Robert Z. Leonard
Also Known As: Robert Zigler Leonard, Robert Leonard, Роберт З. Леонард, Bob Leonard
Biography: Robert Zigler Leonard (October 7, 1889 - August 27, 1968) was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter. At one time he was married to silent superstar Mae Murray, with the two forming Tiffany Pictures to film eight motion pictures that were released by MGM. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Divorcee and The Great Ziegfeld. Both were also nominated for Best Picture, and the latter won. One of the most odd credits in his filmography is the film noir thriller The Bribe (1949) with its sleazy settings, slippery characters and steamy atmosphere. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Robert Z. Leonard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6368 Hollywood Blvd. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: October 07, 1889
Deathday: August 27, 1968
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Gender: Male
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Show People
Overview: Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-20
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The Master Key
Overview: A movie serial from 1914
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-16
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The Little Sister
Overview: The brother, a ne'er-do-well, is strongly influenced by the crook, who in turn has designs on Little Sister who works in a factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-24
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Overview: An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-24
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The Firefly
Overview: Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-05
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In the Sultan's Power
Overview: Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her. He is persistent in his suit for her hand, but outside of a seemingly cordial friendship the lady apparently does not return his affections. There is a reason for this. Osman Bey, a Turkish nobleman, desires the hand of this charming girl.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-17
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The Diamond Makers
Overview: Bhadon, an aged chemist, actuated by the decree of Buddha that in America the secret of making artificial diamonds would be discovered, gives his life to the cause and succeeds. Elated at his titanic success. Bhadon sends his trusted Hindoo servant to the high priest in India, pleading that Shedah might be spared to assist in disposing of the product. Shedah, the powerful emissary for the cause, is dispatched with her two bodyguards to American soil, where, through her wiles and marvelous beauty, she is enabled to effect sale after sale to the wealthy. This monstrous flooding of the American market with gems of astonishing brilliancy and value alarms, to a marked degree, the Kimberly interests, who controlled this outlet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-10
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The Scarlet Letter
Overview: Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx. Roger follows her to the new world but upon landing in New England is captured by Indians and Hester waits for him in vain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-27
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Sally Scrags, Housemaid
Overview: An author searches for inspiration for her novel by impersonating a housemaid.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-13
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The Crippled Hand
Overview: Diminutive heroine Ella Hall dreams that she's Cinderella, and that a wealthy gentleman of her acquaintance (played by Leonard) is her Prince Charming. All of this takes place during a musical stage production of Cinderella, a sequence distinguished by its authentic backstage atmosphere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-01
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Overview: When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-05
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Over the Hills
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-30
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A Common Enemy
Overview: A secret message is dispatched by the young daughter of a Southern family to Col. Morgan's camp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-04
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
Overview: A short silent film based on the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-20
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Draga, the Gypsy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-29
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The Still Alarm
Overview: Mistaken identities and backstabbing partners
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-18
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Heritage
Overview: Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ill-nourished girl, who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother, goes to work in a factory after Mr. McMahon loses his job. During the next eight years, Kate's stepbrother, Big Bill McMahon, becomes her friend, sweetheart and protector.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-29
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Robinson Crusoe
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-29
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The Silent Command
Overview: Unable to pay for the operation that cured his daughter, a man promises to surrender her to the doctor on her eighteenth birthday. Knowing that the physician wishes to make her the subject of his experiments with hypnotism, the distressed father ultimately reneges on his promise, whereupon the doctor attempts to hypnotize the girl from afar.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-02
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