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
Direction George Marshall
Cast Glenn Ford · Debbie Reynolds · Eva Gabor · Gustavo Rojo
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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