Joseph Swirling — Playwright (21)
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Man's Castle (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Man's Castle
director: Frank Borzage actor: Spencer Tracy / Loretta Young …
other title: Vicino alle stelle / Ein Schloß in New York …
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
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Ladies of Leisure (1930) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ladies of Leisure
director: Frank Capra actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Lowell Sherman …
other title: Femmine di lusso / Femmes de luxe …
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
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The Miracle Woman (1931) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Miracle Woman
director: Frank Capra actor: Barbara Stanwyck / David Manners …
other title: La donna del miracolo / La Femme aux miracles …
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind former aviator restore her faith and happiness?
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Forbidden (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Forbidden
director: Frank Capra actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: Proibito / Sehnsucht ohne Ende …
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Bob, but also wants to marry Lulu.
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Crash Dive (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Crash Dive
director: Archie Mayo actor: Tyrone Power / Anne Baxter …
other title: Agguato sul fondo / Requins d'acier …
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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Thunder in the East (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Thunder in the East
director: Charles Vidor actor: Alan Ladd / Deborah Kerr …
other title: Bagliori ad oriente / Donner in Fern-Ost …
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.
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New York Town (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
New York Town
director: Charles Vidor actor: Fred MacMurray / Mary Martin …
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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The Whole Town's Talking (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Whole Town's Talking
director: John Ford actor: Edward G. Robinson / Jean Arthur …
other title: Tutta la città ne parla / Stadtgespräch …
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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Dirigible (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dirigible
director: Frank Capra actor: Jack Holt / Ralph Graves …
other title: Das Luftschiff / Le dirigeable …
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the love of beautiful Helen, Frisky's wife. After Braden's dirigible expedition fails, Frisky tries an expedition by plane. Unfortunately he crashes and strands his party at the South Pole. Braden must decide between a risky rescue attempt by dirigible and remaining safely at home with Helen.
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Double Wedding (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Double Wedding
director: Richard Thorpe actor: William Powell / Myrna Loy …
other title: Sposiamoci in quattro / Irren ist menschlich …
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945) [Movie]
Leave Her to Heaven
director: 约翰·斯塔尔 actor: 吉恩·蒂尔尼 / 柯纳·王尔德
other title: 爱到天堂 / 难测妇人心(港) …
本片描述一名自私心和嫉妒心很重的女人，为了独占她丈夫的爱，不惜接二连三做出很多不可思议的暴行，但多行不义必自毙，她最终落得个自杀的结局。本片是根据宾埃姆斯·威廉斯的原著小说改编而成，是一部传统的心理传奇片。
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb
Leave Her to Heaven
director: John M. Stahl actor: Gene Tierney / Cornel Wilde …
other title: Femmina folle / Lad Himlen Dømme …
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.