Screenplay: Arthur Sheekman

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Arthur Sheekman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Some Came Running

1958 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Frank Sinatra · Dean Martin · Shirley MacLaine · Martha Hyer

Plot Dave Hirsch, a writer and army veteran, returns to 1948 Parkman, Indiana, his hometown. His prosperous brother introduces him to Gwen French, a local teacher. But the more flamboyant Ginny...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Wonder Man

1945 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Donald Woods

Plot Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in...

6.4

309 votes

6.4

309 votes

Saigon

1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · Douglas Dick · Wally Cassell

Plot After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job...

6.3

33 votes

6.3

33 votes

Roman Scandals

1933 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ruth Etting · Gloria Stuart · Edward Arnold

Plot A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden...

5.8

48 votes

5.8

48 votes

Blue Skies

1946 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Bing Crosby · Fred Astaire · Joan Caulfield · Billy De Wolfe

Plot Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't...

5.8

68 votes

5.8

68 votes

Ada

1961 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Susan Hayward · Dean Martin · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Ralph Meeker

Plot Bo Gillis is running for Governor. Steve writes the speeches, Sylvester runs the campaign and Bo plays the guitar. Everything is going according to the plan until a hooker named...

5.7

52 votes

5.7

52 votes

Call Me Madam

1953 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Ethel Merman · Donald O´Connor · Vera-Ellen · George Sanders

Plot Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

5.5

29 votes

5.5

29 votes

Bundle of Joy

1956 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Eddie Fisher · Debbie Reynolds · Adolphe Menjou · Tommy Noonan

Plot Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job,...

4.9

34 votes

4.9

34 votes

Mr. Music

1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Richard Haydn

Cast Bing Crosby · Nancy Olson · Charles Coburn · Ruth Hussey

Plot Paul Merrick, a writer of hit musicals, prefers to lie in the sun or play golf. He does so until he goes broke and asks to borrow a large sum...

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Hazard

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

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The Trouble with Women

1947 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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Young Man with Ideas

1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

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Dimples

1936 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Shirley Temple · Frank Morgan · Robert Kent · Helen Westley

Plot Dimples is a busker - a street entertainer, and lives in mid-19th century New York City's Bowery with her kindhearted but pickpocketing Grandfather, Prof. Eustace Appleby. Dimples is a talented...

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Stowaway

1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Shirley Temple · Robert Young · Alice Faye · Eugene Pallette

Plot Ching-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker,...

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Blaze of Noon

1947 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Anne Baxter · William Holden · Sonny Tufts · William Bendix

Plot In the 1920s, the four McDonald brothers leave the uncertain life of carnival stunt fliers for steady jobs with the U.S. Air Mail. They've agreed that "guys like us don't...

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Dream Girl

1948 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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Kid Millions

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ann Sothern · Ethel Merman · George Murphy

Plot A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

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Rose of the Rancho

1936 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast John Boles · Gladys Swarthout · Charles Bickford · Grace Bradley

Plot It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants...

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Welcome Stranger

1947 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bing Crosby · Barry Fitzgerald · Joan Caulfield · Wanda Hendrix

Plot Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted...

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Dear Ruth

1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction William D. Russell

Cast Joan Caulfield · William Holden · Mona Freeman · Edward Arnold

Plot A normal day in the Wilkins family: reticent beauty Ruth, crusty judge father, petition-happy political activist teen Miriam. Who should show up but Ruth's soldier pen pal Bill Seacroft...whom she...

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