Writing

Joseph Farnham

Born December 2, 1884 · New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Died June 2, 1931 · aged 46

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph White Farnham (December 2, 1884 – June 2, 1931) was an American playwright and a film writer and film editor of the silent movie era to the early 1930s. He was also a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Born in Connecticut in 1884,Farnham got his start in film through his business relationship with theatre empresarios G…

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The Cameraman

The Cameraman · 1928

MovieComedyRomance

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Greed

MovieDramaCrime

When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

The Unknown

The Unknown · 1927

MovieThrillerRomance

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.

The Big Parade

The Big Parade · 1925

MovieRomanceWar

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

The Crowd

The Crowd · 1928

MovieDramaRomance

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.

London After Midnight

London After Midnight · 1927

London After Midnight

MovieHorrorMystery

The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants.

The Big House

The Big House · 1930

MovieCrimeDrama

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

Good News

Good News · 1930

MovieComedyMusic

A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

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The Cameraman

The Cameraman · 1928

MovieComedyRomance

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Title Graphics

Greed

MovieDramaCrime

When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

Editor

The Unknown

The Unknown · 1927

MovieThrillerRomance

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.

Title Graphics

The Big Parade

The Big Parade · 1925

MovieRomanceWar

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

Theatre Play

The Crowd

The Crowd · 1928

MovieDramaRomance

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.

Title Graphics

London After Midnight

London After Midnight · 1927

London After Midnight

MovieHorrorMystery

The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants.

Title Graphics

The Big House

The Big House · 1930

MovieCrimeDrama

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

Additional Dialogue

Good News

Good News · 1930

MovieComedyMusic

A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

Dialogue

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 · 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

MovieComedyMusic

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.

Writer

Proud Flesh

Proud Flesh · 1925

MovieComedyDrama

The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but he follows her. She is rescued from a wild taxi ride by a passerby who owns a huge plumbing company. Believing him to be a common plumber, she snubs him, but he pursues her and a romantic rivalry is born.

Dialogue

The Trail of '98

The Trail of '98 · 1928

The Trail of '98

MovieAdventureAction

Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

Writer

Tide of Empire

Tide of Empire · 1929

California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.

Title Graphics

Finger Prints

Finger Prints · 1922

MovieDramaMystery

A string of valuable pearls provides the motivation for the murder of Wareing, a widowed banker, who intended them for his daughter, Mary. She is comforted by Barton, a criminologist and friend of her late father, who appears to have left his financial affairs in a terrible state. Meanwhile, Mary's fiancé works diligently to identify the murderer. Although the criminologist places the blame on Wareing's butler, a reformed burglar, the killer is finally revealed to be Barton himself.

Writer

Where East Is East

Where East Is East · 1929

Where East Is East

A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left behind in Southeast Asia and then moves in on her daughter's beau.

Title Graphics

The Road to Mandalay

The Road to Mandalay · 1926

The Road to Mandalay

Singapore Joe is a captain onboard a ship bound for Mandalay with his wife, who lies gravely ill in her cabin. His wife dies giving birth to a daughter, and the Captain leaves the child in the care of his brother Father James, a priest who raises the girl as his own. 20 years pass, and the captain is now a hardened criminal with a blind eye who runs a Singapore brothel alongside a vile Chinese associate.

Title Designer

Heedless Moths

Heedless Moths · 1921

A beautiful artists' model attempts to save a sculptor's marriage by putting herself in the place of the sculptor's wife, who is entangled in the nefarious clutches of another man.

Editor

The Man from M.A.R.S.

The Man from M.A.R.S. · 1922

The Man from M.A.R.S.

MovieScience Fiction

An inventor makes contact with Mars via television. The film is notable for using the 3-D process called Teleview, similar to today's alternating frame 3-D systems. Shown in 3-D only at the Selwyn Theater in New York City, it was previewed as Mars Calling at a trade and press screening on 13 October 1922, premiered as M.A.R.S. on 27 December 1922, and ran through 20 January 1923. A 2-D version was distributed as Radio-Mania in 1923–1924.

Title Graphics

Bachelor Apartments

Bachelor Apartments · 1921

Bachelor Apartments

Editor

The Voice of the City

The Voice of the City · 1929

The Voice of the City

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.

Title Graphics

Love in the Rough

Love in the Rough · 1930

Love in the Rough

MovieComedyMusic

When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.

Dialogue

Brown of Harvard

Brown of Harvard · 1926

Brown of Harvard

MovieDramaRomance

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.

Title Graphics

Alias Jimmy Valentine

Alias Jimmy Valentine · 1928

Alias Jimmy Valentine

MovieCrimeDrama

An Incompetent insurance salesman sells a policy to Jesse James and has to protect his client until he can get it back.

Title Graphics

War Nurse

War Nurse · 1930

Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.

Dialogue

Montana Moon

Montana Moon · 1930

MovieDramaWestern

A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.

Dialogue