Screenplay: Dorothy Bennett

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


The Brasher Doubloon

1947 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast George Montgomery · Nancy Guild · Conrad Janis · Roy Roberts

Plot Philip Marlowe gets involved when limp-wristed and snidely Leslie Murdock steals a rare doubloon from his mother to give to a newsreel photographer in exchange for film that is being...

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It Comes Up Love

1943 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Gloria Jean · Ian Hunter · Donald O´Connor · Frieda Inescort

Plot A couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O’Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.

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Show Business

1944 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Eddie Cantor · George Murphy · Joan Davis · Nancy Kelly

Plot A song-and-dance man and his comic partner undergo romantic ups and downs when they team up with a female duo and transition from burlesque to vaudeville.

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Follow the Band

1943 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Eddie Quillan · Mary Beth Hughes · Leon Errol · Anne Rooney

Plot A farmer goes to New York to become a singer, has sucess and marries his neighbour's girl-friend.

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Patrick the Great

1944 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Frank Ryan

Cast Donald O´Connor · Peggy Ryan · Frances Dee · Donald Cook

Plot Talented youngster Pat Donahue is working in the Berkshires. He learns of a great part in New York City and auditions. But after winning the role he finds out it...

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Mister Big

1943 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Donald O´Connor · Gloria Jean · Peggy Ryan · Robert Paige

Plot At the Davis School of the Theatre, run by Jeremy Taswell, where teen-age kids study drama and the serious arts, instructors Johnny Hanley and Alice Taswell are in love. The...

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Sensations of 1945

1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Eleanor Powell · Dennis O'Keefe · C. Aubrey Smith · Eugene Pallette

Plot Campy musical stars Eleanor Powell, Dennis O'Keefe, C. Aubrey Smith, W.C. Fields, Cab Calloway, Sophie Tucker and Eugene Pallette. Loaded with specialty numbers; contains the now-famous number where Eleanor tap-dances...

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Do You Love Me

1946 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Maureen O'Hara · Dick Haymes · Harry James · Reginald Gardiner

Plot Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice,...

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Always in My Heart

1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jo Graham

Cast Kay Francis · Walter Huston · Gloria Warren · Patti Hale

Plot A mother of two adolescents, who believe their father is dead but is actually serving time in prison, is about to marry a man of substantial means, only in the...

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When Johnny Comes Marching Home

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Allan Jones · Jane Frazee · Gloria Jean · Donald O´Connor

Plot Johnny Kovacs (Jones) is a war hero who comes back home for a ten-day leave. Pursued by a woman (Shelton) who considers herself his fiance, he works with his superior...

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All by Myself

1943 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Rosemary Lane · Evelyn Ankers · Patric Knowles · Neil Hamilton

Plot Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has...

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Daughters Courageous

1939 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

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