Screenplay: Jack McGowan
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jack McGowan. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Broadway Melody of 1936
1935 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth · W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Jack Benny · Eleanor Powell · Robert Taylor · Una Merkel
Plot Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show, but he is short of money. He gets an offer of money by the young widow Lilian, if she can dance in...
6.6
87 votes
6.6
87 votes
Broadway Melody of 1938
1937 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Robert Taylor · Eleanor Powell · George Murphy · Judy Garland
Plot A young singer/dancer (Eleanor Powell) goes to New York City in hopes of becoming a Broadway star. Along the way she encounters two vaudeville hopefuls (George Murphy and Buddy Ebsen),...
6.4
132 votes
6.4
132 votes
Born to Dance
1936 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Eleanor Powell · James Stewart · Virginia Bruce · Una Merkel
Plot Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway....
6.2
106 votes
6.2
106 votes
Babes in Arms
1939 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney · Charles Winninger · June Preisser
Plot The struggle of two talented young artists, to make their own way in the show business. In this musical, with autobiographical elements of Mickey Rooney's life, he plays Mickey Moran,...
6.1
287 votes
6.1
287 votes
Girl Crazy
1943 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog · Busby Berkeley
Cast Mickey Rooney · Judy Garland · Gil Stratton · Robert E. Strickland
Plot Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where...
5.6
28 votes
5.6
28 votes
Girl Crazy
1932 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · Mitzi Green
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Sitting Pretty
1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Harry Joe Brown
Cast Jack Oakie · Jack Haley · Ginger Rogers · Gregory Ratoff
Plot Chick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters that are en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Dorothy, a lunch wagon proprietor, joins them.
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Lady Be Good
1941 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Eleanor Powell · Ann Sothern · Robert Young · Lionel Barrymore
Plot Songwriters Dixie Donegan and Eddie Crane are still in love after their divorce. Dixie's friend Marilyn Marsh tries to convince them to marry again, but this isn't that easy.
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Broadway Rhythm
1944 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast George Murphy · Ginny Simms · Charles Winninger · Gloria DeHaven
Plot Broadway producer Jonnie Demming courts big-name talent for his upcoming musical show, oblivious to the talent all around him, in his family and friends. When Jonnie finally lands Hollywood star...
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Little Nellie Kelly
1940 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Judy Garland · George Murphy · Charles Winninger · Douglas McPhail
Plot Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again...
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It Happened in Brooklyn
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Richard Whorf
Cast Frank Sinatra · Kathryn Grayson · Peter Lawford · Jimmy Durante
Plot Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds...
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The Stork Club
1945 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Hal Walker
Cast Betty Hutton · Barry Fitzgerald · Don DeFore · Robert Benchley
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Panama Hattie
1942 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Red Skelton · Ann Sothern · Rags Ragland · Ben Blue
Plot Hattie Maloney runs a saloon in Panama where assorted characters congregate where they frequently sing and dance Cole Porter numbers. An upper class gentleman arrives and sparks fly between him...
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When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Alvin Ganzer
Cast Connie Francis · Harve Presnell · Peter Noone · Karl Green
Plot Danny Churchill is a young heir who tries to help Ginger, an attractive postal worker in rural Nevada, save her father's ranch from closing due to being heavily in debt...
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