Screenplay: Edith Ellis

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


The Easiest Way

1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Constance Bennett · Adolphe Menjou · Robert Montgomery · Anita Page

Plot Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in...

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31 votes

Rich Man, Poor Girl

1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Reinhold Schünzel

Cast Robert Young · Ruth Hussey · Lew Ayres · Lana Turner

Plot A rich businessman wants to marry his secretary, but first he has to pass muster with her middle-class family.

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Affairs of a Gentleman

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Paul Lukas · Leila Hyams · Patricia Ellis · Phillip Reed

Plot When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.

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The Idle Rich

1929 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction William C. de Mille

Cast Conrad Nagel · Bessie Love · Leila Hyams · Robert Ober

Plot Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us),...

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