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

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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

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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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