Screenplay: Melville Shavelson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Melville Shavelson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 37
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Steve Cochran
6.5
204 votes
6.5
204 votes
Wonder Man
1945 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Donald Woods
Synopsis Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back...
6.4
309 votes
6.4
309 votes
The Five Pennies
1959 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Danny Kaye · Barbara Bel Geddes · Louis Armstrong · Harry Guardino
Synopsis Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland...
6.2
119 votes
6.2
119 votes
Ike (TV Miniseries)
1979 · Series · 291 min. · United States
Direction Boris Sagal · Melville Shavelson
Cast Robert Duvall · Lee Remick · Dana Andrews · Stephen Roberts
Synopsis Made-for-TV biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
6.2
122 votes
6.2
122 votes
Room for One More
1952 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Cary Grant · Betsy Drake · Lurene Tuttle · Randy Stuart
Synopsis Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried...
6.1
95 votes
6.1
95 votes
Living It Up
1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Janet Leigh · Edward Arnold
6.0
173 votes
6.0
173 votes
On the Double
1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Danny Kaye · Dana Wynter · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Margaret Rutherford
Synopsis American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What...
6.0
75 votes
6.0
75 votes
Houseboat
1958 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Cary Grant · Sophia Loren · Martha Hyer · Harry Guardino
Synopsis Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is...
5.9
664 votes
5.9
664 votes
The Princess and the Pirate
1944 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction David Butler · Sidney Lanfield
Cast Bob Hope · Virginia Mayo · Walter Brennan · Walter Slezak
Synopsis Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap...
5.9
350 votes
5.9
350 votes
It Started in Naples
1960 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Clark Gable · Sophia Loren · Vittorio De Sica · Paolo Carlini
Synopsis Michael Hamilton (Clark Gable) is an American lawyer who travels to Naples to settle the estate of his recently deceased expatriate brother. When he arrives, he discovers that his sister-in-law was also killed in the accident, leaving their son Marrietto...
5.7
607 votes
5.7
607 votes
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Lucille Ball · Henry Fonda · Van Johnson · Jennifer Leak
Synopsis When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family? From finding a house big enough for all of them and learning to make 18 school...
5.7
1K votes
5.7
1K votes
The War Between Men and Women
1972 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Jack Lemmon · Barbara Harris · Jason Robards · Herb Edelman
Synopsis Two quirky Manhattanites crash into each other cute at an ophthalmologist's office. Peter is a grouchy cartoonist/author whose vision is failing, divorced mother Theresa is also reluctant to plunge into a relationship right now. It's not love at first sight...
5.7
100 votes
5.7
100 votes
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966 · Movie · 146 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Kirk Douglas · Senta Berger · Angie Dickinson · James Donald
Synopsis After WWII an American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade...
5.6
509 votes
5.6
509 votes
Double Dynamite
1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Jane Russell · Groucho Marx · Frank Sinatra · Don McGuire
Synopsis Bank teller Johnny Dalton, too poor to marry his sweetheart 'Mibs' Goodhug, saves a big-time bookie from a beating and receives a munificent reward...which just happens to match a mysterious shortage at the bank! Will Johnny's pal, eccentric waiter Emile,...
5.5
97 votes
5.5
97 votes
A New Kind of Love
1963 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Thelma Ritter · Eva Gabor
Synopsis The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Joanne Woodward is a high-priced call girl. Paul Newman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession.
5.5
196 votes
5.5
196 votes
On Moonlight Bay
1951 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Doris Day · Gordon MacRae · Jack Smith · Leon Ames
Synopsis The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper...
5.5
25 votes
5.5
25 votes
It's a Great Feeling
1949 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Doris Day · Dennis Morgan · Jack Carson · Mazzone-Abbott Dancers
Synopsis A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
5.4
60 votes
5.4
60 votes
Trouble Along the Way
1953 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast John Wayne · Donna Reed · Charles Coburn · Tom Tully
Synopsis Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
5.4
50 votes
5.4
50 votes
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Charlton Heston · Elsa Martinelli · Harry Guardino · Salvatore Baccaloni
Synopsis Charlton Heston stars as an American soldier behind Italian lines in World War II. In order to communicate German movements to the Allies, he uses carrier pigeons fitted with messages. As he grows more and more in love with the...
5.3
51 votes
5.3
51 votes
April in Paris
1952 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Doris Day · Ray Bolger · Paul Harvey · George Givot
Synopsis Miss Ethel 'Dynamite' Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakingly receives an invitation from the State Department to represent the American theatre at an arts exposition in Paris, France. There's only one problem, the invitation was meant for Miss Ethel...
5.3
66 votes
5.3
66 votes