Screenplay: Marian Ainslee
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Marian Ainslee. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 15
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
Direction W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Tim McCoy · Joan Crawford · Edward Connelly · Roy D'Arcy
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1929 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Charles Brabin
Cast Lili Damita · Ernest Torrence · Raquel Torres · Don Alvarado
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Butterfly
1924 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Kenneth Harlan · Laura La Plante · Norman Kerry · Ruth Clifford
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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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Foreign Devils
1927 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Tim McCoy · Claire Windsor · Cyril Chadwick · Frank Currier
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