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Rowland Leigh

Rowland Leigh
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Birth name Roland Henry Leigh
Nationality USA
Birth at New York City (USA)

Rowland Leigh (1903 – October, 1963) was an American lyricist, screenwriter, and librettist. He has worked with many famous actors and musicians in his career on Broadway and in Hollywood.

Best films

The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood
(1938)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Leo F. Forbstein
Leo F. Forbstein
(5 films)
Melville Cooper
Melville Cooper
(3 films)
Olaf Hytten
Olaf Hytten
(4 films)
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland
(3 films)
John Sherwood
John Sherwood
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rowland Leigh (14 films)

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Director

The Great Garrick
The Great Garrick (1937)
, 1h29
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, James Whale, Rowland Leigh
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper, Lionel Atwill, Luis Alberni
Rating67% 3.390063.390063.390063.390063.39006
In London in 1750, renowned English actor David Garrick announces onstage that he has been invited to Paris to work with the prestigious Comédie-Française. A person in the audience jeers that the French want him to teach them how to act. The playwright Beaumarchais (Lionel Atwill) returns to the Comédie-Française and attributes the remark to Garrick himself. The outraged French actors, led by their president, Picard (Melville Cooper), decide to make him an object of public ridicule. They take over a wayside inn where he will be staying, and Beaumarchais devises a plot intended to humiliate Garrick by frightening him into returning to England.

Scriptwriter

Siren of Atlantis
Siren of Atlantis (1949)
, 1h15
Directed by Arthur Ripley, John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in Atlantis
Actors María Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dennis O'Keefe, Morris Carnovsky, Henry Daniell, Pierre Watkin
Rating56% 2.806982.806982.806982.806982.80698
Andre St Avit of the French Foreign Legion is discovered unconscious in the African desert. He claims he stumbled upon the lost kingdom of Atlantis, ruled by the beautiful Queen Antinea, who drove him to commit murder.
Tarzan and the Huntress
Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
, 1h12
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Patricia Morison, Barton MacLane, John Warburton
Roles Original Story
Rating60% 3.0458953.0458953.0458953.0458953.045895
Due to a shortage of animals in American zoos following World War II, Tanya Rawlins (Patricia Morison), a big-game "huntress," Carl Marley (John Warburton), her financial backer and Paul Weir (Barton MacLane), a cruel trail boss, are given permission by King Farrod (Charles Trowbridge), to capture a male and female of each species of animal on his land.
Heaven Only Knows
Heaven Only Knows (1947)
, 1h40
Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Western
Actors Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds, John Litel, Bill Goodwin, Stuart Erwin
Rating65% 3.292753.292753.292753.292753.29275
Due to a clerical error in heaven, a man who was to become a solid citizen and community leader, Duke Byron (Brian Donlevy), is born without a soul and instead becomes a corrupt gambling hall owner. To his dismay, he discovers that he has a guardian angel, Mike (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot, sent to help put Duke on the life path for which he was originally destined.
Heartbeat
Heartbeat (1946)
, 1h42
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ginger Rogers, Basil Rathbone, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou, Melville Cooper, Mikhail Rasumny
Rating58% 2.948232.948232.948232.948232.94823
Professor Aristide (Basil Rathbone) runs a school for pickpockets in Paris. He takes on pupils like Yves (Mikhail Rasumny) and young Arlette (Ginger Rogers) by testing their dishonesty. He takes Arlette even though she fails by only taking bread; she's a runaway from a reform school where she's supposed to stay until she turns 21.
Summer Storm
Summer Storm (1944)
, 1h46
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee, Hugo Haas, Sig Ruman, John Abbott
Rating65% 3.2901453.2901453.2901453.2901453.290145
After the Russian Revolution, Count Volsky visits Nadena Kalenin, the editor of a Russian book publishing company, with a manuscript written by his friend and Nadena's former fiancé, Judge Fedor Petroff.
The Master Race
The Master Race (1944)
, 1h35
Directed by Herbert J. Biberman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors George Coulouris, Stanley Ridges, Osa Massen, Carl Esmond, Nancy Gates, Morris Carnovsky
Rating59% 2.9547352.9547352.9547352.9547352.954735
As the Nazis come to realise that their dreams of world domination after World War II will not be fulfilled and that Germany is in fact about to be defeated, a fanatical hard core prepare for the future Fourth Reich and the continuation of the dream of Aryan supremacy in later generations. To this end, the Nazi officer von Beck is sent to infiltrate a village in rural Belgium where he will wait to again, when the time is ripe, agitate for racial supremacy for "true Europeans" over lesser, "mongrel" races.
Vigil in the Night
Vigil in the Night (1940)
, 1h42
Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Robert Coote, Peter Cushing, Ethel Griffies
Rating66% 3.344123.344123.344123.344123.34412
In Great Britain, Vigil in the Night nurse Anne Lee (Carole Lombard) takes the blame for a fatal error made by her sister Lucy (Anne Shirley), also a nurse, and is forced to leave the hospital where they both work. She moves to a large city where she procures a job at another hospital and falls in love with Dr. Robert Prescott (Brian Aherne). Overcoming obstacles and personal tragedy along the way, Anne and Prescott work together to bring about better conditions for the care of the sick as well as fighting an epidemic which threatens to overwhelm all those around them.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
, 1h42
Directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette
Rating78% 3.9468553.9468553.9468553.9468553.946855
In 1191, Richard the Lionheart (Ian Hunter), the King of England, is taken captive by Leopold V, Duke of Austria while returning from the Third Crusade. Richard’s treacherous brother Prince John (Claude Rains) usurps the throne and proceeds to oppress the Saxons, raising taxes supposedly to pay Richard's ransom, but in reality to secure his own position.
First Lady
First Lady (1937)
, 1h23
Directed by Stanley Logan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Kay Francis, Preston Foster, Anita Louise, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, Victor Jory
Rating61% 3.098313.098313.098313.098313.09831
The granddaughter of a President of the United States, Lucy Chase Wayne (Kay Francis) discreetly campaigns to gain the presidential nomination for her beloved husband, Secretary of State Stephen Wayne (Preston Foster). She tries to gain the support of rising Senator Gordon Keane (Victor Jory), a victory that would be doubly sweet inasmuch as he is the protégé of her despised arch-rival, Irene Hibbard (Verree Teasdale).
The Great Garrick
The Great Garrick (1937)
, 1h29
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, James Whale, Rowland Leigh
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper, Lionel Atwill, Luis Alberni
Rating67% 3.390063.390063.390063.390063.39006
In London in 1750, renowned English actor David Garrick announces onstage that he has been invited to Paris to work with the prestigious Comédie-Française. A person in the audience jeers that the French want him to teach them how to act. The playwright Beaumarchais (Lionel Atwill) returns to the Comédie-Française and attributes the remark to Garrick himself. The outraged French actors, led by their president, Picard (Melville Cooper), decide to make him an object of public ridicule. They take over a wayside inn where he will be staying, and Beaumarchais devises a plot intended to humiliate Garrick by frightening him into returning to England.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
, 1h55
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, David Niven, Patric Knowles, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp
Rating69% 3.4959153.4959153.4959153.4959153.495915
In 1854, Major Geoffrey Vickers (Errol Flynn) and his brother, Captain Perry Vickers (Patric Knowles), are stationed at the fictional city of Chukoti in India, with the 27th Lancers of the British Army during the period of East India Company dominance over the Indian subcontinent. Perry has secretly betrayed Geoffrey by stealing the love of his fiancee Elsa (Olivia de Havilland).