Screenplay: Dorothy Farnum

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


Lilac

1932 · Movie · 90 min. · France

6.8

24 votes

6.8

24 votes

The Temptress

1926 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Greta Garbo · Antonio Moreno · Marc McDermott · Lionel Barrymore

Plot In a masked ball in Paris, Manuel Robledo, a young Argentinian architect, meets Elena, the Marquess of Torre Blanca. Later, the young woman is rightly accused causing the misfortune and...

6.6

65 votes

6.6

65 votes

Torrent

1926 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

6.6

54 votes

6.6

54 votes

The Divine Woman

1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Greta Garbo · Lars Hanson · Lowell Sherman · Polly Moran

Plot The Divine Woman (1928) is an American silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and starring Greta Garbo. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Garbo's fifth Hollywood film. Only a single nine-minute...

6.6

50 votes

6.6

50 votes

Bardelys the Magnificent

1926 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast John Gilbert · Eleanor Boardman · Roy D'Arcy · Lionel Belmore

Plot Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to...

6.5

27 votes

6.5

27 votes

The Constant Nymph

1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

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The Pagan

1929 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Ramon Novarro · Renée Adorée · Donald Crisp · Dorothy Janis

Plot Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with a...

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A Lost Lady

1924 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Irene Rich · Matt Moore · June Marlowe · John Roche

Plot A spoiled young girl manages to snag a wealthy older man as her husband, but soon becomes bored. She finally leaves him, but doesn't really know what she wants. A...

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Jew Süss

1934 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Conrad Veidt · Benita Hume · Cedric Hardwicke · Frank Vosper

Plot A Jew seeks political power in order that he may use it to benefit the status of Jewry in an anti-Semitic order of society. Unlike the 1940 version, the 1934...

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Redemption

1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo · Lionel Barrymore

Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Conrad Nagel · Eleanor Boardman

Plot Fedya wins Lisa away from her fiance, Victor Karenin. But after Fedya weds Lisa, he becomes infatuated with a gypsy girl, Masha. His duplicity leads to tragedy.

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Lorna Doone

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Victoria Hopper · John Loder · Margaret Lockwood · Roy Emerton

Plot High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.

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Forbidden Territory

1934 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Gregory Ratoff · Ronald Squire · Binnie Barnes · Tamara Desni

Plot An Englishman and his son travel to the Soviet Union to rescue a family member being held in prison.

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The Lover of Camille

1924 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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Beau Brummel

1924 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast John Barrymore · Mary Astor · Willard Louis · Carmel Myers

Plot George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord...

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Autumn Crocus

1934 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Ivor Novello · Fay Compton · Muriel Aked · Esme Church

Plot A demure Manchester schoolmistress falls in love while holidaying in the Austrian Tyrol.

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Good References

1920 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Constance Talmadge · Vincent Coleman · Ned Sparks · Nellie Parker Spaulding

Plot Mary Wayne (Constance Talmadge) is left alone and penniless in New York City after her father dies. She desperately needs a job after being thrown out of her apartment for...

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Evensong

1934 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

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Call of the Flesh

1930 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Charles Brabin

Cast Ramon Novarro · Dorothy Jordan · Ernest Torrence · Nance O'Neil

Plot In Seville, a novice (Dorothy Jordan) falls in love with the singer (Ramón Novarro) from the cantina who plays every night next to the convent and decides to run away...

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Dream of Love

1928 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Nils Asther · Joan Crawford · Aileen Pringue · Warner Oland

Plot A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a...

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