Louis F. Edelman

From Wikipedia Louis F. Edelman (May 18, 1900 – January 6, 1976) was an American screenwriter and producer. He produced 39 films between 1935 and 1952. He was also active in television, having produced such series as The Big Valley, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961), and the sitcom Love and Marriage (1959–1960).

Works

7.6

Adam's Woman

Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement in Australia.

Release Date: 1970-03-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 7

The Big Valley
6.1

The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.

Release Date: 1965-09-15

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 53

Dragon by the Tail

Josephine Little, an expatriate American importer-exporter of sometimes unscrupulous dealings, is recruited by Central Intellegence Agency operatives in Hong Kong to help recover an American born scientist away from the communists, holding him him in North Viet Nam. She goes through with the dangerous mission, in hopes of securing a scrap metal deal with the U.S. government.

Release Date: 1961-01-30

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

The Barbara Stanwyck Show
6.2

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.

Release Date: 1960-09-19

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 36

Vote Count: 4

The Californians
5.3

The Californians

San Franciscans during the goldrush of the 1850s attempt to maintain law and order in their wild city. Newly arrived Matthew Wayne becomes sheriff, then marshal, and organizes the city police force while expressing interest in the young widow Fanzler and sparring with attorney Pitt. Adam Kennedy appears as Dion Patrick, an Irish newspaperman who helps the local vigilante committee.

Release Date: 1957-09-24

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

The Adventures of Jim Bowie
3.7

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.

Release Date: 1956-09-07

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 76

Vote Count: 3

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.6

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.

Release Date: 1955-09-06

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 226

Vote Count: 19

5.5

The Jazz Singer

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

Release Date: 1953-02-14

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 6

6.1

Springfield Rifle

Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.

Release Date: 1952-10-22

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 39

5.6

The Big Trees

In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...but these are the very trees he wants most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels, and forms an unlikely alliance.

Release Date: 1952-02-05

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 33

4.7

I'll See You in My Dreams

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

Release Date: 1951-12-06

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 13

6.0

Operation Pacific

During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.

Release Date: 1951-01-27

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 53

5.8

The West Point Story

A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

Release Date: 1950-11-25

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 9

7.7

White Heat

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

Release Date: 1949-09-02

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 496

6.1

Hotel Berlin

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

Release Date: 1945-03-02

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 12

6.3

A Song to Remember

Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.

Release Date: 1945-01-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 27

5.8

Once Upon a Time

Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.

Release Date: 1944-06-29

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 11

6.6

Destroyer

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.

Release Date: 1943-08-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 15

7.1

You Were Never Lovelier

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Release Date: 1942-11-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 52

5.6

A Yank in the R.A.F.

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Release Date: 1941-09-26

Department: Production

Job: Associate Producer

Vote Count: 22

5.4

The Fighting 69th

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

Release Date: 1940-01-27

Department: Production

Job: Associate Producer

Vote Count: 24

6.3

Invisible Stripes

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Release Date: 1939-12-30

Department: Production

Job: Associate Producer

Vote Count: 23

5.9

Espionage Agent

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

Release Date: 1939-09-30

Department: Production

Job: Associate Producer

Vote Count: 9

6.2

Dust Be My Destiny

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Release Date: 1939-09-16

Department: Production

Job: Associate Producer

Vote Count: 17

7.0

Jezebel

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Release Date: 1938-03-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 203

3.5

Love, Honor and Behave

Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.

Release Date: 1938-03-12

Department: Production

Job: Associate Producer

Vote Count: 4

6.5

Marked Woman

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Release Date: 1937-04-10

Department: Production

Job: Associate Producer

Vote Count: 72

6.6

Bullets or Ballots

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Release Date: 1936-06-06

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 47

6.2

The Walking Dead

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Release Date: 1936-03-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 88

6.5

'G' Men

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Release Date: 1935-05-04

Department: Production

Job: Supervising Producer

Vote Count: 84

6.4

Devil Dogs of the Air

Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.

Release Date: 1935-02-09

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 5

5.6

Flirtation Walk

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.

Release Date: 1934-12-01

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Vote Count: 14

4.7

Shipmates

A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.

Release Date: 1931-04-25

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Vote Count: 3

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