Writing

Mary Loos

Born May 6, 1910 · San Diego, California, USA

Died October 11, 2004 · aged 94

No biography available.

Known For

A Ticket to TomahawkA Ticket to Tomahawk · 1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk
★ 6.01950
MovieComedyWestern
A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to dancehall girls to try to thwart the plan. But the railroad workers, led by a female sharpshooter and an ambitious salesman, prove tough customers.
When Willie Comes Marching HomeWhen Willie Comes Marching Home · 1950
When Willie Comes Marching Home
★ 6.91950
MovieComedyWar
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Gentlemen Marry BrunettesGentlemen Marry Brunettes · 1955
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
★ 5.31955
MovieMusicRomance
Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.
DriftwoodDriftwood · 1947
Driftwood
★ 6.81947
MovieDramaFamily
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
Naughty MariettaNaughty Marietta · 1935
Naughty Marietta
★ 5.51935
MovieMusicRomance
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
The Dude Goes WestThe Dude Goes West · 1948
The Dude Goes West
★ 5.91948
MovieWesternComedy
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
Woman's WorldWoman's World · 1954
Woman's World
★ 7.21954
MovieDrama
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
Man Of The PeopleMan Of The People · 1937
Man Of The People
★ 7.01937
MovieDrama
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.

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Father Was a FullbackFather Was a Fullback · 1949
Father Was a Fullback
★ 6.31949
MovieComedy
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.

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