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Agnes Christine Johnston

Agnes Christine Johnston

Writing

Known For

Black Beauty
5.7

Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."

Black Beauty

1946
Show People
7.2

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.

Show People

1928
Outcast
10.0

Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era, the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.

Outcast

1928
Lovey Mary
8.0

Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.

Lovey Mary

1926
Lucky Devils
6.4

Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.

Lucky Devils

1933
Proud Flesh
7.3

The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but he follows her. She is rescued from a wild taxi ride by a passerby who owns a huge plumbing company. Believing him to be a common plumber, she snubs him, but he pursues her and a romantic rivalry is born.

Proud Flesh

1925
Stage Struck
6.3

A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.

Stage Struck

1948
The Patsy
6.7

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

The Patsy

1928
Barbara Frietchie
7.3

Two lovers in a small town in Maryland are torn apart by the Civil War--she is loyal to the south while he heads north to join the federal army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his unit arrives in his hometown and he is reunited with his lover, but things aren't the way they used to be.

Barbara Frietchie

1924
Movie Crazy
6.4

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

Movie Crazy

1932
Black Gold
7.0

A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

Black Gold

1947
Three Wise Girls
5.7

Fed up with her tiny hometown, Cassie Barnes moves to New York City to find a job. She and her two friends, Dot and Gladys, soon have romantic troubles.

Three Wise Girls

1932
The Time, The Place and The Girl
5.7

The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.

The Time, The Place and The Girl

1946
Headline Shooter
6.3

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Headline Shooter

1933
The Enemy
6.3

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.

The Enemy

1927
Forbidden Paradise
5.6

Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love. Infatuated, he deserts his sweetheart, Anna, the Czarina's lady-in-waiting, only to discover that his Queen is far from true to him. Desperate, he joins the revolutionists and plots against her. The Czarina pleads that she loves only him, and he swears no harm will befall her. Meantime the chancellor nips the revolution in the bud, and the Czarina orders Alexei's arrest. But she causes herself such unhappiness in doing so that she releases him from prison, relinquishes him to Anna, and seeks solace in a new affair with the French Ambassador

Forbidden Paradise

1924
A Village Sleuth
7.0

A bumbling would-be detective always seems to reach the wrong conclusion, but one day accidentally stumbles across a real crook, guilty of a real crime.

A Village Sleuth

1920
Nobody's Fool
7.0

A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.

Nobody's Fool

1936
Janie
6.0

Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

Janie

1944
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
6.0

With his high school graduation behind him, Andy Hardy decides that as an adult, it's time to start living his life. Judge Hardy had hoped that his son would go to college and study law, but Andy isn't sure that's what he wants to do so he heads off to New York City to find a job. Too proud to accept any help from Betsy Booth, Andy finds that living on his own isn't so easy. With perseverance he eventually finds a job and even gets to date the pretty receptionist in his office. He also has to face several of life's lessons leading him to conclude that he may still have a bit of growing up to do.

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

1941