Screenplay: Herbert Fields
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Herbert Fields. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Hands Across the Table
1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Astrid Allwyn
Plot Beautiful manicurist Reggie Allen has a plan to marry for money. One of her clients, paraplegic ex-aviator Allen Macklyn, is rich and has an eye for Reggie. However, things get...
6.8
349 votes
6.8
349 votes
Annie Get Your Gun
1950 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Betty Hutton · Howard Keel · Louis Calhern · J. Carrol Naish
Plot Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised 'Doin' What Comes Naturally'. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in 'Colonel Buffalo Bill''s show, however, knows full well that's not how...
5.8
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5.8
68 votes
Love Before Breakfast
1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Carole Lombard · Preston Foster · Cesar Romero · Janet Beecher
Plot Kay Colby (Carole Lombard) is a Park Avenue beauty with two suitors: Bill Wadsworth (Cesar Romero), who she's engaged to, and Scott Miller (Preston Foster). To clear his way, Scott...
5.6
36 votes
5.6
36 votes
The Hot Heiress
1931 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Clarence G. Badger
Cast Ben Lyon · Ona Munson · Walter Pidgeon · Tom Dugan
Plot He is one of the best riveters in the union, but he is still a day laborer. She comes from money, but when they saw each other, it was love...
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Father Takes a Wife
1941 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Jack B. Hively
Cast Adolphe Menjou · Gloria Swanson · John Howard · Desi Arnaz
Plot Frederick Osborne, Junior is slightly agitated because his father, Senior, is acting more like a college student than the president of a huge merchantile fleet. Senior reveals that he is...
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Let's Face It
1943 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast Bob Hope · Betty Hutton · ZaSu Pitts · Phyllis Povah
Plot A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the...
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Du Barry Was a Lady
1943 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Red Skelton · Lucille Ball · Gene Kelly · Virginia O'Brien
Plot Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins...
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Slightly French
1949 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Dorothy Lamour · Don Ameche · Janis Carter · Willard Parker
Plot Movie director John Gayle is fired by his best friend, a producer. He goes to the beach and wanders into a carnival. There he sees a cleaver Irish girl, Mary...
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Hit the Deck
1955 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Roy Rowland
Cast Jane Powell · Tony Martin · Debbie Reynolds · Walter Pidgeon
Plot Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the...
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Fools for Scandal
1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Carole Lombard · Fernand Gravey · Ralph Bellamy · Allen Jenkins
Plot Rene is broke and Kay is a rich actress visiting Paris. They meet, share a cab and dinner. He is smitten by her, but she leaves for London and he...
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Honolulu
1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Edward Buzzell
Cast Eleanor Powell · Robert Young · George Burns · Gracie Allen
Plot Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason's fans for Mason and brought to...
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Mississippi
1935 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland · Wesley Ruggles
Cast Bing Crosby · W.C. Fields · Joan Bennett · Gail Patrick
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Edward Buzzell
Cast Jane Wyatt · Louis Hayward · Nat Pendleton · Eugene Pallette
Plot A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
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Accent on Youth
1935 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Wesley Ruggles
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Herbert Marshall · Phillip Reed · Holmes Herbert
Plot Steven Gaye, a successful New York playwright has passed forty and thinks he has bid farewell to the world of romance. But he falls in love with his secretary, Linda...
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People Will Talk
1935 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · Leila Hyams · Dean Jagger
Plot Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter,Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask,...
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Something for the Boys
1944 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Carmen Miranda · Michael O'Shea · Vivian Blaine · Phil Silvers
Plot The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a...
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Mexican Hayride
1948 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Charles Barton
Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Virginia Grey · Luba Malina
Plot Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
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50 Million Frenchmen
1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Ole Olsen · Chic Johnson · William Gaxton · Helen Broderick
Plot Independently wealthy American Jack Forbes has just arrived in Paris. Because of his wealth, he can have any woman on his arms. Currently that role is filled by Marcelle Dubrey,...
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Leathernecking
1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast Irene Dunne · Ken Murray · Louise Fazenda · Ned Sparks
Plot Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over. His first plan...
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Panama Hattie
1942 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Red Skelton · Ann Sothern · Rags Ragland · Ben Blue
Plot Hattie Maloney runs a saloon in Panama where assorted characters congregate where they frequently sing and dance Cole Porter numbers. An upper class gentleman arrives and sparks fly between him...
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