Screenplay: Alice D.G. Miller

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alice D.G. Miller. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Lady of the Night

1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Monta Bell

Cast Norma Shearer · Malcolm McGregor · Dale Fuller · George K. Arthur

Plot David Page is loved by two very different women: Molly, an overpainted and undereducated floozy, and Florence, a refined graduate of a finishing school. Both lovelorn ladies played by Norma...

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The Girl on the Front Page

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Edmund Lowe · Gloria Stuart · Reginald Owen · Spring Byington

Plot The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

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Tangier

1946 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast Maria Montez · Robert Paige · Sabu · Preston Foster

Plot A war-weary newsman (Robert Paige) joins a Spanish dancer (Maria Montez) hunting down a Nazi puppet in North Africa.

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1929 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

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Two Lovers

1928 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

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Exquisite Sinner

1926 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Conrad Nagel · Renée Adorée · Paulette Duval · Frank Currier

Plot A young bourgeois Dominique Prad spurns his family's lucrative silk business for the bohemian life of an artist. Fleeing his estate to join a band of gypsies, the mentally unstable...

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On Borrowed Time

1939 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Cedric Hardwicke · Beulah Bondi · Una Merkel

Plot Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his cantankerous old grandfather become inseparable friends. But Gramps is concerned for his grandson's...

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The Devil Dancer

1927 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Gilda Gray · Clive Brook · Anna May Wong · Serge Temoff

Plot Hip-swinging danseuse Gilda Gray, the girl who created the late-'20s dance craze "The Shimmy," plays the provocatively underdressed title character in The Devil Dancer. Written by Alice Duer Miller, this...

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Man-Made Women

1928 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Man, Woman and Sin

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Monta Bell

Cast John Gilbert · Jeanne Eagels · Gladys Brockwell · Marc McDermott

Plot John Gilbert plays Albert Whitcomb, who is devoted to his mother (Gladys Brockwell). He lands a job as a cub reporter at a newspaper and becomes romantically entangled with the...

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Disgraced

1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Helen Twelvetrees · Bruce Cabot · Adrienne Ames · William Harrigan

Plot In the course of her work, a model meets her future husband, but her bliss is tainted when she becomes involved in a murder.

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The Keyhole

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kay Francis · George Brent · Glenda Farrell · Monroe Owsley

Plot Anne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce....

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Pretty Ladies

1925 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Monta Bell

Cast ZaSu Pitts · Tom Moore · Ann Pennington · Lilyan Tashman

Plot Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to...

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