Screenplay: Valentine Davies

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Valentine Davies. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Glenn Miller Story

1953 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · June Allyson · Harry Morgan · Barton MacLane

Plot James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller's...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Miracle on 34th Street

1947 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Seaton

Cast Maureen O'Hara · John Payne · Edmund Gwenn · Gene Lockhart

Plot Six year old Susan has doubts childhood's most enduring miracle Santa Clause. Her mother told her the "secret" about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Benny Goodman Story

1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Valentine Davies

Cast Steve Allen · Donna Reed · Berta Gersten · Barry Truex

Plot Bio of swing band leader 'Benny Goodman' from age 10 (1919) to his landmark Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938. Not exactly historically accurate, but great music. Also, guest appearances...

6.2

96 votes

6.2

96 votes

It Happens Every Spring

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Ray Milland · Jean Peters · Paul Douglas · Ed Begley

Plot A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. The resultant fluid causes the baseball to be repelled...

6.0

41 votes

6.0

41 votes

On the Riviera

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Danny Kaye · Gene Tierney · Corinne Calvet · Marcel Dalio

Plot Jack Martin (Danny Kaye), an American entertainer working cabarets on the French Riviera, does an impersonation of philandering industrialist Henri Duran (Kaye, again) so convincingly that even Duran's beautiful wife...

5.9

80 votes

5.9

80 votes

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

1954 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast William Holden · Grace Kelly · Fredric March · Mickey Rooney

Plot Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set...

5.7

816 votes

5.7

816 votes

Strategic Air Command

1955 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · June Allyson · Frank Lovejoy · Barry Sullivan

Plot Lt. Col. Robert (Dutch) Holland was a third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, not a pitcher. While at spring training a B-36 flew over the field and Dutch was...

5.3

84 votes

5.3

84 votes

It Started with a Kiss

1959 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

5.2

104 votes

5.2

104 votes

Bachelor in Paradise

1961 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Bob Hope · Lana Turner · Janis Paige · Jim Hutton

Plot Adam J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he...

5.0

114 votes

5.0

114 votes

Miracle on 34th Street

1994 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Les Mayfield

Cast Richard Attenborough · Elizabeth Perkins · Dylan McDermott · Mara Wilson

Plot A little girl discovers dreams do come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the "secret"...

4.9

2K votes

4.9

2K votes

You Were Meant for Me

1948 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Jeanne Crain · Dan Dailey · Oscar Levant · Barbara Lawrence

Plot 1920's bandleader Chuck Arnold meets hometown girl Peggy at one of the band's dances and next day weds her. Though she loves him, life on the road becomes increasingly difficult...

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Sailor of the King

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Boulting

Cast Jeffrey Hunter · Michael Rennie · Peter van Eyck · Wendy Hiller

Plot A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a...

Not rated

Not rated

Miracle on 34th Street (TV)

1973 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Sebastian Cabot · Jane Alexander · David Hartman · Suzanne Davidson

Plot A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who...

Not rated

Not rated

Syncopation

1942 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Bonita Granville · Jackie Cooper · George Bancroft

Plot Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance...

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Chicken Every Sunday

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction George Seaton

Cast Dan Dailey · Celeste Holm · Colleen Towsend · Alan Young

Plot Tucson, Arizona, circa 1910: Emily Hefferan wants a divorce. In flashback, she recalls twenty years of marriage to Jim Hefferan, who sinks every cent of each new windfall in harebrained...

Not rated

Not rated

Three Little Girls in Blue

1946 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast June Haver · George Montgomery · Vivian Blaine · Celeste Holm

Plot A reworking of the movie Three Blind Mice (1938) based on the play of the same name, which in turn led to another remake Moon Over Miami (1941). This remake...

Not rated

Not rated