Screenplay: Darrell Ware
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Darrell Ware. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 20
Kitty
1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Paulette Goddard · Ray Milland · Patric Knowles · Reginald Owen
Synopsis London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his shoes. He paints her as an "anonymous lady" who excites the interest of his noble friends, notably penniless Sir Hugh Marcy, who schemes to...
6.5
86 votes
6.5
86 votes
Orchestra Wives
1942 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast George Montgomery · Ann Rutherford · Glenn Miller · Lynn Bari
Synopsis Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering...
6.1
24 votes
6.1
24 votes
Week-End in Havana
1941 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Alice Faye · Carmen Miranda · John Payne · Cesar Romero
Synopsis A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer,...
5.6
34 votes
5.6
34 votes
Down Argentine Way
1940 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Don Ameche · Betty Grable · Carmen Miranda · Charlotte Greenwood
Synopsis American girl (Grable) on vacation in Argentina falls for wealthy racehorse owner (Ameche). Lots of scenery and musical entertainment.
5.5
62 votes
5.5
62 votes
My Gal Sal
1942 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Rita Hayworth · Victor Mature · John Sutton · Carole Landis
Synopsis Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and...
5.5
87 votes
5.5
87 votes
A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Tyrone Power · Betty Grable · John Sutton · Reginald Gardiner
Synopsis Tyrone Power is a pilots' pilot, but he doesn't believe in anything beyond his own abilities. He gets into trouble by flying a new fighter directly to Canada instead of to New York and letting it be towed across as...
5.4
123 votes
5.4
123 votes
Standing Room Only
1944 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast Paulette Goddard · Fred MacMurray · Edward Arnold · Hillary Brooke
Synopsis During World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. Not thinking it through, Jane cancels their hotel reservations when she feels the accomodations are inadequate. With no...
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Public Deb No. 1
1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Ratoff
Cast George Murphy · Brenda Joyce · Ralph Bellamy · Elsa Maxwell
Synopsis When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Dixie
1943 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland
Cast Bing Crosby · Dorothy Lamour · Billy De Wolfe · Marjorie Reynolds
Synopsis A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie."...
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Just Around the Corner
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Shirley Temple · Joan Davis · Charles Farrell · Amanda Duff
Synopsis The film focuses on the tribulations of little Penny Hale (Temple) and her architect father (Farrell) after he is forced by circumstances to accept a job as janitor.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Edgar Bergen · Charlie McCarthy · Mortimer Snerd · Robert Cummings
Synopsis Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are...
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Love That Brute
1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast Paul Douglas · Jean Peters · Cesar Romero · Keenan Wynn
Synopsis In 1928, Big Ed Hanley, boss of a gang of Chicago racketeers, has money and power, but he is bored. Watching some kids play in the park, he sees Ruth Manning and is interested at once. He tells her he...
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Loretta Young · Warner Baxter · Virginia Bruce · Jane Darwell
Synopsis Social butterfly (Young) marries Park Avenue doctor (Baxter) and learns that his nurse (Bruce) is in love with him.
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Big Town Girl
1937 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Claire Trevor · Donald Woods · Alan Dinehart · Alan Baxter
Synopsis When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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Lucky Jordan
1942 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Alan Ladd · Helen Walker · Sheldon Leonard · Mabel Paige
Synopsis Lucky Jordan, cynical gambler and racketeer, finds one thing his luck and connections can't fix: the draft board. In the army, he fits like the proverbial square peg, and deserts...to find his former henchman selling the mob's services to enemy...
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Second Honeymoon
1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Stuart Erwin · Claire Trevor
Synopsis Newly remarried woman finds her businessman husband boring and runs into her wealthy playboy first husband.
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Hotel for Women
1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Ratoff
Cast Ann Sothern · Linda Darnell · James Ellison · Jean Rogers
Synopsis A girl from Syracuse goes to New York to see her boyfriend, successful architect who no longer cares for her. Fellow residents at a women's hotel encourage her to become a top model. When boyfriend tries to come back to...
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Cesar Romero · Virginia Gilmore · Charlotte Greenwood · Milton Berle
Synopsis Robin Hoodish gangster (Romero) in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection (from Gilmore), kind to New York hood (Clements) and bad to a bad crook (Leonard).
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Bring On the Girls
1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast Veronica Lake · Sonny Tufts · Eddie Bracken · Marjorie Reynolds
Synopsis A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
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He Married His Wife
1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Joel McCrea · Nancy Kelly · Roland Young · Mary Boland
Synopsis T.H."Randy" Randall and Valerie Randall are divorced but friendly, but not to the extent she doesn't have him jailed for non-payment of alimony. His attorney, Bill Carter, suggests that the only way out of his financial strain is for him...
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