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John Clark "Jack" Okey (June 3, 1889 – January 8, 1963) was an American art director. Around the time of his marriage, he became involved in the nascent film industry in the Los Angeles area and was involved in the design and construction of some of the earliest studios there. He continued in the film industry as an art director until his retirement in 1959. In the mid-1930s he spent several years in England working for Alexander Korda. After his return to the United States, he spent the remainder of his active career working for RKO Studios.
He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for the films Sally (1929) and Experiment Perilous (1944).
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20 December 1946
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr.
19 April 1932
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed.
11 April 1931
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital.
25 October 1951
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon.
26 May 1934
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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 December 1931
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum.
11 March 1933
Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
30 June 1929
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star.
25 November 1947
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
28 March 1931
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
09 November 1932
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities.
23 January 1935
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
24 December 1931
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
19 April 1949
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.
12 January 1930
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing.
29 March 1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
26 March 1927
A man kills a man he finds alone with his wife. Although she is innocent of any wrong doing the wife claims to be guilty of having an affair to save her husband from a death sentence.
11 December 1930
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients.
02 May 1953
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
03 April 1942
Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants, including his widowed mother.
04 November 1933
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player.
21 October 1933
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
03 November 1930
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
01 May 1959
An American gunslinger kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war. The killer is arrested and put on trial for murder with the Hispanic population waiting to learn of American justice.
22 September 1944
When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British commanders do all they can to help the war-weary people back on their feet.
15 May 1933
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
03 May 1952
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
26 January 1946
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
02 June 1934
Valkyr Bradford takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite involved in criminal activities.
21 September 1950
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family.
01 March 1934
Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discontented younger sister Myra.
16 May 1956
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
17 June 1933
World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain of misfortune and a love for other human beings.
31 March 1934
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man.
10 July 1930
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
18 March 1946
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
10 November 1934
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out.
05 September 1957
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.
18 September 1948
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.
09 October 1932
Linda Gault, the luxurious wife of a Wall Street loser, eyes an Australian sheep rancher in Bermuda.
20 January 1948
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
29 August 1931
WWI pilots Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis, traumatized by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet the eccentric and wealthy Nikki, who is drawn to Cary.
24 September 1932
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
29 September 1934
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
03 September 1943
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased.
15 December 1931
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner.
09 February 1932
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler.
09 May 1929
A feisty, sexy and manipulative gypsy woman disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
16 June 1932
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks.
16 April 1932
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.
05 November 1932
A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman.
13 August 1953
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
13 May 1933
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival barker, and then falling for a young engineer.
25 November 1933
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr.
27 May 1932
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia.
25 October 1945
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
30 April 1932
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
24 December 1952
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
22 February 1933
In New York City, Russian waiter Peter Stanislavsky becomes a national celebrity after he develops a 'system' for winning at contract bridge.
