Jerry Wald

Jerry Wald

Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 5 (Director), 19 (Writer)

Find more information about Jerry Wald at The Internet Movie Database

Edit Biography

Titles you haven't rated - Actor (2) | Director (5) | Writer (19)

    The Roaring Twenties
    After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging... (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    They Drive by Night
    Two brothers struggle as wildcat truck drivers; one comes to harm, the other is accused of his friend's murder. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Rambling \
    Jerry Wald has to write about radio, visiting Sid Gary gives him the tip it might be more easy for him to write this article at the radio station than at his newspaper office. At the studio they listen to the Boswell Sister's rehearsal, which is interupted by some not so friendly remarks by orchestra leader Abe Lyman, they listen at the door, where a Colonel Stoopnagel broadcast is prepared, as well as to the rehearsal of a new song for an broadcast by Kate Smith. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Torrid Zone
    Plagued by revolutionaries that harass his plantation in a banana republic, fruit company exec Steve Case rehires former nemesis Nick Butler to restore order and profits. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Manpower
    Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One night Hank and Johnny meet Fay Duval in a clip joint, but tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Sweet Music
    College band-leader "Skip" Houston keeps his band together after graduation, they turn professional, and they are a big hit on the radio and in nightclubs. He falls in love with Bonnie Haydon, a dancer who hates him because he is constantly taunting her about her act and offering suggestions for improvements. She slowly learns that any engagements or work she has is because of Houston. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Brother Rat
    Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Twenty Million Sweethearts
    Unscrupulous agent Pat O'Brien makes singing waiter Dick Powell a big radio star while Ginger Rogers, who has lost her own radio show, helps Powell. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Living on Velvet
    A guilt-ridden pilot finds a new outlook on life when he falls for a society girl. (tcm.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Naughty But Nice
    Professor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt Martha, he is surrounded by swing and after a few drinks, he is photographed hanging on the chandelier. He finds that he can only sell his rhapsody to Eddie and Miss McKay puts lyrics to it. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Flight Angels
    Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    I Live for Love
    Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen. Dolores Del Rio stars as hot-tempered South American stage favorite Donna Alvarez, who is brought to America to headline a Broadway show. The film details the backstage romance between Donna and her handsome co-star Roger Kerry (played by Everett Marshall, an opera star who'd last been seen on-screen in 1930's Dixiana). (allmovie.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Maybe It\
    A young couple suffers through in-law and employment problems. (tcm.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Ready, Willing and Able
    Two struggling songwriters team up with an ambitious dancer to take Broadway by storm.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Stars Over Broadway
    Al is a down on his luck promoter who is thinking of taking the final bow when he meets Jan, the singing porter. He sees something in Jan so he signs him to a contract. Al works odd jobs to pay for Jan's singing lessons and drops the idea of Opera when he learns that it will take years. He has him sing in a nightclub and from there it is up. But Jan soon starts missing lessons and rehearsals and hits the bottle so the partnership between Al and Jan ends. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    On Your Toes
    A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Sons o\
    Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with Berenice, another actress, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with Yvonne, a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Navy Blues
    On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Sing Me a Love Song
    A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
    Your probable score
    ?