Screenplay: J.P. McEvoy
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by J.P. McEvoy. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Artists and Models Abroad
1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Jack Benny · Joan Bennett · Mary Boland · Charley Grapewin
Plot Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the...
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Just Around the Corner
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Shirley Temple · Joan Davis · Charles Farrell · Amanda Duff
Plot The film focuses on the tribulations of little Penny Hale (Temple) and her architect father (Farrell) after he is forced by circumstances to accept a job as janitor.
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It's the Old Army Game
1926 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland
Cast W.C. Fields · Louise Brooks · Blanche Ring · William Gaxton
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College Holiday
1936 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Jack Benny · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Mary Boland
Plot Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.
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The Lemon Drop Kid
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Lee Tracy · Helen Mack · William Frawley · Minna Gombell
Plot Con artist and racetrack tout Wally Brooks hands a lemon drop to a man in a wheelchair, saying it will cure whatever ails him, then persuades the man, a millionaire...
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Love in Bloom
1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast George Burns · Gracie Allen · Joe Morrison · Dixie Lee
Plot A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York City and becomes involved with a handsome young songwriter. George Burns and Gracie Allen play...
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Show Girl
1928 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast Alice White · Donald Reed · Lee Moran · Charles Delaney
Plot Alice White plays an aspiring dancer who fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her newfound fame causes trouble with her boyfriend (Charles Delaney).
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Ready for Love
1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Marion Gering
Cast Richard Arlen · Ida Lupino · Marjorie Rambeau · Junior Durkin
Plot Marigold Tate (Lupino) runs away from boarding school to stay with her retired aunt. She faces hostility from the locals, who display bigotry and snobbery towards her. During a witchcraft...
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Are You Listening?
1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Harry Beaumont
Cast William Haines · Madge Evans · Anita Page · Karen Morley
Plot A radio writer/producer accidentally kills his wife and then attempts to escape an on-air hunt for him.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast Francis Lederer · Joan Bennett · Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland
Plot Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard...
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Show Girl in Hollywood
1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Alice White · Jack Mulhall · Blanche Sweet · Ford Sterling
Plot 'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a...
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Glorifying the American Girl
1929 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Millard Webb
Cast Mary Eaton · Eddie Cantor · Helen Morgan · Rudy Vallee
Plot The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".
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Many Happy Returns
1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Gracie Allen · George Burns · George Barbier · Joan Marsh
Plot A department-store owner with a meddling daughter (Gracie Allen) pays a suitor (George Burns) by the mile to take her away.
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