Love Under Fire | |
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Directed by | George Marshall |
Written by | Gene Fowler Ernest Pascal Allen Rivkin Walter C. Hackett (play) |
Produced by | Nunnally Johnson |
Starring | Loretta Young Don Ameche Frances Drake |
Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
Edited by | Barbara McLean |
Music by | Arthur Lange Charles Maxwell |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Love Under Fire is a 1937 American drama film based upon the play by Walter C. Hackett. It was directed by George Marshall and stars Loretta Young, Don Ameche and Frances Drake. [1] [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudolph Sternad. [3]
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Vivacious Lady is a 1938 American black-and-white romantic comedy film directed by George Stevens and starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The screenplay was written by P.J. Wolfson and Ernest Pagano and adapted from a short story by I. A. R. Wylie. The music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Robert De Grasse.
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Ladies in Love is a 1936 American romantic comedy film based upon the play by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete. It was directed by Edward H. Griffith and stars Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett and Loretta Young. The film revolves around three roommates in exotic Budapest and their comical romantic adventures. Gaynor, Bennett, and Young were billed above the title, with Gaynor receiving top billing. The movie also featured Simone Simon, Don Ameche, Paul Lukas, and Tyrone Power.
Happy Land is a 1943 film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Don Ameche. A World War II home front drama, it was based on the 1943 novel of the same name by MacKinlay Kantor.
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Fifty Roads to Town is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Don Ameche and Ann Sothern. The film is based on a book of the same name by author Frederick Nebel. This is the third novel Nebel wrote.