Alvah Bessie

American novelist and journalist Alvah Bessie wrote screenplays for Warner Brothers and other studios during the mid and late '40s. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Story for the patriotic Warner's film Objective Burma(1945). No stranger to soldiering, Bessie had been a member of the International Brigades, and fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1938. Upon his return, he wrote a book about his experiences, Men in Battle. His career came to a halt in 1947, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He refused to deny or confirm involvement in the Communist Party, and in 1950 he became one of the Hollywood Ten when he was imprisoned and blacklisted. In 1965, Bessie wrote a book about his experience with the HUAC, Inquisition in Eden. He wrote another book in 1975, Spain Again, which chronicled his experiences as a co-writer and actor in a Spanish movie of the same name. His Spanish Civil War Notebooks, a diary of his activities while in Spain in 1938, have been recently published (2001). Unfortunately, his screenwriting career was ruined by the blacklisting, and he never returned to Hollywood. [Information provided courtesy of Dan Bessy]

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbessie.htm

Biographical and credit information from the Internet Movie Database

Northern Pursuit (1943)

Hotel Berlin (1944) (uncredited)

The Very Thought of You (1944)

Objective Burma (1945) (uncredited) Video/C 999:1363

Smart Woman (1948)

Herbert J. Biberman

The socially conscious films of American director, screenwriter and producer Herbert Biberman are perhaps best known in Europe as he was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten in 1950. Biberman was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He also attended Yale and went to Europe. He then worked for a number of years in his family's textile business until 1928 when he joined the Theater Guild as an assistant stage manager, and quickly became one of the company's best directors. He entered films as a director and screenwriter of "B" movies in 1935. He was first accused of communist activities by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Biberman refused to confirm or deny the allegations and in 1950 was sentenced to 6 months in prison and banished from Hollywood. His primary accusers were Budd Schulberg and Edward Dmytryk. Biberman's wife Gale Sondergaard was similarly accused and she too refused to testify. In 1954, Biberman independently made Salt of the Earth a provocative, moving chronicle of the terrible working conditions faced by miners in New Mexico. Though the film was backed by the miner's union and employed real workers and their families, other unions refused to show the film because Biberman was still blacklisted. The film was shown once in a New York theater were it received terrific reviews. Biberman then released the film in Europe where it won awards in France and Czechoslovakia. In 1965, the film was finally released in the U.S. Four years later, Biberman made his last film, Slaves (1969), an adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Though it was not critically well-received in the U.S., it was highly regarded in France. -- Sandra Brennan [from the All-Media Guide]

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Bibliography of books/articles about Salt of the Earth

Biographical and credit information from the Internet Movie Database

One Way Ticket (1935)

Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)

The Master Race (1944)

Salt of the Earth (1954) DVD 682; vhs 999:266

Slaves (1969)

Lester Cole

Screenwriter Lester Cole will go down in cinema history as a member of the original "Hollywood Ten," one of the first unfortunate people in the film industry to be black-listed by the House Anti-American Activities Committee in 1947. Cole, the son of Polish immigrants, began writing and directing plays at age 16 after he dropped out of high school. During the 1920s and '30s he worked as an actor on stage and screen before embarking on his screenwriting career. While in Hollywood, he was a union activist and became a co-founder of the Screen Writers Guild in 1933. He was later black-balled for challenging the committee's right to interrogate him about his political beliefs. He then served 1 year in prison, leaving behind an unfinished script that was later finished by John Steinbeck for Kazan's Viva Zapata (1952). Following his release from prison, Cole worked a series of odd jobs. In 1961 he went to London, but eventually returned to the states where he began collaborating on screenplays under an assumed name. He also taught screenwriting at the University of California, Berkeley -- Sandra Brennan [from the All-Media Guide]

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Born Free (1966) (screenplay) (originally as Gerald L.C. Copley)

Operation Eichmann (1961) (written by) (originally as Lewis Copley)

Chain Lightning (1950) (originally as J. Redmond Prior)

High Wall (1947)

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

Fiesta (1947)

Strange Conquest (1946) (story)

Men in Her Diary (1945) (adaptation)

Blood on the Sun (1945)

Objective, Burma! (1945) ... aka Operation Burma Video/C 999:1363

None Shall Escape (1944)

Hostages (1943)

Night Plane from Chungking (1943)

Pacific Blackout (1941) ... aka Midnight Angel (UK)

Among the Living (1941) (also story)

Bad Men of Missouri (1941) (uncredited)

Footsteps in the Dark (1941) (screenplay)

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

The Invisible Man Returns (1940) (screenplay) Video/C 999:1140

The Big Guy (1939) ... aka Warden of the Big House (USA: reissue title)

I Stole a Million (1939) (story)

Winter Carnival (1939)

Pirates of the Skies (1939) (story Sky Police)

Secrets of a Nurse (1938)

Sinners in Paradise (1938) (screenplay)

The Crime of Dr. Hallet (1938) (screenplay) (story)

Midnight Intruder (1938)

The Jury's Secret (1938) (story)

Some Blondes Are Dangerous (1937)

The Man in Blue (1937) (screenplay)

The Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937)

The President's Mystery (1936) ... aka One for All (UK)

Follow Your Heart (1936)

Hitch Hike Lady (1935) (screenplay) ... aka Eventful Journey (UK)

Too Tough to Kill (1935)

Under Pressure (1935)

Nada más que una mujer (1934) ... aka Nothing More Than a Woman (USA)

Charlie Chan in London (1934) (additional dialogue) (uncredited)

Pursued (1934)

Wild Gold (1934)

Sleepers East (1934)

Walls of Gold (1933)

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933)

If I Had a Million (1932)

Edward Dmytryk

A messenger boy at Paramount in the mid 1920s, Edward Dmytryk became an editor in the 1930s and began directing in 1935. By the mid '40s he had such impressive credits as The Devil Commands (1941) with Boris Karloff; the anti-fascist Hitler's Children (1943); the noirs Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Cornered (1945), starring Dick Powell; and Crossfire (1947), one of the first Hollywood films to confront anti-Semitism. In 1948 Dmytryk became one of the "Hollywood Ten" when he was accused of having ties to the communist party and was sentenced to a year in prison for contempt of Congress. Following his imprisonment, Dymtryk was blacklisted in the U.S., so he directed three films in England, but returned to the States in 1951. Upon his return he went before the House Un-American Activities Committee again, this time as a "friendly" witness, and his name was dropped from the blacklist. He then resumed his American career and directed four films for producer Stanley Kramer, most notably The Sniper (1952) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). Dmytryk went on to make several notable films in the 1950s, including the westerns Broken Lance (1954) with Spencer Tracy, and Warlock (1959) with Henry Fonda, and the World War II drama The Young Lions (1958), starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. His subsequent work was well-made but unremarkable. [from the All-Media Guide]

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Biographical and credit information from the Internet Movie Database

The Human Factor (1975)

Barbe-Bleue (1972)

Shalako (1968)

The Battle for Anzi (1968)

Alvarez Kelly (1966)

Mirage (1965)

Where Love Has Gone (1964)

The Carpetbaggers (1963)

Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

The Reluctant Saint (1962)

Warlock (1959)

The Blue Angel (1959)

The Young Lions (1958)

Soldier of Fortune (1955)

Raintree Country (1957)

The Mountain (1956)

The Left Hand of God (1955)

End of the Affair (1954)

The Caine Mutiny (1954) DVD 8323; vhs Video/C 999:732

Broken Lance (1954)

The Juggler (1953)

The Sniper (1952)

Mutiny (1951)

Eight Iron Men (1952)

Give us this Day (1949)

Obsession (1949)

Crossfire (1947) DVD 4115; Video/C 999:1027

So Well Remembered (1947)

Till the End of Time (1946)

Back to Bataan (1945)DVD 2676

Cornered (1945) Video/C 999:3568

Murder My Sweet (1944) DVD 2718; Video/C 999:548

Behind the Rising Sun (1943)

Captive Wild Woman (1943)

The Falcon Stikes Back (1943)

Hitler's Children (1943)

Tender Comrade (1943)

Confession of Boston Blackie (1942)

Counter-Espionage (1942)

Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)

The Blonde form Singapore (1941)

The Devil Commands (1941)

Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941)

Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)

Under Age (1941)

Her First Romance (1940)

Mystery Sea Raider (1940)

Emergency Squad (1939)

Golden Gloves (1939)

Television Spy (1939)

Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)

Prison Farm (1938)

Rugglers of Red Gap (1935) Video/C 999:765

Ring Lardner, Jr.

The son of a famed humorist, screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. (born Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Jr.) started out as a reporter for the New York Daily Mirror. Prior to that, he had briefly attended Princeton. He eventually became a publicist for David Selznick in Hollywood and after that worked uncredited as a script doctor before becoming a full-fledged screenwriter working alone or in collaboration. Lardner shared an Oscar in 1942 for Woman of the Year and his career looked quite promising until he refused to cooperate with the witch-hunts of the House Un-American Activities Committee and became one of the Hollywood Ten. For his refusal, Lardner spent a year in prison and then was blacklisted until the mid '60s. Though officially banned from Hollywood, Lardner continued working under pseudonyms and also worked uncredited. Lardner made a big comeback in 1970 when he wrote the script for M*A*S*H. -- Sandra Brennan [from the All-Media Guide]

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Laura (screenplay uncredited) (1944) DVD 3643; Video/C 999:678

Woman of the Year (1942)

Cloak and Dagger (screenplay) (1942) Video/C.999:282

Forever Amber (1947)

Cincinatti Kid (1965)

The Greatest (1977)

Semi-Tough (1977) (screenplay uncredited) DVD 2279

Greatest, The (1977)

Woman of the Year (1976) (TV) (1942 screenplay)

M*A*S*H (1970) (screenplay) DVD 7590; Video/C 999:438

"M*A*S*H" (1972) TV Series (1972-- screenplay)(uncredited) DVD 1000

Maison sous les arbres, La (1971) (uncredited)

... aka Deadly Trap, The (1972/I) (USA)

...aka Death Scream (1971)

... aka House Under the Trees, The (1971)

... aka Unico indizio: una sciarpa gialla (1971) (Italy)

MASH (1970) (screenplay)

Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)

Cardinal, The (1963) (uncredited)

Breath of Scandal, A (1960) (uncredited)

Virgin Island (1958) (as Philip Rush)

...aka Our Virgin Island (1960) (USA)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955) TV Series (writer) (uncredited)

Big Night, The (1951) (screenplay) (originally uncredited)

Swiss Tour (1949) (dialogue)

...aka Four Days Leave (1950) (USA)

Britannia Mews (1949)

... aka Affairs of Adelaide (1949) (USA)

...aka Forbidden Street, The (1949) (USA)

Forever Amber (1947) (screenplay)

Cloak and Dagger (1946) Video/C 999:282

Brotherhood of Man (1945)

Tomorrow, the World! (1944)

Laura (1944) (uncredited)

Cross of Lorraine, The (1943)

Woman of the Year (1942) DVD 1841

Thieves Fall Out (1941) (contributing writer) (uncredited)

Arkansas Judge (1941)

...aka False Witness (1941) (UK)

Courageous Dr. Christian, The (1940)

Meet Dr. Christian (1939)

Kid From Kokomo, The (1939) (uncredited)

... aka Orphan of the Ring (1939) (UK)

A Star is Born (1937)(contributing writer) (uncredited) Video/C 999:737

Nothing Sacred (1937)(uncredited) DVD 324

John Howard Lawson

John Howard Lawson had an exciting life before becoming a screenwriter and a playwright. As a young man during WW I, he was a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross; there his peers were Ernest Hemingway, Dos Passos, and e.e. cummings. Following the war, he began editing a newspaper in Rome and working as a publicity director for the American Red Cross. During the '20s and '30s, he began writing numerous plays, most of them promoting Marxism; some of these plays made it to Broadway. He sold his first movie screenplay in 1920 to Paramount, and eight years later moved to Hollywood to become a contract writer who created screenplays, original stories, and scripts for several films. Lawson became a co-founder of the Screen Writers Guild in 1933; that year he also served as its first president. Many of Lawson's films were political and embraced socialistic concepts, such as his tribute to the US-USSR alliance formed during WW II, CounterAttack (1945). The Spanish Civil War was also a favorite topic for Lawson in films such as Blockade (1938). In 1948, Lawson became one of the notorious Hollywood Ten when he refused to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee investigators. He was sentenced to one year in prison and was subsequently blacklisted in Hollywood. Lawson then exiled himself to Mexico where he began writing books on drama and filmmaking such as Film in the Battle of Ideas (1953), and Film: The Creative Process (1964). Later he also went on lecture tours in American universities where he talked about theater and cinema. -- Sandra Brennan [from the All-Media Guide]

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlawsonJH.htm

Biographical and credit information from the Internet Movie Database

Dream of Love (1928)

Dynamite (1929)

Bachelor Apartment (1931)

Goodbye Love (1933)

Success at Any Price (1934)

Algiers (1938)

Blockade (1938) DVD 1524

Action in the North Atlantic (1943) (screenplay) DVD 6275

Sahara (1943) (screenplay) DVD 5875

Albert Maltz

Distinguished author, short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter Albert Maltz was among the notorious "Hollywood Ten," those artists who were first blackballed by the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to testify about communist affiliations. Following education at Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama, Maltz worked as a playwright for the left-leaning Theatre Union. During the early '30s, many of his plays were produced in New York. He also published his novels and stories. He moved to Hollywood to write screenplays in 1941 and primarily worked alone and in collaboration for Warner Brothers and Paramount. During WW II, he penned patriotic scripts for such films as Destination Tokyo (1944). In 1942, he wrote the script for the Oscar-winning documentary Moscow Strikes Back. Another documentary he wrote, The House I Live In won a special Academy Award in 1945. After refusing to cooperate with Congress in 1947, Maltz was sentenced to nearly a year in jail and was blacklisted. Though he continued to anonymously contribute to scripts, Maltz received no credit until his final film Two Mules for Sister Sara. -- Sandra Brennan [from the All-Media Guide]

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmaltz.htm

Biographical and credit information from the Internet Movie Database

This Gun for Hire (1942)Video/C 999:1706

Destination Tokyo (1943) DVD 8215; Video/C 999:1578

Seeds of Freedom (1943)

Cloak and Dagger (1946)DVD 8572; vhs Video/C 999:282

The Naked City (1948) DVD 403; also VHS Video/C 999:1134

Broken Arrow (1950) Video/C 999:1444

The Beguiled (1971) DVD 5367

Scalawag (1973)

Samuel Ornitz

The son of a prosperous New York dry-goods merchant, Samuel Ornitz could have followed the lead of his two older brothers by entering the business world. Instead, Ornitz turned his back on the capitalist system, making his first "progressive" public speech at the age of 12. Gravitating to writing, he achieved success with his 1923 novel Haunch Paunch and Jowl, a witty memoir of Jewish immigrant life. In Hollywood from 1929, Ornitz's screen credits were generally confined to pleasant but unremarkable programmers for such studios as RKO and Republic. His chief claim to fame in Tinseltown was as an early organizer and board member of the Screen Actors Guild. He was also one of the most outspoken of Hollywood's left-wing community, alienating many of his more cautiously liberal friends by doggedly insisting that there was no anti-Semitism in Stalin's Russia (he later backed off on this assertion when confronted by the cold, hard facts). Ornitz hadn't had a screen credit in two years when, in 1947, he was ordered to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer the HUAC's questions about his involvement in the Communist Party, Ornitz ended up as one of the famed "Hollywood Ten," in the company of such screenwriters as Ring Lardner Jr., Albert Maltz and Dalton Trumbo. He served a year in prison for contempt of Congress, during which time he published his last truly important novel, Bride of the Sabbath. Upon his release, Samuel Ornitz was finished in Hollywood, but continued writing novels until his death at age 66. -- Hal Erickson [from the All-Media Guide]

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China's Little Devils (1945) (as Sam Ornitz)

Circumstantial Evidence (1945) (adaptation)

They Live in Fear (1944) (as Sam Ornitz)

Three Faces West (1940) (screenplay)

...aka Refugee, The (1940)

Miracle on Main Street (1939)

Milagro de la calle mayor, El (1939) (story)

Little Orphan Annie (1938) (also story)

Army Girl (1938)

...aka Last of the Cavalry, The (1938) (UK)

King of the Newsboys (1938) (story)

Portia on Trial (1937)

...aka Trial of Portia Merriman, The (1937) (UK)

It Could Happen to You (1937)

Doctor's Diary, A (1937) (story)

Hit Parade of 1937 (1937)

...aka Hit Parade, The (1937)

...aka I'll Pick a Star (1937) (reissue title)

...aka I'll Reach for a Star (1937) (USA: TV title)

Two Wise Maids (1937)

Follow Your Heart (1936)

Fatal Lady (1936)

Three Kids and a Queen (1935)

... aka Baxter Millions, The (1935) (UK)

Mark of the Vampire (1935) (contributing writer) (uncredited)

... aka Vampires of Prague (1935)

Man Who Reclaimed His Head, The (1934)

Imitation of Life (1934) (contributing writer) (uncredited) DVD 5246; Video/C 999:2027

One Exciting Adventure (1934)

One Man's Journey (1933)

Great Jasper, The (1933)

Secrets of the French Police (1932)

Men of America (1932)

...aka Great Decision, The (1932) (UK)

Hell's Highway (1932)

Thirteen Women (1932) (screenplay)

Sins of the Children (1930)

...aka Father's Day (1930)

...aka Richest Man in the World, The (1930)

Chinatown Nights (1929) (story Tong War)

Case of Lena Smith, The (1929) (story)

The Case of Lena Smith (1929)

Hell's Highway (1932)

Imitation of Life (1934) Video/C 999:552

Mark of the Vampire (1935)

Adrian Scott

Screenwriter/producer Adrian Scott was among the first ten Hollywood people to be called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1947. His name was provided to the committee by director/producer Edward Dmytryk, with whom Scott had worked for many years. After refusing to testify, Scott was sentenced to a year in prison. Following his release, Scott was blacklisted and never worked in films again. -- Sandra Brennan [from the All-Media Guide]

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Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) (story) (front: Dale Pitt)

Crossfire (1947)(producer)DVD 4115; Video/C 999:1027

Deadline at Dawn (1946)

Murder My Sweet (1944) (producer) DVD 2718; Video/C 999:548

Mr. Lucky (1943)(screenplay)

We Go Fast (1941)

Parson of Panamint, The (1941)

Keeping Company (1940) (screenplay)

Dalton Trumbo

Colorado-born Dalton Trumbo began his professional life as a newspaper reporter and editor and,like a lot of people in those professions, was drawn into the movie business in the mid '30s. His career as a screenwriter was rather routine during the later part of the decade, his most important scripts being Five Came Back (1939) and Kitty Foyle (1940). With the outbreak of World War II, the flashes of seriousness and spirituality that had shown up in his early work became more pronounced, and he wrote such classics as the fantasy A Guy Named Joe (1943) and the fact-based Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), which emphasized the need for sacrifice in order to win the war. Following the end of the war, Trumbo's career was blighted by the increasingly unfriendly political climate in Hollywood, where the studio heads had no use for men of ideas and ideals such as him. And then, in 1947, the roof fell in on him when he was called to testify about the alleged communist infiltration of the movie business and -- along with nine others -- refused to testify. Trumbo, who was suspect for his otherwise innocuous 1943 script for Tender Comrade (which was about communal living in wartime, not covert Communist propaganda), was cited for contempt of Congress and served a 10-month jail term. Unable to find employment in Hollywood, he moved to Mexico where he continued to write -- for fees far smaller than the $75,000 a year he'd been making from MGM before the contempt citation -- under assumed names. His script for The Brave One (1956, under the name Robert Rich) earned an Academy Award. That and other honors, most notably the Oscar earned by Michael Wilson's script for Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), helped undermine the blacklist, and Trumbo later worked openly on Exodus and Spartacus, two high-profile blockbuster productions released in 1960, as well as the more modest drama Lonely Are the Brave (1962). By the end of the '60s, with a new generation in control of Hollywood, Trumbo was welcomed back as a hero from a long war, and was permitted to direct a film adaptation of his 1939 antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun (1971) -- the film was honored at Cannes, and got a huge amount of press coverage in the United States due to its seeming relevance to the Vietnam War, but many of the accolades were really intended to compensate for past injustice, rather than to recognize the movie, which was received as overly preachy and didactic, as well as unremittingly grim, by most viewers. Trumbo also contributed late in life to the political thriller Executive Action (1973), which dealt with an alleged conspiracy to murder President Kennedy, and the adventure drama Papillon (1973). [from the All-Media Guide]

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Always (1989) (screenplay A Guy Named Joe)

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978) (TV)

Papillon (1973)

Executive Action (1973) (screenplay)

F.T.A. (1972) (book Johnny Got His Gun)

Johnny Got His Gun (1971) (also novel) DVD 7331

Horsemen, The (1971)

Fixer, The (1968)

Hawaii (1966)

Sandpiper, The (1965)

Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Last Sunset, The (1961)

Spartacus (1960) DVD 2088; DVD 261;

Exodus (1960) Video/C 999:831

Career (1959)

Terror in a Texas Town (1958) (written by) (front Ben Perry)

Cowboy (1958) (screenplay) (originally uncredited)

Green-Eyed Blonde, The (1957) (written by) (front Sally Stubblefield)

Deerslayer, The (1957) (uncredited)

Brothers Rico, The (1957) (uncredited)

Brave One, The (1956) (screenplay) (originally uncredited) (story) (originally as Robert Rich) Video/C 999:1752

Boss, The (1956) (written by) (front Ben Perry)

Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The (1955) (uncredited)

...aka One Man Mutiny (1955) (UK)

Mannequins for Rio (1954) (uncredited)

... aka Party Girls for Sale (1954)

... aka They Were So Young (1955) (USA)

...aka Violated (1954)

Carnival Story (1954) (uncredited)

Roman Holiday (1953) (story) (front Ian McLellan Hunter) Video/C 999:788

He Ran All the Way (1951) (screenplay) (front Guy Endore)

Prowler, The (1951) (screenplay) (originally uncredited)

Emergency Wedding (1950) (story)

...aka Jealousy (1950) (UK)

Rocketship X-M (1950) (uncredited)

... aka Expedition Moon (1950)

Deadly Is the Female (1949) (screenplay) (front Millard Kaufman)

... aka Gun Crazy (1950) (USA: reissue title)

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)

Jealousy (1945) (story)

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) Video/C 999:197

Tender Comrade (1943) (also story)

Guy Named Joe, A (1943)

I Married a Witch (1942) (uncredited)

Remarkable Andrew, The (1942) (also novel)

You Belong to Me (1941) (story)

...aka Good Morning, Doctor (1941) (UK)

Accent on Love (1941) (story)

Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940) (screenplay)

...aka Kitty Foyle (1940) (USA: short title) Video/C 999:197

We Who Are Young (1940) (screenplay)

Bill of Divorcement, A (1940)

...aka Never to Love (1940) (USA: reissue title)

Curtain Call (1940) (screenplay)

Half a Sinner (1940) (story Lady Takes a Chance)

Lone Wolf Strikes, The (1940) (story)

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)

Career (1939)

Five Came Back (1939)

Kid From Kokomo, The (1939) (story Broadway Cavalier)

... aka Orphan of the Ring (1939) (UK)

Sorority House (1939)

... aka That Girl from College (1939) (UK)

Flying Irishman, The (1939) (screenplay)

Man to Remember, A (1938)

Fugitives for a Night (1938) (screenplay)

Paradise for Three (1938) (screenplay construction contributor) (uncredited)

... aka Romance for Three (1938) (UK)

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) (script polisher) (uncredited)

That Man's Here Again (1937) (contributor to treatment) (uncredited)

Devil's Playground, The (1937)

Tugboat Princess (1936) (story)

Love Begins at Twenty (1936) (screenplay)

...aka All One Night (1936)

Road Gang (1936)

...aka Injustice (1936) (UK)