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Writer 1884 - 1947

Walter DeLeon

Oakland, California, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter DeLeon (May 3, 1884 – August 1, 1947) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 69 films that were released between 1921 and 1953, and acted in one film. He was born in Oakland, California, and died in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

19 titles
Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff

George Marshall 1953 1h 48m 6.0

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...

The Time of Their Lives

The Time of Their Lives

Charles Barton 1946 1h 22m

Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.

Little Giant

Little Giant

William A. Seiter 1946 1h 30m 6.0

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman.

Hold That Blonde!

Hold That Blonde!

George Marshall 1945 1h 16m 6.0

A kleptomaniac falls in love with a woman who is member of a gang of jewel thieves, although he's initially unaware of her true occupation.

Delightfully Dangerous

Delightfully Dangerous

Arthur Lubin 1945 1h 32m 6.0

Teen Sherry Williams dreams of a singing career and idolizes her sister Josephine, who performs in New York. Encouraged by false stories about her sister from a Broadway producer. when Sherry pays a surprise visit to New York.

Pot o' Gold

Pot o' Gold

George Marshall 1941 1h 26m

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices.

Birth of the Blues

Birth of the Blues

Victor Schertzinger 1941 1h 26m 6.0

Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city.

The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers

George Marshall 1940 1h 25m 6.5

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle.

Union Pacific

Union Pacific

Cecil B. DeMille 1939 2h 15m 7.5

In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California. A crooked politician tries to stop construction of the transcontinental railroad.

The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary

Elliott Nugent 1939 1h 13m 7.0

When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.

The Big Broadcast of 1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Mitchell Leisen 1938 1h 34m

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across

William K. Howard 1936 1h 16m

A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.

The Big Broadcast of 1937

The Big Broadcast of 1937

Mitchell Leisen 1936 1h 40m

The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

Rhythm on the Range

Rhythm on the Range

Norman Taurog 1936 1h 27m 6.0

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters

The Big Broadcast of 1936

The Big Broadcast of 1936

Norman Taurog 1935 1h 38m

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.

Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap

Leo McCarey 1935 1h 30m 6.0

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron.

You're Telling Me!

You're Telling Me!

Erle C. Kenton 1934 1h 6m 6.0

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living..

Six of a Kind

Six of a Kind

Leo McCarey 1934 1h 2m 6.0

The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.

International House

International House

A. Edward Sutherland 1933 1h 8m 8.0

Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention ... television.

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