable to prevent the decisive Prussian victory.
Jungle Book, 1h48
Directed by Zoltan Korda
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes L'adolescence, Films about adoption, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un ours, Films about snakes, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un tigre, L'enfance marginalisée, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Reptile
Actors Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary DeCamp, Ralph Byrd
Roles Adaptation
Rating66% 3.344113.344113.344113.344113.34411
In an Indian village, Buldeo, an elderly storyteller, is paid by a visiting British memsahib to tell a story of his youth. He speaks of the animals of the jungle, and of the ever-present threats to human life posed by the jungle itself. He then recalls his early life:
Northwest Passage, 2h5
Directed by Jack Conway, Norman Foster, W. S. Van Dyke, King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Robert Barrat
Rating69% 3.494493.494493.494493.494493.49449
The film opens in the year 1759 with the arrival of Langdon Towne (Robert Young) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The son of a cordage (rope)- maker and ship rigger, he returns from Harvard University after being expelled for complaining about college food and drawing an unflattering picture of the President of Harvard College. Though disappointed, Langdon's family greets him with love, as does Elizabeth Browne (Ruth Hussey), the daughter of a noted clergyman. Elizabeth's father (Louis Hector) is less welcoming, however, and denigrates Langdon's aspirations to becoming a painter. That evening, while drinking in the local tavern with friend Sam Livermore (Lester Matthews), Langdon makes indiscreet remarks disparaging Wiseman Clagett (Montagu Love), the king's attorney, and the Indian agent, Sir William Johnson, unaware that Clagett is sitting in the next room with another official. Facing arrest for his comments, Langdon fights the two men with the help of "Hunk" Marriner (Walter Brennan), a local woodsman and friend, before they both escape into the woods.
The Man from Dakota, 1h15
Directed by Leslie Fenton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, John Howard, Dolores del Río, Donald Meek, Robert Barrat, Addison Richards
Rating56% 2.819412.819412.819412.819412.81941
Pendant la guerre civile une belle femme aide deux espions Union se croisent dans la Confédération et de recueillir des informations.
At the Circus, 1h27
Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Circus films
Actors Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker, Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.396143.396143.396143.396143.39614
Goliath, the circus strongman (Nat Pendleton, one of the Darwin football players in Horse Feathers) and the midget, Little Professor Atom (Jerry Maren) are accomplices of the bad guy John Carter (James Burke) who is trying to take over the Wilson Wonder Circus. Jeff Wilson's girlfriend, Julie Randall (Florence Rice), performs a horse act in the circus. In the animal car on the circus train, Goliath and Atom knock out Jeff Wilson (Kenny Baker) and steal $10,000, which Jeff owes Carter. But they unintentionally leave a cigar as evidence.
Too Hot to Handle, 1h47
Directed by Jack Conway, Richard Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Johnny Hines, Leo Carrillo, Walter Connolly
Rating65% 3.2949453.2949453.2949453.2949453.294945
Union Newsreel reporter Chris Hunter (Clark Gable) is sneakier and has fewer scruples than his rivals in war-torn China. When the Japanese do not oblige with a convenient aerial attack to film, Chris fakes one with a model airplane with his cameraman José Estanza (Leo Carrillo).
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 1h49
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Guy Standing, Kathleen Burke, C. Aubrey Smith
Rating69% 3.4957353.4957353.4957353.4957353.495735
On the northwest frontier of India during the British Raj, Scottish Canadian Lieutenant Alan McGregor (Gary Cooper), in charge of newcomers, welcomes two replacements to the 41st Bengal Lancers, Lieutenant Forsythe (Franchot Tone) and Lieutenant Donald Stone (Richard Cromwell), the son of the unit's commander, Colonel Tom Stone (Guy Standing). Lieutenant Stone has volunteered to serve on the Indian front solely in the belief that his father specifically sent for him, while Lieutenant Forsythe, an experienced cavalrymen, is simply sent off as a replacement for an officer who recently died. After the formal introduction, Lieutenant Stone realizes his father never actually sent for him, a discovery that breaks his heart. In attempt to show impartiality, the colonel treats his son very coldly, which is misinterpreted and causes even more frustration and resentment in the young man.
So Red the Rose, 1h30
Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Janet Beecher, Elizabeth Patterson, Robert Cummings
Roles Writer
Rating63% 3.191263.191263.191263.191263.19126
En 1861, à la plantation Portobello dans le Mississippi, la famille Bedford va se trouver mêlée aux tourments de la guerre de Sécession...