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
Direction George Sidney
Cast Esther Williams · Red Skelton · Basil Rathbone · Carlos Ramírez
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
Direction George Sidney
Cast Esther Williams · Howard Keel · George Sanders · Richard Haydn
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
Direction Edward Buzzell · Buster Keaton · Edward Sedgwick
Cast Van Johnson · Esther Williams · Lucille Ball · Keenan Wynn
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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...
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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...
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