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Biography
Bruce Manning (July 15, 1902 – August 3, 1965) was a Cuddebackville, New York-born Hollywood filmmaker/screenwriter who entered the movie business following the publication of several novels that he co-wrote with wife, Gwen Bristow. Their first joint novel, The Invisible Host (1930), was adapted to the screen in 1934 as The Ninth Guest.
He wrote the screenplay for Bristow's novel Jubilee Trail in 1954. In addition to his numerous scripts, beginning in the 1940s he served as a producer for several films, and in 1943 he directed his first and only feature, The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. His career ended in 1957, eight years before his death.
Henry Koster called him "the funniest man I ever met and the best comedy writer I ever met."
Movies & TV shows
1957.
1 Movie
Spoilers of the Forest
1957
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) se...
1955.
1 Movie
1954.
1 Movie
Jubilee Trail
1954
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a ho...
1952.
1 Movie
Hoodlum Empire
1952
When a Mafia leader's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime, it's a very dangerous play for power. The picture was shot in a se...
1951.
1 Movie
Payment on Demand
1951
In this compelling look at why people drift apart in marriage and seek divorce with all its consequences, Academy Award-winner Bette Davis and Barry Sullivan are in the starring roles.
1950.
1 Movie
The Secret Fury
1950
The wedding of Ellen and David was stopped by a stranger who claimed that the bride was already married to someone else. The interloper's accusation must be investigated because he produced enough evi...
1949.
2 Movies
That Midnight Kiss
1949
Opera singer Prudence Budell (Kathryn Grayson), overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti (Mario Lanza) singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera. They fall in ...
Bride for Sale
1949
Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents. Martin finds out and tries t...
1946.
1 Movie
So Goes My Love
1946
Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling inventor.
1945.
2 Movies
Guest Wife
1945
Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of...
This Love of Ours
1
1945
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique...
1943.
1 Movie
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
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1943
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
1941.
2 Movies
Back Street
1941
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer)...
Appointment for Love
1941
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having...
1940.
1 Movie
Spring Parade
1940
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a hap...
1939.
1 Movie
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939
A businessman's (Charles Winninger) youngest daughter (Deanna Durbin) helps her innocent sisters in love.
1938.
4 Movies
The Rage of Paris
1938
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New Yo...
That Certain Age
1938
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites ...
Mad About Music
1938
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to pro...
Service de Luxe
1938
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
1937.
4 Movies
We Have Our Moments
1937
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk b...
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead ...
1936.
3 Movies
Devil's Squadron
1936
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The compan...
Roaming Lady
1936
Joyce Reid (Fay Wray), a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey (Ralph Bellamy) and and her munitions-producing...
1935.
5 Movies
After the Dance
1935
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot...
Party Wire
1935
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Grand Exit
1935
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
Eight Bells
1935
A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
The Lone Wolf Returns
1935
Is it true that once a jewel thief is always a jewel thief?. If you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard, also known as the Lone Wolf, once retired from the "trade" but relapsed back into his old ha...
1934.
1 Movie
The 9th Guest
1934
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the n...
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