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
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Steve Cochran · Hugh Herbert
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
Direction Chen Chi-Hwa · Jackie Chan
Cast Jackie Chan · Anita Mui · Rose Kwei · Ko Chun-hsiung
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...
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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....
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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,...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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