Screenplay: Lynn Starling
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lynn Starling. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Cynara
1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Ronald Colman · Kay Francis · Phyllis Barry · Henry Stephenson
Plot Jim Warlock is a successful British lawyer who has always displayed a solid and conservative nature in his business associations, his professional ethics, and his personal life. He has enjoyed...
6.4
50 votes
6.4
50 votes
Private Worlds
1935 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Claudette Colbert · Charles Boyer · Joel McCrea · Joan Bennett
Plot The work of a progressive female psychiatrist and her colleague at a mental hospital is threatened by the arrival of a conservative new supervisor, who disapproves of both her methods...
6.4
104 votes
6.4
104 votes
The Cat and the Canary
1939 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast Bob Hope · Paulette Goddard · John Beal · Douglass Montgomery
Plot Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus' attorney, has gathered Cyrus' 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans' mansion for Cyrus' "reading of the...
6.0
76 votes
6.0
76 votes
The Climax
1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction George Waggner
Cast Boris Karloff · Susanna Foster · Turhan Bey · Gale Sondergaard
Plot Dr. Hohner (Karloff), theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later,...
5.4
94 votes
5.4
94 votes
The First Year
1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Minna Gombell · Dudley Digges
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The President Vanishes
1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Edward Arnold · Arthur Byron · Paul Kelly · Peggy Conklin
Plot The film concerns the mysterious disappearance of the President of the United States, who was facing a serious political crisis, perhaps even impeachment, over his handling of a foreign situation,...
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Don't Bet on Women
1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Edmund Lowe · Jeanette MacDonald · Roland Young · J.M. Kerrigan
Plot At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake....
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More Than a Secretary
1936 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Jean Arthur · George Brent · Lionel Stander · Ruth Donnelly
Plot When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the...
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Oh, for a Man!
1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Reginald Denny · Marjorie White · Warren Hymer
Plot Carlotta Manson is a young and beautiful opera star who wants some spice in her personal life. She threatens to forsake opera for a wild, romantic fling. One night, a...
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Women of Glamour
1937 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Wiles
Cast Melvyn Douglas · Virginia Bruce · Reginald Denny · Pert Kelton
Plot The film is about an artist from a wealthy family who hires a "party girl" as his model. As they get to know each other, the girl begins to regret...
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Thanks for the Memory
1938 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Bob Hope · Shirley Ross · Charles Butterworth · Otto Kruger
Plot Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is...
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Wintertime
1943 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction John Brahm
Cast Sonja Henie · Jack Oakie · Cesar Romero · Carole Landis
Plot Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in...
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The Impostor
1944 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Jean Gabin · Richard Whorf · Allyn Joslyn · Ellen Drew
Plot The most dangerous man a woman ever loved!
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Dennis Morgan · Jack Carson · Janis Paige · Martha Vickers
Plot The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub that's next door to the Cassels' home....
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Shanghai
1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction James Flood
Cast Loretta Young · Charles Boyer · Warner Oland · Alison Skipworth
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Transatlantic
1931 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Edmund Lowe · Lois Moran · John Halliday · Greta Nissen
Plot Edmund Lowe is a gent of dubious moral values who’s skipping out of the country but who ironically finds himself becoming the moral center of a series of little dramas,...
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Moon Over Miami
1941 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Betty Grable · Carole Landis · Don Ameche · Robert Cummings
Plot A remake of the 1938 movie Three Blind Mice: Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands. Much singing and dancing including the number "You...
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Always Goodbye
1931 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction William Cameron Menzies · Kenneth MacKenna
Cast Elissa Landi · Lewis Stone · Paul Cavanagh · John Garrick
Plot Stranded and broke after her erstwhile boyfriend leaves her, A onetime London heiress joins a con man to bilk a millionaire at his Italian villa. Little do they realize that...
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Torch Singer
1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall · George Somnes
Cast Claudette Colbert · Ricardo Cortez · David Manners · Lyda Roberti
Plot When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.
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It's a Pleasure
1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Sonja Henie · Michael O'Shea · Marie McDonald · Bill Johnson
Plot Don Martin is a star hockey player with the Wildcats until he is barred from Hockey for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get...
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