Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley

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


Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Howard Keel · Jane Powell · Jeff Richards · Tommy Rall

Plot Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then...

7.0

27K votes

7.0

27K votes

Pal Joey

1957 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Frank Sinatra · Rita Hayworth · Kim Novak · Barbara Nichols

Plot Joey Evans is charming, handsome, funny, talented, and a first class, A-number-one heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl ("She used to be 'Vera...with the Vanishing Veils'") and now...

6.4

533 votes

6.4

533 votes

Kiss Me Kate

1953 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Howard Keel · Ann Miller · Keenan Wynn

Plot Fred and Lilly are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course,...

6.4

242 votes

6.4

242 votes

Half a Sixpence

1967 · Movie · 143 min. · United Kingdom

Direction George Sidney

Cast Tommy Steele · Julia Foster · Cyril Ritchard · Penelope Horner

Plot Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile, has a sudden abrupt change of life when his wealthy grandfather dies and leaves him a pile of...

6.1

40 votes

6.1

40 votes

Can-Can

1960 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Frank Sinatra · Shirley MacLaine · Maurice Chevalier · Louis Jourdan

Plot 1896, Montmartre: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their...

6.0

199 votes

6.0

199 votes

Bathing Beauty

1944 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

5.8

922 votes

5.8

922 votes

Valley of the Dolls

1967 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Barbara Parkins · Patty Duke · Paul Burke · Sharon Tate

Plot The rise and fall of three women trying to make it in show business and all the abuse of narcotic, psychological and physical natures that come with stardom.

5.6

430 votes

5.6

430 votes

Angels in the Outfield

1951 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Paul Douglas · Janet Leigh · Keenan Wynn · Donna Corcoran

Plot A young woman reporter blames the Pittsburgh Pirates' losing streak on the obscenely abusive manager. While she attempts to learn more about him for her column, he begins hearing the...

5.5

22 votes

5.5

22 votes

Jupiter's Darling

1954 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

5.4

87 votes

5.4

87 votes

Neptune's Daughter

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Esther Williams · Red Skelton · Ricardo Montalban · Betty Garrett

Plot Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated...

5.4

103 votes

5.4

103 votes

It's a Big Country

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown · Don Hartman · John Sturges · Richard Thorpe

Cast Ethel Barrymore · Keefe Brasselle · Gary Cooper · Nancy Reagan

Plot The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning.

5.3

34 votes

5.3

34 votes

Don't Go Near the Water

1957 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Glenn Ford · Gia Scala · Earl Holliman · Anne Francis

Plot On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy's P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. Max Siegal is the Second in command to a...

5.1

29 votes

5.1

29 votes

On an Island with You

1948 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Esther Williams · Peter Lawford · Ricardo Montalban · Jimmy Durante

Plot A young navy lieutenant is brought in as techninical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her - and...

5.1

44 votes

5.1

44 votes

A Date with Judy

1948 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Wallace Beery · Jane Powell · Elizabeth Taylor · Carmen Miranda

Plot Developed from a radio program which began in 1941, hyperactive teenager Judy challenges and is challeged by her overly proper parents, pest of a brother Randolph and boyfriend Oogie

5.1

79 votes

5.1

79 votes

Green Mansions

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Mel Ferrer

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Anthony Perkins · Lee J. Cobb · Sessue Hayakawa

Plot Based on the popular 1904 novel by W. H. Hudson, this valiant attempt to bring mystical realism and fantasy to the screen falls somewhat flat. Abel, son of a murdered...

5.1

271 votes

5.1

271 votes

Pepe

1960 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Dan Dailey · Shirley Jones · Vicki Trickett

Plot The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the...

5.1

286 votes

5.1

286 votes

Angels in the Outfield

1994 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction William Dear

Cast Danny Glover · Tony Danza · Christopher Lloyd · Brenda Fricker

Plot Roger who has lost his mother is living separated from his father. As he and his friend J.P. are one of the biggest fans of the Los Angeles baseball team...

4.6

1K votes

4.6

1K votes

Easy to Wed

1946 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

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Here We Go Again

1942 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Jim Jordan · Marian Jordan · Edgar Bergen · Charlie McCarthy

Plot It's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead. After...

Not rated

Not rated

Two Weeks with Love

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Jane Powell · Ricardo Montalban · Louis Calhern · Ann Harding

Plot The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez...

Not rated

Not rated