Screenplay: Mary McCarthy

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Mary McCarthy. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Sister Kenny

1946 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Dudley Nichols

Cast Rosalind Russell · Dean Jagger · Alexander Knox · Beulah Bondi

Plot True story of Elizabeth Kenny, a young nurse in the Australian outback who, witnessing patients with polio, determined to come up with a treatment for the disease. She did but,...

6.6

73 votes

6.6

73 votes

Theodora Goes Wild

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Irene Dunne · Melvyn Douglas · Thomas Mitchell · Thurston Hall

Plot The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's...

6.2

78 votes

6.2

78 votes

The Group

1966 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

5.8

175 votes

5.8

175 votes

The Petty Girl

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Robert Cummings · Joan Caulfield · Elsa Lanchester · Melville Cooper

Plot An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. She declines...

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Life Returns

1935 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan · Eugene Frenke

Cast Onslow Stevens · George P. Breakston · Lois Wilson · Valerie Hobson

Plot A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.

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Slightly Married (Strange Marriage)

1932 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Evalyn Knapp · Walter Byron · Marie Prevost · Jason Robards Sr.

Plot Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for vagrancy. But a stranger, Jimmy Martin, stands up and tells...

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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (TV)

1990 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frederic Raphael · Tony Richardson · Ken Russell

Cast Melanie Griffith · James Woods · Beau Bridges · Elizabeth McGovern

Plot Three short stories come to the screen, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In "The...

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