Screenplay: Clarence Budington Kelland
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Clarence Budington Kelland. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 13
The Cat's-Paw
1934 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor
Cast Harold Lloyd · Una Merkel · George Barbier · Nat Pendleton
Plot Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate...
6.8
180 votes
6.8
180 votes
Thirty Day Princess
1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Marion Gering
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Cary Grant · Edward Arnold · Henry Stephenson
Plot On her way to New York to find financial backing for her impoverished country, the Ruritanian Kingdom of Taronia, Princess "Zizzi" Catterina (Sylvia Sidney) falls ill with the mumps and...
6.1
62 votes
6.1
62 votes
Stand-In
1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Leslie Howard · Joan Blondell · Humphrey Bogart · Alan Mowbray
Plot A timid accountant (Leslie Howard) tries to save a floundering Hollywood studio with the help of a sexy stand-in (Joan Blondell) and a cynical but big-hearted producer (Humphrey Bogart).
6.0
420 votes
6.0
420 votes
Arizona
1940 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Wesley Ruggles
Cast Jean Arthur · William Holden · Warren William · Porter Hall
Plot Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie...
5.8
96 votes
5.8
96 votes
Speak Easily
1932 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick
Cast Buster Keaton · Jimmy Durante · Ruth Selwyn · Thelma Todd
5.2
102 votes
5.2
102 votes
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
1938 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Wiles
Cast Stuart Erwin · Helen Chandler · Toby Winq · Tully Marshall
Plot Oliver Boggs, a typical office drone, with no success in sight, who can spout statistics about anything and everything, wins $1500 in a bean-guessing contest at the movie theatre, quits...
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Christy Cabanne
Cast Guy Kibbee · John Archer · Margaret Hayes · Wallace Ford
Plot Scattergood meets the new owner of the local newspaper, Dunker Gillson. One of Gillson's first tasks is to interview the wealthy but reclusive Quentin sisters, Lydia and Cynthia, who have...
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Kenny Baker · Frank McHugh · Alice Brady · Gertrude Michael
Plot In the small town of Pewamo, Claude Dodd, an electrician singing baritone in the local Strawberry Festival is heard by the owner of the Morpheus Mattress Company, who hires him...
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Sugarfoot
1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Randolph Scott · Adele Jergens · Raymond Massey · S.Z. Sakall
Plot Jackson Redan, a former Confederate officer, arrives in Arizona expecting to start his life anew on land he hopes to buy and cultivate. He meets saloon-girl Reva Cairn and town...
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Highways by Night
1942 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Peter Godfrey
Cast Richard Carlson · Jane Randolph · Jane Darwell · Barton MacLane
Plot Rich, nerdish Tommy Van Steel seldom leaves his home gadget workshop, but somehow has become engaged to socialite Ellen Cromwell, who treats him badly. Innocently becoming drunk, Tommy takes to...
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Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
1917 · Movie · 44 min. · United States
Direction Lawrence C. Windom
Cast Taylor Holmes · Virginia Valli · Ernest Maupain · Rod La Rocque
Plot Efficiency wins success in business; why not in love? Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies this reasoning to his courtship of Mary Pierce.
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Valley of the Sun
1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Lucille Ball · James Craig · Cedric Hardwicke · Dean Jagger
Plot In 1868, Army scout Johnny Ware is courtmartialed for helping Indians against their white oppressors, but escapes and finds himself in the hamlet of Desert Center. There, he crosses paths...
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Strike Me Pink
1936 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Eddie Cantor · Ethel Merman · Sally Eilers · Harry Parke
Plot After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. There he wards off a variety of con artists and other miscreants while he...
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