Screenplay: Darrell Ware

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


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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