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Olive Cooper
Born July 31, 1892 · San Francisco, California, USA
Died June 12, 1987 · aged 94
Olivette "Olive" Cooper (July 31, 1892– June 12, 1987) was a prolific American screenwriter known for movies like Cocoanut Grove, Bandit King of Texas and Three Little Sisters. She wrote many of the screenplays for Roy Rogers and Gene Autry vehicles.
Known For
Shantytown · 1943Shantytown
★ 6.51943
MovieCrimeMusic
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
Hot Tip · 1935Hot Tip
★ 7.01935
MovieComedy
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Happy Go Lucky · 1936Happy Go Lucky
★ 7.01936
MovieDramaAction
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
Jim Hanvey, Detective · 1937Jim Hanvey, Detective
★ 6.51937
MovieMysteryAction
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
The Bamboo Blonde · 1946The Bamboo Blonde
★ 5.61946
MovieWarRomance
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
Outcasts of the Trail · 1949Outcasts of the Trail
★ 9.01949
MovieWestern
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.
Idaho · 1943Idaho
★ 6.31943
MovieWestern
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
Ice-Capades · 1941Ice-Capades
★ 5.91941
MovieComedyMusic
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
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