Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


My Fair Lady

1964 · Movie · 170 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Rex Harrison · Stanley Holloway · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Plot Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into...

7.6

27K votes

7.6

27K votes

Paint Your Wagon

1969 · Movie · 166 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Lee Marvin · Clint Eastwood · Jean Seberg · Harve Presnell

Plot Marvin and Eastwood star as California prospectors during the Gold Rush of 1849-50. Eastwood is the calm, restrained one; Marvin is noisy and rambunctious. Marvin buys a wife, Seberg, from...

7.5

8K votes

7.5

8K votes

An American in Paris

1951 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Leslie Caron · Oscar Levant · Georges Guétary

Plot One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and colourful palette of Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I. lingers...

7.3

13K votes

7.3

13K votes

Brigadoon

1954 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Cyd Charisse · Van Johnson · Elaine Stewart

Plot Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

Gigi

1958 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Leslie Caron · Maurice Chevalier · Louis Jourdan · Hermione Gingold

Plot Gaston (Jordan), the scion of a wealthy Parisian family finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress (Gingold) of his uncle...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

Camelot

1967 · Movie · 178 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Richard Harris · Vanessa Redgrave · Franco Nero · David Hemmings

Plot Joshua Logan directs this lavish version of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Broadway success with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and Franco Nero in the lead roles originally portrayed...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Royal Wedding

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Fred Astaire · Jane Powell · Sarah Churchill · Peter Lawford

Plot Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dance act whose show closes in New York. Their agent books them in London for the same period as the Royal...

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

The Little Prince

1974 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Richard Kiley · Bob Fosse · Steven Warner · Gene Wilder

Plot Stanley Donen directed this lugubrious musical fantasy based on the classic Antoine de Saint-Exupery children's parable, featuring a musical score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe -- their first...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

1970 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Barbra Streisand · Yves Montand · Bob Newhart · Jack Nicholson

Plot When a psychiatrist (Yves Montand) begins talking to a young woman (Barbra Streisand), he realizes that she can recall a past life while under hypnosis. Although this brash New Yorker...

5.6

280 votes

5.6

280 votes

Brigadoon (TV)

1966 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

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An American in Paris - The Musical

2018 · Movie · 160 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Wheeldon · Ross MacGibbon

Cast Robert Fairchild · Leanne Cope · Haydn Oakley · Zoe Rainey

Plot An American in Paris premiered in 2014 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris before transferring to the Palace Theatre on Broadway, where it became the most awarded musical of...

Not rated

Not rated