Screenplay: Edwin J. Burke

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Edwin J. Burke. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Broadway Melody of 1936

1935 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth · W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Jack Benny · Eleanor Powell · Robert Taylor · Una Merkel

Plot Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show, but he is short of money. He gets an offer of money by the young widow Lilian, if she can dance in...

6.6

87 votes

6.6

87 votes

Bad Girl

1931 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Sally Eilers · James Dunn · Minna Gombell · Frank Darien

Plot Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, Bad Girl stars Sally Eilers as heroine Dot Haley. The title notwithstanding, Dot isn't bad at all. She enters into a decent marriage...

6.4

105 votes

6.4

105 votes

This Thing Called Love

1940 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rosalind Russell · Melvyn Douglas · Binnie Barnes · Allyn Joslyn

Plot Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months, just to see if they are truly compatible. The husband tries various tricks...

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

The Stolen Jools (S)

1931 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction William McGann · John G. Adolfi · Victor Heerman · Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Buster Keaton · Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Wallace Beery

Plot Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft...

5.6

32 votes

5.6

32 votes

The Man Who Came Back

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Peter Gawthorne · Charles Farrell · Leslie Fenton · Mary Forbes

Plot The popular screen romantic team of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell shocked and surprised their fans in the ultra-melodramatic The Man Who Came Back. Based on a 1916 stage success,...

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Young as You Feel

1931 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

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This Thing Called Love

1929 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

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Call Her Savage

1932 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction John Francis Dillon

Cast Clara Bow · Gilbert Roland · Thelma Todd · Monroe Owsley

Plot Sexy Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways.

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Dance Team

1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast James Dunn · Sally Eilers · Ralph Morgan · Minna Gombell

Plot Professional ballroom dancing provides the framework of this romantic drama. The story begins when two aspiring dancers fatefully meet. They soon agree to work as a team. They begin their...

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One More Spring

1935 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Janet Gaynor · Warner Baxter · Walter Woolf King · Jane Darwell

Plot Two men and a woman live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

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Bright Eyes

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Shirley Temple · James Dunn · Jane Darwell · Judith Allen

Plot When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple she used to work for. A custody...

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Paddy the Next Best Thing

1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Janet Gaynor · Warner Baxter · Walter Connolly · Harvey Stephens

Plot In Ireland, Major Adair's older daughter Eileen is about to marry Lawrence Blake for his money in order to pay off her father's debts, even though she really loves Jack...

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Now I'll Tell

1934 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Edwin J. Burke

Cast Spencer Tracy · Helen Twelvetrees · Alice Faye · Robert Gleckler

Plot Golden is a two-bit gambler who has promised wife Virginia he'll quit when he makes $200,000. When he fixes a fight he gets mobster Mossiter mad, then loses his fortune...

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Love, Live and Laugh

1929 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

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Woman Trap

1929 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

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Man Trouble

1930 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Berthold Viertel

Cast Milton Sills · Dorothy Mackaill · Kenneth MacKenna · Sharon Lynn

Plot A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.

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The Farmer Takes a Wife

1935 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Janet Gaynor · Henry Fonda · Charles Bickford · Slim Summerville

Plot A love story set in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but...

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