Screenplay: Samuel Hopkins Adams
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
It Happened One Night
1934 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Clark Gable · Claudette Colbert · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns
Plot When Ellie Andrews, a millionaire's daughter, marries a man her father dislikes, the resulting family squabble sends the beautiful heiress into hiding. She travels across country by bus, a fugitive...
7.9
16K votes
7.9
16K votes
The Wild Party
1929 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Clara Bow · Fredric March · Marceline Day · Shirley O'Hara
Plot Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in...
6.0
21 votes
6.0
21 votes
The Harvey Girls
1946 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Judy Garland · John Hodiak · Ray Bolger · Angela Lansbury
Plot A frothy musical about the romantic misadventures of the Harvey girls, waitresses employed by the Old West Harvey Restaurant chain. Their ladylike behavior had a civilizing effect on their wild...
6.0
112 votes
6.0
112 votes
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Joan Crawford · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone
Plot President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.
5.6
39 votes
5.6
39 votes
The Perfect Specimen
1937 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Errol Flynn · Joan Blondell · May Robson · Edward Everett Horton
5.2
26 votes
5.2
26 votes
Men in Her Life
1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Lois Moran · Charles Bickford · Victor Varconi · Don Dillaway
Plot A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a...
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A Love Sublime
1917 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning · Wilfred Lucas
Cast Wilfred Lucas · Carmel Myers · F. A. Turner · Alice Wilson
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Triumph
1917 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Joseph De Grasse
Cast Dorothy Phillips · Lon Chaney · William Stowell · William Dyer
Plot This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances...
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The President's Mystery
1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Phil Rosen
Cast Henry Wilcoxon · Betty Furness · Sidney Blackmer · Evelyn Brent
Plot A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able...
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Flaming Youth
1923 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction John Francis Dillon
Cast Colleen Moore · Milton Sills · Elliott Dexter · Sylvia Breamer
Plot Discouraged by the unhappy marriages in her family, Patricia Fentriss refuses Cary Scott's proposal and allows herself to be charmed by Leo Stenak, a musician, into joining a yachting party...
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Week Ends Only
1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Alan Crosland
Cast Joan Bennett · Ben Lyon · John Halliday · Halliwell Hobbes
Plot Joan Bennett's father lost his fortune in the stock market crash and now she earns her living as a hostess at her ex-butler's speakeasy and ekes out her income as...
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You Can't Run Away from It
1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Dick Powell
Cast June Allyson · Jack Lemmon · Charles Bickford · Paul Gilbert
Plot Ellen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. She escapes and starts an adventurous...
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