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

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Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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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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