Screenplay: Rida Johnson Young

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Rida Johnson Young. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Little Old New York

1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Alice Faye · Fred MacMurray · Richard Greene · Brenda Joyce

Synopsis Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn't. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.

6.0

28 votes

6.0

28 votes

Mother Machree

1927 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Belle Bennett · Neil Hamilton · Victor McLaglen · Constance Howard

Synopsis Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels...

5.8

25 votes

5.8

25 votes

Maytime

1937 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Nelson Eddy · John Barrymore · Herman Bing

Synopsis An elderly Miss Morrison recounts her life as the once young and beautiful opera singer Marcia Morney-then the toast of Napoleon III's Paris. One evening, she encounters an American voice student, Paul Allison, and the two unexpectedly fall in love....

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Brown of Harvard

1918 · Movie · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Tom Moore · Hazel Daly · Sidney Ainsworth · Warner Richmond

Synopsis Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.

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Brown of Harvard

1926 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast William Haines · Jack Pickford · Mary Brian · Ralph Bushman

Synopsis Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.

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Glorious Betsy

1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Dolores Costello · Conrad Nagel · John Miljan · Marc McDermott

Synopsis The film is a semi-historical narrative and depicts the real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon did not approve of the union (despite the fact...

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Hearts Divided

1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Marion Davies · Dick Powell · Charles Ruggles · Claude Rains

Synopsis Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to the U.S. on a goodwill tour. At...

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Hell Harbor

1930 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Lupe Velez · Jean Hersholt · John Holland · Gibson Gowland

Synopsis Anita Morgan, a descendant of the famous pirate Henry Morgan, is living a carefree and careless life on an island in the Carribean, but had much rather be living the same life In Havava. When she learns that her father,...

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Maytime

1923 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Louis J. Gasnier

Cast Ethel Shannon · Harrison Ford II · William Norris · Clara Bow

Synopsis Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and,...

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The Lottery Man

1916 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Leopold Wharton · Theodore Wharton

Cast Thurlow Bergen · Elsie Esmond · Oliver Hardy · Allan Murnane

Synopsis A young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However he finds himself very much in love with a woman other than the winner.

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Little Old New York

1923 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Olcott

Cast Marion Davies · Stephen Carr · J.M. Kerrigan · Courtenay Foote

Synopsis An Irish immigrant lass (played by Marion Davies) comes to New York City disguised as a boy to claim her dead brother's inheritance in this charming historical drama set against the backdrop of real events, including the 1807 launch of...

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