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
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Jean Arthur · Edward Arnold · Ray Milland · Luis Alberni
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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