Anita Loos — Playwright (9)
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When Ladies Meet (1941) IMDb TMDB
When Ladies Meet
director: Robert Z. Leonard actor: Joan Crawford / Robert Taylor …
other title: Quando le signore si incontrano / Duel de femmes …
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
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Hold Your Man (1933) IMDb TMDB
Hold Your Man
director: Sam Wood actor: Jean Harlow / Clark Gable …
other title: L'uomo che voglio / Ganovenbraut …
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
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Riffraff (1936) IMDb TMDB
Riffraff
director: J. Walter Ruben actor: Jean Harlow / Spencer Tracy …
other title: Flor de arrabal
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
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Wild and Woolly (1917) IMDb TMDB
Wild and Woolly
director: John Emerson actor: Douglas Fairbanks / Eileen Percy …
A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.