Douglas Leavitt

AKA: Abram Leavitt

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1883-01-07

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

Fifty Miles from Broadway

Story

Fifty Miles from Broadway

Scenario Writer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {22}

Bromley

1943-05-27 7.5

It's a Great Life

Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day. ...

Genre :Comedy

1938-05-27 0

Cactus Caballeros

Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit. ...

Genre :Comedy, Western

Owner

1938-02-04 0

Cupid Takes a Holiday

Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. ...

Genre :Comedy

Juan Castro

1942-11-19 7.113

You Were Never Lovelier

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Uncle William 'Willie' Aloysius Smith

1943-11-19 4.5

Campus Rhythm

Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. But her guardian, her Uncle Willie signs the ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

1937-08-06 0

The Affairs of Pierre

A French language teacher finds a fortune in lost jewellery, manages to trace the owner and returns them. His picture is splashed all over the papers prompting several people to report him as a crook ...

Genre :Comedy

1937-08-20 0

Who's Crazy

Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, when H ...

Genre :Comedy

Mr. Ross

1943-02-04 7

Reveille with Beverly

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, wi ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance, War

1937-05-21 0

Her Accidental Hero

Harry Gribbon is a masseur. He's sent out on a couple of jobs. After the first one goes poorly, it's on to the next. Before he can get there, he's mistaken for a fall guy in a fake accident racket rin ...

Genre :Comedy

George Bradley

1943-05-26 0

Law of the Northwest

Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a ...

Genre :Western

Mr. Jones

1937-04-30 0

His Pest Girl

Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case. ...

Genre :Comedy

Whiffle (uncredited)

1943-01-29 6.2

Power of the Press

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, ...

Genre :Drama

1943-01-22 0

A Blitz on the Fritz

Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout. ...

Genre :Comedy

Bray - the Circus Owner

1933-03-04 0

Wrongorilla

Jack Haley joins the circus. ...

Genre :Comedy

Monty King

1943-06-29 5.8

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Joe

1943-05-06 4.7

Redhead from Manhattan

Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having ...

Genre :Comedy

Sam Grohman

1943-06-10 6

Two Señoritas from Chicago

The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the produ ...

Genre :Comedy

Paul Miloff

1943-04-15 0

She Has What It Takes

Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a ...

Genre :Comedy

Coal Man (uncredited)

1942-12-10 6.6

A Night to Remember

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Henry Trigg

1943-04-01 4.6

Murder in Times Square

An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom. ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Waiter (uncredited)

1943-05-13 6.855

The More the Merrier

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to s ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

1937-08-06 0

Pot Luck

Dancing, singing and some mild humor in this rather unknown 2 reeler. ...