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
Direction Edward H. Griffith
Cast Madeleine Carroll · Fred MacMurray · Shirley Ross · Jessie Ralph
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Virginia
1941 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Edward H. Griffith
Cast Madeleine Carroll · Fred MacMurray · Sterling Hayden · Helen Broderick
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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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