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

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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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