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Sidney Lanfield is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 20 april 1898 at Chicago (USA)
Sidney Lanfield (April 20, 1898 – June 20, 1972) was an American film director known for directing romances and light comedy films and later television programs.
The one-time Jazz musician and vaudevillian star started his first directing job for the Fox Film Corporation in 1930; he went on to direct a number of films for 20th Century Fox. In 1941, he directed the Fred Astaire film You'll Never Get Rich for Columbia Pictures, then moved to Paramount Pictures. There Lanfield worked on a number of film comedies. He is probably best remembered for directing actor Bob Hope in a number of films including My Favorite Blonde (1942), Let's Face It (1943), Where There's Life (1947), and The Lemon Drop Kid (1951). Lanfield's most profitable film, however, was the first teaming of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson in 1939's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
In the early 1950s the reputedly strict taskmaster-director moved to television where his vaudeville and comic background in films were put to use in television comedies including Where's Raymond?, McHale's Navy and The Addams Family.
Lanfield was married to film actress Shirley Mason from 1927 until his death in 1972. He is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Lanfield was also known as Sidney Landfield.
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Sidney Lanfield
Nationality USA
Birth 20 april 1898 at Chicago (USA)
Death 20 june 1972 (at 74 years) at Marina del Rey (USA)
Birth 20 april 1898 at Chicago (USA)
Death 20 june 1972 (at 74 years) at Marina del Rey (USA)
The one-time Jazz musician and vaudevillian star started his first directing job for the Fox Film Corporation in 1930; he went on to direct a number of films for 20th Century Fox. In 1941, he directed the Fred Astaire film You'll Never Get Rich for Columbia Pictures, then moved to Paramount Pictures. There Lanfield worked on a number of film comedies. He is probably best remembered for directing actor Bob Hope in a number of films including My Favorite Blonde (1942), Let's Face It (1943), Where There's Life (1947), and The Lemon Drop Kid (1951). Lanfield's most profitable film, however, was the first teaming of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson in 1939's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
In the early 1950s the reputedly strict taskmaster-director moved to television where his vaudeville and comic background in films were put to use in television comedies including Where's Raymond?, McHale's Navy and The Addams Family.
Lanfield was married to film actress Shirley Mason from 1927 until his death in 1972. He is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Lanfield was also known as Sidney Landfield.
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Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
, 1h49Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Esther Williams, Jeff Donnell, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine, Roy Roberts, Barry Sullivan
Rating57%
Follow the Sun (1951)
, 1h33Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Golf films
Actors Glenn Ford, Anne Baxter, Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc, Larry Keating, Roland Winters
Rating63%
In Fort Worth, Texas, Ben Hogan (Glenn Ford) works as a golf caddy to help support his family. He romances and marries Valerie Fox (Anne Baxter), then with her support, decides to become a professional golfer. At first, Hogan has little success, but he gradually improves. Meanwhile, the Hogans become friends with Chuck Williams (Dennis O'Keefe), a popular fellow pro.
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
, 1h31Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Ann Sheridan, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King
Rating69%
The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope), a New York City swindler, is illegally touting horses at a Florida racetrack. The Kid touts across a beautiful woman intending to bet $2,000 on a horse named Iron Bar. Rigging a con, the Kid convinces her to switch her bet, but learns that she was betting for boyfriend and notorious gangster Moose Moran (Fred Clark). When the horse finishes dead last, a furious Moran demands the Kid pay him $10,000 (the amount he would have won) by Christmas Eve, or the Kid "won't make it to New Year's."
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
, 1h28Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot, Thomas Gomez, Houseley Stevenson
Rating68%
Sorrowful Jones is a New York bookie who keeps his operation hidden behind a trap door in a Broadway barber shop. He suffers from a financial setback when a horse named Dreamy Joe, owned by gangster Big Steve Holloway, unexpectedly wins a race. Jones has to pay all the many customers betting on the horse to win, which empties his pockets completely.
Station West (1948)
, 1h20Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Burl Ives, Tom Powers, Gordon Oliver
Rating65%
Two soldiers have been robbed and murdered while guarding a shipment of gold. Into town rides Haven, a military intelligence officer traveling incognito.
Where There's Life (1947)
, 1h15Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Bob Hope, Signe Hasso, William Bendix, George Coulouris, Victor Varconi, George Zucco
Rating64%
Hope plays American radio announcer who finds out he is the new king of "Barovia", although a secret society called the Mordia, which assassinated the previous ruler, has other ideas.
The Trouble with Women (1947)
, 1h20Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Rose Hobart, Lewis Russell, Charles Smith
Rating61%
The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
, 1h15Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Oscar Rudolph, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, Sonny Tufts, James Gleason, Constance Dowling, Percy Kilbride
Rating57%
In the spring of 1945 in San Francisco, United States Navy lieutenant Dudley Briggs (Ray Milland) is promised a two-week furlough and a promotion by his ship's captain if he can acquire a bottle of French champagne by the next morning to be used in launching of the U.S.S. Vengeance, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier. Dudley heads to a liquor store and finds the last magnum of French champagne in the city—champagne having become rare during the war. Unfortunately, he loses the bottle to a beautiful young woman named Margie Dawson (Olivia de Havilland), who is about to be married to Army lieutenant Torchy McNeil (Sonny Tufts), an Oregon football star, whom she has not seen in two years. Margie plans to present the bottle as the centerpiece for her upcoming wedding reception.
Bring on the Girls (1945)
, 1h32Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds, Peter Whitney, Alan Mowbray
Rating60%
Ce film en couleurs et en partie musical est une adaptation de L'Homme qui cherche la vérité, film français d'Alexander Esway sorti en 1940.
Bring on the Girls (1945)
, 1h32Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Mowbray, Marietta Canty
Rating60%
Standing Room Only (1944)
, 1h23Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romance
Actors Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, Edward Arnold, Hillary Brooke, Roland Young, Anne Revere
Rating71%
New York. Fabrique de jouets Todd and Co. Employée de cette société, Jane Rogers, est secrètement amoureuse de Lee Stevens, le fondé de pouvoir de l’entreprise. Mais celui-ci est fiancé à la fille du patron, Alice Todd. L’ingénieuse Jane se fait alors passer pour une secrétaire et réussit à accompagner Lee à Washington où il doit négocier un important marché. Une fois sur place, en pleine crise du logement, le vrai fondé de pouvoir et la fausse secrétaire doivent se contenter pour dormir d’une salle d’attente, puis d’un jardin public. Pour trouver un toit, le couple se fait engager comme domestiques dans une maison bourgeoise.
The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
, 1h34Directed by David Butler, Samuel Goldwyn, Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Walter Slezak, Victor McLaglen, Marc Lawrence
Rating67%
A pirate captain known as the Hook (Victor McLaglen) buries his treasure on an island and kills the map maker so no one else will find it. He and his cut-throat crew go after the Mary Ann, a ship on which Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo) is running away from her father, the King (Robert Warwick), so she can marry a commoner. The Hook plans to hold her for a large ransom. A cowardly actor, Sylvester the Great (Hope), is in the cabin next door to Margaret. The Hook's ship, The Avenger attacks the Mary Ann and after a big fight, the crew are killed or made to walk the plank by the pirates. Sylvester escapes by disguising himself as a gypsy woman and is taken on board The Avenger with Margaret.
The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
, 57minutesDirected by Sidney Lanfield
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie Anderson, Edmund Gwenn, Anne Revere, Margaret Seddon
Rating63%
Richard Clarke is a lawyer with his own legal practice in Pottsville, New York. His black paralegal assistant continuously claims that Clarke is far too nice a man to be a profitable businessman, since he always fails to demand payment from his poor clients and never take on those he doesn't believe are innocent. But Clarke's main problem is that he is hopelessly in love with the lovely Janie Brown. Janie's wealthy father has decided that Janie will marry the even wealthier bachelor Bill Potts. Clarke remains completely oblivious of this fact.
Let's Face It (1943)
, 1h16Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Zasu Pitts, Phyllis Povah, Dave Willock, Eve Arden
Rating59%
The Lady Has Plans (1942)
, 1h17Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Albert Dekker, Margaret Hayes, Cecil Kellaway
Rating65%
A gang of criminals steal some top secret plans and tattoo them in invisible ink on the back of a beautiful young girl, planning to sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon.