Screenplay: Florence Ryerson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Florence Ryerson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Wizard of Oz
1939 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Judy Garland · Frank Morgan · Ray Bolger · Bert Lahr
Plot Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas until a cyclone arrives, and picks her, her house, and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. Things in...
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Everybody Sing
1938 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Allan Jones · Judy Garland · Fannie Brice · Reginald Owen
Plot Judy Bellaire, played by Judy Garland, is the center of trouble at her exclusive private and very conservative school. She is expelled when she starts singing in a Jazzy style...
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Smooth as Silk
1946 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Charles Barton
Cast Kent Taylor · Virginia Grey · Milburn Stone · John Litel
Plot An attorney, engaged to an actress, gains acquittal for a wealthy playboy accused of manslaughter. The actress, anxious to play the lead in a production backed by the uncle of...
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Mad Holiday
1936 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Edmund Lowe · Elissa Landi · ZaSu Pitts · Ted Healy
Plot Philip Trent is tired of playing film detective Shelby James. He thinks that the stories are tripe and plans a vacation to get away from Hollywood. But on the ship,...
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Hot News
1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Clarence G. Badger
Cast Bebe Daniels · Neil Hamilton · Paul Lukas · Alfred Allen
Plot Hot News (1928) is a silent film comedy produced and distributed by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, an amalgamation of Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures. Clarence Badger directed and Bebe Daniels...
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Pointed Heels
1929 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland
Cast William Powell · Helen Kane · Fay Wray · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
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Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction B. Reeves Eason · Archie Mayo
Cast Jackie Coogan · Mattie Witting · Maurice Costello · Pat Hartigan
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Apocalypse Oz
2006 · Movie · 30 min. · United States
Direction Ben Telford
Cast M.C. Gainey · Alexandra Gizela · Billy Briggs · Kevin Glikmann
Plot Dorothy Willard, delinquent Amerasian offspring of the Vietnam War, lives very out of place in Kansas with her abusive aunt and uncle. Deciding that "there's no horror like home" she...
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Moonlight Murder
1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Chester Morris · Madge Evans · Leo Carrillo · Frank McHugh
Plot Opera star Gino D'Acosta (Leo Carrillo), due to perform in the open air of the Hollywood Bowl, is warned by a Swami (Pedro de Cordoba)that he will die if he...
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Have a Heart
1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Jean Parker · James Dunn · Una Merkel · Stuart Erwin
Plot Sally sits by her window earning money for an operation so she can be a dance teacher again. Jimmie is an ice cream salesman hoping to advance. Their romance is...
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This Side of Heaven
1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Fay Bainter · Mae Clarke · Tom Brown
Plot A family man. (Lionel Barrymore) becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
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The Crime of the Century
1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Jean Hersholt · Wynne Gibson · Stuart Erwin · Frances Dee
Plot A doctor who is also a "mentalist" confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he's confessed to hasn't happened yet--although dead bodies are now starting to...
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The Kid from Texas
1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Florence Rice · John Hubbard · Jessie Ralph
Plot A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
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The Reckless Hour
1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction John Francis Dillon
Cast Dorothy Mackaill · Conrad Nagel · Walter Byron · H.B. Warner
Plot In New York, a young model begins to go out with a handsome young man, but he doesn't want to marry her. After a while she realizes that he does...
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A Wicked Woman
1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Charles Brabin
Cast Mady Christians · Jean Parker · Charles Bickford · Betty Furness
Plot Naomi is almost to term with her fourth child when Ed decides to leave taking all their money and the oldest son Curtis. With the sheriff after him, he is...
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The Casino Murder Case
1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Paul Lukas · Alison Skipworth · Donald Cook · Rosalind Russell
Plot When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned...
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Dangerous Curves
1929 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Lothar Mendes
Cast Clara Bow · Richard Arlen · Kay Francis · David Newell
Plot A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of...
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The Drums of Jeopardy
1931 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Warner Oland · June Collyer · Lloyd Hughes · Clara Blandick
Plot A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
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The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Rowland V. Lee
Cast Warner Oland · O.P. Heggie · Jean Arthur · Neil Hamilton
Plot The villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
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The Ice Follies of 1939
1939 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Reinhold Schünzel
Cast Joan Crawford · James Stewart · Lew Ayres · Lewis Stone
Plot Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work. To prove...
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