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Joseph Grubb Alexander (December 25, 1887 – January 11, 1932) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for more than 90 films between 1916 and 1932. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Florence Grubb Alexander.
J. Grubb Alexander was born on 25 December 1887 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. J. Grubb was a writer, known for The Trail of the Octopus (1919), The Belle of Broadway (1926) and The Man Who Laughs (1928).
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J. Grubb Alexander is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Story, Scenario Writer, Adaptation, and Continuity. Some of his work includes The Man Who Laughs, Svengali, The Mad Genius, Outward Bound, Moby Dick, The Hatchet Man, The County Fair, and A Notorious Affair.
So Big is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck. The screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander and Robert Lord is based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize -winning novel of the same name, by Edna Ferber. So Big was the second full-scale screen adaptation of the Ferber novel.
When attractive but untalented Honori confesses to her sinister singing teacher Svengali that she has left her husband but refused his offer of money, he fixes her with an intense stare that drives her screaming from the room. A short time later her body is found in the Seine.
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Synopsis. In the early part of the twentieth century, Wong Low Get, the hatchet man for the Lem Sing Tong in San Francisco, is responsible for dispatching justice with the stroke of his hatchet. When a Tong war erupts, he is ordered to kill his best friend, Sun Yat Ming.
