Screenplay: Stephen Morehouse Avery
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Stephen Morehouse Avery. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 14
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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