Screenplay: Marian Ainslee

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Marian Ainslee. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Merry Widow

1925 · Movie · 137 min. · United States

Direction Erich von Stroheim

Cast John Gilbert · Mae Murray · Roy D'Arcy · Tully Marshall

Synopsis Prince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O'Hara. His uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco forbids the marriage because she is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries old, lecherous Baron Sadoja, whose wealth...

7.1

363 votes

7.1

363 votes

Hallelujah!

1929 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Daniel L. Haynes · Nina Mae McKinney · William Fountaine · Harry Gray

Synopsis In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick, but she's only setting him up for a rigged craps game. He loses $100, the money he got for the sale of his family's entire cotton crop. His...

7.0

328 votes

7.0

328 votes

The Temptress

1926 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Greta Garbo · Antonio Moreno · Marc McDermott · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis In a masked ball in Paris, Manuel Robledo, a young Argentinian architect, meets Elena, the Marquess of Torre Blanca. Later, the young woman is rightly accused causing the misfortune and loss of wealth of Fontenoy, a man who fell for...

6.6

65 votes

6.6

65 votes

Our Dancing Daughters

1928 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Joan Crawford · Johnny Mack Brown · Nils Asther · Dorothy Sebastian

Synopsis Diana is outwardly the hit of the party but inwardly virtuous and idealistic. Her friend Ann is thoroughly selfish and amoral. Both are attracted to Ben Black, soon-to-be millionaire. He takes Diana's flirtations with other boys as a sign of...

6.4

38 votes

6.4

38 votes

Carefree

1938 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Ralph Bellamy · Luella Gear

Synopsis Dr. Tony Flagg's friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr. Flagg. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with Dr. Flagg. When he tries to use hypnosis to...

6.3

381 votes

6.3

381 votes

Love

1927 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast John Gilbert · Greta Garbo · George Fawcett · Emily Fitzroy

Synopsis In Czarist Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become Vronsky's mistress. Tragedy ensues when Vronsky chooses his military career over Anna.

6.2

76 votes

6.2

76 votes

Winners of the Wilderness

1927 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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Desert Nights

1929 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast John Gilbert · Ernest Torrence · Mary Nolan · Claude King

Synopsis A con man with his beautiful accomplice and a hostage steals a half million dollars worth of diamonds but finds they're all lost in the desert without water.

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In Old Kentucky

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast James Murray · Helene Costello · Wesley Barry · Dorothy Cumming

Synopsis Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely with the Major at the front, for the Kentucky Derby.

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Secrets of the Night

1924 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Blaché

Cast James Kirkwood · Madge Bellamy · ZaSu Pitts · Rosemary Theby

Synopsis Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank. Everyone is suspected--especially young Hammond, who is in love with Andrews' ward, Anne Maynard, and...

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The Masks of the Devil

1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast John Gilbert · Alma Rubens · Theodore Roberts · Frank Reicher

Synopsis Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away...

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Wonder of Women

1929 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Lewis Stone · Leila Hyams · Peggy Wood · Harry Myers

Synopsis A German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died.

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