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William Jacobs (October 31, 1887 - September 30, 1953) was an American screenwriter and producer for Warner Bros. He wrote 13 Hollywood movies and produced 59 more, including musicals.
Jacobs joined Warner Bros. as a screenwriter in 1934. From 1938 to his death he produced movies for the studio. Movies he produced include Calamity Jane (1953), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), and Tea for Two (1950).
William Jacobs died in 1953 in Beverly Hills, California, at age 65.
Most Popular William Jacobs Trailers
Total trailers found: 62
01 March 1941
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
10 October 1936
An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
21 November 1945
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles.
27 July 1945
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane.
22 June 1936
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment.
07 December 1940
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
23 May 1952
Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.
18 November 1940
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners.
02 November 1935
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
24 August 1940
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
01 September 1941
In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.
18 September 1936
A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
07 November 1942
Eccentric wealthy old woman Lorinda Channing uses her insane brother, John Channing, to help her frighten their greedy relatives after her money.
06 July 1937
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit.
02 May 1936
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters.
24 December 1947
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
18 July 1936
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
23 November 1946
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
27 March 1948
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble.
24 December 1948
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
15 February 1941
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
16 October 1937
The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
30 July 1949
After getting her start in her parents' vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue.
28 February 1936
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back.
06 November 1943
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder.
15 June 1945
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
04 November 1953
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
24 May 1941
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
30 October 1943
In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.
02 May 1947
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
10 March 1944
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
11 November 1950
A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy.
01 January 1938
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
28 June 1941
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party.
15 March 1941
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man.
14 March 1942
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
24 December 1952
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
22 February 1947
Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident.
04 May 1935
Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women.
01 October 1951
A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.
01 December 1945
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
26 July 1951
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street.
09 November 1946
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together.
27 July 1940
A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
28 January 1950
An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
10 August 1940
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder.
01 September 1950
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours.
26 March 1953
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
26 March 1951
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan.
05 April 1935
Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around.
26 February 1938
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
20 September 1941
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
14 September 1946
Brooke's brief marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that he is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
16 November 1940
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble.
23 April 1933
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
29 April 1950
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
05 April 1941
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
24 July 1937
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
17 August 1940
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
09 September 1944
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
