Screenplay: Rida Johnson Young
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Rida Johnson Young. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 11
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
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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
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5.8
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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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