Screenplay: Buddy G. DeSylva
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Buddy G. DeSylva. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 17
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
Direction Hal Walker
Cast Betty Hutton · Barry Fitzgerald · Don DeFore · Robert Benchley
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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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