Screenplay: Vera Caspary

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


Laura

1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Clifton Webb · Judith Anderson

Plot Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for the case. As...

8.1

17K votes

8.1

17K votes

Easy Living

1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

7.3

650 votes

7.3

650 votes

Les Girls

1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Gene Kelly · Mitzi Gaynor · Kay Kendall · Taina Elg

Plot After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren (Kay Kendall) is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele (Taina...

6.8

604 votes

6.8

604 votes

The Blue Gardenia

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Anne Baxter · Richard Conte · Ann Sothern · Raymond Burr

Plot Anne Baxter is a telephone operator who believes she committed murder when she was drinking away the tears of a broken romance. Too much rum with Raymond Burr, a licentious...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

1951 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Susan Hayward · Dan Dailey · George Sanders · Sam Jaffe

Plot A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the...

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

Give a Girl a Break

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Debbie Reynolds · Marge Champion · Gower Champion · Helen Wood

Plot In one of his first solo directorial efforts after pairing with Gene Kelly as director of ON THE TOWN and SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, Stanley Donen lets Broadway's best dancers...

5.7

118 votes

5.7

118 votes

Lady from Louisiana

1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Vorhaus

Cast John Wayne · Ona Munson · Ray Middleton · Henry Stephenson

Plot Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted...

5.2

50 votes

5.2

50 votes

Bachelor in Paradise

1961 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Bob Hope · Lana Turner · Janis Paige · Jim Hutton

Plot Adam J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he...

5.0

114 votes

5.0

114 votes

The Night of June 13

1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast Clive Brook · Frances Dee · Charles Ruggles · Gene Raymond

Plot Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John,...

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A Letter to Three Wives

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Larry Elikann

Cast Loni Anderson · Michele Lee · Stephanie Zimbalist · Charles Frank

Plot Three women are going on a trip that leaves incommunicado with the rest of the world and before they leave; a woman who either has a history or relationship with...

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Scandal Street

1938 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Lew Ayres · Louise Campbell · Roscoe Karns · Porter Hall

Plot Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she...

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Three Husbands

1950 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Eve Arden · Ruth Warrick · Vanessa Brown · Howard Da Silva

Plot When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom...

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Private Scandal

1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast ZaSu Pitts · Phillips Holmes · Mary Brian · Ned Sparks

Plot Pitts is top-billed as Miss Coates, the fey secretary of hotshot young executive Cliff Barry (Philips Holmes). Accused of murdering his boss B. J. Somers (Lew Cody), Barry suspects that...

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Working Girls

1931 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Judith Wood · Dorothy Hall · Claire Dodd · Frances Dee

Plot Two sisters have arrived in New York straight from the country and settle down in one of those boarding houses for single women. May, the older, is a bit naive,...

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Bedelia

1946 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Ian Hunter · Barry K. Barnes · Anne Crawford

Plot Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern....

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Lady Bodyguard

1943 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction William Clemens

Cast Eddie Albert · Anne Shirley · Raymond Walburn · Roger Pryo

Plot An advertising representative for an insurance company, A. C. gets into trouble when she okays several $1000 life-insurance policies as a publicity stunt. One of the recipients is Terry Moore,...

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Claudia and David

1946 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Dorothy McGuire · Robert Young · Mary Astor · John Sutton

Plot Follow-up to hit film Claudia (1943) finds title characters (Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young) dealing with the ups and downs of marriage and parenthood in their rural Connecticut town. Illness, accidents,...

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Out of the Blue

1947 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast George Brent · Virginia Mayo · Turhan Bey · Ann Dvorak

Plot Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah...

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