Julius J. Epstein — Playwright (18)
Any Wednesday (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Any Wednesday
other title: Tutti i mercoledì / Jeden Mittwoch
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More complications arise when the executive's wife shows up with plans to redecorate the apartment.
Light in the Piazza (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Light in the Piazza
other title: Luce nella piazza / Licht auf der Piazza
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?
House Calls (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
House Calls
director: Howard Zieff actor: Walter Matthau / Glenda Jackson
other title: Visite a domicilio / Hausbesuche
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
Four Wives (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Four Wives
other title: Quatre Jeunes Femmes
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Daughters Courageous (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Daughters Courageous
director: Michael Curtiz actor: John Garfield / Claude Rains
other title: Profughi dell'amore / Vier Töchter räumen auf
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Return from the Ashes (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Return from the Ashes
other title: Dimensione della paura / Eine Tür fällt zu
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.
Kiss Them for Me (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Kiss Them for Me
director: Stanley Donen actor: Cary Grant / Jayne Mansfield
other title: Baciala per me / O Beijo da Despedida
Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.
The Strawberry Blonde (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Strawberry Blonde
other title: Bionda fragola / Schönste der Stadt
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
The Brothers Karamazov (1958) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Brothers Karamazov
director: Richard Brooks actor: Yul Brynner / Maria Schell
other title: Karamazov / Os Irmãos Karamazov
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
Once Is Not Enough (1975) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Once Is Not Enough
director: Guy Green actor: Kirk Douglas / Alexis Smith
other title: Una volta non basta / Einmal ist nicht genug
An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
Fanny (1961) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Fanny
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.