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Al Boasberg est un Réalisateur, Scénariste et Dialogue additionnel Américain né le 5 décembre 1891 à Buffalo (Etats-Unis)
Al Boasberg (December 5, 1891 – June 18, 1937) was an American comedy writer in vaudeville, radio, and film, as well as being a film director.
He is credited with helping to create stand-up comedy when he teamed with then-youthful vaudeville performer Jack Benny, helping develop Benny's familiar, reactive skinflint and thus helping make Benny a major star when he transitioned to radio in 1932. In fact, on the last day before his death, Boasberg wrote the lines that introduced the enduring Rochester character on Benny's radio show.
Similarly, Boasberg defined the enduring personalities of Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Wheeler and Woolsey and Leon Errol. He was one of the early "script doctors", earning $1,000 a week to punch up radio scripts.
Boasberg also wrote for 47 films between 1926 and 1937—especially 1935's A Night at the Opera, which provided The Marx Brothers with a commercial comeback on the screen. Another Marxian, the comedy producer Sid Kuller, started out as a ghost-gag-writer for Boasberg.
Boasberg's other film writing credits included The General (starring Buster Keaton, who also advised on A Night at the Opera). He also directed 12 films between 1929 and 1936.
A personality conflict with the producer, led to Boasberg's name being removed from A Day at the Races which was his original project.
He was born in Buffalo, New York in a Jewish family and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York. Al Boasberg was the uncle of James Michaels.
In 2009, The Al Boasberg Comedy Award was established by The Buffalo International Film Festival
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Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 5 décembre 1891 à Buffalo (Etats-Unis)
Mort 18 juin 1937 (à 45 ans) à Los Angeles (Etats-Unis)
Naissance 5 décembre 1891 à Buffalo (Etats-Unis)
Mort 18 juin 1937 (à 45 ans) à Los Angeles (Etats-Unis)
He is credited with helping to create stand-up comedy when he teamed with then-youthful vaudeville performer Jack Benny, helping develop Benny's familiar, reactive skinflint and thus helping make Benny a major star when he transitioned to radio in 1932. In fact, on the last day before his death, Boasberg wrote the lines that introduced the enduring Rochester character on Benny's radio show.
Similarly, Boasberg defined the enduring personalities of Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Wheeler and Woolsey and Leon Errol. He was one of the early "script doctors", earning $1,000 a week to punch up radio scripts.
Boasberg also wrote for 47 films between 1926 and 1937—especially 1935's A Night at the Opera, which provided The Marx Brothers with a commercial comeback on the screen. Another Marxian, the comedy producer Sid Kuller, started out as a ghost-gag-writer for Boasberg.
Boasberg's other film writing credits included The General (starring Buster Keaton, who also advised on A Night at the Opera). He also directed 12 films between 1929 and 1936.
A personality conflict with the producer, led to Boasberg's name being removed from A Day at the Races which was his original project.
He was born in Buffalo, New York in a Jewish family and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York. Al Boasberg was the uncle of James Michaels.
In 2009, The Al Boasberg Comedy Award was established by The Buffalo International Film Festival
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Jail Birds of Paradise (1934)
Réalisé par Al Boasberg
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Buddy movie
Acteurs Dorothy Appleby, Heinie Conklin, Harrison Greene, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, Frank Moran
Note71%
When the Warden of Paradise Prison is absent for three months, his daughter Miss Deering (Dorothy Appleby) decides to turn the prison into the 'Paradise', a luxurious hotel complete with all the amenities, and she sets the prison guards to run the 'hotel' for her. As Miss Deering and her secretary tour the prison there are a series of sight gags that involve various prisoners; among them, registering at Paradise's front desk, are Joe Pantz (Moe Howard), an axe murderer who has transferred from Leavenworth.
Myrt And Marge (1933)
, 1h5Réalisé par Al Boasberg
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Buddy movie
Acteurs Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Eddie Foy, Jr., Curly Howard, Thomas E. Jackson
Note71%
Film adaptation of the popular 1930s radio serial. Myrt Spear's (Myrtle Vail) touring vaudeville revue is full of talent and bound for Broadway, but low on funds. Conniving and lecherous producer Mr. Jackson (Thomas Jackson) helps the show so he can romance the young star, Marge Minter (Donna Damerel).
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Make a Wish (1937)
, 1h17Réalisé par Kurt Neumann
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Musical
Thèmes Musique
Acteurs Basil Rathbone, Bobby Breen, Henry Armetta, Donald Meek, Leonid Kinskey, Herbert Rawlinson
Note54%
Whilst at summer camp in the Maine woods, young Chip Winters (Breen) befriends British composer Johnathan Selden (Rathbone), who left the city high life to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his widowed singer mother Irene Winters (Claire) and Selden.
Un Jour aux courses (1937)
, 1h51Réalisé par Sam Wood
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie musicale, Musical
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Sport, Les chevaux, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Equitation, Sport hippique
Acteurs Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dudley Dickerson
Note74%
Hugo Z. Hackenbush est engagé dans une maison de repos (sanatorium) alors qu'en réalité il n'est pas médecin mais...vétérinaire. Par chance, l'établissement est situé à côté de l'hippodrome et Hackenbush y rencontrera vite l'arnaqueur Tony et le jockey déjanté Stuffy.
Silly Billies (1936)
, 1h4Réalisé par Fred Guiol, Jean Yarbrough
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Western
Acteurs Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Harry Woods, Ethan Allen Laidlaw, Delmar Watson
Note60%
In 1851, dentists Roy Banks (Wheeler) and Philip "Painless" Pennington (Woolsey) attempt to save a town from being led into an Indian ambush.
Une nuit à l'opéra (1935)
, 1h36Réalisé par Lesley Selander, Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Musical
Thèmes La musique, Musique
Acteurs Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont
Note77%
Otis B. Driftwood est employé au Metropolitan Opera de New York; la grande musique l'indiffère, en tout lieu tout temps, il ne goûte que son profit. Mrs Claypool, riche veuve, aspire à la haute société et Driftwood lui suggère d'investir dans l'opéra. Hermann Gottlieb, directeur du Met, propose alors d'engager le ténor Lasspari, belle voix mais paon d'envergure, hargneux et vénal. Lasspari frétille pour Rosa, sa troublante partenaire qui ne rêve elle que de Riccardo Baroni, autre ténor, doué, lui, du cœur comme du gosier mais inconnu du public.
The Nitwits (1935)
, 1h21Réalisé par George Stevens
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Musical
Acteurs Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Erik Rhodes, Betty Grable, Fred Keating, Evelyn Brent
Note60%
Cigar-stand attendants Johnny (Wheeler) and Newton (Woolsey) get mixed up in a murder investigation at a radio station.
Murder in the Private Car (1934)
, 1h3Réalisé par Harry Beaumont
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Policier, Romance
Thèmes Transport, Le train, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle, Russell Hardie, Porter Hall, Willard Robertson
Note61%
Jail Birds of Paradise (1934)
Réalisé par Al Boasberg
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Buddy movie
Acteurs Dorothy Appleby, Heinie Conklin, Harrison Greene, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, Frank Moran
Rôle Ecrivain
Note71%
When the Warden of Paradise Prison is absent for three months, his daughter Miss Deering (Dorothy Appleby) decides to turn the prison into the 'Paradise', a luxurious hotel complete with all the amenities, and she sets the prison guards to run the 'hotel' for her. As Miss Deering and her secretary tour the prison there are a series of sight gags that involve various prisoners; among them, registering at Paradise's front desk, are Joe Pantz (Moe Howard), an axe murderer who has transferred from Leavenworth.
, 1h4Réalisé par Tod Browning
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Fantastique, Horreur
Thèmes Cirque, Maladie, Le handicap
Acteurs Wallace Ford, Edgar Allan Woolf, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles
Rôle Auteur
Note77%
L'histoire se déroule dans les années 1930, dans le cirque Tetrallini en tournée à travers l'Europe.
Bachelor Mother (1932)
, 1h10Réalisé par Charles Hutchison
Origine Etats-Unis
Acteurs Evalyn Knapp, James Murray, Margaret Seddon, Paul Page, Astrid Allwyn, Harry Holman
Note54%
This script must be run from the command line
Les Bijoux volés (1931)
, 20minutesRéalisé par Harold S. Bucquet, John G. Adolfi, William C. McGann, Victor Heerman
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Buddy movie, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson, Jack Hill, Jack Hill, J. Farrell MacDonald
Rôle Ecrivain
Note57%
Au bal annuel, les bijoux de la star de cinéma Norma Shearer ont été volés. La police enquête...
Everything's Rosie (1931)
, 1h7Réalisé par Clyde Bruckman, James S. Dugan
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique
Acteurs Robert Woolsey, Anita Louise, John Darrow, Florence Roberts, Frank Beal, Forrester Harvey
Rôle Concepteur de dialogues
Note58%
Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop (Robert Woolsey) is a carnival charlatan, scamming local shills out of their hard earned money. He adopted Rosie (Anita Louise) when she was three, and has raised her to become a pretty young woman, who is just as good an operator as her adoptive father is. As they pass through a small town, Rosie falls in love with Billy Lowe (John Darrow), and pleads with Dockweiler to leave the carnival life and settle down. Dockweiler agrees, and the two leave the carnival.
Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931)
, 1h10Réalisé par Lloyd Bacon
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique, Musical, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs John Halliday, Claudia Dell, Ole Olsen, William Gaxton, Chic Johnson, Helen Broderick
Rôle Concepteur de dialogues
Note53%
Set in Paris, the story concerns the exploits of wealthy Jack Forbes (William Gaxton), who bets his friend Michael Cummings (John Halliday) that he can woo and win Looloo Carroll (Claudia Dell) without using any of his money or connections. Cummings hires Simon and Peter (Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson), a pair of erstwhile detectives, to make sure that Forbes doesn't win his bet.
Cracked Nuts (1931)
, 1h5Réalisé par Edward F. Cline, Fred Fleck
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Romance
Acteurs Bert Wheeler, Leni Stengel, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Edna May Oliver, Stanley Fields
Note60%
Wendell Graham (Bert Wheeler), while a millionaire through inheritance, is incredibly irresponsible. On a trans-Atlantic crossing, he meets the lovely Betty Harrington (Dorothy Lee), and her stuffy, over-protective aunt, Minnie Van Varden (Edna May Oliver). Wendell is definitely interested, and his interest is reciprocated by Betty, however Aunt Minnie takes an instant dislike to the young man. On the same ship are several dissidents who are seeking financial support for their revolution back home in the fictional country of El Dorania. Wendell believes that if he offers them financial support in their revolutionary pursuits, this will enhance his position with Aunt Minnie, who owns a large estate in El Dorania, and has been vocal about her displeasure with the current monarch. Wendell agrees to furnish the revolutionaries with $100,000 to further their cause.