Screenplay: Buddy G. DeSylva

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Buddy G. DeSylva. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Good News

1947 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast June Allyson · Peter Lawford · Patricia Marshall · Joan McCracken

Plot At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring 20's, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane (June Allyson) falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe (Peter Lawford). Unfortunately, he has his eye on...

6.3

22 votes

6.3

22 votes

Born to Dance

1936 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Eleanor Powell · James Stewart · Virginia Bruce · Una Merkel

Plot Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway....

6.2

106 votes

6.2

106 votes

Danger-Love at Work

1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Ann Sothern · Jack Haley · Mary Boland · Edward Everett Horton

Plot A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.

6.1

174 votes

6.1

174 votes

Indiscreet

1931 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Gloria Swanson · Ben Lyon · Monroe Owsley · Barbara Kent

Plot On New Year's Eve, Geraldine ('Jerry') Trent decides to break up with her boyfriend Jim Woodward, having finally grown tired of his dishonesty and his infidelities. Soon afterward, Geraldine meets...

5.6

59 votes

5.6

59 votes

Just Imagine

1930 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast El Brendel · Maureen O'Sullivan · John Garrick · Marjorie White

Plot New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get...

5.3

37 votes

5.3

37 votes

Du Barry Was a Lady

1943 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Red Skelton · Lucille Ball · Gene Kelly · Virginia O'Brien

Plot Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins...

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Good News

1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Mary Lawlor · Stanley Smith · Bessie Love · Cliff Edwards

Plot Tom Marlowe is the star of his college football team, and has a promising romance with a female college student, Connie Lane. He does not excel, however, in his college...

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Have a Heart

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Jean Parker · James Dunn · Una Merkel · Stuart Erwin

Plot Sally sits by her window earning money for an operation so she can be a dance teacher again. Jimmie is an ice cream salesman hoping to advance. Their romance is...

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My Weakness

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Lilian Harvey · Lew Ayres · Charles Butterworth · Harry Langdon

Plot A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.

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Bottoms Up

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Spencer Tracy · Pat Paterson · John Boles · Herbert Mundin

Plot Promoter Smoothe King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée...

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The Stork Club

1945 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

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Queen High

1930 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Fred C. Newmeyer

Cast Charles Ruggles · Frank Morgan · Ginger Rogers · Stanley Smith

Plot The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve...

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Sunnyside Up

1929 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Marjorie White · El Brendel

Plot Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but...

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Panama Hattie

1942 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Red Skelton · Ann Sothern · Rags Ragland · Ben Blue

Plot Hattie Maloney runs a saloon in Panama where assorted characters congregate where they frequently sing and dance Cole Porter numbers. An upper class gentleman arrives and sparks fly between him...

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Follow Thru

1930 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Corrigan · Laurence Schwab

Cast Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Nancy Carroll · Zelma O'Neal · Jack Haley

Plot Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show...

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Big Boy

1930 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Al Jolson · Claudia Dell · Louise Closser Hale · Lloyd Hughes

Plot Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.

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Follow the Leader

1930 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Ed Wynn · Ginger Rogers · Stanley Smith · Lou Holtz

Plot Crickets is the cheery, lovable chef at gangland's favorite restaurant and, inadvertently ( and barely explainable), he becomes a hero in their eyes and becomes their unwilling leader. A romance...

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