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

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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

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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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