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From Wikipedia
Jane Murfin (October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955) was an
American playwright and screenwriter.
Born in Quincy, Michigan, Murfin began her career with the
play Lilac Time, which she co-wrote with Jane Cowl. The Broadway production
opened on February 6, 1917 and ran for 176 performances. Later that year the
two women collaborated on Daybreak, followed by Information Please (1918) and
Smilin' Through (1919), for which they used the pseudonym Allan Langdon Martin.
Murfin's screen credits include Way Back Home (1931), Our
Betters (1933), The Little Minister (1934), Spitfire (1934), Roberta (1935),
Alice Adams (1935), The Women (1939), Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Dragon
Seed (1944).
Murfin and Adela Rogers St. Johns were nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Story for What Price Hollywood? (1932), but lost to
Frances Marion for The Champ.
Murfin was married to film director Laurence Trimble from
1915 until 1926 and actor Donald Crisp from 1932 until 1944. She is buried near
Jane Cowl at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
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01 October 1941
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered.
08 March 1934
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community.
10 November 1933
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army.
13 February 1922
The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role of Kathleen and Moonyean.
23 March 1919
When Drina Hilliard (Alice Brady) finishes college, she heads home to New York, where her mother Marie (Mrs.
17 August 1930
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
23 February 1924
Broad-minded rector Stephen Carey is ousted from his church by his vestrymen and befriends Claudia Bigelow, a young divorcée who defended his position in the church.
04 May 1930
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through.
09 July 1927
Pierre, the maitre d' at the swanky Ritz Hotel in Paris, discovers that he has a son from his former marriage, which was broken up by his wealthy wife's upper-class relatives.
13 October 1929
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance.
05 May 1933
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.
13 April 1934
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits.
13 November 1931
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
21 July 1933
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
26 September 1933
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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.
12 September 2008
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows.
22 February 1920
Her education in a French convent school completed, plain Justine Spencer returns to New York. There she is shocked to discover that her mother Dodo is a flamboyant musical comedy actress with many male admirers.
26 July 1940
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood.
01 September 1939
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
22 August 1934
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie.
07 March 1935
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately.
14 June 1934
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
08 April 1932
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
07 November 1921
A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.
18 July 1926
Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...
12 November 1922
Brawn, played by Strongheart, rescues a young woman from a snowstorm and a human killer.
24 May 1925
Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
24 November 1933
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
20 July 1944
Life in a small Chinese village is turned upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against the Japanese invaders.
06 November 1936
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
18 November 1938
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
25 November 1932
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
25 December 1929
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.
31 December 1936
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee.
28 December 1934
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie.
23 August 1935
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment.
21 February 1941
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
31 May 1935
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher.
16 November 1919
Carlotta has been brought up in an Italian convent, unaware that she is the illegitimate child of American architect J.
17 November 1937
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris.
01 February 1924
David thinks he has killed a man during a fight over his dog, Strongheart, so he escapes to a small town far up north.
14 April 1943
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.
14 October 1930
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing.
24 June 1932
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant.
24 September 1932
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated.
14 September 1929
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
21 August 1929
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
21 December 1934
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia.
17 May 1931
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs.
06 January 1939
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
18 October 1928
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can.
07 January 1918
Edith Frome (Stevens) finds it impossible to live with her alcoholic husband Arthur (L ‘Estrange), and finally leaves him.
01 May 1921
Canadian schoolteacher Julie Leneau becomes the bride of Geoffrey Arnold but is soon confronted by Claire who convinces her that she is Arnold's lawful wife.
23 August 1925
Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York.
18 July 1931
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble.
14 March 1934
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
03 October 1931
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito.
17 March 1933
Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress.
