Screenplay: Gene Markey
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Gene Markey. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 26
Baby Face
1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Donald Cook · Alphonse Ethier
Plot Lily Powers (Baby Face) has to do more than serve drinks at her father's run-down speakeasy in a small industrial town. His death gives her the chance to get to...
7.0
410 votes
7.0
410 votes
Midnight Mary
1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Loretta Young · Ricardo Cortez · Franchot Tone · Andy Devine
Plot A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting...
6.9
128 votes
6.9
128 votes
Inspiration
1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Greta Garbo · Robert Montgomery · Lewis Stone · Marjorie Rambeau
Plot Yvonne is a Parisian woman with a disreputable past. When this past returns to haunt her, she decides to leave her boyfriend in order to presever his honor. Later, she...
6.3
80 votes
6.3
80 votes
As You Desire Me
1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Greta Garbo · Melvyn Douglas · Erich von Stroheim · Owen Moore
6.0
109 votes
6.0
109 votes
Female
1933 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz · William Dieterle · William A. Wellman
Cast Ruth Chatterton · George Brent · Johnny Mack Brown · Lois Wilson
Plot Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) is owner and successful manager of an automobile factory. She also has a good relation to her employees - especially the male ones, which she is...
5.8
76 votes
5.8
76 votes
Private Number
1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Robert Taylor · Loretta Young · Basil Rathbone · Patsy Kelly
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Let's Live Tonight
1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Lilian Harvey · Tullio Carminati · Janet Beecher · Hugh Williams
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You're the One
1941 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Murphy
Cast Bonnie Baker · Orrin Tucker · Albert Dekker · Edward Everett Horton
Plot In this 100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character, a singer named...
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Love in Exile
1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Helen Vinson · Clive Brook · Mary Carlisle · Ronald Squire
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King of Burlesque
1936 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast Warner Baxter · Alice Faye · Jack Oakie · Mona Barrie
Plot Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.
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The Merry Frinks
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Aline MacMahon · Guy Kibbee · Hugh Herbert · Allen Jenkins
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A Modern Hero
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Richard Barthelmess · Jean Muir · Marjorie Rambeau · Verree Teasdale
Plot Pierre is a young and handsome circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures but becomes genuinely concerned when he actually falls in love. She reveals to him...
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Champagne Charlie
1936 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction James Tinling
Cast Paul Cavanagh · Helen Wood · Thomas Beck · Minna Gombell
Plot The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry. When he double-crosses them he's murdered and the murderer blackmails the girl....
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A Lost Lady
1934 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green · Phil Rosen
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Frank Morgan · Ricardo Cortez · Lyle Talbot
Plot Two days before Marian and Ned are to be married, he is killed by the husband of a woman he was seeing on the side. Marian becomes withdrawn and they...
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White Hunter
1936 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Warner Baxter · June Lang · Gail Patrick · Alison Skipworth
Plot Safari guide (Baxter) is hired by the man (Lawson) who was responsible for his father's death.
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The Great Lover
1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Harry Beaumont
Cast Adolphe Menjou · Irene Dunne · Ernest Torrence · Neil Hamilton
Plot Jean Paurel is a womanizing opera star, who agrees to help Diana Page her career in order to take advantage of her. But instead he finds falling in love with...
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Lilly Turner
1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Ruth Chatterton · George Brent · Frank McHugh · Guy Kibbee
Plot A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer.
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On the Avenue
1937 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Dick Powell · Madeleine Carroll · Alice Faye · Jimmy Ritz
Plot A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon...
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Girls' Dormitory
1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Herbert Marshall · Ruth Chatterton · Simone Simon · Constance Collier
Plot Head of a private European girls school falls in love with a student who steps aside for a teacher also loves him. Tyrone Power debuted in a nightclub scene.
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Meet Me at the Fair
1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Dan Dailey · Diana Lynn · Chet Allen · Scatman Crothers
Plot In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft)...
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