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
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Ruby Keeler · Dick Powell
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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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