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

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