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

68 votes

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

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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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