Screenplay: Virginia Van Upp

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Virginia Van Upp. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


You and Me

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · George Raft · Robert Cummings · Barton MacLane

Plot An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in...

6.5

241 votes

6.5

241 votes

Cover Girl

1944 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Rita Hayworth · Gene Kelly · Phil Silvers · Lee Bowman

Plot Rusty Parker, a red-headed leggy dancer at Danny McGuire's Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway star. She enters a contest to be a 'Cover Girl' as...

6.4

613 votes

6.4

613 votes

Affair in Trinidad

1952 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · Alexander Scourby · Valerie Bettis

Plot When Steve Emery arrives in Trinidad at the urgent request of his brother, he is stunned to find that his brother has not only been murdered, but that his brother's...

6.2

494 votes

6.2

494 votes

She Wouldn't Say Yes

1945 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rosalind Russell · Lee Bowman · Adele Jergens · Charles Winninger

Plot Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but...

6.1

38 votes

6.1

38 votes

Swing High, Swing Low

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Dorothy Lamour · Anthony Quinn

Plot In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub...

6.0

139 votes

6.0

139 votes

Together Again

1944 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Charles Coburn · Mona Freeman

Plot Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on...

6.0

34 votes

6.0

34 votes

Here Comes the Groom

1951 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Bing Crosby · Jane Wyman · Franchot Tone · Alexis Smith

Plot Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris, when an ultimatum from his erstwhile fiancée Emmadel Jones draws him back to Boston,...

6.0

247 votes

6.0

247 votes

Come Live with Me

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast James Stewart · Hedy Lamarr · Ian Hunter · Verree Teasdale

Plot Illegal immigrant and showgirl Johnny Jones is due to be deported from the USA, her only hope is to get married, but her rich publisher boyfriend Barton Kendrick is already...

5.8

75 votes

5.8

75 votes

The Crystal Ball

1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Ray Milland · Paulette Goddard · Gladys George · Virginia Field

Plot Toni Gerard lands in New York with 38 cents to her name and is befriended by fortune teller Madame Zenobia and a neighboring shooting gallery owner. Toni is smitten with...

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

Young and Willing

1943 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast William Holden · Eddie Bracken · Robert Benchley · Susan Hayward

Plot A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls...

5.4

190 votes

5.4

190 votes

One Night in Lisbon

1941 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Fred MacMurray · Madeleine Carroll · Patricia Morison · Billie Burke

Plot Prior to America's entry into World War II, Texan pilot Dwight Houston, who had been transporting bombers from a factory in California to England, arrives in London during an air...

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Bahama Passage

1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Madeleine Carroll · Sterling Hayden · Flora Robson · Leo G. Carroll

Plot A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by...

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The Impatient Years

1944 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Jean Arthur · Lee Bowman · Charles Coburn · Edgar Buchanan

Plot Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to...

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St. Louis Blues

1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Lloyd Nolan · Tito Guízar · Jerome Cowan

Plot A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans...

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My American Wife

1936 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Harold Young

Cast Francis Lederer · Ann Sothern · Fred Stone · Billie Burke

Plot Count Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach arrives in Smelter City, Arizona, with his American bride, Mary Cantillon. Mary's grandfather, Lafe Cantillon, founded the town and disapproves of Mary's marriage to...

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Cafe Society

1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

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Virginia

1941 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

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Too Many Parents

1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Robert F. McGowan

Cast Frances Farmer · Lester Matthews · Porter Hall · Henry Travers

Plot A story of the boys who are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart...

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The Pursuit of Happiness

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Francis Lederer · Joan Bennett · Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland

Plot Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard...

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Honeymoon in Bali

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Fred MacMurray · Madeleine Carroll · Allan Jones · Akim Tamiroff

Plot Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to...

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Not rated