Screenplay: Gene Markey

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


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

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

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Let's Live Tonight

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

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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

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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

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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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