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Jules Furthman

Highest Rated: 100% Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Lowest Rated: 60% The Case of Lena Smith (1929)

Birthday: Mar 5, 1888

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Began selling stories in 1915 and writing screenplays two years later. Furthman produced outstanding work in virtually every genre and proved himself compatible with a wide range of directing styles. He wrote or co-wrote eight scripts for Josef Von Sternberg (including "Morocco" 1930 and "Shanghai Express" 1932) and five for Howard Hawks (including "Only Angels Have Wings" 1939 and "The Big Sleep" 1946). He directed three films in the early 1920s. Brother Charles Furthman (1884-1936) was also a screenwriter.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 82% Only Angels Have Wings Watchlist 96% 91% The Big Sleep Watchlist 96% 84% Mutiny on the Bounty Watchlist 96% 90% Rio Bravo Watchlist 96% 79% Shanghai Express Watchlist 95% 90% To Have and Have Not Watchlist 91% 67% Come and Get It Watchlist 88% The Skywayman Watchlist 87% 85% Nightmare Alley Watchlist 83% 71% The Shanghai Gesture Watchlist

Filmography

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Rio Bravo 96% 90% 1959 Writer Jet Pilot 67% 42% 1957 Producer Nightmare Alley 87% 85% 1947 Screenwriter The Big Sleep 96% 91% 1946 Screenwriter To Have and Have Not 95% 90% 1944 Writer The Outlaw 71% 31% 1943 Writer The Shanghai Gesture 83% 71% 1941 Screenwriter Only Angels Have Wings 100% 82% 1939 Writer Spawn of the North 1938 Screenwriter Come and Get It 91% 67% 1936 Screenwriter China Seas 80% 73% 1935 Screenwriter Mutiny on the Bounty 96% 84% 1935 Screenwriter Shanghai Express 96% 79% 1932 Screenwriter The Yellow Ticket 1931 Screenwriter Common Clay 1930 Writer Thunderbolt 70% 35% 1929 Writer The Case of Lena Smith 60% 1929 Screenwriter New York Nights 1929 Screenwriter The Docks of New York 1928 Writer You'd Be Surprised 7% 1926 Writer Pawn Ticket 210 1922 Screenwriter The Skywayman 88% 1920 Screenwriter Six Feet Four 1919 Screenwriter Wives and Other Wives 1918 Screenwriter
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