Screenplay: Zoe Akins
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Zoe Akins. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Camille
1936 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Greta Garbo · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Elizabeth Allan
Plot Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
The Old Maid
1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Edmund Goulding
Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · George Brent · Donald Crisp
Plot Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg...
7.4
732 votes
7.4
732 votes
Morning Glory
1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Lowell Sherman
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Adolphe Menjou · Mary Duncan
Plot Eva Lovelace, would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms. Her looks, more than her talent, attract the interest of...
6.3
437 votes
6.3
437 votes
Christopher Strong
1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Colin Clive · Billie Burke · Helen Chandler
Plot At a party for Bright Young Things, a "treasure hunt" for attractive yet virtuous people nets Sir Christopher Strong, M.P., and Lady Cynthia Darrington, dashing aviatrix. Their acquaintance is innocent...
6.1
223 votes
6.1
223 votes
Desire Me
1947 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway · George Cukor · Mervyn LeRoy · Victor Saville
Cast Greer Garson · Robert Mitchum · Richard Hart · Morris Ankrum
Plot Shortly after WWII, flashbacks tell the story of Marise, her husband Paul, and Jean, who was imprisoned with Paul in a German camp. While attempting to escape from the camp...
6.0
41 votes
6.0
41 votes
Stage Struck
1958 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Henry Fonda · Susan Strasberg · Joan Greenwood · Herbert Marshall
5.7
98 votes
5.7
98 votes
Lady of Secrets
1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Marion Gering
Cast Ruth Chatterton · Otto Kruger · Lionel Atwill · Marian Marsh
Plot Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
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Zaza
1938 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Claudette Colbert · Herbert Marshall · Bert Lahr · Helen Westley
Plot A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat.
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Theatre 625 (TV Series)
1964 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Morahan · Alan Cooke · Alan Gibson · Donald McWhinnie
Cast Michael Bryant · Judi Dench · Maurice Denham · Ronald Hines
Plot TV Series (1964-1968). 5 seasons. 115 episodes.
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Sarah and Son
1930 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Ruth Chatterton · Fredric March · Fuller Mellish Jr. · Gilbert Emery
Plot A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife--now a world-famous opera singer--finally...
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The Toy Wife
1938 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Luise Rainer · Melvyn Douglas · Robert Young · Barbara O'Neil
Plot "The toy wife" or how to spoil your own life and the lives of others by being fickle and frivolous. This is the story of Gilberte, a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl...
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Accused
1936 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thornton Freeland
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Dolores del Rio · Florence Desmond · Basil Sydney
Plot Two dance partners become embroiled in a murder mystery when one of the dancers is accused of murder.
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series)
1950 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal · Lawrence Carra · Charles S. Dubin · Frank Telford
Cast Charles Dingle · Nina Foch · James Dunn · Wright King
Plot Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, etc.
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Outcast Lady
1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Constance Bennett · Herbert Marshall · Stella Patrick Campbell · Hugh Williams
Plot A woman's trials and tribulations over a romance since childhood, protecting her husband's secret past, and the trouble it causes with her brother.
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The Right to Love
1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wallace
Cast Ruth Chatterton · Paul Lukas · David Manners · Irving Pichel
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Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage · Tay Garnett · John Brahm · William R. Cox
Cast Rory Calhoun · Arthur Q. Bryan · Bill Erwin · George Sanders
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Working Girls
1931 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Judith Wood · Dorothy Hall · Claire Dodd · Frances Dee
Plot Two sisters have arrived in New York straight from the country and settle down in one of those boarding houses for single women. May, the older, is a bit naive,...
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Anybody's Woman
1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Ruth Chatterton · Clive Brook · Paul Lukas · Huntley Gordon
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Lowell Sherman
Cast Joan Blondell · Madge Evans · Ina Claire · David Manners
Plot A trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a...
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The Day I Met Caruso (TV)
1956 · Movie · 30 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Lotfi Mansouri · Walter Coy · Sandy Descher · Bill Walker
Plot A ten-year-old girl meets famed opera singer Enrico Caruso on a train between Boston and New York. She admonishes him for his extravagant lifestyle, but she is softened up somewhat...
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