Screenplay: Arthur Kober

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


Me and My Gal

1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Spencer Tracy · Joan Bennett · Marion Burns · George Walsh

Plot Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen's sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.

6.3

184 votes

6.3

184 votes

Having Wonderful Time

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Ginger Rogers · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Peggy Conklin · Lucille Ball

Plot Ginger Rogers, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

5.1

32 votes

5.1

32 votes

Broadway Bad

1933 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Joan Blondell · Ricardo Cortez · Ginger Rogers · Adrienne Ames

Plot Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.

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Early to Bed

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · George Barbier · Gail Patrick

Plot Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his...

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My Own True Love

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

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The Secret Call

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Infernal Machine

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Chester Morris · Genevieve Tobin · Victor Jory · Elizabeth Patterson

Plot A bomb is hidden on an ocean liner, but nobody on board is aware of its presence.

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Calm Yourself

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Robert Young · Madge Evans · Betty Furness · Ralph Morgan

Plot Advertising executive Preston 'Pat' Patton is fired from his job by Col. Allenby when he offends his daughter Mary Elizabeth. Pat tries to remain calm and starts the agency 'Confidential...

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Up Pops the Devil

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher · Stuart Erwin · Carole Lombard · Lilyan Tashman

Plot The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In...

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The False Madonna

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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The Great Hotel Murder

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Wintertime

1943 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Sonja Henie · Jack Oakie · Cesar Romero · Carole Landis

Plot Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in...

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Headline Shooter

1933 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Otto Brower

Cast William Gargan · Frances Dee · Ralph Bellamy · Jack La Rue

Plot Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually has a dame in one hand and a hip flask in the other, yet catches breaking stories and disasters of all sorts on...

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Hollywood Party

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski · Allan Dwan · Edmund Goulding · Russell Mack

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Jimmy Durante · Jack Pearl

Plot Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws...

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It's Great to Be Alive

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Raul Roulien · Edna May Oliver · Gloria Stuart · Herbert Mundin

Plot An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of...

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Palooka

1934 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Benjamin Stoloff

Cast Jimmy Durante · Lupe Velez · Stuart Erwin · Marjorie Rambeau

Plot Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.

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It Pays to Advertise

1931 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Norman Foster · Carole Lombard · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher · Eugene Pallette

Plot To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market...

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Guilty as Hell

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Edmund Lowe · Victor McLaglen · Richard Arlen · Adrienne Ames

Plot The sister of a convicted murder is convinced that he is innocent in this cat-and-mouse game where the murderer is always one step ahead until a final tense confrontation.

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Mama Loves Papa

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · Lilyan Tashman · George Barbier

Plot A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.

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The Hot Choc-late Soldiers (S)

1934 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Walt Disney

Plot The Chocolate Soldiers seek to attack Pastry Village.

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