Screenplay: Stephen Morehouse Avery

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Stephen Morehouse Avery. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Gay Deception

1935 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Francis Lederer · Frances Dee · Benita Hume · Alan Mowbray

Plot Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she...

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

Deep Valley

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Ida Lupino · Dane Clark · Wayne Morris · Fay Bainter

Plot Uneducated and poor, Libby lives a sheltered life in a broken down shack with her unloving parents. When a work crew of San Quentin convicts arrives to put in a...

6.3

22 votes

6.3

22 votes

The Male Animal

1942 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Henry Fonda · Olivia de Havilland · Joan Leslie · Jack Carson

Plot The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because...

5.8

41 votes

5.8

41 votes

The Woman in White

1948 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast Eleanor Parker · Alexis Smith · Sydney Greenstreet · Gig Young

Plot A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are...

5.8

85 votes

5.8

85 votes

Every Girl Should Be Married

1948 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Don Hartman

Cast Cary Grant · Franchot Tone · Diana Lynn · Betsy Drake

Plot Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him...

5.7

362 votes

5.7

362 votes

The Gorgeous Hussy

1936 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Joan Crawford · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone

Plot President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.

5.6

39 votes

5.6

39 votes

Rio

1939 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Basil Rathbone · Victor McLaglen · Sigrid Gurie · Robert Cummings

Plot A crazed man escapes from prison to kill his wife's lover.

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Hard to Get

1938 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Dick Powell · Olivia de Havilland · Charles Winninger · Allen Jenkins

Plot When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving...

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I'll Take Romance

1937 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Grace Moore · Melvyn Douglas · Helen Westley · Stuart Erwin

Plot An opera manager tries to woo a contract-breaking soprano into performing in Buenos Aires.

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One Rainy Afternoon

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Francis Lederer · Ida Lupino · Hugh Herbert · Roland Young

Plot Actor Philippe Martin and his married date Yvonne plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and mistakenly kisses lovely Monique, a publisher's daughter. An...

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Four Mothers

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Claude Rains · Jeffrey Lynn · Eddie Albert · May Robson

Plot Adam Lemp and his four daughters (Ann, Thea, Kay, and Emma) find themselves in financial and emotional crises. Thea's husband Ben has promoted a Florida housing development to everyone in...

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Wharf Angel

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction William Cameron Menzies · George Somnes

Cast Victor McLaglen · Dorothy Dell · Preston Foster · Alison Skipworth

Plot "Mother Bright's" place on the lawless, waterfront district of the 'Barbary Coast' in San Francisco is the toughest of all saloons that can be found, and that is where "Turk",...

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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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Our Little Girl

1935 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast Shirley Temple · Rosemary Ames · Joel McCrea · Lyle Talbot

Plot Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to...

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