Keene Thompson

Keene Thompson (November 15, 1885, in Minneapolis, Minnesota – July 11, 1937, in Hollywood, California) was a story, scenario and screenwriter who worked in the film industry from 1920 to 1937.

Career

Thompson had a small acting role in the 1917 Douglas Fairbanks Sr. film Reaching for the Moon, but his first writing work was a screenplay for Fairbanks. but his later screenwriting was associated primarily with Paramount Pictures where he became a general story advisor. and had written scripts and special materials for such stars as Raymond Griffith, Gary Cooper and Clara Bow, His work Man Against Woman for Irving Cummings was called a "forceful drama" and an "entertaining film". During the later part of his career Thompson specialized in comedies. The more notable of these included Leo McCarey's Six of a Kind (1934) which used the top Paramount actors of the time, including Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, George Burns, W.C. Fields, Gracie Allen, Alison Skipworth. Kissed in a Harem (1920) Good Morning, Nurse (1920) Why Cooks Go Cuckoo (1920) Oh, Brother! (1921) Prepared to Die (1923) Let's Go (1923) Going South (1923) Danger Ahead (1923) The Godmothers (1923) Easy Pickin's (1924) High Gear (1924) Border Women (1924) Cornfed (1924) A Regular Fellow (1925) Paths to Paradise (1925) The Night Club (1925) Why Hesitate? (1925) A Rarin' Romeo (1925) Love Goofy (1925) Great Guns (1925) French Pastry (1925) Going Crooked (1926) The Daffy Dill (1926) Now We're in the Air (1927) The Rough Riders (1927) Wedding Bill$ (1927) Someone to Love (1928) His Private Life (1928) Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928) Feel My Pulse (1928) The Wolf Song (1929)

Sound films Acquitted (1929) The Virginian (1929) Acquitted (1929) True to the Navy (1930) Only the Brave (1930) Fighting Caravans (1931) Love Among the Millionaires (1930) Palmy Days (1931) Caught (1931) The Sin Ship (1931) June Moon (1931) No More Orchids (1932) Man Against Woman (1932) The Last Man (1932) War Correspondent (1932) As the Devil Commands (1932) Mama Loves Papa (1933) The Cheyenne Kid (1933) Air Hostess (1933) Springtime for Henry (1934) Many Happy Returns (1934) Six of a Kind (1934) Paris in Spring (1935) Love in Bloom (1935) Wives Never Know (1936) Artists and Models (1937) Mama Loves Papa (1945) (story)