Carey Wilson
Birthday: 1889-05-19
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carey Wilson (May 19, 1889 – February 1, 1962) was an American screenwriter, voice actor and producer. Wilson's screenplays include Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and The Great Heart (1938). His credits as producer include Green Dolphin Street (1947). He also narrated many nuclear test films, produced by the Atomic Energy Commission (now Department of Energy) and by the Department of Defence, including Operation Sandstone of 1948 and Operation Greenhouse of 1951. He was one of the thirty-six Hollywood pioneers who founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. He collaborated with Jean Harlow on her novel Today is Tonight. For his contribution in films, Wilson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6301 Hollywood Blvd.
Movies
Portrait of a Genius
Leonardo Da Vinci was seen as a great artist during his lifetime. The same cannot be said for his li...
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Westward the Women
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solut...
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Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing l...
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Target Nevada
The Story of United States Air Force support to the Atomic Energy Commission on Continental Atomic T...
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You, John Jones!
John Jones contemplates how fortunate he and his family are in America, where no wartime bombing occ...
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This Is Russia!
Documentary footage of late 1950s Russia covers such cities and towns as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Ya...
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Master Will Shakespeare
A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theate...
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The Man in the Barn
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was disco...
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The King Without a Crown
This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, esc...
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The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-en...
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Strange Glory
During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involve...
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Nostradamus and the Queen
An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predict...
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What Do You Think?
The narrator's voice tells of John Dough, who wakes up after a late-night party and prepares to go t...
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Prophet Without Honor
This short film portrays the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), an American Naval officer ...
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The Rainbow Pass
In Chinese culture, live theater performances are attended by all classes of society. This short sho...
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A Failure at Fifty
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemplo...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirl...
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Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
Andy wants to buy a new car so he goes into the judge's home office where his father is about to wri...
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The Lady or the Tiger?
Author Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending of ...
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Nostradamus Says So!
The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed....
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Operation Sandstone
In 1948, the U.S. nuclear stockpile consisted of approximately 50 atomic bombs. Since the industrial...
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Hollywood - The Second Step
This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After se...
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Pitcairn Island Today
This visit to Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific Ocean shows that life for the residents has chang...
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Nostradamus IV
This Carey Wilson Miniature takes a further look at prophecies by 16th century seer Nostradamus....
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Dangerous Number
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his fo...
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What Do You Think? (Number Two)
This short presents the possibility that a dead person's spirit can intervene in the lives of the li...
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What Do You Think? (Number Three)
This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we...
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Nostradamus
A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions....
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The Great Heart
This short film tells the true story of the heroic sacrifice of Father Damien, the Belgian priest wh...
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The Man on the Rock
A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821....
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More About Nostradamus
This short film portrays Nostradamus as having predicted the horrors of WWI and Hitler's rise to pow...
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Inca Gold
Legends associated with the lost treasures of Incan gold, thought to be located at the bottom of one...
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Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II....
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Let's Ask Nostradamus
Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the Frenc...
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Mr. Gardenia Jones
Documentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing rec...
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1925 Studio Tour
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and giv...
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Bravest of the Brave
This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marsha...
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The Greenie
Told on the premise that the United States has always been a refuge from those seeking a reprieve fr...
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Ghost Treasure
This short film presents three legends of hidden gold in California's Death Valley....
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Joaquin Murrieta
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, i...
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Bikini, the Atom Island
This shows the natives of Bikini Island as they were being evacuated and relocated (o.k., dispossess...
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Strange Destiny
This Carey Wilson Miniature tells the true story of a humble YMCA worker, Asa K. Jennings (Louis Jea...
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Hitler's Madman
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen...
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