Screenplay: Clarence Budington Kelland

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Clarence Budington Kelland. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

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...

Not rated

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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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Not rated