Elliott Nugent Trailers
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Elliott Nugent (September 20, 1896, Dover, Ohio - August 9, 1980, New York City) was an American actor, writer, and film director. He successfully made the transition from silent film to sound. He directed The Cat and the Canary (1939), starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. He also directed the Hope films Never Say Die (1939) and My Favorite Brunette (1947).
Nugent was a college classmate (and lifelong friend) of fellow Ohioan James Thurber. Together, they wrote the Broadway play The Male Animal (1940) in which Nugent starred with Gene Tierney. He also directed the 1942 Warner Bros. film version of The Male Animal, starring Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland.
Nugent's autobiography Events Leading Up to the Comedy (1965) skips over large portions of Nugent's life and work, but deals honestly with the alcoholism that largely ended his career.
Nugent was the son of veteran actor J.C. Nugent who sometimes wrote or acted with Elliott.
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26 January 1934
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
15 April 1949
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
29 July 1938
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt.
20 April 1935
A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.
10 September 1932
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
27 November 1931
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia.
12 March 1942
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
27 June 1930
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
22 November 1935
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious.
17 February 1944
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
11 May 1934
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
31 August 1934
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
01 December 1933
A recently divorced interior decorator falls in love with a married barrister.
20 August 1930
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
27 September 1952
Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry.
29 August 1931
Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman.
02 February 1930
Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
08 November 1929
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
01 September 1937
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco.
09 July 1952
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife.
24 June 1943
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war.
20 December 1929
On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all.
19 March 1947
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing.
22 August 1951
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to.
27 October 1939
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell.
21 January 1933
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.
21 June 1935
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor.
29 August 1930
A virtuous lawyer falls for a beautiful but extravagant woman, leading him into financial trouble as he tries to keep up with her wasteful spending, ultimately testing their relationship and his principles.
04 August 1933
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth.
10 October 1941
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
07 February 1948
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants.
06 June 1949
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.
29 June 1950
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
19 August 1938
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him.
27 July 1929
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
12 April 1931
When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.
21 September 1929
Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.
22 January 1943
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
08 March 1939
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty.
10 May 1936
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm.
12 July 1930
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
13 June 1947
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his temporary replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young, singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once Pearson meets teacher Trudy Mason, he is delighted to stay.
01 January 1927
The film opens with an animated prologue about Adam and Eve, by Tony Sarg. The viewer is then introduced to a young couple, Eve and Jim, who are having troubles in their marriage.
21 March 1932
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
04 January 1935
Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
18 September 1936
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".
