Screenplay: Harry Tugend

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


Pocketful of Miracles

1961 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Plot Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

Love Is News

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Don Ameche · Slim Summerville

Plot When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that she's engaged to him...

6.6

68 votes

6.6

68 votes

A Song is Born

1948 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

6.5

717 votes

6.5

717 votes

Ziegfeld Follies

1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Lemuel Ayers · Roy Del Ruth · Robert Lewis

Cast Fred Astaire · William Powell · Judy Garland · Lucille Ball

Plot The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

6.4

313 votes

6.4

313 votes

Who's Minding the Store?

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Jill St. John · Agnes Moorehead · John McGiver

Plot Barbara (Jill St. John) is a very rich girl who falls in love with Norman Phiffier (Jerry Lewis), a poor young man. She doesn't tell him who she really is...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

Seven Sinners

1940 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Wayne · Albert Dekker · Broderick Crawford

Plot Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for insighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes...

6.2

120 votes

6.2

120 votes

Little Old New York

1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Alice Faye · Fred MacMurray · Richard Greene · Brenda Joyce

Plot Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn't. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs...

6.0

28 votes

6.0

28 votes

Black Dragon AKA Miracles

1989 · Movie · 101 min. · Hong Kong

Max

5.8

509 votes

5.8

509 votes

Captain January

1936 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Shirley Temple · Guy Kibbee · Slim Summerville · Buddy Ebsen

Plot Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer (Haden) decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

Second Fiddle

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Sonja Henie · Tyrone Power · Rudy Vallee · Edna May Oliver

Plot Studio publicist (Power) discovers Minnesota skating teacher (Henie) and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

5.3

28 votes

5.3

28 votes

Road to Bali

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Hal Walker

Cast Bing Crosby · Bob Hope · Dorothy Lamour · Murvyn Vye

Plot Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the...

5.1

133 votes

5.1

133 votes

My Lucky Star

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Sonja Henie · Richard Greene · Joan Davis · Cesar Romero

Plot The son (Romero) of a department store owner enrolls the store's sports clerk (Henie) at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for...

Not rated

Not rated

Pigskin Parade

1936 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Patsy Kelly · Jack Haley · The Yacht Club Boys · Stuart Erwin

Plot Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister....

Not rated

Not rated

Birth of the Blues

1941 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Bing Crosby · Mary Martin · Brian Donlevy · Carolyn Lee

Plot Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player,...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

Wake Up and Live

1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Walter Winchell · Ben Bernie · Alice Faye · Patsy Kelly

Plot Built around the publicity "feud" between newspaper-radio-gossip spreader Walter Winchell and band leader Ben Bernie, a radio star, Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who does an advice-and-inspiration program, helps a mike-shy...

Not rated

Not rated

The Lady Has Plans

1942 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Ray Milland · Paulette Goddard · Roland Young · Albert Dekker

Plot Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This...

Not rated

Not rated

Ali Baba Goes to Town

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Eddie Cantor · Tony Martin · Roland Young · June Lang

Plot A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof...

Not rated

Not rated

Caught in the Draft

1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Bob Hope · Dorothy Lamour · Lynne Overman · Eddie Bracken

Plot A movie star who can't stand loud noises accidentally joins the Army.

Not rated

Not rated

Little Miss Broadway

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Shirley Temple · George Murphy · Jimmy Durante · Phyllis Brooks

Plot An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the...

Not rated

Not rated