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Jane Murfin
Writer 1884 - 1955

Jane Murfin

Quincy, Michigan, USA

From Wikipedia Jane Murfin (October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter. The author of several successful plays, she wrote some of them with actress Jane Cowl—most notably Smilin' Through (1919), a sentimental fantasy that was adapted three... Read full bio →

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12 titles
Dragon Seed

Dragon Seed

Jack Conway, Harold S. Bucquet 1944 2h 28m

Chinese peasants fight to survive the Japanese occupation during World War II.

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

George B. Seitz 1941 1h 41m 6.0

All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Robert Z. Leonard 1940 1h 58m 8.6

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

The Women

The Women

George Cukor 1939 2h 13m 9.0

Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a Reno divorce Mary meets the Countess and Miriam (in an affair with Fowler's husband).

Come and Get It

Come and Get It

Howard Hawks, William Wyler 1936 1h 39m

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

Roberta

Roberta

William A. Seiter 1935 1h 46m

An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.

Alice Adams

Alice Adams

George Stevens 1935 1h 39m 6.5

A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

Spitfire

Spitfire

John Cromwell 1934 1h 27m 5.5

A story about a savage girl in an American outback who is suspected of witchcraft.

What Price Hollywood

What Price Hollywood

George Cukor 1932 1h 28m 9.0

The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood producer.

Way Back Home

Way Back Home

William A. Seiter 1931 1h 21m

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

The Pay-Off

The Pay-Off

Lowell Sherman 1930 1h 10m 5.0

A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing.

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Reginald Barker 1929 1h 13m

A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.

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