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Robert Lord is a Scriptwriter, Supervising Producer and Supervising Dialogue Editor American born on 1 may 1900 at Chicago (USA)
Robert Lord (May 1, 1900 – April 5, 1976) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 71 films between 1925 and 1940. He won an Academy Award in 1933 in the category Best Writing, Original Story for the film One Way Passage. He was nominated in the same category in 1938 for the film Black Legion.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Los Angeles from a heart attack.
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 may 1900 at Chicago (USA)
Death 5 april 1976 (at 75 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 1 may 1900 at Chicago (USA)
Death 5 april 1976 (at 75 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Robert Lord (May 1, 1900 – April 5, 1976) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 71 films between 1925 and 1940. He won an Academy Award in 1933 in the category Best Writing, Original Story for the film One Way Passage. He was nominated in the same category in 1938 for the film Black Legion.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Los Angeles from a heart attack.
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'Til We Meet Again (1940)
, 1h39Directed by Anatole Litvak, William K. Howard, Edmund Goulding, William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Binnie Barnes, Frank McHugh
Roles Story
Rating66%
Total strangers Dan Hardesty (George Brent) and Joan Ames (Merle Oberon) meet by chance in a bar in Hong Kong. They share a single drink before leaving, called by Dan the "Paradise Cocktail". They romantically shatter their glasses, which Dan tells Joan is a tradition connected with the drink, along with leaving the broken stems crossed. Outside, after Joan has left, Dan is handcuffed by Lieutenant Steve Burke of the San Francisco police (Pat O'Brien). Burke has spent a year chasing the convicted murderer around the world.
Black Legion (1937)
, 1h23Directed by Michael Curtiz, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan, Helen Flint, Joe Sawyer
Roles Story
Rating68%
When passed over for promotion at work in favor of a foreign-born friend, Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), a midwestern factory worker, joins the anti-immigrant Black Legion, a secret white vigilante organization portrayed as related to the Ku Klux Klan. Dressed in black robes and hoods, Taylor and the Legion mount a torchlight raid and burn down the friend's chicken farm, driving him out of town, so that Taylor can gain the job he believed was his. Soon, however, Taylor's recruiting activities with the Legion get in the way of his work, and he is demoted in favor of neighbor Mike Grogan (Clifford Soubier). The Legion takes action again, attacking Grogan.
Colleen (1936)
, 1h29Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Jack Oakie, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda
Roles Story
Rating59%
Colleen is the manager of a dress shop named "The Ames Company", owned by Donald Ames. They try to keep Uncle Cedric from working, because he'll ruin the company. Troubles start when he hires schemer Joe as his personal assistant. He later also hires Minnie, a woman who has a great passion for fashion. When he buys the dress shop for Minnie where Colleen works as a bookkeeper, a scandal is soon followed. Donald decides to shut the shop, but is stopped because of his infatuation towards Colleen. It is Colleen who eventually makes a profit out of the things that happened. Meanwhile, a man named Cedric tries to adopt Minnie. Minnie refuses and thereby causes a scandal. This angers Alicia, but the press can't get enough of it. Donald loses Colleen's affection and thus is sued by Joe.
The Singing Kid (1936)
, 1h25Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Al Jolson, Sybil Jason, Beverly Roberts, Edward Everett Horton, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins
Roles Story
Rating62%
Stage Struck (1936)
, 1h31Directed by Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Musical films
Actors Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William, Frank McHugh, Spring Byington, Jeanne Madden
Roles Story
Rating56%
Bordertown (1935)
, 1h30Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat, Gavin Gordon
Roles Story
Rating65%
After graduating from Pacific Night Law School in Los Angeles, feisty and ambitious Mexican American Johnny Ramirez loses his first court case because he is ill-prepared. His poor, Hispanic client's truck was destroyed by careless debutante Dale Elwell. Johnny is harassed by the opposing attorney, uppercrust Brook Manville, who is defending his lover, Elwell. Johnny reacts, losing his temper and the case. Disbarred for his actions, he journeys to a small town south of the border and finds work as a bouncer, in a seedy casino owned by Charlie Roark. Johnny helps transform the dive into a first-class nightclub called the Silver Slipper that attracts an upscale crowd, and Charlie makes him a partner to reward him for his efforts.
Dr. Socrates (1935)
, 1h10Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Robert Barrat, Barton MacLane, Hobart Cavanaugh, John Eldredge
Rating64%
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
, 1h35Directed by Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert, Glenda Farrell
Roles Story
Rating68%
In the resort of Lake Waxapahachie, the swanky Wentworth Plaza is where the rich all congregate, and where the tips flow like wine. Handsome Dick Curtis (Dick Powell) is working his way through medical school as a desk clerk, and when rich, penny-pinching Mrs. Prentiss (Alice Brady) offers to pay him to escort her daughter Ann (Gloria Stuart) for the summer, Dick can't say no – even his fiancee, Arline Davis (Dorothy Dare) thinks he should do it. Mrs. Prentiss wants Ann to marry eccentric middle-aged millionaire T. Mosley Thorpe (Hugh Herbert), who's a world-renowned expert on snuffboxes, but Ann has other ideas. Meanwhile her brother, Humbolt (Frank McHugh) has a weakness for a pretty face: he's been married and bought out of trouble by his mother several times.
Page Miss Glory (1935)
, 1h33Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Marion Davies, Mary Astor, Frank McHugh, Lyle Talbot
Rating66%
Country girl Loretta Dalrymple (Marion Davies) arrives in New York City and gets a job as a chambermaid in a luxurious hotel, the same hotel in which con man "Click" Wiley (Pat O'Brien) and his photographer partner Ed Olsen (Frank McHugh) are three weeks in arrears. Desperate to avoid being evicted by the assistant manager, Mr. Yates (Berton Churchill), Click has Ed make a composite photograph by combining the best features of several renowned Hollywood beauties and enters the resulting fake under the name "Dawn Glory" in a nationwide beauty contest for the $2500 prize. Dawn Glory wins.
Housewife (1934)
, 1h5Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, John Halliday, Ruth Donnelly, Hobart Cavanaugh
Roles Story
Rating61%
Nan Reynolds (Ann Dvorak) struggles to run the household on her meek husband Bill's (George Brent) meager salary as an office manager. She urges him to apply for better jobs elsewhere, but he is disinclined to take risks, and his lack of ambition is placing a strain on their marriage.
He Was Her Man (1934)
, 1h10Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory, Frank Craven, Sarah Padden, Harold Huber
Roles Story
Rating61%
Pour échapper à Dan Curly et à ses deux tueurs, Flicker Hayes se réfugie dans un village, accompagné de Rose Lawrence, une prostituée…
Dames (1934)
, 1h31Directed by Busby Berkeley, Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Jean Rogers, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts
Roles Story
Rating69%
Eccentric multimillionaire Ezra Ounce (Hugh Herbert), whose main purpose in life is raising American morals through a nationwide campaign, wants to be assured that his fortune will be inherited by upstanding relatives, so he visits his cousin, Matilda Hemingway (ZaSu Pitts) in New York City, in Horace's view the center of immorality in America. What Ounce finds most offensive are musical comedy shows and the people who put them on, and it just so happens that Matilda's daughter, Barbara (Ruby Keeler), is a dancer and singer in love with a struggling singer and songwriter, her 13th cousin, Jimmy Higgens (Dick Powell). On Ezra's instructions, Jimmy the "black sheep" has been ostracized by the family, on pain of not receiving their inheritance.
Frisco Jenny (1933)
, 1h13Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy, Donald Cook, William A. Wellman, Hallam Cooley
Rating67%
In 1906 San Francisco, Frisco Jenny Sandoval (Ruth Chatterton), a denizen of the notorious Tenderloin district, wants to marry piano player Dan McAllister (James Murray), but her saloonkeeper father Jim (Robert Emmett O'Connor) is adamantly opposed to it. An earthquake kills both men and devastates the city. In the aftermath, Jenny gives birth to a son, whom she names Dan.
Footlight Parade (1933)
, 1h44Directed by Busby Berkeley, Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd
Roles Story
Rating74%
Chester Kent (James Cagney) replaces his failing career as a director of Broadway musicals with a new one as the creator of musical numbers called "prologues", short live stage productions presented in movie theaters before the main feature is shown. He faces pressure from his business partners to constantly create a large number of marketable prologues to service theaters throughout the country, but his job is made harder by a rival who is stealing his ideas, probably with assistance from someone working inside his company. Kent is so overwhelmed with work that he doesn't realize that his secretary, Nan (Joan Blondell), has fallen in love with him, and is doing her best to protect him.
Convention City (1933)
, 1h9Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Adolphe Menjou, Frank McHugh
Rating69%
The plot revolves around the convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Throughout the film, the employees of Honeywell Rubber are mainly concerned with drinking and sex. President J.B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new company salesmanager. T.R. Kent (Adolphe Menjou) and George Ellerbe (Guy Kibbee) are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman Arlene Dale (Mary Astor) interferes with his attempted seduction of J.B.'s daughter and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine (Joan Blondell). The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator".