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
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Will Rogers · Fifi D'Orsay · Lucien Littlefield · Don Dillaway
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This Thing Called Love
1929 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Edmund Lowe · Constance Bennett · Roscoe Karns · ZaSu Pitts
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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
Direction William K. Howard
Cast George Jessel · Lila Lee · David Rollins · Henry Kolker
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Woman Trap
1929 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Hal Skelly · Chester Morris · Evelyn Brent · William B. Davidson
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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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