Screenplay: Henry Ephron
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Henry Ephron. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Desk Set
1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Gig Young · Joan Blondell
Plot The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing...
6.5
790 votes
6.5
790 votes
Daddy Long Legs
1955 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Fred Astaire · Leslie Caron · Thelma Ritter · Fred Clark
Plot On a trip to France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton sees an 18 year old girl in an orphanage. Enchanted with her, but mindful of the difference in their ages, he sponsors...
6.3
639 votes
6.3
639 votes
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction David Miller
Cast Gregory Peck · Tony Curtis · Angie Dickinson · Eddie Albert
Plot Dr. Josiah Newman runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz to work in his ward....
6.2
320 votes
6.2
320 votes
There´s No Business Like Show Business
1954 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Ethel Merman · Dan Dailey · Donald O´Connor · Marilyn Monroe
Plot Marilyn Monroe and an all-star cast are featured in Irving Berlin's tuneful depiction of the trials and triumphs of a veteran vaudeville family. The talented Donahue family has plenty of...
6.1
712 votes
6.1
712 votes
What Price Glory
1952 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast James Cagney · Corinne Calvet · Dan Dailey · William Demarest
Plot James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after being told that the old property was being...
6.0
507 votes
6.0
507 votes
Carousel
1956 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Cameron Mitchell · Barbara Ruick
Plot Billy is sent down "from above" for one day to try and make amends for mistakes he made in life. Billy worked at the carnival running the carousel, which is...
5.9
208 votes
5.9
208 votes
On the Riviera
1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Danny Kaye · Gene Tierney · Corinne Calvet · Marcel Dalio
Plot Jack Martin (Danny Kaye), an American entertainer working cabarets on the French Riviera, does an impersonation of philandering industrialist Henri Duran (Kaye, again) so convincingly that even Duran's beautiful wife...
5.9
80 votes
5.9
80 votes
Belles on Their Toes
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Jeanne Crain · Myrna Loy · Debra Paget · Jeffrey Hunter
Plot The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
5.8
48 votes
5.8
48 votes
The Jackpot
1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast James Stewart · Barbara Hale · James Gleason · Fred Clark
Plot Bill Lawrence wins a slew of prizes on a radio quiz program. His happiness is short-lived when he discovers he'll have to sell the prizes in order to pay the...
5.6
34 votes
5.6
34 votes
Take Her, She's Mine
1963 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast James Stewart · Sandra Dee · Robert Morley · Audrey Meadows
Plot A father's attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire, and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal.
5.2
47 votes
5.2
47 votes
Three Is a Family
1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Marjorie Reynolds · Charles Ruggles · Fay Bainter · Helen Broderick
Plot Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled...
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Wallflower
1948 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Frederick de Cordova
Cast Robert Hutton · Janis Paige · Joyce Reynolds · Edward Arnold
Plot Two stepsisters (Reynolds and Paige) vie for the same love.
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Bride By Mistake
1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wallace
Cast Alan Marshal · Laraine Day · Marsha Hunt · Allyn Joslyn
Plot Norah is very rich, owns her own shipyard and has Sylvia double for her at all outside functions. But Sylvia is now married and wants to go to Washington with...
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Always Together
1947 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Frederick de Cordova
Cast Robert Hutton · Joyce Reynolds · Cecil Kellaway · Ernest Truex
Plot Millionaire Turner, on his deathbed, leaves a million to Jane Barker. A movie addict who believes life is like the movies, marries Donn without telling him about the bequest. Turner...
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Look for the Silver Lining
1949 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast June Haver · Ray Bolger · Gordon MacRae · Charles Ruggles
Plot This biopic chronicles the vaudeville-to-Broadway story of 1920s' star Marilyn Miller (June Haver). From her start on the boards in Finley, Ohio, Marilyn sings and dances her way to Broadway...
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The Girl Rush
1955 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Robert Pirosh
Cast Rosalind Russell · Fernando Lamas · Eddie Albert · Gloria DeHaven
Plot In this comedy, Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island, inherits half ownership of a Las Vegas hotel when her father dies.
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John Loves Mary
1949 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Ronald Reagan · Patricia Neal · Jack Carson · Wayne Morris
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