Screenplay: Robert O'Brien

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert O'Brien. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Belle of New York

1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Fred Astaire · Vera-Ellen · Keenan Wynn · Marjorie Main

Plot In turn of the century New York, pretty temperance worker Angela Collins, who is a member of the Daughters of Right, is hailed as the "Belle of New York" by...

6.2

30 votes

6.2

30 votes

Lady on a Train

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Charles David

Cast Deanna Durbin · Ralph Bellamy · David Bruce · George Coulouris

Plot While waiting at a train station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder from a nearby building. When she brings the police to the scene of the crime, they think she's crazy...

5.7

83 votes

5.7

83 votes

Mister Ed (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Sonia Chernus · Walter Brooks · Arthur Lubin · Ira Stewart

Cast Alan Young · Connie Hines · Edna Skinner · Allan Lane

Plot Mister Ed is a horse who is owned by Wilbur Post. Mister Ed is not just any horse, he talks to Wilbur! But this gets Wilbur in all kinds of...

5.4

202 votes

5.4

202 votes

The Lucy Show (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bob Carroll Jr. · Madelyn Davis · Bob Schiller · Bob Weiskopf

Cast Lucille Ball · Gale Gordon · Vivian Vance · Jimmy Garrett

Plot TV Series (1962-1968). 6 Seasons. 156 Episodes. After the death of her husband, Lucy Carmichael and her friend, the recently divorced Vivian Bagley, move into a house together with their...

5.3

26 votes

5.3

26 votes

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

1953 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Doris Day · Gordon MacRae · Leon Ames · Rosemary DeCamp

Plot The trials and tribulations of the Winfield family in small town Indiana as Marjorie Winfield's boyfriend, William Sherman, returns from the Army after W.W.I. Bill & Marjorie's on-again, off-again provide...

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Say One for Me

1959 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Bing Crosby · Debbie Reynolds · Robert Wagner · Ray Walston

Plot Father Conroy (Crosby) has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his parishoners gets too sick to work, his daughter Holly (Reynolds) finds a job...

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Sally (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction William Asher

Cast Joan Caulfield · Marion Lorne · Johnny Desmond · Gale Gordon

Plot TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 26 episodes. Salesgirl, Sally Truesdale becomes traveling companion to a wealthy matron.

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Fancy Pants

1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · Bruce Cabot · Jack Kirkwood

Plot An American actor (Arthur Tyler) impersonating an English butler is hired by a nouveau riche woman (Effie Floud) from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter (Aggie). The...

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Make Room for Daddy (TV Series)

1953 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Melville Shavelson · Sheldon Leonard · William Asher · Danny Thomas

Cast Danny Thomas · Jean Hagen · Marjorie Lord · Sherry Jackson

Plot TV Series (1953-1965). 11 Seasons. 344 Episodes. Danny Williams, a successful nightclub singer, encounters a variety of difficult or amusing situations in trying to balance his career with his family;...

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The Dick Powell Show (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Richard Alan Simmons · Marc Daniels · Don Medford · Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast Dick Powell · June Allyson · David Niven · Larry J. Blake

Plot Powell served as host and, in early shows at least, occasional star in this dramatic anthology. It was his last television series and contained his last filmed acting.

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The Lemon Drop Kid

1951 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield · Frank Tashlin

Cast Bob Hope · Marilyn Maxwell · Lloyd Nolan · Jane Darwell

Plot When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally steers Moose Moran's girl away from a winning bet, he is forced to come up with $10,000 to repay the angry gangster. Fortunately it's...

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Lucky Me

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jack Donohue

Cast Doris Day · Robert Cummings · Phil Silvers · Eddie Foy Jr.

Plot Candy Williams is a struggling performer in a musical troupe, headed by Hap Schneider. Unfortunately, the troupe has fallen on hard times, forcing the members to get jobs cleaning hotel...

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