Screenplay: Victor Heerman

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


Stella Dallas

1937 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Boles · Anne Shirley · Alan Hale

Synopsis Working-class Stella Martin marries high-end Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. But Stephen's incessant demands of Stella to become what she isn't leads to their eventual separation. Stephen later marries Helen Morrison (his prior fiancée), and...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

Little Women

1933 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Joan Bennett · Paul Lukas · Frances Dee

Synopsis Josephine March and her three sisters Margaret, Amy, and Beth grow up with their mother's guidance while their father fights in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). The vivacious quartet are very close and happy despite limited means. Laurie...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Little Women

1949 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast June Allyson · Elizabeth Taylor · Peter Lawford · Janet Leigh

Synopsis Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother -...

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6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

Golden Boy

1939 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · William Holden · Adolphe Menjou · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis Joe Bonaparte's father wants him to pursue his musical talent; but Joe wants to be a boxer. Persuading near-bankrupt manager Tom Moody to give him a chance, Joe quickly rises in his new profession. When he has second thoughts Moody's...

6.7

289 votes

6.7

289 votes

Magnificent Obsession

1935 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · Robert Taylor · Charles Butterworth · Betty Furness

Synopsis The life of spoiled Robert Merrick (Robert Taylor) is saved through the use of a hospital's only pulmotor, which results in the death of Dr. Hudson, a selfless, brilliant surgeon and generous philanthropist. Merrick falls in love with Hudson's widow,...

6.6

317 votes

6.6

317 votes

Break of Hearts

1935 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Philip Moeller

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Charles Boyer · Jean Hersholt · John Beal

Synopsis This romantic drama traces the relationship between a philandering orchestra conductor, whose career is on the ropes, and a naive young composer.

5.8

174 votes

5.8

174 votes

The Little Minister

1934 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Katharine Hepburn · John Beal · Alan Hale · Donald Crisp

Synopsis In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the...

5.6

86 votes

5.6

86 votes

My Boy

1921 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction Albert Austin · Victor Heerman

Cast Jackie Coogan · Claude Gillingwater · Mathilde Brundage · Patsy Marks

Synopsis An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.

5.6

26 votes

5.6

26 votes

The Age of Innocence

1934 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Philip Moeller

Cast Irene Dunne · John Boles · Lionel Atwill · Helen Westley

Synopsis Tale of 19th century New York high society in which the young lawyer Newland Archer falls in love with Ellen, a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to May Welland, the woman's cousin.

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