Screenplay: Edwin Justus Mayer

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Edwin Justus Mayer. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


To Be or Not to Be

1942 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to...

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8.5

34K votes

8.5

34K votes

Midnight

1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Claudette Colbert · Don Ameche · John Barrymore · Mary Astor

Synopsis Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) is an American showgirl in Paris who is out of work, money, and luck when a handsome cabbie (Don Ameche) offers to drive her around the...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

So Red the Rose

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Margaret Sullavan · Walter Connolly · Randolph Scott · Janet Beecher

Synopsis SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor's quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn...

7.1

21 votes

7.1

21 votes

Underground

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Jeffrey Lynn · Philip Dorn · Kaaren Verne · Mona Maris

Synopsis A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in...

7.1

113 votes

7.1

113 votes

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Merrily We Go to Hell

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Fredric March · Adrianne Allen · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Synopsis An aspiring playwright (Frederic March) with a drinking problem marries an heiress (Sylvia Sidney) whose father (George Irving) is skeptical of March’s intentions. When March carries on an affair with...

6.9

131 votes

6.9

131 votes

A Royal Scandal

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger · Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · Charles Coburn · Anne Baxter · William Eythe

Synopsis A Royal Scandal dwells upon a fictional incident in the life of Russia's Catherine the Great.

6.7

329 votes

6.7

329 votes

The Foxes of Harrow

1947 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Rex Harrison · Maureen O'Hara · Richard Haydn · Victor McLaglen

Synopsis Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the novel down into 118 minutes' worth of essentials for...

6.3

142 votes

6.3

142 votes

The Buccaneer

1938 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Fredric March · Franciska Gaal · Akim Tamiroff · Margot Grahame

Synopsis During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60...

6.3

101 votes

6.3

101 votes

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The Affairs of Cellini

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Constance Bennett · Fredric March · Frank Morgan · Fay Wray

Synopsis The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

6.1

51 votes

6.1

51 votes

Lucky Partners

1940 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Ronald Colman · Ginger Rogers · Jack Carson · Spring Byington

Synopsis David Grant (Ronald Colman) is an artist in Greenwich Village. One day he passes neighbor Jean Newton (Ginger Rogers) and simply wishes her good luck. Just as he has done...

5.8

61 votes

5.8

61 votes

They Met in Bombay

1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Clark Gable · Rosalind Russell · Peter Lorre · Jessie Ralph

Synopsis The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart when the thief unintentionally becomes a hero while posing as a British officer.

5.6

31 votes

5.6

31 votes

Romance

1930 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Greta Garbo · Lewis Stone · Gavin Gordon · Elliott Nugent

Synopsis Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks that Bishop Armstrong knows nothing about love so Armstrong tells...

5.6

99 votes

5.6

99 votes

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The Divine Lady

1929 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Corinne Griffith · Victor Varconi · H.B. Warner · Ian Keith

Synopsis A partly fictionalized account of history begins with the arrival of slatternly Emma Hart, a cook's daughter, at the home of Charles Greville. Greville takes her as his lover and...

5.3

22 votes

5.3

22 votes

Not So Dumb

1930 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Marion Davies · Elliott Nugent · Raymond Hackett · Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.

5.2

28 votes

5.2

28 votes

Here Is My Heart

1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Bing Crosby · Kitty Carlisle · Roland Young · Alison Skipworth

Synopsis A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.

Not rated

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Our Blushing Brides

1930 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Joan Crawford · Anita Page · Dorothy Sebastian · Robert Montgomery

Synopsis Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Jerry is the sensible...

Not rated

Not rated

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I Am Suzanne!

1933 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Lilian Harvey · Gene Raymond · Leslie Banks · Georgia Caine

Synopsis Tony Malatini, a puppeteer, at Paris' Theatre des Marionettes notices that his audience consists of only 7 people. He visits his successful competitor on the corner to see why people...

Not rated

Not rated

Never the Twain Shall Meet

1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Leslie Howard · Conchita Montenegro · C. Aubrey Smith · Karen Morley

Synopsis Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As one of his...

Not rated

Not rated

Rio

1939 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Basil Rathbone · Victor McLaglen · Sigrid Gurie · Robert Cummings

Synopsis A crazed man escapes from prison to kill his wife's lover.

Not rated

Not rated

In Gay Madrid

1930 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Ramon Novarro · Dorothy Jordan · Lottice Howell · Claude King

Synopsis Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious...

Not rated

Not rated

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