Screenplay: Erwin S. Gelsey
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Erwin S. Gelsey. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Warren William · Joan Blondell · Aline MacMahon · Ruby Keeler
Plot Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. Everybody is sitting on...
6.9
612 votes
6.9
612 votes
Swing Time
1936 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Betty Furness · Victor Moore
Plot Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act, and has to make $25000 to be allowed to marry her....
6.8
979 votes
6.8
979 votes
Jewel Robbery
1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast William Powell · Kay Francis · Helen Vinson · Hardie Albright
Plot When a baroness is present during a robbery at a jewellers in Vienna, she finds the gang's debonair leader more attractive than either her husband or her lover.
6.5
45 votes
6.5
45 votes
Cover Girl
1944 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Rita Hayworth · Gene Kelly · Phil Silvers · Lee Bowman
Plot Rusty Parker, a red-headed leggy dancer at Danny McGuire's Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway star. She enters a contest to be a 'Cover Girl' as...
6.4
613 votes
6.4
613 votes
Flying Down to Rio
1933 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Thornton Freeland
Cast Dolores del Rio · Gene Raymond · Raul Roulien · Ginger Rogers
Plot Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to...
5.8
310 votes
5.8
310 votes
Gambling House
1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Ted Tetzlaff
Cast Victor Mature · Terry Moore · William Bendix · Zachary Charles
Plot Small time racketeer Marc Fury agrees to plead self-defense for a murder committed by gang boss Joe Farrow in exchange for Farrow's I.O.U. for $50,000. He is acquitted but is...
5.8
71 votes
5.8
71 votes
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Ann Dvorak · Lee Tracy · Richard Cromwell · Guy Kibbee
5.7
29 votes
5.7
29 votes
Muss 'em Up
1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Preston Foster · Margaret Callahan · Alan Mowbray · Ralph Morgan
Plot A private detective is enlisted to find out who shot a dog and threatened its owner, but before long he's also involved in a kidnapping and murder plot.
4.9
32 votes
4.9
32 votes
Birth of the Blues
1941 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Bing Crosby · Mary Martin · Brian Donlevy · Carolyn Lee
Plot Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player,...
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Sweet Adeline
1934 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Irene Dunne · Donald Woods · Hugh Herbert · Ned Sparks
Plot In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star.
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Sing your worries away
1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland
Cast Bert Lahr · June Havoc · Buddy Ebsen · Patsy Kelly
Plot This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has...
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Grand Slam
1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle · Alfred E. Green
Cast Paul Lukas · Loretta Young · Frank McHugh · Glenda Farrell
Plot After waiter and would-be novelist Peter Stanislavsky marries Marcia, he learns to play bridge to satisfy his wife, despite feeling that it is a childish game. Her friends all play...
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Scarlet Dawn
1932 · Movie · 57 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Nancy Carroll · Lilyan Tashman · Guy Kibbee
Plot February, 1917. Returning to the German front after a sybaritic leave in Moscow, Russian officer Nikita Krasnoff and his brigade are met by the first troop revolts. In the growing...
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The Personality Kid
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Alan Crosland
Cast Pat O'Brien · Glenda Farrell · Claire Dodd · Robert Gleckler
Plot Ritzy McCarty is a fighter managed by his wife Joan, who wants him only to fight until they have the money to build a better life. However, he has other...
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La hora de las sorpresas
1941 · Movie · 90 min. · Argentina
Direction Daniel Tinayre
Cast Pedro Quartucci · Rosita Moreno · Esteban Serrador · Marcos Caplán
Plot As a result of a bet a wealthy young woman agrees to participate in a very popular radio audition.
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Loretta Young · Aline MacMahon · Guy Kibbee
Plot Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. He hides out at a health farm for invalid children and begins to lose his cynicism under the...
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Double or Nothing
1937 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Theodore Reed
Cast Bing Crosby · Martha Raye · Andy Devine · Mary Carlisle
Plot A dying millionaire instructs his lawyer to drop four purses on the streets of New York City. Four honest people find them and return them to the lawyer. Under the...
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Touchdown, Army
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Kurt Neumann
Cast John Howard · Mary Carlisle · Robert Cummings · William Frawley
Plot Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
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Campus Confessions
1938 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Betty Grable · Eleanore Whitney · William Henry · Fritz Feld
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We're in the Money
1935 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Joan Blondell · Glenda Farrell · Hugh Herbert · Ross Alexander
Plot Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach...
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