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Writer: The Charlatan. Leonard Praskins was born on 7 August 1896 in Meltham, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Charlatan (1929), It's a Great Life (1929) and Gorilla at Large (1954). He died on 2 October 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer, Script And Continuity Department
- August 7, 1896
- Leonard Praskins
- October 2, 1968
Biography by AllMovie. American playwright Leonard Praskins came to films in 1929 when his play The Charlatan, written in collaboration with Ernest Pascal, was adapted for the screen. Staying on in Hollywood, Praskins worked for a number of studios, including MGM (Emma, 1932), RKO (Bird of Paradise, 1932), and 20th Century (Call of the Wild, 1935).
Leonard Praskins is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Story, Adaptation, Original Story, Additional Dialogue, and Dialogue. Some of their work includes Call of the Wild, Three Violent People, The Brasher Doubloon, Bird of Paradise, Flesh, Molly and Me, Gorilla at Large, and The Ice Follies of 1939.
English. Budget. $356,000 [1] Box office. $1.6 million [1] The Champ is a 1931 American pre-Code film starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper and directed by King Vidor from a screenplay by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock.
- $1.6 million
- $356,000
Producer: Harry Rapf Director: Reinhold Schunzel Screenplay: Leonard Praskins, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, based on the story by Praskins Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg, Oliver T. Marsh Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons Music: Roger Edens Cast: Joan Crawford (Mary McKay), James Stewart (Larry Hall), Lew Ayres (Eddie Burgess), Lewis ...
- Reinhold Schunzel, Edward Woehler
- Joan Crawford
Emma is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, starring Marie Dressler, written by Leonard Praskins from a story by Frances Marion, and directed by Clarence Brown. The supporting cast features Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt and Myrna Loy . Plot.
Rackin worked with Leonard Praskins to fashion a new screenplay based on the story of The Champ. In The Clown, Dodo Delwyn (Skelton) is a washed-up vaudeville comedian. He had once been a great star for Florence Ziegfeld, but was now given to blowing what little he earns on booze and crap games.
