Writing

Jack Rose

Born November 4, 1911 · Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]

Died October 21, 1995 · aged 83

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Rose was an American screenwriter and producer born on November 4, 1911, in Warsaw, Russian Empire, and died on October 21, 1995, in Los Angeles, California. Rose began writing gags for Milton Berle and radio lines for Bob Hope before moving to screenplays. His first was 1943's Road to Rio starring Hope and Bing Crosby. In 1955, Rose produced the Hope f…

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The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper · 1981

The Great Muppet Caper

MovieComedyCrime

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and the rest of the Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.

The Paleface

The Paleface · 1948

MovieComedyWestern

Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.

April in Paris

April in Paris · 1952

MovieComedyMusic

A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.

Living It Up

Living It Up · 1954

MovieComedyMusic

Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris, diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A big city reporter hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.

Houseboat

Houseboat · 1958

MovieComedyRomance

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

It Started in Naples

It Started in Naples · 1960

It Started in Naples

MovieComedyRomance

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To complicate matters, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub performer.

My Favorite Brunette

My Favorite Brunette · 1947

My Favorite Brunette

MovieComedyMystery

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.

A Touch of Class

A Touch of Class · 1973

A Touch of Class

MovieComedyRomance

Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.

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The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper · 1981

The Great Muppet Caper

MovieComedyCrime

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and the rest of the Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.

Writer

The Paleface

The Paleface · 1948

MovieComedyWestern

Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.

Additional Dialogue

April in Paris

April in Paris · 1952

MovieComedyMusic

A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.

Writer

Living It Up

Living It Up · 1954

MovieComedyMusic

Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris, diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A big city reporter hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.

Screenplay

Houseboat

Houseboat · 1958

MovieComedyRomance

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

Producer

It Started in Naples

It Started in Naples · 1960

It Started in Naples

MovieComedyRomance

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To complicate matters, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub performer.

Screenplay

My Favorite Brunette

My Favorite Brunette · 1947

My Favorite Brunette

MovieComedyMystery

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.

Screenplay

A Touch of Class

A Touch of Class · 1973

A Touch of Class

MovieComedyRomance

Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.

Writer

Trouble Along the Way

Trouble Along the Way · 1953

Trouble Along the Way

MovieComedyDrama

Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.

Screenplay

On Moonlight Bay

On Moonlight Bay · 1951

On Moonlight Bay

MovieComedyRomance

The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president

Screenplay

Room for One More

Room for One More · 1952

Room for One More

MovieComedyFamily

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.

Screenplay

It's a Great Feeling

It's a Great Feeling · 1949

It's a Great Feeling

MovieComedyMusic

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.

Writer

Who's Got the Action?

Who's Got the Action? · 1962

Who's Got the Action?

A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.

Screenplay

The Five Pennies

The Five Pennies · 1959

The Five Pennies

MovieDramaMusic

Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio.

Screenplay

A Talent for Loving

A Talent for Loving · 1969

A Talent for Loving

MovieComedyWestern

This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican ranch from a cunning outlaw. At the ranch, the gambler discovers that his new lands have entangled him in an ancient Aztec curse. The ranch's patriarch tries to persuade the newcomer to marry his daughter and explains that the family's women are doomed to be especially fierce and prolific in their romantic encounters.

Screenplay

The Seven Little Foys

The Seven Little Foys · 1955

The Seven Little Foys

MovieMusicComedy

Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone

Writer

Papa's Delicate Condition

Papa's Delicate Condition · 1963

Papa's Delicate Condition

A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.

Screenplay

Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones · 1949

Sorrowful Jones

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

Screenplay

Lost and Found

Lost and Found · 1979

While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.

Writer

I'll See You in My Dreams

I'll See You in My Dreams · 1951

I'll See You in My Dreams

MovieComedyDrama

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

Writer

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox · 1976

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

MovieComedyWestern

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.

Writer

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? · 1963

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own fragile relationship.

Producer

Road to Rio

Road to Rio · 1947

MovieComedyAdventure

Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.

Writer

On the Double

On the Double · 1961

American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.

Producer

The Good Guys

The Good Guys · 1968

The Good Guys is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from September 25, 1968 to January 23, 1970. 42 color episodes were filmed in all. As with The Governor & J.J. and Get Smart, it was produced by Talent Associates and CBS Productions. CBS Television Studios also owns the rights to this program as well.

Creator