Jack Rose

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Rose was an American screenwriter and producer born on November 4, 1911, in Warsaw, Russian Empire, and died on October 21, 1995, in Los Angeles, California. Rose began writing gags for Milton Berle and radio lines for Bob Hope before moving to screenplays. His first was 1943's Road to Rio starring Hope and Bing Crosby. In 1955, Rose produced the Hope film The Seven Little Foys, co-written and directed by his frequent collaborator Melville Shavelson. He also wrote and produced a 1962 Dean Martin romantic comedy, Who's Got the Action? Rose was nominated for Academy Awards three times for The Seven Little Foys, 1958's Houseboat, and 1973's A Touch of Class.

Works

A Marriage

A young couple searching for the "American dream" find they have to make separate lives so they can love each other in a way that could not happen when they were together.

Release Date: 1983-03-30

Character: Mark

The Great Muppet Caper

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.

Release Date: 1981-06-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 312

Lost and Found

While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.

Release Date: 1979-07-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 9

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.

Release Date: 1976-04-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 44

A Touch of Class

Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.

Release Date: 1973-05-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 59

A Talent for Loving

This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican ranch from a cunning outlaw. At the ranch, the gambler discovers that his new lands have entangled him in an ancient Aztec curse. The ranch's patriarch tries to persuade the newcomer to marry his daughter and explains that the family's women are doomed to be especially fierce and prolific in their romantic encounters.

Release Date: 1969-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4

The Good Guys

The Good Guys is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from September 25, 1968 to January 23, 1970. 42 color episodes were filmed in all. As with The Governor & J.J. and Get Smart, it was produced by Talent Associates and CBS Productions. CBS Television Studios also owns the rights to this program as well.

Release Date: 1968-09-25

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 3

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own fragile relationship.

Release Date: 1963-12-25

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 7

Papa's Delicate Condition

A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.

Release Date: 1963-03-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 14

Who's Got the Action?

A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.

Release Date: 1962-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 11

On the Double

American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.

Release Date: 1961-05-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 16

It Started in Naples

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub dancer.

Release Date: 1960-08-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 75

The Five Pennies

Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio.

Release Date: 1959-06-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 24

Houseboat

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

Release Date: 1958-11-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 183

Beau James

The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.

Release Date: 1957-06-07

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 3

The Seven Little Foys

Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone

Release Date: 1955-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 15

Living It Up

Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.

Release Date: 1954-07-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 32

Trouble Along the Way

Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.

Release Date: 1953-04-04

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 26

April in Paris

A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.

Release Date: 1952-12-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 8

Room for One More

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.

Release Date: 1952-01-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 46

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: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 13

On Moonlight Bay

The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president

Release Date: 1951-07-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 27

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.

Release Date: 1950-04-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Always Leave Them Laughing

A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.

Release Date: 1949-11-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

The Great Lover

The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a crooked gambling racket, and who sets sail on an ocean liner that also carries inept scoutmaster Freddie Hunter and his troop of boys. Freddie, who's been a "boy scout" too long, has designs on gorgeous Duchess Alexandria. The boys, far better organized than Freddie, are determined to save him from himself. But who will save Freddie from being the killer's next victim?

Release Date: 1949-11-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 3

It's a Great Feeling

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.

Release Date: 1949-08-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 27

Sorrowful Jones

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

Release Date: 1949-07-04

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 8

The Paleface

Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.

Release Date: 1948-12-17

Department: Crew

Job: Additional Dialogue

Vote Count: 69

Road to Rio

Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.

Release Date: 1947-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 41

My Favorite Brunette

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.

Release Date: 1947-03-19

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 54

Ladies' Man

A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.

Release Date: 1947-02-07

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay