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Synopsis. Young schoolteacher Ruth Kirke is transporting a group of war orphans from South China to San Francisco when their cargo ship is torpedoed and sunk in the mid-Pacific. Along with sailor Timothy Blake, they are the only known survivors of the enemy attack. Upon arriving in San Francisco, Ruth is told by immigration officials that the ...
- Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir, Joseph Mcdonough
- Deanna Durbin
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday is a 1943 American comedy drama film produced and directed by Bruce Manning and starring Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, and Barry Fitzgerald.. Based on a story by Sonya Levien, the film is about a young idealistic missionary who smuggles a group of Chinese war orphans into the United States posing as the wife of a wealthy commodore who went missing after their ship ...
One Big Affair is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Peter Godfrey and written by Leo Townsend and Francis Swann. The film stars Evelyn Keyes, Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Anderson, Connie Gilchrist, Thurston Hall and Gus Schilling. The film was released on February 22, 1952 by United Artists.
Three North American schoolteachers, Jean Harper, Hilda Bowers and the older, bossy Miss Marple, are on a bus tour of Mexico. As they prepare to once more board their bus in Mexico City, Jean delays their departure and upsets their guide, the fussy Mr. Rush, by buying shoes in the hotel's gift shop.
- Peter Godfrey, Ignacio Villarreal
- Evelyn Keyes
Discursive paternalism occurs when a party to a speaker's act takes control of the uptake the act receives, with the aim of curating the speaker's commitments. This is done without the prior consent or knowledge of the speaker, and for the perceived good of the speaker.
NIGHT AND DAY, screen play by Charles Hoffman, Leo Townsend and William Bowers, based on the career of Cole Porter; adaptation by Jack Moffitt; dance numbers created and directed by LeRoy...
One Big Affair is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Peter Godfrey and written by Leo Townsend and Francis Swann. The film stars Evelyn Keyes, Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Anderson, Connie Gilchrist, Thurston Hall and Gus Schilling. The film was released on February 22, 1952 by United Artists.
