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
Direction George Marshall
Cast Paulette Goddard · Macdonald Carey · Fred Clark · Stanley Clements
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The Trouble with Women
1947 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast Ray Milland · Teresa Wright · Brian Donlevy · Rose Hobart
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Young Man with Ideas
1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Glenn Ford · Ruth Roman · Denise Darcel · Nina Foch
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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
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Betty Hutton · Macdonald Carey · Patric Knowles · Virginia Field
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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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