A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
M.L. Simmons
Michael Simmons
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Born:
April 5, 1896
Died:
February 1, 1980
Screenplay:
1935 The Awakening of Jim Burke
1937 All American Sweetheart
1937 Murder in Greenwich Village
1937 Venus Makes Trouble
1938 Juvenile Court
1938 Little Miss Roughneck
1938 Squadron of Honor
1939 Missing Daughters
1939 Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939 Romance of the Redwoods
1939 Tropic Fury
1941 Scattergood Baines
1941 Scattergood Meets Broadway
1943 Cinderella Swings It
1943 Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
1943 Heavenly Music
1943 Two Weeks to Live
1946 Landrush
Story:
1932 The Honor of the Press
1935 The Awakening of Jim Burke
1937 All American Sweetheart
1937 Murder in Greenwich Village
1937 Venus Makes Trouble
1938 Juvenile Court
1938 Little Miss Roughneck
1938 Squadron of Honor
1939 Missing Daughters
1939 Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939 Romance of the Redwoods
1939 Tropic Fury
1941 Scattergood Baines
1941 Scattergood Meets Broadway
1943 Cinderella Swings It
1943 Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
1943 Heavenly Music
1943 Two Weeks to Live
1946 Landrush
Writer:
1932 The Honor of the Press
1935 The Awakening of Jim Burke
1936 Girl of the Ozarks
1937 All American Sweetheart
1937 Murder in Greenwich Village
1937 Venus Makes Trouble
1938 Flight to Fame
1938 Juvenile Court
1938 Little Miss Roughneck
1938 Squadron of Honor
1939 Missing Daughters
1939 Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939 Romance of the Redwoods
1939 Tropic Fury
1941 Scattergood Baines
1941 Scattergood Meets Broadway
1942 Eyes of the Underworld
1942 Scattergood Rides High
1942 Scattergood Survives a Murder
1943 Cinderella Swings It
1943 Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
1943 Heavenly Music
1943 Two Weeks to Live
1944 They Live in Fear
1946 Landrush
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.