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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