C. Gardner Sullivan
Encyclopedia
C. Gardner Sullivan was an American
screenwriter
and motion picture producer. He was a prolific writer with more than 350 films among his credits. In 1924, the magazine Story World selected him on a list of the ten individuals who had contributed the most to the advancement of the motion picture industry from its inception forward. Four of Sullivan's films, The Italian (1915), Civilization
(1916), Hell's Hinges
(1916) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), have been listed in the National Film Registry
.
and educated in the public schools of St. Paul, Minnesota. Interviewed in 1916, Sullivan said he was "not precisely what one would call a college man, although I had some training at the University of Minnesota
.
In 1907, Sullivan went into the newspaper business, working on the staff of the St. Paul Daily News at a starting salary of six dollars per week. Shortly afterward, Sullivan was assigned to write a column that he later said "was supposed to be a humorous column." He moved to New York where he joined the staff of the New York Evening Journal. While working in New York, a colleague showed him an advertisement by a motion picture company in the Saturday Evening Post inviting new authors to contribute stories. Gardner recalled it was that advertisement that got him started with "photoplay writing."
Gardner's first script was returned to him, and he did not make another submission for some time. The first story he sold was Her Polished Family, which was purchased by Edison Studios
for $25.
He later submitted a western story to the New York Motion Picture Corporation run by Thomas H. Ince
and received a check for $50. In the following months, Ince's company purchased sixty of Sullivan's stories.
Sullivan began his career in Hollywood writing stories for Ince's two-reel films. He then progressed to full-length feature films, and his stories contributed much to the fame of stars including Dorothy Dalton
, Enid Bennett
, Louise Glaum
and Constance Bennett
.
His early films were mostly in the western genre, but also included historical dramas such as The Witch of Salem
(1913) and The Battle of Gettysburg
(1913), and comedies such as the "Adventures of Shorty
" films.
Sullivan's 1915 feature The Italian was one of the biggest box office hits of the year. And his screenplays for William S. Hart
, including The Scourge of the Desert
, The Aryan
, Hell's Hinges
, The Return of Draw Egan
, Branding Broadway
and Wagon Tracks
helped make Hart one of the biggest stars of the 1910s.
Showing an ability to handle diverse topics, Sullivan also wrote screenplays involving domestic melodrama. These included The Golden Claw
and a series of screenplays for silent film femme fatale, Louise Glaum
, such as The Wolf Woman
(described as "the greatest vampire woman of all time"), Sahara
and the provocatively titled Sex
(featuring Glaum performing a sensual "spider dance" dressed in a form-fitting cloak of webs).
With the outbreak of World War I
, Sullivan also turned his attention to the war. In Shell 43
, he told the story of English spy working behind German lines who saves the life of a German officer and is killed in a German trench by an Allied shell.
Perhaps Sullivan's most famous screenplay was Civilization
, a big budget anti-war movie in which Jesus appeared on a World War I battlefield. In the film, a Germanic submarine commander refuses to follow orders to fire torpedoes at a ship carrying innocent passengers, saying he is "obeying orders -- from a Higher Power." The submarine is destroyed, and the commander's soul descends into hell, where he encounters Jesus. Jesus announces that the commander can find redemption by having Jesus occupy his body and return to the living world as a voice for peace. The commander is sentenced to death for refusing to follow orders, and at his execution, the spirit of Jesus emerges from his dead body and gives the king of the warring nation a tour of the battlefields. Jesus asks, "See here thy handiwork? Under thy reign, thy domain hath become a raging hell!" In the film's most famous scene, Jesus departs through the bloodied battlefields. The film was a popular success when it was released in 1916. In fact, the 1916 Democratic National Committee credited the film with helping to re-elect President Woodrow Wilson. However, after the entry of the United States into the war, the film was pulled from distribution.
Sullivan returned to the subject of World War I as the supervising story chief for the 1930 film adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Sullivan prided himself on tackling a diverse range of subject matters, telling an interviewer the following:
By 1919, Sullivan was the best known screenwriter in Hollywood. The Los Angeles Times wrote of him:
In January 1920, Sullivan left New York for a world tour. He was given a roving commission
by Ince allowing him to "leave the studio with a free mind and just browse around wherever fancy dictates; if the spirit should move him he may write a script now and then, 'just for practice,' or he may just store up a fund of mental notes for future use."
In February 1924, the Los Angeles Times reported that the number of feature films produced from the original stories or adaptations of Mr. Sullivan totaled 311 in eight years. The Times noted: "This record undoubtedly is unrivaled among screen authors. Mr. Sullivan's work is all the more remarkable because of the recognition which it has achieved for unvarying quality and variety." At that time, Sullivan described the rule he applied in the selection of a story for the screen:
In his book about the history of American screenwriting, Marc Norman wrote that the Ince studio, where Sullivan was the lead writer, was the first to use the screenplay as the blueprint for the entire production, marking a departure from earlier productions in which the "screenplay" was simply "a one-page précis of the film's narrative." Indeed, Sullivan's scripts detailed locations, the number of actors, costumes, and even the blocking of the shooot. Norman pointed to the following excerpt from the Hell's Hinges
script as an example of the directorial detail contained in Sullivan's work:
Once Sullivan's scripts were completed, Thomas Ince would stamp them "Produce exactly as written," leaving little to the discretion of the directors and cameramen. By setting every detail of the scene in words, Sullivan was able to "control the outcome of the film he saw in his mind's eye."
In the late 1920s, Sullivan signed on with Cecil B. DeMille
as a producer. While working with DeMille, Sullivan made such films as The Yankee Clipper
. In 1927, he was referred to as "the man who knows box office":
With the arrival of censorship in the motion picture industry, Sullivan was an outspoken critic of the practice. In 1931, Sullivan argued publicly that censorship was impeding the presentation of satire in motion pictures. He noted that "some of the finest examples of screen writing are being rejected because their keen satire would be resented by some strata of society."
Sullivan remained active as a screenwriter in the 1930s with works including DeMille's 1938 adventure film The Buccaneer
. His final film credit was the story of Jackass Mail
, a 1942 western directed by Norman Z. McLeod
and starring Wallace Beery
.
In September 1965, Sullivan died of a heart attack at age 80 at his home in West Hollywood, California
.
and Mary Pickford
, Carl Laemmle
(founder of Universal Studios), Charles Francis Jenkins
(inventor of the motion picture projector), producer Thomas H. Ince
, and art director Wilfred Buckland
.
Four of Sullivan's films, The Italian (1915), Civilization
(1916), Hell's Hinges
(1916) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), have been listed in the National Film Registry
.
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screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and motion picture producer. He was a prolific writer with more than 350 films among his credits. In 1924, the magazine Story World selected him on a list of the ten individuals who had contributed the most to the advancement of the motion picture industry from its inception forward. Four of Sullivan's films, The Italian (1915), Civilization
Civilization (film)
Civilization is a 1916 American pacifist allegorical film about a submarine commander who refuses to fire at a civilian ocean liner supposedly carrying ammunition for his country's enemies. The film was a big-budget spectacle that was compared to both Birth of a Nation and the paintings of...
(1916), Hell's Hinges
Hell's Hinges
Hell's Hinges is a 1916 American Western silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Plot:...
(1916) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), have been listed in the National Film Registry
National Film Registry
The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992, 1996, 2005, and again in October 2008...
.
Early years
Sullivan was born in Stillwater, MinnesotaStillwater, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 15,143 people, 5,797 households, and 4,115 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,340.0 people per square mile . There were 5,926 housing units at an average density of 915.7 per square mile...
and educated in the public schools of St. Paul, Minnesota. Interviewed in 1916, Sullivan said he was "not precisely what one would call a college man, although I had some training at the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
.
In 1907, Sullivan went into the newspaper business, working on the staff of the St. Paul Daily News at a starting salary of six dollars per week. Shortly afterward, Sullivan was assigned to write a column that he later said "was supposed to be a humorous column." He moved to New York where he joined the staff of the New York Evening Journal. While working in New York, a colleague showed him an advertisement by a motion picture company in the Saturday Evening Post inviting new authors to contribute stories. Gardner recalled it was that advertisement that got him started with "photoplay writing."
Gardner's first script was returned to him, and he did not make another submission for some time. The first story he sold was Her Polished Family, which was purchased by Edison Studios
Edison Studios
Edison Studios was an American motion picture production company owned by the Edison Company of inventor Thomas Edison. The studio made close to 1,200 films as the Edison Manufacturing Company and Thomas A. Edison, Inc. until the studio's closing in 1918...
for $25.
He later submitted a western story to the New York Motion Picture Corporation run by Thomas H. Ince
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line"...
and received a check for $50. In the following months, Ince's company purchased sixty of Sullivan's stories.
Hollywood screenwriter
In 1914, Ince offered Sullivan a full-time job in Hollywood as a member of his movie studio's "scenario staff." By that time, Sullivan had married and was uncertain about moving to California. However, he accepted and for the next decade became the "dean" of Hollywood's screenwriters.Sullivan began his career in Hollywood writing stories for Ince's two-reel films. He then progressed to full-length feature films, and his stories contributed much to the fame of stars including Dorothy Dalton
Dorothy Dalton
Dorothy Dalton was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits...
, Enid Bennett
Enid Bennett
-Career:Born in York, Western Australia, Bennett started her film acting career in 1916, first starring in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with two other films that same year...
, Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum was an American actress. Best known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career....
and Constance Bennett
Constance Bennett
-Early life:She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison , a wealthy performer of English and Spanish ancestry...
.
His early films were mostly in the western genre, but also included historical dramas such as The Witch of Salem
The Witch of Salem
The Witch of Salem is a 1913 film. The two-reel production set in the Puritan days. Prudence, a beautiful orphan, beloved by Old Hastings's son, is accused and convicted of witchcraft. She is sentenced to being burned at the stake. "Her rescue, a fight with the Indians and other thrills are...
(1913) and The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg (1913 film)
The Battle of Gettysburg is a 1913 silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and Thomas H. Ince. The film is now considered to be lost, although some battlefield footage was used by Mack Sennett in his comedy Cohen Saves the Flag, which was shot on location alongside this production. However...
(1913), and comedies such as the "Adventures of Shorty
Shorty Hamilton
Shorty Hamilton was an American actor and silent film comedian who appeared in more than 80 films, mostly westerns, from 1909 to 1925. His birth name was William John Schroeder, and he was also known as "Jack Hamilton." He had served in the United States Cavalry for several years and worked as a...
" films.
Sullivan's 1915 feature The Italian was one of the biggest box office hits of the year. And his screenplays for William S. Hart
William S. Hart
William Surrey Hart was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He is remembered for having "imbued all of his characters with honor and integrity."-Biography:...
, including The Scourge of the Desert
The Scourge of the Desert
The Scourge of the Desert is a 1915 American silent short Western starring William S. Hart and Rhea Mitchell. It was billed as, "A Thrilling Romance of the Arizona Staked Plains." It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and written by C. Gardner Sullivan, Ince, and William H. Clifford.-Cast:* William S...
, The Aryan
The Aryan
The Aryan is an American silent era western motion picture starring William S. Hart, Gertrude Claire, Charles K. French, Louise Glaum, and Bessie Love....
, Hell's Hinges
Hell's Hinges
Hell's Hinges is a 1916 American Western silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Plot:...
, The Return of Draw Egan
The Return of Draw Egan
The Return of Draw Egan is a 1916 silent era western drama motion picture starring William S. Hart, Louise Glaum, Margery Wilson, Robert McKim, and J.P. Lockney....
, Branding Broadway
Branding Broadway
Branding Broadway is a 1918 western film starring William S. Hart, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, and produced by Thomas H. Ince and Hart.-Plot:...
and Wagon Tracks
Wagon Tracks
Wagon Tracks is a 1919 American Western film written by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced by Thomas H. Ince and William S. Hart, and directed by Lambert Hillyer. Upon its release, the Los Angeles Times described it as Hollywood's greatest desert epic....
helped make Hart one of the biggest stars of the 1910s.
Showing an ability to handle diverse topics, Sullivan also wrote screenplays involving domestic melodrama. These included The Golden Claw
The Golden Claw
The Golden Claw is a 1915 American dramatic film produced by Thomas H. Ince, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, and directed by Reginald Barker...
and a series of screenplays for silent film femme fatale, Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum was an American actress. Best known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career....
, such as The Wolf Woman
The Wolf Woman
The Wolf Woman is a 1916 silent era drama motion picture starring Louise Glaum, Howard C. Hickman, and Charles Ray.Directed by Raymond B. West and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Synopsis:...
(described as "the greatest vampire woman of all time"), Sahara
Sahara (1919 film)
Sahara is a 1919 American dramatic film written by C. Gardner Sullivan and directed by Arthur Rosson. The film starred Louise Glaum and told a story of love and betrayal in the Egyptian desert.-Plot:...
and the provocatively titled Sex
Sex (film)
Sex is a 1920 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced by J. Parker Read, and starring Louise Glaum. On its surface, the film was a morality story on the evils of marital infidelity. However, the film's producer, J. Parker Read, had made a series of...
(featuring Glaum performing a sensual "spider dance" dressed in a form-fitting cloak of webs).
With the outbreak of World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, Sullivan also turned his attention to the war. In Shell 43
Shell 43
Shell 43 is a 1916 war movie written by C. Gardner Sullivan and starring H.B. Warner and Enid Markey. An English spy works behind German lines during World War I. He saves the life of a German officer and is killed in a German trench by an Allied shell.- External links :*...
, he told the story of English spy working behind German lines who saves the life of a German officer and is killed in a German trench by an Allied shell.
Perhaps Sullivan's most famous screenplay was Civilization
Civilization (film)
Civilization is a 1916 American pacifist allegorical film about a submarine commander who refuses to fire at a civilian ocean liner supposedly carrying ammunition for his country's enemies. The film was a big-budget spectacle that was compared to both Birth of a Nation and the paintings of...
, a big budget anti-war movie in which Jesus appeared on a World War I battlefield. In the film, a Germanic submarine commander refuses to follow orders to fire torpedoes at a ship carrying innocent passengers, saying he is "obeying orders -- from a Higher Power." The submarine is destroyed, and the commander's soul descends into hell, where he encounters Jesus. Jesus announces that the commander can find redemption by having Jesus occupy his body and return to the living world as a voice for peace. The commander is sentenced to death for refusing to follow orders, and at his execution, the spirit of Jesus emerges from his dead body and gives the king of the warring nation a tour of the battlefields. Jesus asks, "See here thy handiwork? Under thy reign, thy domain hath become a raging hell!" In the film's most famous scene, Jesus departs through the bloodied battlefields. The film was a popular success when it was released in 1916. In fact, the 1916 Democratic National Committee credited the film with helping to re-elect President Woodrow Wilson. However, after the entry of the United States into the war, the film was pulled from distribution.
Sullivan returned to the subject of World War I as the supervising story chief for the 1930 film adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Sullivan prided himself on tackling a diverse range of subject matters, telling an interviewer the following:
"I have made all kinds and manner of pictures, none of them the work of a specialist in a certain grooved form. ... The public is fickle. The man who makes pictures for the public must be able to turn from comedy to melodrama, from psychological realism to sophisticated farce, from the big-scale popular spectacle to the cameo of emotions, sentimental drama."
By 1919, Sullivan was the best known screenwriter in Hollywood. The Los Angeles Times wrote of him:
"Several years ago, when the newly-formed Triangle organization contributed a new art and finish to the motion picture, there came into great prominence C. Gardner Sullivan, a writer of fine capabilities; a careful, technical craftsman. No author having a contempt for the intellect of his audience -- and many writers of photodramas continue to hold their audiences in contempt -- could have made the success of screen authorship that C. Gardner Sullivan has."
In January 1920, Sullivan left New York for a world tour. He was given a roving commission
Roving commission
A roving commission details the duties of a commissioned officer or other official whose responsibilities are neither geographically nor functionally limited....
by Ince allowing him to "leave the studio with a free mind and just browse around wherever fancy dictates; if the spirit should move him he may write a script now and then, 'just for practice,' or he may just store up a fund of mental notes for future use."
In February 1924, the Los Angeles Times reported that the number of feature films produced from the original stories or adaptations of Mr. Sullivan totaled 311 in eight years. The Times noted: "This record undoubtedly is unrivaled among screen authors. Mr. Sullivan's work is all the more remarkable because of the recognition which it has achieved for unvarying quality and variety." At that time, Sullivan described the rule he applied in the selection of a story for the screen:
"Is it human, is it true to life, is it sincere? If you can conscientiously satisfy yourself on these things, you won't have to worry as to whether the public will like the story or not. If you are genuinely moved by it, you may be sure that the public will respond in like manner. ... Give the public a story that touches the heart and is true to life, and, to paraphrase Emerson, 'the world will make a beaten path to the theater box office.'"
In his book about the history of American screenwriting, Marc Norman wrote that the Ince studio, where Sullivan was the lead writer, was the first to use the screenplay as the blueprint for the entire production, marking a departure from earlier productions in which the "screenplay" was simply "a one-page précis of the film's narrative." Indeed, Sullivan's scripts detailed locations, the number of actors, costumes, and even the blocking of the shooot. Norman pointed to the following excerpt from the Hell's Hinges
Hell's Hinges
Hell's Hinges is a 1916 American Western silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Plot:...
script as an example of the directorial detail contained in Sullivan's work:
"SCENE L: Close-Up on Bar in Western Saloon
A group of good western types of the earlier period are drinking at the bar and talking idly -- much good fellowship prevails and every man feels at ease with his neighbor -- one of them glances off the picture and the smile fades from his face to be replaced by the strained look of worry -- the others notice the change and follow his gaze -- their face reflect his own emotions -- be sure to get over a good contrast between the easy good nature that had prevailed and the unnatural, strained silence that follows -- as they look, cut."
Once Sullivan's scripts were completed, Thomas Ince would stamp them "Produce exactly as written," leaving little to the discretion of the directors and cameramen. By setting every detail of the scene in words, Sullivan was able to "control the outcome of the film he saw in his mind's eye."
Producer and screenwriter
In September 1924, Sullivan entered the production end of the business forming a new production company called C. Gardner Sullivan Productions. The company produced Cheap Kisses, a 1924 comedy drama, and If Marriage Fails, both based on screenplays written by Sullivan.In the late 1920s, Sullivan signed on with Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...
as a producer. While working with DeMille, Sullivan made such films as The Yankee Clipper
The Yankee Clipper (1927 film)
The Yankee Clipper is a 1927 American adventure film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian. It is set against the maritime rivalry between the United States and Great Britain in the mid-19th century.-Plot:...
. In 1927, he was referred to as "the man who knows box office":
"C. Gardner Sullivan, creator of 365 box-office hits, maker of 'The Yankee Clipper,' ... as well as of 'White Gold,' ... producer for the De Mille studios, whose reputation is that of 'the man who knows box office,' is the man who chose to film a story as truth rather than as 'mush for the morons' ..."
With the arrival of censorship in the motion picture industry, Sullivan was an outspoken critic of the practice. In 1931, Sullivan argued publicly that censorship was impeding the presentation of satire in motion pictures. He noted that "some of the finest examples of screen writing are being rejected because their keen satire would be resented by some strata of society."
Sullivan remained active as a screenwriter in the 1930s with works including DeMille's 1938 adventure film The Buccaneer
The Buccaneer (1938 film)
The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie...
. His final film credit was the story of Jackass Mail
Jackass Mail
Jackass Mail is a 1942 Western comedy film starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. The movie was directed by Norman Z. McLeod.-Cast:*Wallace Beery as Just Baggot*Marjorie Main as Tina Tucker*J...
, a 1942 western directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Norman Z. McLeod
Norman Zenos McLeod was an American film director, cartoonist and writer...
and starring Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
.
Personal life and death
Sullivan was married to Anne May Sullivan. He was an avid golfer and crossword puzzle enthusiast.In September 1965, Sullivan died of a heart attack at age 80 at his home in West Hollywood, California
West Hollywood, California
West Hollywood, a city of Los Angeles County, California, was incorporated on November 29, 1984, with a population of 34,399 at the 2010 census. 41% of the city's population is made up of gay men according to a 2002 demographic analysis by Sara Kocher Consulting for the City of West Hollywood...
.
Role in film history
In 1924, the magazine Story World selected a list of the ten individuals who had contributed the most to the advancement of the motion picture industry from the time of its inception. The list included Gardner (the only screenwriter on the list), director D.W. Griffith, actors Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
and Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
, Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle , born in Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios - Universal...
(founder of Universal Studios), Charles Francis Jenkins
Charles Francis Jenkins
Charles Francis Jenkins was an American pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies...
(inventor of the motion picture projector), producer Thomas H. Ince
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line"...
, and art director Wilfred Buckland
Wilfred Buckland
Wilfred Buckland was an American art director. Buckland worked as an art director with Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky, and later with Alan Dwan, from 1914-1927...
.
Four of Sullivan's films, The Italian (1915), Civilization
Civilization (film)
Civilization is a 1916 American pacifist allegorical film about a submarine commander who refuses to fire at a civilian ocean liner supposedly carrying ammunition for his country's enemies. The film was a big-budget spectacle that was compared to both Birth of a Nation and the paintings of...
(1916), Hell's Hinges
Hell's Hinges
Hell's Hinges is a 1916 American Western silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Plot:...
(1916) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), have been listed in the National Film Registry
National Film Registry
The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992, 1996, 2005, and again in October 2008...
.
Filmography
- Her Polished Family (1912) - the first story sold by Sullivan to Edison
- When Lee Surrenders (1912) (scenario)
- The Altar of Death (West, 1912) (writer, director)
- The Army Surgeon (F. Ford, 1912) (writer)
- The Invaders (F. Ford and T. Ince, 1912) (uncredited)
- The Dead Pay (1912) (scenario)
- A Shadow of the Past (T. Ince, 1913) (scenario)
- Days of '49 (T. Ince, 1913) (scenario)
- The Witch of SalemThe Witch of SalemThe Witch of Salem is a 1913 film. The two-reel production set in the Puritan days. Prudence, a beautiful orphan, beloved by Old Hastings's son, is accused and convicted of witchcraft. She is sentenced to being burned at the stake. "Her rescue, a fight with the Indians and other thrills are...
(West, 1913) (writer) - Will o' the Wisp (1913) (writer)
- The Reaping (1913) (story)
- The Seal of Silence (1913) (scenario)
- The Boomerange (1913) (scenario)
- The Battle of GettysburgThe Battle of Gettysburg (1913 film)The Battle of Gettysburg is a 1913 silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and Thomas H. Ince. The film is now considered to be lost, although some battlefield footage was used by Mack Sennett in his comedy Cohen Saves the Flag, which was shot on location alongside this production. However...
(T. Incee, 1914) (titles) - The Telltale Hatband (1913) (scenario)
- The Paymaster's Son (1913) (scenario)
- The BargainThe BargainThe Bargain is a 1914 Western film starring William S. Hart. It was the first Western starring Hart, who would go on to become the most popular Western actor of the silent film era. In 2010, it was added to the United States National Film Registry, where it joined another Hart Western, 1916's...
(Barker, 1914) - The Wrath of the Gods (1914) (writer)
- One of the Discarded (1914) (writer)
- Two-Gun Hicks (Hart, 1914) (writer)
- In the Sage Brush Country (1914) (scenario, story)
- The Hour of Reckoning (1914) (written by)
- Shorty and the Fortune Teller (1914) (story)
- Shorty and Sherlock Holmes (1914)
- Mother of the Shadows (Osborne, 1914)
- Destiny's Night (1914)
- Not of the Flock (Sidney, 1914) (producer)
- Markia, aka The Fall of Carthage (1914)
- The City of Darkness (1914)
- Breed o' the North (1914) (writer)
- Willie (1914) (scenario)
- The Worth of a Life (1914) (story)
- The World of His People (1914) (story)
- Satan McAllister's Heir (1915) (writer)
- The Last of the Line (T. Ince, 1915) (scenario)
- The Roughneck (Hart and Smith, 1915) (writer)
- The Ruse (Hart and Smith, 1915) (writer)
- Pinto Ben (Hart, 1915)
- Mr. 'Silent' Haskins (1915) (writer)
- The Cross of Fire (1915) (written by)
- In the Land of the Otter (1915) (written by)
- The Grudge (1915) (writer)
- The Darkening Trail (1915) (writer)
- On the Night Stage (Barker, 1915) (story)
- Winning Back (1915) (scenario)
- On the High Seas (1915)
- The Shoal Light (1915)
- The Tools of Providence (1915) (scenario)
- The Floating Death (1915) (scenario)
- The Reward (scenario)
- Hostage of the North (1915)
- The Man from Nowhere, aka The Silent Stranger (1915) (scenario, story for The Silent Stranger)
- The Cup of Life (West, 1915) (writer)
- The Painted Soul (Sidney, 1915) (writer)
- The Iron Strain (Barker, 1915) (scenario)
- The Man Who Went Out (1915)
- Matrimony (Sidney, 1915) (scenario)
- In the Switch Tower (1915) (scenario)
- The Girl Who Might Have Been (1915) (writer)
- The Man from Oregon (1915) (scenario)
- The Toast of DeathThe Toast of DeathThe Toast of Death is a 1915 silent era drama/romance motion picture released by Mutual Film Corporation starring Louise Glaum, Harry Keenan, and Herschel Mayall....
(1915) (scenario) - The Mating (1915) (scenario)
- Between Men (1915) (screenplay, story)
- The Winged Idol (1915) (scenario)
- The Golden ClawThe Golden ClawThe Golden Claw is a 1915 American dramatic film produced by Thomas H. Ince, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, and directed by Reginald Barker...
(Barker, 1915) (scenario) - The Forbidden Adventure (1915) (scenario)
- The Edge of the Abyss (1915) (scenario)
- The Scourge of the DesertThe Scourge of the DesertThe Scourge of the Desert is a 1915 American silent short Western starring William S. Hart and Rhea Mitchell. It was billed as, "A Thrilling Romance of the Arizona Staked Plains." It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and written by C. Gardner Sullivan, Ince, and William H. Clifford.-Cast:* William S...
(1915) (writer) - The Italian (Barker, 1915) (story) - ranked #15 at the box office in 19151915 in filmThe year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.* June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors...
- The Valley of Hate (1915)
- The CowardThe Coward (1915 film)The Coward is a 1915 film produced by Thomas H. Ince. Set during the Civil War, the film stars Frank Keenan as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is terrified by the war and deserts during...
(Barker, 1915) - The AryanThe AryanThe Aryan is an American silent era western motion picture starring William S. Hart, Gertrude Claire, Charles K. French, Louise Glaum, and Bessie Love....
(Hart and Smith, 1915) (screenplay, story) - Peggy (Giblyn, 1915) (writer)
- The Beckoning Flame (1916) (scenario)
- The Conqueror (Barker, 1916) (scenario)
- Honor's Altar (1916) (scenario)
- The Last Act (1916) (scenario)
- The Moral Fabric (1916) (scenario)
- The Stepping StoneThe Stepping StoneThe Stepping Stone is a 1916 silent drama film, directed by Reginald Barker and Thomas H. Ince. It is a lost film.-Plot:Mary Beresford is the wife of unambitious law clerk Al Beresford. Thanks to Mary 's tenacity and carefully calculated social-climbing, Al is promoted to the position of personal...
(Barker, 1916) (scenario) - Civilization's Child (Giblyn, 1916) (writer)
- The No-Good Guy (Edwards, 1916) (scenario)
- The Dividend (1916) (writer)
- The Beggar of Cawnpore (Swickard, 1916) (scenario)
- Not My Sister (Giblyn, 1916) (writer)
- The Market of Vain Desire (Barker, 1916) (story)
- The Bugle Call (Barker, 1916) (scenario)
- The Eye of the Night (Edwards, 1916) (writer)
- The Payment (West, 1916) (scenario)
- Home (1916) (scenario)
- A Corner in Colleens (Miller, 1916) (scenario)
- The Dawn Maker (Hart, 1916) (screenplay, story)
- Plain Jane (Miller, 1916) (scenario)
- The Criminal (Barker, 1916) (scenario)
- The CornerThe Corner (1916 film)The Corner is a 1916 film western written by C. Gardner Sullivan and starring George Fawcett and Willard Mack....
(1916) (screenplay, story) - Shell 43Shell 43Shell 43 is a 1916 war movie written by C. Gardner Sullivan and starring H.B. Warner and Enid Markey. An English spy works behind German lines during World War I. He saves the life of a German officer and is killed in a German trench by an Allied shell.- External links :*...
(Barker, 1916) (writer) - Hell's HingesHell's HingesHell's Hinges is a 1916 American Western silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Plot:...
(Hart and Swickard, 1916) (screenplay, story) - The Green SwampThe Green SwampThe Green Swamp is a 1916 silent drama starring Bessie Barriscale and written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Cast:* Bessie Barriscale - Margery Allison* Bruce McRae - Dr. Ward Allison* J. Barney Sherry - Dr...
(Sidney, 1916) (writer) - CivilizationCivilization (film)Civilization is a 1916 American pacifist allegorical film about a submarine commander who refuses to fire at a civilian ocean liner supposedly carrying ammunition for his country's enemies. The film was a big-budget spectacle that was compared to both Birth of a Nation and the paintings of...
(T. Ince, 1916) (writer) - The Wolf WomanThe Wolf WomanThe Wolf Woman is a 1916 silent era drama motion picture starring Louise Glaum, Howard C. Hickman, and Charles Ray.Directed by Raymond B. West and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Synopsis:...
(1916) (scenario) - The Return of Draw EganThe Return of Draw EganThe Return of Draw Egan is a 1916 silent era western drama motion picture starring William S. Hart, Louise Glaum, Margery Wilson, Robert McKim, and J.P. Lockney....
(Hart, 1916) (screenplay, story) - The ThoroughbredThe ThoroughbredThe Thoroughbred is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bartlett starring Charlotte Burton and Jack Prescott.-Cast:* Charlotte Burton as Angela Earle* Jack Prescott as Tom Cook* William Russell as Kelso Hamilton...
(Bartlett, 1916) (scenario) - Three of Many (1917) (screenplay, story)
- The Iced Bullet (Barker, 1917) (scenario)
- The Pinch Hitter (1917) (scenario)
- HappinessHappiness (1917 film)Happiness is a 1917 comedy-drama feature film written by C. Gardner Sullivan and starring Enid Bennett and Charles Gunn. A rich orphan played by Enid Bennett goes to a co-ed college where she is snubbed by students who view her as a snob. A romance develops with a poor student who is taking in...
(Barker, 1917) (writer) - The Zeppelin's Last Raid (1917)
- The Hater of Men (1917) (scenario)
- The Girl, Glory (1917) (scenario)
- The Crab (1917) (scenario)
- Those Who Pay (Wells, 1918) (scenario)
- Without Honor (1918) (story)
- Keys of the Righteous (1918) (screenplay, story)
- Love Me (Neill, 1918) (scenario)
- The Cast-Off (1918) (scenario)
- Selfish Yates (Hart, 1917) (screenplay, story)
- Shark Monroe (Hart, 1918) (screenplay, story)
- Vive le France (1918) (scenario)
- The Border Wireless (Hart, 1918) (writer)
- When Do We Eat?When Do We Eat? (1918 film)When Do We Eat? is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Fred Niblo.-Plot:Nora, An actress is performing in an adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin in a Texas town. A sheriff enters with an attachment against the show. Nora, dressed as Little Eva, escapes from the venue and gets onto a train. A tramp...
(1918) (screenplay, story) - Branding BroadwayBranding BroadwayBranding Broadway is a 1918 western film starring William S. Hart, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, and produced by Thomas H. Ince and Hart.-Plot:...
(Hart, 1918) (writer) - Naughty, NaughtyNaughty, NaughtyNaughty, Naughty is a 1918 silent comedy starring Enid Bennett and written by C. Gardner Sullivan. The film's protagonist is Roberta Miller, an innocent girl who leaves her rural hometown for the big city...
(Storm, 1918) (story) - The Vamp (Storm, 1918)
- The Poppy Girl's Husband (Hart and Hillyer, 1919) (scenario)
- Stepping OutStepping Out (1919 film)Stepping Out is a 1919 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - The Wife* Niles Welch - The Husband* Julia Faye - The Secretary* Gertrude Claire - The Husband's Mother* William Conklin - Frank Wilson...
(Niblo, 1919) - The Market of Souls (De Grasse, 1919)
- John Petticoats (Hillyer, 1919) (scenario, story)
- Wagon TracksWagon TracksWagon Tracks is a 1919 American Western film written by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced by Thomas H. Ince and William S. Hart, and directed by Lambert Hillyer. Upon its release, the Los Angeles Times described it as Hollywood's greatest desert epic....
(Hillyer, 1919) (screenplay, story) - Happy Though MarriedHappy Though MarriedHappy Though Married is a 1919 silent comedy film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - Millicent Lee* Hallam Cooley - Jim Montjoy * Charles K...
(Niblo, 1919) (writer) - The Haunted BedroomThe Haunted BedroomThe Haunted Bedroom is a 1919 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - Betsy Thorne* Dorcas Matthews - Dolores Arnold* Jack Nelson - Daniel Arnold* Lloyd Hughes - Roland Dunwoody* William Conklin - Dr. James Dunwoody...
(Niblo, 1919) (screenplay, story) - Other Men's Wives (Schertzinger, 1919) (screenplay, story)
- SaharaSahara (1919 film)Sahara is a 1919 American dramatic film written by C. Gardner Sullivan and directed by Arthur Rosson. The film starred Louise Glaum and told a story of love and betrayal in the Egyptian desert.-Plot:...
(Rosson, 1919) (story, scenario) - The Virtuous ThiefThe Virtuous ThiefThe Virtuous Thief is a 1919 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - Shirley Armitage* Niles Welch - Bobbie Baker* Lloyd Hughes - Dick Armitage* Willis Marks - Major Jefferson Armitage* William Conklin - Walter Haskell...
(Niblo, 1919) (screenplay, story) - Stepping OutStepping Out (1919 film)Stepping Out is a 1919 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - The Wife* Niles Welch - The Husband* Julia Faye - The Secretary* Gertrude Claire - The Husband's Mother* William Conklin - Frank Wilson...
(1919) (scenario, story) - Dangerous HoursDangerous HoursDangerous Hours is a 1919 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo. Prints of the film survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. It premiered in February 1920.The film was based on a short story published in the Saturday Evening Post...
(Niblo, 1919) (scenario) - The Lady of Red ButteThe Lady of Red ButteThe Lady of Red Butte is a 1919 American Western film written by C. Gardner Sullivan and directed by Victor Schertzinger. Dorothy Dalton stars as a benevolent saloonkeeper in conflict with a fanatical religious zealot played by Thomas Holding.-Plot:...
(1919) (screenplay, story) - The Woman in the SuitcaseThe Woman in the SuitcaseThe Woman in the Suitcase is a 1920 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - Mary Moreland* William Conklin - James B. Moreland* Dorcas Matthews - Dolly Wright* Rowland V. Lee - W.H. 'Billy' Fiske...
(1920) (screenplay, story) - Love Madness (Henabery, 1920) (screenplay, story)
- SexSex (film)Sex is a 1920 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced by J. Parker Read, and starring Louise Glaum. On its surface, the film was a morality story on the evils of marital infidelity. However, the film's producer, J. Parker Read, had made a series of...
(Niblo, 1920) (writer) - The False RoadThe False RoadThe False Road is a 1920 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - Betty Palmer* Lloyd Hughes - 'Pickpocket' Roger Moran* Wade Boteler - 'Sapphire' Mike Wilson* Lucille Young - 'Frisco' Minnie* Charles Smiley - Joshua Starbuck...
(Niblo, 1920) (screenplay, story) - HairpinsHairpinsHairpins is a 1920 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - Muriel Rossmore* Matt Moore - Rex Rossmore* William Conklin - Hal Gordon* Margaret Livingston - Effie Wainwright* Grace Morse - Mrs. Kent...
(Niblo, 1920) (screenplay, story) - Good Women (Gasnier, 1921) (screenplay, story)
- Mother O' MineMother o' MineMother o' Mine is a 1921 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo. This film is one of the many lost films from the silent era.-Cast:* Lloyd Hughes - Robert Sheldon* Betty Ross Clarke - Dolly Wilson* Betty Blythe - Fan Baxter...
(Niblo, 1921) (adaptation) - Greater Than LoveGreater Than LoveGreater Than Love is a 1921 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Louise Glaum - Grace Merrill* Patricia Palmer - Elsie Brown* Rose Cade - Maizie* Eve Southern - Clairice* Willie Mae Carson - Pinkie* Betty Francisco - Helen Wellington...
(Niblo, 1921) (writer) - Hail the WomanHail the WomanHail the Woman is a 1921 John Griffith Wray silent, drama-genre film. A Thomas Ince production. A Library of Congress copy of this film is listed as incomplete, September 1, 1977.-Synopsis:...
(Wray, 1921) (writer) - White Hands (Hillyer, 1922) (story)
- Human WreckageHuman WreckageHuman Wreckage was an independent silent film production by Dorothy Davenport, widow of actor Wallace Reid, who died on 18 January 1923 from complications of morphine addiction.-Production background:...
(Wray, 1923) (writer) - Soul of the Beast (Wray, 1923) (story)
- DulcyDulcy (1923 film)Dulcy is a 1923 American comedy film starring Constance Talmadge. The film was adapted from the Broadway production of the same name written by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. The play opened in New York in August 1921 and ran for 241 performances....
(S. Franklin, 1923) (writer) - The Dangerous Maid (Heerman, 1923) (writer)
- Long Live the King (Schertzinger, 1923) (adaptation)
- Strangers of the NightStrangers of the NightStrangers of the Night is a 1923 silent comedy film directed by Fred Niblo. Presumably this movie is a lost film.-Cast:* Matt Moore - Ambrose Applejohn* Enid Bennett - Poppy Faire* Barbara La Marr - Anna Valeska...
(Niblo, 1923) (adaptation) - The Goldfish (Storm, 1924) (writer)
- The Marriage Cheat (Wray, 1924) (adaptation)
- Wandering Husbands (Beaudine, 1924) (screenplay, story)
- The House of Youth (R. Ince, 1924) (writer)
- The Only Woman (Olcott, 1924) (writer)
- Idle Tongues (Hillyer, 1924) (adaptation)
- The Mirage (Archainbaud, 1924) (adaptation)
- Dynamite SmithDynamite SmithDynamite Smith is a 1924 silent film directed by Ralph Ince and written by C. Gardner Sullivan. The film tells the story of a young reporter who is pursued by a murderer . The reporter flees to Alaska with the killer's wife...
(R. Ince, 1924) (screenplay, story) - Cheap KissesCheap KissesCheap Kisses is a 1924 silent drama film starring Jean Hersholt as a famous sculptor. Cheap Kisses was the first film made by screenwriter C. Gardner Sullivan through his new production company, C. Gardner Sullivan Productions...
(R. Ince and Tate, 1925) (screenplay, story, producer) - The MonsterThe Monster (1925 film)The Monster is a 1925 silent comedy horror directed by Roland West, based on the play by Crane Wilbur. It stars Johnny Arthur and Lon Chaney, and is remembered as an antecedental Old Dark House movie, as well as a precedent to many subgenre of horror films. The film has been shown on TCM network...
(West, 1925) (titles) - Playing with Souls (R. Ince, 1925) (adaptation)
- The Pinch Hitter (1925) (story)
- Wild Justice (C. Franklin, 1925) (screenplay, story)
- TumbleweedsTumbleweeds (1925 film)Tumbleweeds is a 1925 American Western film starring and produced by William S. Hart. It depicts the Cherokee Strip land rush of 1893. The film is said to have influenced the Oscar-winning 1931 Western Cimarron, which also depicts the land rush...
(Baggot, 1925) (adaptation) - If Marriage FailsIf Marriage FailsIf Marriage Fails is a 1925 film directed by John Ince and written by C. Gardner Sullivan. In the film, a young woman If Marriage Fails is a 1925 film directed by John Ince and written by C. Gardner Sullivan. In the film, a young woman If Marriage Fails is a 1925 film directed by John Ince and...
(J. Ince, 1926) (screenplay, story) - Three Faces East (Julian, 1926) (adaptation)
- Bachelor Brides (Howard, 1926) (adaptation and scenario)
- Sparrows (Beaudine, 1926) (adaptation)
- Gigolo (Howard, 1926) (supervising story editor)
- Her Man o' War (1926) (supervisor)
- The Clinging Vine (1926) (presenter)
- Corporal Kate (1926) (supervisor)
- The Bugle Call (Sedgwick, 1927) (writer)
- Turkish Delight (1927) (supervisor)
- Vanity (supervisor)
- The Yankee ClipperThe Yankee Clipper (1927 film)The Yankee Clipper is a 1927 American adventure film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian. It is set against the maritime rivalry between the United States and Great Britain in the mid-19th century.-Plot:...
(1927) (producer) - White GoldWhite Gold (1927 film)White Gold is a 1927 silent film dramatic western produced and distributed by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by William K. Howard. -Cast:*Jetta Goudal as Dolores Carson*Kenneth Thomson as Alec Carson*George Bancroft as Sam Randall...
(1927) (producer) - Tempest (Taylor, 1928) (writer)
- The Woman Disputed (H. King and Taylor, 1928) (screenplay)
- Sadie ThompsonSadie ThompsonSadie Thompson is an American silent film that tells the story of a "fallen woman" who comes to Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco. The film stars Gloria Swanson, Lionel...
(Walsh, 1928) (titles, editor) - Alibi (West, 1929) (screenplay)
- The Locked DoorThe Locked DoorThe Locked Door is an American drama film featuring Barbara Stanwyck in her second film appearance, first starring role, and first talking picture. The film is based on the play The Sign on the Door by Channing Pollock. A previous version was the silent film The Sign on the Door starring Norma...
(Fitzmaurice, 1929) (screen adaptation) - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (supervising story chief)
- What Men Want (1930) (supervising story editor)
- Hell's HeroesHell's Heroes (film)Hell's Heroes is a western film, one of many adaptations of Peter B. Kyne's novel The Three Godfathers. Three outlaws, played by Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, and Fred Kohler, promise a dying woman they will save her newborn child....
(1930) (chief story supervisor) - The Cuban Love Song (Van Dyke, 1931) (screenplay)
- Huddle (Wood, 1932) (dialogue continuity)
- Strange InterludeStrange Interlude (1932 film)Strange Interlude is a 1932 American romantic drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on the play Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill.-Plot:...
(Strange Interval) (Leonard, 1932) (dialogue continuity) - Skyscraper SoulsSkyscraper SoulsSkyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skyscraper by Faith Baldwin.-Plot:...
(Selwyn, 1932) (adaptation) - Men Must Fight (Selwyn, 1933) (writer)
- Father Brown, DetectiveFather Brown, DetectiveFather Brown, Detective is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas and Gertrude Michael. It is based on the Father Brown story The Blue Cross by G.K...
(Sedgwick, 1934) (writer) - Car 99 (Barton, 1935) (screenplay)
- The Awakening of Jim Burke (1935) (story, production supervisor)
- Three Live Ghosts (Humberstone, 1936) (screenplay)
- The Robin Hood of El DoradoThe Robin Hood of El DoradoThe Robin Hood of El Dorado is a western film directed by William A. Wellman for MGM in 1936. The film stars Warner Baxter as real life Mexican folk hero Joaquin Murrietta and Ann Loring as his love interest....
(1936) (uncredited) - The BuccaneerThe Buccaneer (1938 film)The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie...
(DeMille, 1938) (screenplay) - Union PacificUnion Pacific (film)Union Pacific is a 1939 American dramatic western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. Based on the novel Trouble Shooter by Western fiction author Ernest Haycox, the film is about the building of the railroad across the American West.-Plot:The 1862...
(DeMille, 1939) (screenplay) - North West Mounted PoliceNorth West Mounted Police (film)North West Mounted Police is a 1940 American action adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, and Madeleine Carroll. This was DeMille's...
(DeMille, 1940) (screenplay) - Jackass MailJackass MailJackass Mail is a 1942 Western comedy film starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. The movie was directed by Norman Z. McLeod.-Cast:*Wallace Beery as Just Baggot*Marjorie Main as Tina Tucker*J...
(McLeod, 1942) (story) - The BuccaneerThe Buccaneer (1958 film)The Buccaneer is a 1958 War film, made by Paramount Pictures like the 1938 version and shot in Technicolor and VistaVision. It takes place during the War of 1812, and tells a heavily fictionalized version of how the pirate Jean Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose...
(1958) (based on Sullivan's 1938 screenplay)