Alphabetical List of Plays, Films, and Television
Screenplays:
Production and Source Information
Caution: This
is a work in progress! More
titles/productions/performances to come!
Note
1: BLUE
titles represent films not found in the online
International
Movie Database
Note
2: GREEN
titles represent films for which Harris is uncredited in the online International
Movie Database
Note
3: RED
titles represent plays not found in the online
Internet Broadway Database
Note 4: See
the Titles Page for a cross-referenced list of
titles/retitles (appearing below as abbreviations in brackets after each title)
An Adventure in Hearts [ADH]. Originally titled Captain Dieppe [CD].
Film.
Dir. James Cruz. Prod./Scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Robert Warwick, Juan de la Cruz,
Winifred Greenwood, Helene Chadwick, Walter Long.
Production History: Famous Players-Lasky, 1919.
Source: Based on a novel by Anthony Hope, adapted
into play by Harrison Garfield Rhodes.
The Affairs of Anatol [AOA]. Film.
Dir. Cecil B. De
Mille. Scenario Jeanie
MacPhearson. Adapt. Elmer Harris and H.
Granville Barker. Featuring Wallace
Reid, Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, Agnes Ayers, Elliott Dexter, and Monte
Blue.
Production History:
1.
Famous Players-Lasky. Released Aug. 1921.
2. Mercury Theatre on the
Air, 22 Aug. 1938. Prod. Orson Welles.
Source: Based on the novel and play The Affairs
of Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler.
All Soul's Eve [ASE]. Film.
Dir. Chester M. Franklin. Scenario Elmer Harris.
Featuring Mary Miles Minter, Jack Holt, Carmen Phillips.
Production
History: Famous Players-Lasky
in association with Realart Pictures.
Released Feb. 1921.
Source: Based on the play All Soul's Eve
(1920) by Anne Crawford Flexner.
The Awful Truth [AWF]. Film.
Presented by Elmer Harris. Dir. Paul Powell. Adapt.
and scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring
Agnes Ayers, Warner Baxter, and Phillips Smalley.
Production History:
1.
NYC, opening 18 Sept. 1922
(Richman; 144 performances).
2. Peninsula
Studios. Released 6 Apr. 1925. (Harris)
3. Columbia
Pictures. Released 1937. Adapt. Vina Delmar.
Source: Based on the play The
Awful Truth (1922) by Arthur Richman.
The Barbarian [BAR]. UK release as A Night in Cairo. Also known as The Arab, and Man of
the Nile. Film.
Dir.
Samuel Wood. Prod. Bernard H. Hyman and
Samuel Wood. Music Herbert
Stothart. Adapt. Anita Loos and Elmer
Harris. Featuring Ramon Novarro, Myrna
Loy, Reginald Denny, Edward Arnold, Hedda Hopper.
Production
History: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released May 1933.
Source: Based on the story The
Barbarian and the play The Arab by Edgar Selwyn.
Beyond the Devil [BTD]. Play adapt.
By
Elmer Harris.
Production History: To be researched. c. late 1937, early 1938.
Source: Based on the German play of the same title by
Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz.
The Bread Basket [BRE]. Play in three acts.
By Elmer Harris, E. Blaney Harris, Jr., and Victor
Harris.
Production History: To be researched. c. 1946.
Source: Original work.
Canary Cottage [CC]. Play in two acts.
By Elmer Harris and Oliver Morosco. Prod. Oliver Morosco. Music and lyrics
Earl Carroll.
Featuring Carl McCullough and Reine Davies.
Production History:
1.
Empress Theatre, San Diego, CA, opening May 1916. Try-outs.
2.
Morosco Theatre, NYC, opening 5 Feb. 1917 (112
performances).
Source:
Original work.
Career Girl [CAR]. Originally titled
The Reluctant Virgin [REV] and Lefty [ LEF, c1947]. Play in three acts.
By Elmer
Harris.
Production History: To be
researched.
c1952.
Source: To be researched.
Carol [CRL]. Originally titled
The Bird's Christmas Carol [BCC], c1949. Play adapt.
By Elmer
Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. c1953.
Source: Based on the story The Bird's
Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Celebrities [CEL]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer
Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. c1934.
Source:
Original work.
Collusion [COL]. Film.
Elmer Harris, Author.
Production History:
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. c1921.
Source:
To be researched.
The Coming of Amos [COA]. Film.
Presented
Cecil B. De Mille.
Dir. Paul Sloane. Production editor Elmer Harris. Adapt. James
Ashmore Creelman and Garret Fort. Featuring Rod la Rocque.
Production History: Cinema Corporation of America. Released 6 Sept.
1925.
Source: Based on the book The Coming of
Amos (1924) by William John Locke.
Court-Martial [CM]. Film.
Prod.
Harry Cohn.
Dir. George B. Seitz. Story Elmer Harris. Adapt. Anthony
Coldeway?
Featuring Jack Holt and Betty Compson.
Production History: Columbia Pictures. Released 12 Aug. 1928.
Source: To be researched.
Cross Country Cruise [CRO]. Film.
Dir.
Edward Buzzell.
Adapt. Elmer Harris. Featuring Lew Ayres, June Knight, Alice
White, Alan Dinehart.
Production History: Universal Pictures. Released Jan. 1934.
Source: Based on the story Cross Country Cruise by Stanley Rauh.
The Desert Bride [DEB]. Film.
Prod.
Harry Cohn.
Dir. Walter Lang. Scenario Elmer Harris. Adapt. Anthony
Coldeway.
Featuring Betty Compson, Allan Forrest.
Production History: Columbia Pictures. Released 26 Mar. 1928.
Source: Based on the story The
Adventuress by Ewart Adamson.
The Devil's Harvest [DH]. Originally titled
Upon These Ashes [UTA]. Play.
By Elmer Harris and Harry W. Flannery.
Production History:
To be researched. c1943.
Source:
Original work.
Ducks and Drakes [D&D]. Film.
Prod.
Bebe Daniels.
Supervisor Elmer Harris. Dir. Maurice Campbell. Story and scenario
Elmer Harris.
Featuring Bebe Daniels and Jack Holt.
Production History: Realart Pictures released Feb. 1921. Written 1917.
Source:
Original work.
The Education of Elizabeth [EOE]. Film.
Dir.
Edward Dillon.
Scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Billie Burke, Lumsden Hare, Edith
Sharpe, Donald Cameron, and Frederick Burton.
Production History: Famous Players-Lasky in association with Paramount
Pictures.
Released 16 Jan. 1921.
Source: Based on a play by Roy Horniman.
Espionage [ESP]. Play adapt.
Prod. Harry Rapf. Dir. Kurt Neumann. Adapt. Elmer
Harris.
Writers Leonard Lee, Ainsworth Morgan, Manuel Seff. Featuring Edmund
Lowe, Madge Evans, Paul Lukas, and Robert Graves.
Production History:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released 1937.
Source:
Based on a play by Walter C. Hackett?
Eve's Leaves [EVL]. Film.
Presented by Cecil B. De Mille. Dir. Paul
Sloane.
Production editor and adapt. Elmer Harris. Featuring Leatrice Joy, William Boyd, and
Robert Edeson.
Production History:
De Mille Pictures. Released 13 June 1926.
Source: Based on the play Eve's Leaves
(1925) by Harry Chapman Ford.
Father and
Son [FAS]. Film.
Prod. Harry Cohn. Dir. Erle C. Kenton. Music Constantine
Bakaleinikoff.
Story Elmer Harris. Featuring Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Helene
Chadwick.
Production History:
Columbia Pictures. Released [13 May or 5 June] 1929.
Source: Based on the play Father and
Son by Edgar Selwyn (Majestic Theatre, NYC, opening 24 Sept. 1908 [12
performances].
Prod. F. Ray Comstock).
Fillette [FIL]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. Cecil B. DeMille, producer Henry B. Harris,
c1910.
Source:
Comedy in three acts, Elmer B. Harris and Cora Older, 1910.
Forbidden [FOR]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
Shubert Theater, c1932.
Source:
Based on a story by Hon. Ben B. Lindsey.
The Forbidden Woman [FW]. Originally titled
Brothers [BRO]. Film.
Prod. William C. De Mille. Dir. Paul L. Stein. Adapt. Clara
Beranger.
Story Elmer Harris. Featuring Jetta Goudal, Ivan Lebedeff, Joseph
Schildkraut.
Production History:
De Mille Pictures. Released 1927.
Source: Based on the story Brothers by
Elmer Harris.
For Sale [FS]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. Written c1912, produced c1924.
Source:
Original work.
Garrison's Finish [GAR]. Film.
Prod. Jack Pickford. Supervisor and scenario Elmer Harris. Dir. Arthur
Rosson. Titles
Mary Pickford.
Featuring Madge Bellamy, Clarence Burton, Jack Pickford and Charles A.
Stevenson.
Production History:
1.
Selig Polyscope Company. GAR. Film. 1 Oct. 1914.
2.
Jack Pickford Productions. Released 7 Jan. 1923.
Source: Based on William Blair Morton Ferguson's book Garrison's Finish: A Romance of the Race-Course (New
York: Street and Smith, 1906).
The Girl on the Stairs [GOS]. Film.
Presenter, supervisor and adapt. Elmer Harris. Dir. William
Worthington.
Featuring Patsy Ruth Miller, Frances Raymond, Arline Pretty, and Shannon
Day.
Production History:
Peninsula Studios. Released Mar. 1925.
Source: Based on Winston Bouve's story "The Girl on the Stairs" in
Ainslee's Magazine (Mar. 1924: 1-52).
The Great Necker [GN]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris. Prod. Chamberlain Brown. Featuring Taylor
Holmes.
Production History:
Ambassador Theatre, NYC, opening 6 Mar. 1928 (39 performances).
Source:
Original work.
Happily Unmarried [HAP]. Originally titled
Poor Man's Daughter [POD]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. POD, Shubert Theatre, c1931. Paramount,
c1934. Loew’s,
c1959.
Source:
Original work.
Hell's Mistress [HEL]. Originally titled
Siren [SRN]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. Shubert Theatre, c1931.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, c1932.
Source:
Original work.
Help Wanted [HEW]. Film.
Dir. Hobart Bosworth. Scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Hobart
Bosworth, Lillian Elliott, Adele Farrington, Lois Meredith.
Production History: Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company, 1915.
Source: Play by Jack Lait.
Her Gilded
Cage [HGC]. Film.
Prod. Jesse L. Lasky. Dir. Sam Wood. Adapt. Elmer Harris and Percy Heath. Featuring Gloria Swanson, David Powell, Harrison Ford, Anne Cornwall, Walter Hiers, and Charles A. Stevenson.
Production History:
Famous Players-Lasky. Released [5] Aug. 1922.
Source: Based on the play Her Gilded
Cage (The Love Dreams) (1921) by Anna Nichols
Duffey.
Her Master's Voice [HMV]. Film.
Prod. Walter Wagner. Dir. Joseph Santley. Featuring Edward
Everett Horton, Peggy Conklin, and Laura Hope Crews. Writers Harry
Sauber, Dore Schary.
Production History: Paramount Pictures. Released [Mar.] 1936.
Source: Based on the play Her Master's
Voice by Clare Kummer.
Her Own Money [HOM]. Film.
Prod.
Thompson Buchanan.
Dir. Joseph Henabery. Adapt. and scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Ethel
Clayton, Warner Baxter, and Clarence Burton.
Production History:
Famous Players-Lasky. Released 15 Jan. 1924.
Source: Based on the play Her Own Money
(1915) by Mark Elbert Swan.
Her Sturdy Oak [HSO]. Film.
Dir. Thomas N. Heffron. Story and scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Wanda
Hawley, Walter Hiers, and Mayme Kelso.
Production History:
Realart Pictures. Released July 1921.
Source:
Original work.
The Invisible Bond [INV]. Originally titled
The See-Saw [SEE]. Play in four
acts.
Dir. and
scenario Charles Maigne. Adapt. by Elmer Harris and Mason Carnes. Featuring Irene
Castle, Huntley Gordon, Claire Adams, and Fleming Ward.
Production History:
Famous Players-Lasky, 1919.
Source: Based on the story The See-Saw: A
Story of To-day by Sophie Kerr Underwood.
Jack Straw [JAC]. Film.
Dir. William C. DeMille. Scenario Olga Printzlau and Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Robert Warwick, Carroll McComas, Charles Ogle, and Irene
Sullivan.
Production History:
Famous Players-Lasky, 1920.
Source: Based on the play Jack Straw by
W. Somerset Maugham.
Johnny Belinda [JB]. Originally titled
The Inner Silence [IS]. Play in three acts.
By Elmer Harris. Prod. Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Featuring Helen
Craig.
Production History:
1.
Pier
Theatre, Atlantic City, Aug. 1940. Try-outs.
2.
Wilbur Theatre, Boston, Aug.-Sept. 1940. Try-outs.
3.
Belasco Theatre, NYC, 18 Sept. 1940- Dec. 1940. (321 performances,
including run at Longacre, below).
4.
Longacre Theatre, NYC, 8 Dec. 1940-21 June 1941.
5.
Windsor Theatre, NYC, opening June 1941. Prod. Harry
Gribble.
Featuring Jean Platt (alternate: Dania Krupska). Road tour including
Flatbush Theatre, NYC, opening 1 July 1941; Pier Theatre, Atlantic City, opening
Sept. 1941; Locust Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, opening 15 Sept. 1941; and
Nixon Theatre, Pittsburgh, n.d.
6.
Parkway Theatre, NYC, opening 25 Nov. 1942. Prod. Nathan
Goldberg and Jacob Jacobs. Featuring Jean Platt. Yiddish trans. And
adapt. Isidore Lash.
7.
Warner Brothers. Released 14 Sept. 1948. Prod. Jerry
Wald. Dir.
Jean Negulesco.
Screenplay Irmgard von Cube and Allen Vincent. Featuring Jane
Wyman.
8.
Theatre Royal, Brighton, England, opening 20 Feb.
1950. Prod.
James Shirvell.
Dir. John Hanau. Adapt. Sorrel Carson and John Hanau. Featuring Sorrel
Carson. Road
tour including Tynemouth, England, n.d.; and Westcliff, England, n.d.
9.
Hamburger Kammerspiele, Hamburg, opening 20 Jan. 1952. Trans. and adapt.
by Walter Firner.
Featuring Hilde Krahl. Road tour including Vienna Theatre, Vienna,
Austria, n.d.; and Burghof Buhn Niederrhein, Innsbruck, Switzerland, n.d.
10. Wimbledon Theatre, London, opening 16
June 1952.
Dir. Colin Kent. Adapt. John Hanau and Sorrel Carson. Featuring Mavis
Pugh. road
Tour including France, n.d.
11. Front Row Center (CBS television). 29 June 1955. Prod. Fletcher
Markle. Adapt.
Leonard Freeman.
Featuring Katherine Bard. [Scripts sent to institutions for the deaf
prior to viewing.]
12. Granada television, England. 26 Dec. 1957.
13. Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC
television).
13 Oct. 1958.
Prod. George Schaefer. Adapt. Theodore Apstein. Featuring Julie
Harris.
14. Berlin television, Germany. [Mar. 1960.] Adapt. Walter
Firner.
15. Palm Beach Jnior College, Lake Worth,
FL, opening 19 Feb. 1962. Dir. Frank Leahy. [Amateur
production.]
16. Actors Incorporated, Providence, RI,
opening 15 Mar. 1962.
[Ama teur production.]
17. Reno Little Theatre, Reno, NV, opening 2
May 1962.
[Amateur production.]
18. In Stillwater, OK, opening 1 Aug.
1962. [Amateur
production.]
19. In Dayton, OH, opening 14 Feb.
1963. [Amateur
production.]
20. In Attleboro, MA, opening 15 May
1963. [Amateur
production.]
21. Gill Theatre, University of San
Francisco, CA, opening [1964].
22. ABC Color Special (ABC television). 22 Oct. 1967. Prod. David
Susskind.
Adapt. Allan Sloane. Featuring Mia Farrow.
23. Confederation Centre of the Arts,
Charlottetown, PEI, opening 1 July 1968. Dir. Alan Lund. Adapt. Mavor
Moore.
Featuring Diane Nyland. 24 performances.
24. Confederation Centre of the Arts,
Charlottetown, PEI, opening 30 June 1969. Dir. Alan Lund. Adapt. Mavor
Moore.
Featuring Diane Nyland. 25 performances. Road tour including
Theatre Maisonneuve, Montreal, Canada, 28 May-1 June 1969 (7 performances);
Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, Canada, 3 June-15 June 1969 (16 performances);
National Arts Centre, Ottowa, Canada, 18 June-28 June 1969 (6 performances).
25. Confederation Centre of the Arts,
Charlottetown, PEI.
1975.
Dir. Alan Lund. Adapt. Mavor Moore.
26. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC
television). 9
Mar. 1976.
Prod. Norman Campbell. Adapt. Mavor Moore. Featuring Amanda
Hancox.
Rebroadcast 19 June 1981.
27. Confederation Centre of the Arts,
Charlottetown, PEI.
1976.
Dir. Alan Lund. Adapt. Mavor Moore.
28. Stonehenge Productions (CBS
television). 8
Oct. 1982.
Prod. Stanley Bass. Adapt. from Cube and Vincent screenplay by
Sue Milburn.
Featuring Rosanna Arquette.
29. Confederation Centre of the Arts,
Charlottetown, PEI, opening June 1983. Dir. Alan Lund. Adapt. Mavor
Moore.
Featuring Amanda Hancox. 22 performances. Road tour including
Hamilton Place, Toronto, Canada, 24 Oct.-26 Oct. 1983.
Source: An original story from Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward
Island, Canada.
La Chienne [LCH]. Play Adapt.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. Shubert Theatre, c1931.
Source: Based on the play La Chienne by
Andre Mouesy-Eon.
Ladies All [LA]. Originally titled
La Quelle [LAQ]. Play adapt. in
three acts.
By Elmer Harris. Prod. Lee Shubert (?). Featuring Violet
Heming and Walter Woolf.
Production History:
Morosco Theatre, NYC, opening 28 July 1930 (140 performances).
Source: Based on the play La Quelle by
Prince Antoine Bibesco.
Let 'Em Have It [LEM]. UK release as False Faces. Film.
Prod.
Edward Small.
Dir. Samuel Wood. Story Elmer Harris and Joseph Moncure
March.
Featuring Richard Arlen and Virginia Bruce.
Production History: United Artists. Released May 1935.
Source: Based on a story by Elmer Harris and Joseph M. March.
Looking For Trouble [LFT]. Also known as Trouble Shooter [TRS]. Film.
Prod. Darryl F. Zanuck. Dir. William Wellman. Adapt. Leonard
Praskins and Elmer Harris. Featuring Spencer Tracy and Jack Oakie.
Production History:
20th Century Pictures. Released April
1934.
Source: Based on a story by J. R. Bren.
Look Pleasant [LOP]. Play in two
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
Mason Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, opening Aug. 1918.
Source: Based on the story Love in a
Hurry by Gelett Burgess.
The Lottery Man [LOT]. Film.
Dir.
James Cruze.
Adapt. Elmer Harris. Scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Wallace
Reid, Harrison Ford, Wanda Hawley, and Winifred Greenwood.
Production History:
Famous Players-Lasky (distributed by Paramount-Artcraft). Released Oct.
1919.
Source: Based on a play by Rida Johnson Young, 1910.
Love and Obey [LOB]. Originally titled
It Began This Way [BTW]. Play adapt.
By Elmer Harris and Esther Forbes.
Production History:
To be researched. c1963.
Source: Based on the story It Began This
Way by Soxon Kling and Esther Forbes, 1944.
The Love That Dares [LTD]. Film.
Dir. Harry F. Millarde. Presenter William Fox. Scenario Denison
Clift. Story
Elmer Harris.
Featuring Madlaine Traverse, Tom Santschi, Frank Elliot, and Mae
Gaston.
Production History:
Fox Film.
Released May 1919.
Source: Based on the story The Love That
Dares by Elmer Harris.
Loving Lies [LOL]. Film.
Prod. Frank Woods, Thompson Buchanan, Elmer Harris, and Clark W. Thomas. Dir. W. S. Van Dyke. Story Thompson Buchanan. Featuring Evelyn Brent, Monte Blue, Joan Lowell, Ralph Faulkner, and Charles K. Gerrard.
Production History:
Associated Authors. Released Jan. 1924.
Source: Based on Peter Bernard Kyne's story "The Harbor Bar" in Red Book (Apr. 1914: 1058-1075).
Made For Love [MFL]. Film.
Presented by Cecil B. De Mille. Dir. Paul
Sloane.
Production editor Elmer Harris. Story and adapt. Garrett Fort. Featuring Leatrice
Joy and Edmund Burns.
Production History:
Cinema Corporation of America. Released [9 Jan.] 1926.
Source:
To be researched.
Man Proposes [MP]. Television
screenplay in three acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. c1957
Source:
Original work.
The Man Who Killed Lincoln [MKL]. Play in three acts.
By Elmer Harris and Philip Van Doren Stern. Prod. Joseph M.
Gaites.
Featuring Richard Waring.
Production History:
1.
Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY, 29-30 Dec. 1940. Try-outs.
2.
Cass Theatre, Detroit, MI, 31 Dec.-1 Jan. 1940. Try-outs.
3.
Longacre Theatre, NYC, 17-20 Jan. 1940 (5
performances).
Source: Based on the book by Philip Van Doren Stern, The Man Who Killed Lincoln: The Story of John Wilkes Booth
and His Part in the Assassination (New York: Random House, 1939).
The March Hare [MH]. Originally titled
Yip, Yip, Yipee! [YYY]. Film.
Dir. Maurice Campbell. Scenario Percy Heath. Story Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Bebe Daniels, Grace Morse, Herbert Sherwood, Helen Jermoe
Eddy.
Production History:
Realart Pictures. Released June 1921.
Source: Original work.
Marriage For Three [MFT]. Originally titled
Devotion [DEV] and Forbidden Paradise [FP]. Play in three acts.
By Elmer Harris. Prod. Lee Shubert. Featuring Jesse
Royce Landis.
Production History:
Bijou Theatre, NYC, opening 11 Nov. 1931 (5 performances).
Source:
Original work.
The Matinee Idol [MAI]. Film.
Prod. Harry Cohn. Dir. Frank R. Capra. Adapt. Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Bessie Love and Johnny Walker.
Production History:
Columbia Pictures. Released 14 Mar. 1928.
Source: Based on the story Come Back to
Aaron by Robert Lord and Ernest Pagano.
Midnight for Cinderella [MFC]. Play.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. c1944
Source:
Original work.
Miss Hobbs [MIH]. Film.
Dir. Donald Crisp. Scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Wanda
Hawley, Harrison Ford (b. 1884), and Helen Jerome Eddy (b. 1897).
Production History:
Realart Pictures, 1920.
Source: Play by Jerome K. Jerome.
A Modern Virgin [MV]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris. Prod. Lee and J. J. Shubert. Dir. Stanley
Logan.
Featuring Margaret Sullavan.
Production History:
Booth Theatre, NYC, opening 20 May 1931 (29 performances).
Source:
Original work.
Money [MON]. Play in two
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. c1918.
Source: Based on the story All Front and
No Body by Wallace Irwin.
Mrs. Temple’s Telegram [MTT]. Film.
Dir. James Cruz. Presenter Jesse Lasky. Scenario Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Bryant Washburn, Wanda Hawley, Carmen Phillips.
Production History: Famous Players-Lasky, 1920.
Source: Play by Frank Wyatt and William Morris.
Name the Woman [NTW]. Film.
Prod. Harry Cohn. Dir. and writer Erle C. Kenton. Adapt. Elmer
Harris.
Featuring
Anita Stewart.
Production History:
Columbia Pictures. Released 25 May 1928.
Source: Based on the story Bridge by
Erle C. Kenton.
Napolean Intervenes [NAP]. Play adapt.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. Shubert Theatre, c1930.
Source:
To be researched.
No More Women [NMW]. Film.
Prod. Frank Woods, Thompson Buchanan, Elmer Harris, and Clark W. Thomas. Prod. and writer Elmer Harris. Dir. Lloyd Ingraham. Featuring Matt Moore, Madge Bellamy, and Kathleen Clifford.
Production History:
1.
Associated Authors. Released 18 Jan. 1924.
2.
NYC, opening 3 Aug. 1926 (6 performances).
Source: Based on the story No More
Women by Samuel Shipman and Neil Twomey.
Object--Matrimony [OBJ]. Originally titled
Object--Alimony [OBA]. Film.
Prod. Jack Cohn. Dir. Scott R. Dunlap. Scenario Peter
Milne. Adapt.
Sig Herzig.
Story Elmer Harris. Featuring Lois Wilson, Hugh Allan, Ethel Grey
Terry.
Production History:
Columbia Pictures. Released 22 Dec. 1928.
Source:
Original work.
The Offenders [OFF]. Play in four
acts.
By Elmer Harris. Prod. Henry B. Harris. Featuring Robert
Edeson.
Production History:
Hudson Theatre, NYC, opening 28 Sept. 1908 (22 performances).
Source:
Original work.
One of Many [OOM]. Play.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. Oliver Morosco, c1913.
Source:
Original work.
Pappy [PPY]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. c1951.
Source:
Original work.
The Parisienne [PAR]. Play.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. Select Operating Corporation, c1937. Shubert Theatre,
c1958.
Source:
Original work.
It Pays to Advertise [IPA]. Film.
Dir. Donald Crisp. Scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Bryant
Washburn, Lois Wilson, Frank Currier, and Walter Hiers.
Production History: Famous Players-Lasky, 1919.
Source:
Play by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett.
Peggy [PEG]. Originally titled
Swing Shift [SWS]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. See Charlotte Greenwood in 1950 title.
Source:
Original work.
Pig Boats [PIG]. Film.
Production History:
To be researched. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, c1932.
Source:
To be researched.
Poor Mama [PM]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. Peninsula Studios, c1924.
Source:
To be researched.
Pretty Mrs. Smith [PMS]. Musical comedy in
three acts.
Originally titled Susceptible Smith [SUS].
PMS play: By Elmer Harris and Oliver Morosco. Prod. Oliver
Morosco.
Lyrics by Earl Carroll. Music by Henry James and Alfred Robyn. Featuring Charlotte
Greenwood.
PMS film: Dir. Hobart Bosworth. Story by Elmer Harris and Oliver
Morosco.
Featuring Louis Bennison, Leila Bliss, Owen Moore, Fritzi Scheff, and
Forrest Stanley.
Production History:
1.
Burbank Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, opening 22 Dec.
[1913].
Try-outs.
2.
Casino Theatre, NYC, 21 Sept. 1914 (48 performances).
3.
Bosworth, Inc. and Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company. Released April
1915.
Source:
Original play by Elmer Harris and Oliver Morosco.
Ransom [RAN]. Film.
Prod. Harry Cohn. Story and Dir. George B. Seitz. Adapt. Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Lois Wilson and Edmund Burns.
Production History:
Columbia Pictures. Released 30 June 1928.
Source:
To be researched. Based on a work by Dorothy Howell?
Red Salute [RED]. Film.
Dir. Sidney Lanfield. Adapt. Elmer Harris, Humphrey Pearson, Manuel
Seff. Story
Humphrey Pearson.
Prod. Edward Small. Featuring Barbara Stanwyk and Robert
Young.
Production History: Reliance Pictures, 1935.
Source: To be researched.
Richard the Lion-Hearted [RLH]. Film.
Prod. Frank E. Woods, Thompson Buchanan, Elmer Harris,
Clark W. Thomas.
Dir. Chester Whithey. Scenario Frank E. Woods. Featuring Wallace
Beery, Charles K. Gerrard, Kathleen Clifford, Marguerite De La Motte, and
Clarence Geldart.
Production History:
Associated Authors. Released 15 Oct. 1923.
Source: Based on the book The Talisman
or The Bishop of Tyre (1825) by Sir Walter
Scott.
The Romantic Woman [RW]. Originally titled
A Romantic Lady [RL]. Play adapt.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched.
Source: Based on the German play adapt. from the book, Die Romantische Frau by A. Szanto and M. Szeczeb. Harris, Elmer,
trans. A Romantic Lady. By A. Szanto and M. Szeczeb. TS. 1937. [Script box #14,
Shubert Archive, NYC.]
Satan [SAT]. Play in three
acts.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched. c1914. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, c1932. (See M-G-M Madam Satan of 1930?)
Source:
Original work (to be researched).
Sham [SHA]. Originally titled
Froth [FRO]. Play in three
acts.
SHA play: By Geraldine Bonner and Elmer Harris. Prod. Maurice
Campbell.
Featuring Henrietta Crosman.
SHA film: Dir. Thomas Heffron. Adapt. Douglas Z. Doty. Story Elmer Harris
and Geraldine Bonner.
Featuring Ethel Clayton, Clyde Fillmore, Theodore Roberts, Helen Dunbar,
and Walter Hiers.
Production History:
1.
Wallack's Theatre, NYC, opening 27 Mar. 1909 (65
performances).
2.
Famous Players-Lasky (distributed by Paramount
Pictures).
Released May 1921.
Source:
Based on the story "The Diary of a Society Parasite" by Geraldine Bonner
(appearing in Ainslee's Magazine?).
Sina [SIN]. Play.
By Elmer Harris and Mary Austin.
Production History:
To be researched. c1906.
Source:
Original work.
The Sins of St. Anthony [SSA]. Film.
Prod. and scenario Elmer Harris. Dir. James
Cruz.
Featuring Bryant Washburn, Margaret Loomis, Lorenza Lazzarini, Viora
Daniel, and Guy Oliver.
Production History:
Famous Players-Lasky (distributed by Paramount-Artcraft Pictures),
1920.
Source: Based on the story The Sins of St.
Anthony by Charles Collins.
The Siren [SRE]. Film.
Prod. Harry Cohn. Dir. Byron Haskin. Adapt. Elmer
Harris. Story
Harold Shumate.
Featuring Tom Moore, Dorothy Revier, and Norman Trevor.
Production History:
Columbia Pictures. Released 20 Dec. 1927.
Source:
Based on a story by Harold Shumate.
Dir. Donald Crisp. Presenter Jesse Lasky. Scenario Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Bryant Washburn, Wanda Hawley, Clarence Burton, and Elsa
Lorimer.
Production History: Famous Players-Lasky, 1920.
Source: To be researched.
Skyscraper Souls [SKY]. Film.
Dir. Edgar Selwyn. Adapt. C. Gardner Sullivan. Dialogue Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Warren William, Maureen O’Sullivan, Hedda Hopper, Helen
Coburn.
Production History:
Cosmopolitan Productions in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released Aug.
1932.
Source: Based on the book Skyscraper by
Faith Baldwin.
Society Girl [SG]. Film.
Dirs. George King and Sidney Lanfield. Adapt. Charles
Beahan.
Dialogue Elmer Harris. Featuring Spencer Tracy, Peggy Shannon and
James Dunn.
Production History:
Fox Film.
Released June 1932.
Source: Based on the play Society Girl
by John F. Larkin, Jr., (aka Sean O'Larkin) and Charles Beahan.
So Long, Letty [SLL]. Originally titled
and prod. as Thy Neighbor's Wife [TNW].
TNW: Play in three acts. By Elmer Harris. Prod. Daniel
Frohman.
Featuring Arthur Byron and Pamela Gaythorne.
SLL: Farce with music. By Oliver Morosco and Elmer Harris. Lyrics and music
Earl Carroll.
Prod. Oliver Morosco.
SLL (1920) film (Christie Film Company [distributed by
Robertson-Cole Distributing]): Dir. Al Christie. Scenario W. Scott Darling. Music James C.
Bradford.
Featuring T. Roy Barnes, Colleen Moore, Walter Hiers, and Grace
Diamond.
SLL (1930) film (Warner Brothers): Dir. Lloyd Bacon. Music Earl Carroll,
Harry Akst, Charles Tobias, and Grant Clarke. Adapt. Arthur Caeser (dialogue) and Robert
Lord. Story
Oliver Morosco and Elmer Harris. Featuring Charlotte Greenwood.
Production History:
1. TNW: Lyceum Theatre, NYC, opening 5 Sept. 1911 (15
performances).
Road tour including Valentine Theatre, Toledo, OH, 16-17 Oct. 1911.
2. SLL: Shubert Theatre, NYC, opening 23 Oct. 1916 (96
performances).
3. SLL: Christie Film Company (distributed by Robertson, Cole
Distributing Corporation). Released 4 Nov. 1920.
4. SLL: Warner Brothers, Inc. Released Feb. 1930.
Source:
Elmer Harris.
TNW. Comedy in three acts. Copyright DU24538,
22 June 1911.
So This is Love? [STI]. Film.
Prod. Harry Cohn. Dir. Frank R. Capra. Story Norma
Springer.
Adapt. Elmer Harris. Featuring Shirley Mason, William Collier,
Jr., and Johnnie Walker.
Production History: Columbia Pictures. Released 6 Feb. 1928.
Source:
Based on a story by Norma Springer.
The Speed Girl [SPE]. Film.
Dir. Maurice Campbell. Scenario Douglas Z. Doty. Story Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Bebe Daniels, Theodore von Eltz, Frank Elliott, and Walter
Hiers.
Production History: Realart Pictures. Realeased Nov. 1921.
Source:
Based on the sketch The Speed Girl by Lena R.
Smith and Mrs. Vance Thompson, 1912.
Spirit of Youth [SY]. Film.
Dir. Walter Lang. Story and continuity Eve Unsell and Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Dorothy Sebastian.
Production History:
Tiffany-Stahl Productions. Released [15 or 20] Feb. 1929.
Source:
To be researched.
The Sporting Age [SPA]. UK release as The Stronger Love. Film.
Prod. Harry Cohn. Dir. Erle C. Kenton. Adapt. Elmer
Harris. Story
Armand Kaliz.
Featuring Belle Bennett, Holmes Herbert, and Carroll Nye.
Production History:
Columbia Pictures. Released 2 Mar. 1928.
Source:
To be researched.
Stepping Out [SO]. Originally titled
Merry Wives [MER] and Merry Wives of Hollywood [MWH]. Play in three acts.
By Elmer Harris. Prod. Charles B. Dillingham in association
with Eddie Dowling and Edgar MacGregor. Featuring Walter Connoly.
Production History:
1.
Fulton Theatre, NYC, opening 20 May 1929 (24
performances).
2.
Hal Roach Studios in association with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Released 1931.
Dir. Charles Reisner. Adapt. Elmer Harris and Robert E.
Hopkins.
Featuring Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Leila Hyams, and Lilian
Bond.
Source:
Elmer Harris.
MER. Play. Copyright DU86770, 15 Oct. 1928.
Sunny Side Up [SUN]. Film.
Supervisor Elmer Harris. Dir. Donald Crisp. Adapt. Beulah Marie
Dix and Elmer Harris.
Featuring Vera Reynolds and Edmund Burns.
Production History:
De Mille Pictures. Released 2 Aug. 1926.
Source: Based on the book Sunny Ducrow
(1920) by Henry St. John Cooper.
Tempesta [TST]. Play.
By Elmer Harris. Prod. Rudolph Schildkraut. Featuring Joseph
Schildkraut.
Production History:
Schaluspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany, opening Feb. 1904.
Source:
Original work, 1903.
Temptation [TEM]. Play adapt.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
Adapt. cancelled. Shubert Theatre Corporation, c1929.
Source: Based on the French play La
Temptation by Charles Mere, c1929.
Tess of the Storm Country [TSC]. Film.
Prod. Mary Pickford. Dir. John S. Robertson. Adapt. Elmer Harris. Featuring Mary
Pickford, Lloyd Hughes, Gloria Hope, and Forrest Robinson.
Production History:
Mary Pickford Company in association with United Artists. Released 12 Nov.
1922.
Source: Based on the book Tess of the Storm
Country by Grace White Miller (1909).
That Certain Thing [TCT]. Film.
Prod. Harry Cohn. Dir. Frank R. Capra. Story and adapt.
Elmer Harris.
Featuring Viola Dana, Ralph Graves, Burr McIntosh, and Aggie Herring.
Production History:
Columbia Pictures. Released 1 Jan. 1928.
Source:
Original work.
The Three Wise Guys [TWG]. Film.
Prod. Harry Rapf. Dir. George B. Seitz. Adapt. Elmer
Harris.
Featuring Robert Young and Betty Furness.
Production History:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released May 1936.
Source: Based on the story "The Three Wise Guys" by Damon Runyon
(see Runyon's "The Bloodhounds of Broadway" and Other
Stories New York: Harmon, 1981).
Time and Tide [T&T]. Television
screenplay.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched.
Source:
Original work, c1958.
Too Much Wife [TOO]. Film.
Supervisor Elmer Harris. Dir. Thomas N. Heffron. Scenario Percy
Heath. Story
Lorna Moon.
Featuring Wanda Hawley, T. Roy Barnes, Arthur Hoyt, and Lillian
Langdon.
Production History: Realart Pictures. Released 1 Jan 1922.
Source: Based on a story by Lorna Moon.
Top Man [TPM]. Play.
By Elmer Harris.
Production History: To be researched.
Source:
Original work.
The Trial Marriage [TRI]. Play in three
acts.
TRI: By Elmer Harris. Prod. Henry B. Harris. Featuring Helen
Ware.
TRI film: Prod. Harry Cohn. Dir. Erle C. Kenton. Story Sonya
Levion.
Featuring Norman Kerry, Sally Eilers, Thelma Todd, and Jason Robards,
Sr.
Production History:
1.
Hudson Theatre, NYC, opening 29 Oct. 1912 (23
performances).
2.
Columbia Pictures. Released Apr. 1929.
Source:
Elmer Harris, The Trial Marriage. Play in three
acts.
1910.
Under Treatment [UNT]. Play adapt.
By Bertha Pogson and Elmer Harris.
Production History:
To be researched.
Source: Translated from the German by Bertha Pogson and Elmer
Harris. Bertha
Pogson. UNT. Comedy in three acts. Copyright DU5478,
26 Aug. 1904.
The Vine [VI]. Film.
Production History:
To be researched. Famous Players-Lasky, c1921. See also The
Clinging Vine, DeMille, 1926?
Source:
To be researched.
What Happened to Jones [WHJ]. Film.
Dir. James Cruz. Scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Bryant
Washburn, Margaret Loomis, and J. Morris Foster.
Production History: Famous Players-Lasky, 1920.
Source: Play by George Broadhurst.
What Next? [WHN]. Play in two
acts.
By Elmer Harris and Oliver Morosco. Music and lyrics
Harry Tierney and A. Bryan.
Production History: Majestic Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, opening June 1917.
Source:
Elmer Harris and Oliver Morosco. WHN. Comedy with music
in two acts.
Copyright DU46792, 1 May 1917.
Why Smith Left Home [WSL]. Film.
Dir. Donald Crisp. Scenario Elmer Harris. Featuring Bryant
Washburn, Lois Wilson, Mayme Kelso, Walter Hiers, and Winter Hall.
Production History: Famous Players-Lasky, 1919.
Source: Play by George Broadhurst.
The Wild Olive [WO]. Film.
Prod. Oliver Morosco. Dir. Oscar Apfel. Adapt. Elmer Harris. Scenario Elmer
Harris and Oliver Morosco. Featuring Edmund Lowe, Charles Marriott, Mary
Ruby, Forrest Stanley, and Myrtle Stedman.
Production History:
Bosworth, Inc. and Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company (distributed by
Paramount Pictures).
Released June 1915.
Source: Based on the book The Wild
Olive by Basil King.
The Wise Virgin [WIV]. Film.
Supervisor and writer Elmer Harris. Dir. Lloyd
Ingraham.
Featuring Patsy Ruth Miller, Edythe Chapman, and Charles A.
Stevenson.
Production History: Peninsula Studios, Inc. Released 24 Oct. 1924.
Source:
To be researched. Elmer Harris. WIV. Film. Copyright LP20698,
15 Aug. 1924.
A Woman's Way [WW]. Film.
Prod. Harry Cohn. Dir. Edmund Mortimer. Adapt. Elmer
Harris. Story
Izola Forrester.
Featuring Margaret Livingston and Warner Baxter.
Production History:
Columbia Pictures. Released 18 Feb. 1928.
Source:
Based on a story by Izola Forrester.
Young Sinners [YS]. Originally titled
Footsteps [FST], Wings of Love [WOL], When You're Eighteen [WYE],
and Wings of Youth [WOY].
YS: Play in three acts. By Elmer Harris. Produced by Lee and
J. J. Shubert.
Featuring Dorothy Appleby and Raymon Guion.
YS film: Dir. John G. Blystone. Adapt. William M.
Counselman.
Story Elmer Harris. Featuring Hardie Albright, John Arledge,
Edmund Breese, Billy Butts.
Production History:
1.
In Atlantic City, opening 21 Oct. 1929. Try-outs
2.
Morosco Theatre, NYC, opening 28 Nov. 1929 (229
performances).
Road tour including Apollo Theatre, Chicago, opening 28 Sept. 1930.
3.
New Yorker Theatre, NYC, opening 20 Apr. 1931 (16
performances).
Prod. George Sharp. Featuring Dorothy Appleby and Jackson
Halliday.
4.
Ambassador Theatre, NYC, opening 6 Mar. 1933 (72
performances).
Prod. Thomas Kilpatrick. Dir. Carl Hunt. Featuring Dorothy
Appleby and Jackson Halliday.
5.
Fox Film. Released May 1931.
Source: Elmer Harris, Wings of Youth. Original work, 1929.
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