Joseph Depew
Also Known As: Joe De Pew, Joseph DePew, Joe DePew
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Depew (July 11, 1912 – October 30, 1988) was an American television director and producer and actor. Born in Harrison, New Jersey, Depew began his career as a child stage actor at the age of three. He was influenced by his mother, also a stage performer. He later worked as a second unit director or an assistant director in 22 films and 26 television series episodes. He was a unit director in six The Beverly Hillbillies episodes, an actor in fourteen films, an assistant producer in eleven episodes of The Bob Cummings Show and a production manager in one movie.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Harrison, New Jersey, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 11, 1912
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 30, 1988
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Queen of the Night Clubs
Overview: Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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The Swan
Overview: The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-16
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Sweetie
Overview: Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-25
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Niagara Falls
Overview: The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Coquette
Overview: A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-30
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Timothy's Quest
Overview: Timothy and Gay, orphans from the slums of Boston, escape to Maine in search of a home and manage to thaw Avilda's embittered, grief-stricken heart. A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-16
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Walking Back
Overview: Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-21
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Icebound
Overview: Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-02
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Grit
Overview: Two former childhood gang members, "Kid" Hart and Orchid McGonigle, attempt to go straight, despite pressure to continue their lives of lawlessness.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-07
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The Daring Years
Overview: Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-15
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Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Overview: Jacqueline Roland, the daughter of a backwoodsman, meets Henri Dubois during a visit to the city, but is unresponsive to his attentions. Henri later takes charge of the lumber camp where Jacqueline lives, and is closely followed by Li Chang, who is blackmailing him to keep secret a murder he committed years earlier. The new boss is determined to win Jacqueline for himself and convinces her lover, Raoul Radon, that she no longer cares for him. When Li Chang kidnaps Jacqueline, Henri comes to claim her and an oil lamp is upset during the ensuing struggle. As the fire spreads into the forest, Jacqueline escapes with Li Ching in pursuit. She and Raoul are reunited, while Henri perishes in the blaze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-19
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The Broken Silence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
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