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Robert Zigler Leonard (October 7, 1889 - August 27, 1968) was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.
At one time he was married to silent superstar Mae Murray, with the two forming Tiffany Pictures to film eight motion pictures that were released by MGM.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Divorcee and The Great Ziegfeld. Both were also nominated for Best Picture, and the latter won. One of the most odd credits in his filmography is the film noir thriller The Bribe (1949) with its sleazy settings, slippery characters and steamy atmosphere.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Robert Z. Leonard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6368 Hollywood Blvd.
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05 August 1955
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
15 November 1925
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city.
20 March 1920
April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr.
12 January 1951
Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
11 October 1940
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues.
28 September 1934
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
05 July 1935
A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.
31 January 1916
In an English mining town during the 1870's, Joan Lowrie falls in love with Fergus Derrick, the new chief engineer who vows to improve working conditions.
23 January 1922
A young man brings his new worldly Parisian wife back home to Pennsylvania.
30 December 1932
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
07 April 1939
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
02 June 1915
Unable to pay for the operation that cured his daughter, a man promises to surrender her to the doctor on her eighteenth birthday.
23 January 1932
A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
30 April 1942
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.
10 January 1931
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years.
01 May 1916
Diminutive heroine Ella Hall dreams that she's Cinderella, and that a wealthy gentleman of her acquaintance (played by Leonard) is her Prince Charming.
28 June 1940
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
12 February 1923
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
09 February 1925
Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married than to continually "play the field".
22 November 1951
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break.
09 September 1918
Stage actors Della and Julian, while playing a series of one-night-stands, miss their train and the troupe on it.
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.
16 January 1953
Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking.
29 March 1935
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
14 April 1924
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night.
19 January 1918
A runaway becomes a thief and is sentenced to a reformatory.
24 August 1929
At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.
22 September 1922
Rosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents disapprove and want him to marry Barbara Royce, so he and Rosalie marry secretly.
13 June 1931
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working.
22 February 1935
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
24 March 1910
An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
27 September 1915
Impoverished Molly Hanlon is befriended by crooked gambler Lee Kirk, she marries him in a phony ceremony.
12 November 1920
A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.
21 October 1955
Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques".
13 August 1913
An author searches for inspiration for her novel by impersonating a housemaid.
24 March 1948
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
04 January 1930
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day.
29 August 1947
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
17 June 1909
Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her.
27 March 1921
A hostess at a Broadway cafe marries one of her many suitors, and finds out her new husband is prone to drinking heavily.
11 August 1954
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
23 May 1945
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
10 September 1913
Bhadon, an aged chemist, actuated by the decree of Buddha that in America the secret of making artificial diamonds would be discovered, gives his life to the cause and succeeds.
31 December 1942
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht.
04 January 1926
May s married to Roger, an alcoholic hell-raiser. During one of their riotous parties, she tests his fidelity by impersonating a notorious masked dancer and trying to seduce him.
24 November 1933
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch.
29 July 1915
Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs.
29 July 1913
Crusoe, defying his parents, goes to sea, gets shipwrecked, becomes the sole survivor on a deserted island, and builds a new life by salvaging supplies from the wreck, including a dog and cat, creating a fortified home, and learning to survive through hard work and faith, all while battling fear and isolation before eventually encountering 'Friday' and dealing with the intrusion of civilization.
10 April 1957
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born.
08 April 1936
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend.
30 November 1911
A young woman who disguises herself as a man to go gold prospecting after her father and brother forbid her from joining them.
17 May 1930
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls.
10 April 1931
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
14 December 1924
Worthless French cad Paul L'Estrange leads a young Southern girl, Linda Lou Heath, from the shelter of her home in Dixie to a cabin in the Canadian wilderness, where he soon tires of his new plaything.
25 April 1941
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
05 November 1937
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain.
16 December 1918
Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "the Eel," the leader of the gang of crooks with whom she works, is arrested.
14 April 1919
Betty Yarnell lives with her drunkard father in the North Woods mountains. Betty is shunned by the villagers whenever she ventures out to pick up her father from Abner Grimp's saloon, and her only friend is a little lamb.
22 February 1917
Wanting to escape from the drab life of the country, Helen Wayne moves to the big city and becomes a secretary for the Calder family.
27 April 1911
Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx.
