Edmund L. Hartmann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edmund Hartmann (September 24, 1911 – November 28, 2003) was a US television writer and producer from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Washington University in St. Louis. He later married and had one child (Susan Hartmann). Hartmann worked with numerous actors including Bob Hope. He produced the television classic My Three Sons for ten seasons from 1962 and also produced Family Affair. Both shows were filmed by Don Fedderson Productions. He was a great-grandfather to seven children and a grandfather to four. He died in his sleep in his long-time home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Works

The Smith Family

The Smith Family is an American comedy-drama television series produced by Don Fedderson Productions. The series aired on ABC from January 20, 1971 to June 7, 1972, for 39 episodes.

Release Date: 1971-01-20

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 2

The Shakiest Gun in the West

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

Release Date: 1968-07-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 44

Family Affair

Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French, also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy and the 6-year-old twins, Jody and Buffy. The show ran for 138 episodes. Family Affair was created and produced by Don Fedderson, also known for My Three Sons and The Millionaire.

Release Date: 1966-09-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 138

Vote Count: 38

The Sword of Ali Baba

Supposedly up to 70 percent of this feature was taken from the 1944 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Frank Puglia as Prince Cassim remains from the 21-year-old footage.

Release Date: 1965-04-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Bus Stop

Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood, the owner of a bus station and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise in the Colorado Rockies. The program was adapted from William Inge's play, Bus Stop, and Inge was a script consultant for the series, which followed the lives of travelers passing through the bus station and the diner. Maxwell's co-stars were Richard Anderson as District Attorney Glenn Wagner, Rhodes Reason as Sheriff Will Mayberry, Joan Freeman as waitress Elma Gahrigner, Bernard Kates as Ralph the coroner, and Buddy Ebsen as Virge Blessing.

Release Date: 1961-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

The Eve Arden Show

The Eve Arden Show is a 26-segment American television sitcom which aired during the 1957-1958 season on CBS, alternately sponsored by Lever Brothers and Shulton, Inc..

Release Date: 1957-09-17

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 26

Casanova's Big Night

Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the desperation of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo must journey to Venice on a delicate mission far beyond his capabilities.

Release Date: 1954-04-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 16

Here Come the Girls

Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star.

Release Date: 1953-10-22

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 7

The Caddy

Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother.

Release Date: 1953-08-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 52

My Favorite Spy

A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.

Release Date: 1951-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 17

The Lemon Drop Kid

When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.

Release Date: 1951-04-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 26

Fancy Pants

An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.

Release Date: 1950-07-19

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 16

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: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 67

Variety Girl

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Release Date: 1947-08-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 9

The Face of Marble

The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran, Charles conducts experiments that have horrifying side effects. Charles's lonely wife, Elaine, is frightened by his work, and in order to protect her, housekeeper Maria unleashes a torrent of voodoo that wrecks havoc.

Release Date: 1946-01-19

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 10

The Naughty Nineties

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Release Date: 1945-06-20

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 23

Dangerous Partners

A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.

Release Date: 1945-06-07

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Vote Count: 3

Sudan

A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.

Release Date: 1945-04-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 6

See My Lawyer

Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.

Release Date: 1945-03-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Here Come the Co-eds

Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.

Release Date: 1945-02-02

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Vote Count: 24

In Society

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.

Release Date: 1944-08-16

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 21

Ghost Catchers

Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.

Release Date: 1944-06-16

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 5

The Scarlet Claw

When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.

Release Date: 1944-05-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 92

To the People of the United States

World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis.

Release Date: 1944-04-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 3

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.

Release Date: 1944-01-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 35

Hi'ya, Chum

Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.

Release Date: 1943-02-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Lady Bodyguard

A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.

Release Date: 1943-01-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.

Release Date: 1942-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 121

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Release Date: 1942-02-13

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 24

Keep 'Em Flying

When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.

Release Date: 1941-11-27

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 18

The Feminine Touch

A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.

Release Date: 1941-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 7

Sweetheart of the Campus

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.

Release Date: 1941-06-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

Time Out for Rhythm

A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.

Release Date: 1941-06-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 6

San Francisco Docks

Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy, and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all evidence points to his guilt.

Release Date: 1940-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Diamond Frontier

Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.

Release Date: 1940-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

South to Karanga

Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.

Release Date: 1940-08-02

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Enemy Agent

A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.

Release Date: 1940-04-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!

In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."

Release Date: 1940-03-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Two Bright Boys

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

Release Date: 1939-09-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Ex-Champ

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

Release Date: 1939-05-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Big Town Czar

When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.

Release Date: 1939-05-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Beauty for the Asking

Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.

Release Date: 1939-02-24

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 9

The Last Warning

In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'

Release Date: 1938-12-07

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

The Last Express

A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.

Release Date: 1938-10-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Law of the Underworld

A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution

Release Date: 1938-05-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4

Hideaway

A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.

Release Date: 1937-08-13

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Behind The Headlines

A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.

Release Date: 1937-05-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

The Man Who Found Himself

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.

Release Date: 1937-04-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

China Passage

Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on success or killed on failure. The diamond is stolen as they take possession of it.

Release Date: 1937-03-12

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

Wanted: Jane Turner

Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

Release Date: 1936-12-04

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 3

Without Orders

At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.

Release Date: 1936-10-22

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

The Big Noise

The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.

Release Date: 1936-06-22

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 1

Marie Galante

On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.

Release Date: 1934-10-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 9