Screenplay: Manuel Seff

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


Footlight Parade

1933 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

6.8

257 votes

6.8

257 votes

Walk Softly, Stranger

1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Joseph Cotten · Alida Valli · Spring Byington · Paul Stewart

Plot A charming, smooth-talking gambler calling himself Chris Hale arrives in Ashton, home of the Corelli shoe factory. Claiming to have lived there as a boy, he soon ingratiates himself with...

6.5

226 votes

6.5

226 votes

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Dick Powell · Adolphe Menjou · Gloria Stuart · Alice Brady

Plot In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is backing the show wants her daughter Ann to...

6.1

62 votes

6.1

62 votes

Married Bachelor

1941 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell · Norman Taurog

Cast Robert Young · Ruth Hussey · Felix Bressart · Lee Bowman

Plot Randolph Haven (Robert Young), an irresponsible sort, and his wife Norma (Ruth Hussey), have been married for seven years and still very much in love, although Norma is dissatisfied with...

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Red Salute

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Young · Hardie Albright · Cliff Edwards

Plot The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she...

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Breaking the Ice

1938 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Bobby Breen · Charles Ruggles · Dolores Costello · Irene Dare

Plot Tommy Martin lives with mother Martha in a conservative religious community but dreams of a singing career. He leaves to join a traveling show where he befriends skating sensation Irene...

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Traveling Saleslady

1935 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Joan Blondell · Glenda Farrell · William Gargan · Hugh Herbert

Plot Angela Twitchell is the daughter of a tooth-paste manufacturer, Rufus K. Twitchell, who has monopolized the business for many years that he has grown conservative, and his rivals have begin...

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Housewife

1934 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast George Brent · Bette Davis · Ann Dvorak · John Halliday

Plot Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial...

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Woman Chases Man

1937 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Joel McCrea · Charles Winninger · Erik Rhodes

Plot Former millionaire B.J. Nolan is useless with money, having lost most of his fortune on crazy schemes. His son, Kenneth, has the opposite problem thanks to good sense and a...

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Kansas City Princess

1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Joan Blondell · Glenda Farrell · Robert Armstrong · Hugh Herbert

Plot Rosie and Marie are two Kansas City manicurists. When Rosie lost an expensive ring her gangster boyfriend gave her, she and Marie takes an ocean voyage to Paris and masquerade...

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Love on the Run

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Franchot Tone · Reginald Owen

Plot In the company of reporter Michael Anthony, American heiress Sally Parker flees her planned wedding to Prince Igor; Sally is unaware of Mike's detestable occupation. The two steal an airplane...

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Blessed Event

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Lee Tracy · Dick Powell · Mary Brian · Allen Jenkins

Plot Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty...

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Bedside

1934 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Warren William · Jean Muir · Allen Jenkins · David Landau

Plot Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

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Three Godfathers

1936 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Chester Morris · Lewis Stone · Walter Brennan · Irene Hervey

Plot Three Godfathers is a 1936 western film, adapted from the novel of the same name by Peter B. Kyne. Three bank robbers find a newborn baby and his dying mother...

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Let's Make a Million

1936 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Ray McCarey

Cast Edward Everett Horton · Charlotte Wynters · Porter Hall · J.M. Kerrigan

Plot A soldier invests his bonus in a phoney oilfield, but retrieves his money by being the only person to strike oil.

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Easy to Love

1934 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Genevieve Tobin · Adolphe Menjou · Mary Astor · Edward Everett Horton

Plot Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family...

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Terror Aboard

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Paul Sloane

Cast John Halliday · Charles Ruggles · Shirley Grey · Neil Hamilton

Plot An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.

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Side Streets

1934 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Aline MacMahon · Paul Kelly · Ann Dvorak · Dorothy Tree

Plot A destitute sailor secures a job with a spinster who runs a small fur trimming shop. They marry, and soon have a child, but he cheats on her with serious...

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The Girl in 419

1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall · George Somnes

Cast James Dunn · Gloria Stuart · David Manners · William Harrigan

Plot When a young woman is found lying in the street, savagely beaten and near daeth, she's taken to a big city hospital where two young doctors try to save her...

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Hitchhike to Happiness

1945 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Al Pearce · Dale Evans · Stanley Brown · William Frawley

Plot A famous radio singer takes time off from her career and returns to New York City to visit with old friends, who don't know she's a famous singer (she uses...

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