Screenplay: Edwin Justus Mayer
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Edwin Justus Mayer. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 31
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...
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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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