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

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

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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

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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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