Who wrote a screenplay about a boy and a stray dog for Walt Disney?
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William Tunberg (screenwriter) He wrote the screenplay for "Old Yeller" and "That's My Baby!". His son, Karl Alexander, was a writer too. His brother, Karl Tunberg, wrote the screenplay for "Ben-Hur"—and worked on a number of films himself.
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Old Yeller (film) Old Yeller is a 1957 American drama film produced by Walt Disney. It stars Tommy Kirk, Dorothy McGuire and Beverly Washburn. It is about a boy and a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas. The film is based upon the 1956 Newbery Honor-winning book of the same name by Fred Gipson. Gipson also cowrote the screenplay with William Tunberg. The success of the "Old Yeller" film led to a sequel, "Savage Sam", which was also based on a book by Gipson.
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Stray Dogs (1983 film) Stray Dogs is a 1983 South Korean film directed by Park Cheol-su.
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Often an Orphan Often an Orphan is a 1949 cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It stars Charlie Dog and Porky Pig and is the last Charlie Dog short to have Porky present in it. The cartoon deals with Charlie trying to get Porky to adopt him after his old owner dumps him at Porky's farm on a trip disguised as a picnic. Charlie instead irritates Porky and the short deals with him trying to get rid of the dog in various ways, but failing each time.
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Strayed (2003 film) Strayed (French: Les Égarés ) is a 2003 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Emmanuelle Béart and Gaspard Ulliel. The plot follows a widowed mother, who escaping occupied Paris with her two young children during World War II, finds shelter with an itinerant teenager at an abandoned rural house. The film is an adaptation of Gilles Perrault's novel "The Boy With Grey Eyes" ("Le Garçon aux yeux gris").
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Mickey's Trailer Mickey's Trailer is a 1938 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon stars Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy on a near disastrous road trip in a travel trailer. It was directed by Ben Sharpsteen and features the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey, Clarence Nash as Donald, and Pinto Colvig as Goofy. Animators include Ed Love, Louie Schmitt, Johnny Cannon, Don Patterson, Clyde Geronimi, Tom Palmer, Frenchy de Trémaudan and Cy Young. Pete makes a cameo in this cartoon where he is seen driving a truck during the "Runaway Trailer" sequence featuring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. This cartoon was released a year after "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
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The Hook (screenplay) The Hook is an unproduced screenplay by American playwright, Arthur Miller. It was written in 1947 and was intended to be produced by Columbia Pictures Studio, Hollywood, and to be directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was inspired by the true story of Pete Panto, a young dockworker who stood up against the corrupt Mafia-connected union leadership. Panto was discovered dead in a pit outside New York eighteen months after his disappearance. Set in the Red Hook district of Brooklyn, "The Hook" is the story of Marty Ferrara, a longshoreman who is ‘ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing – his sense of personal dignity.’
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Jo Jo the Dog Faced Boy (song) "Jo Jo the Dog Faced Boy" was a novelty song made popular by Disney Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello. The song was written by the Bob and Dick Sherman in collaboration with L.A. based songwriter Bob Roberts. "Jo Jo" followed up on Annette's hit song, "Tall Paul" which itself marked the first time a female singer reached a top ten slot for a rock and roll single. The Sherman Brothers went on to write the majority of Annette's early 1960s songs as well as winning two Oscars for "Mary Poppins" several years later.
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The Jungle Book (1994 film) Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is a 1994 live-action American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman. It is the second film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling.
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Pound (film) Pound is a 1970 film directed and written by Robert Downey Sr. It was based on "The Comeuppance", an Off-Off Broadway play written by Downey in 1961. It is about several dogs, along with a Siamese cat and a penguin, at a pound, as they await being euthanised; the animals are played by human actors. It was the film debut of Robert Downey Jr., the director's 5-year-old son, as a puppy.
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The Jennie Project The Jennie Project is a Disney Channel Original Movie that was released in the summer of 2001. The film was based on the book "Jennie" by Douglas Preston. The movie is about a chimpanzee who knows and uses American Sign Language to communicate.
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Boy of Mine Boy of Mine is a 1923 American silent family drama film directed by William Beaudine. It stars Ben Alexander, Rockliffe Fellowes, and Henry B. Walthall. Wendy L. Marshall stated that "Beaudine had the Midas touch when it came to directing children" in films like this and "Penrod and Sam".
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The Young and The Brave The Young and The Brave (also known by the working title Attong) is a feature film released in 1963 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which depicts the quality of bravery of a group of prisoners of war that escaped North Korean capture, their youthful companion, and his dog during their journey to the American lines.
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A Golden Boy A Golden Boy (Italian: Un ragazzo d'oro ) is a 2014 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Pupi Avati. It won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2014 Montreal World Film Festival.
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is a 1966 animated featurette based on the first two chapters of the book "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne. The film combines live-action and animation, and was produced by Walt Disney Productions. Its songs were written by the Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman) and the score was composed and conducted by Buddy Baker.
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Chris Weitz Christopher John "Chris" Weitz (born November 30, 1969) is an American film producer, screenwriter, author, occasional actor, and film director. He is the brother of filmmaker Paul Weitz. He is best known for his work with his brother on the comedy films "American Pie" and "About a Boy," the latter of which was Oscar-nominated for adapted screenplay. Weitz directed the film adaptation of the novel "The Golden Compass" and the of "New Moon" from the series of "Twilight" books, as well wrote the screenplay for Disney's 2015 live-action adaptation of "Cinderella" and co-wrote "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" alongside with Tony Gilroy.
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Wynken, Blynken and Nod (film) Wynken, Blynken and Nod is a 1938 Silly Symphonies cartoon, adapted from Eugene Field's poem of the same name. Like other Symphonies at the time, it utilised the multiplane camera. It was directed by Graham Heid and produced by Walt Disney.
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Daniel P. Mannix Daniel Pratt Mannix IV (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1911 – Malvern, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1997) was an American author, journalist, photographer, sideshow performer, stage magician, animal trainer, and filmmaker. His best-known works are the 1958 book "Those About to Die", which remained in continuous print for three decades, and the 1967 novel "The Fox and the Hound" which in 1981 was adapted into an animated film by Walt Disney Productions.
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At the End of the Rainbow At the End of the Rainbow (also known as The Princess and the Magic Frog) is a 1965 American children's fantasy adventure film, originally released by . Written by , and produced and directed by , the film stars David Bailey as a boy who finds himself lost in an enchanted forest, encountering an assortment of fanciful characters and navigating a series of fantastical (mis)adventures as he attempts to find his way home. Originally released as a weekend "kiddie matinee" feature, the film was rediscovered and re-released on DVD in 2004 by Something Weird Video, and has subsequently gained something of a cult following for its low budget production values, as well as for the unintentionally camp performances by the adult character actors.
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Wally Boag Wallace Vincent "Wally" Boag (September 13, 1920 – June 3, 2011) was an American performer known for his starring role in Disney's long-running stage show the "Golden Horseshoe Revue".
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Bill Manhoff Wilton "Bill" Manhoff (June 25, 1919 – June 19, 1974) was a Hollywood screenwriter and producer and playwright. His television series script writing credits included "Sanford and Son", "The Partridge Family", "All in the Family", "Room 222", "The Odd Couple", "Petticoat Junction", "Leave It To Beaver", and "The Real McCoys". He also wrote the script for The 1964 Broadway stage play "The Owl and the Pussycat", which Buck Henry used as inspiration for the screenplay for the 1970 film adaptation.
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Marion Jackson Marion Jackson (December 3, 1897 – November 28, 1962) was an American screenwriter of the late silent and early sound film eras. During her fifteen-year career she would pen the scripts for over 40 films, both original and adaptations. Born in Walla Walla, Washington, she wrote her first script, an original screenplay, which was produced by Monogram Pictures in 1924, "The Mask of Lopez", directed by Albert Rogell. It would be her most prolific year, as she would contribute to 11 screenplays that year, either as the screenwriter, or providing the story, or adapting from another source. One of the films she adapted that year was 1924's "A Boy of Flanders", from Marie Louise de la Ramée's 1872 novel, "A Dog of Flanders". The film was directed by Victor Schertzinger, and starred Jackie Coogan. Some of her notable films were her 1928 adaptation of "The Shepherd of the Hills", based on the 1907 novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright; her original screenplay for The Wagon Master (1929), starring Ken Maynard; and the hit film, "Min and Bill" (1930), which she co-wrote with Frances Marion, which stars Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery.