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

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

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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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