Screenplay: Sidney Howard
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sidney Howard. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Gone With the Wind
1939 · Movie · 238 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming · George Cukor · Sam Wood
Cast Vivien Leigh · Clark Gable · Olivia de Havilland · Leslie Howard
Plot When wealthy Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) learns that Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), whom she's secretly in love with, is engaged to Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), she decides...
7.9
57K votes
7.9
57K votes
Dodsworth
1936 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Walter Huston · Ruth Chatterton · Mary Astor · David Niven
Plot Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston) sells his automobile company at great profit. But his success has come at the expense his dutiful wife, Fran (Ruth Chatterton). She persuades him to take...
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Raffles
1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sam Wood
Cast David Niven · Olivia de Havilland · Dame May Whitty · Dudley Digges
6.2
238 votes
6.2
238 votes
Arrowsmith
1931 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Ronald Colman · Helen Hayes · Richard Bennett · DeWitt Jennings
Plot Based on a Sinclair Lewis novel "Martin Arrowsmith". A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
6.1
478 votes
6.1
478 votes
Raffles
1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Ronald Colman · Kay Francis · Bramwell Fletcher · Frances Dade
Plot A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he...
6.0
22 votes
6.0
22 votes
The Silver Cord
1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Irene Dunne · Joel McCrea · Laura Hope Crews · Eric Linden
Plot A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of...
5.9
71 votes
5.9
71 votes
Condemned
1929 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Wesley Ruggles
Cast Ronald Colman · Ann Harding · Dudley Digges · Louis Wolheim
5.7
35 votes
5.7
35 votes
They Knew What They Wanted
1940 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Garson Kanin
Cast Carole Lombard · Charles Laughton · William Gargan · Harry Carey
Plot Tony (Charles Laughton), a successful but illiterate middle-aged grape farmer, sends the photograph of his handsome young foreman, Joe (William Gargan), instead of his own, hoping to woo and marry...
5.3
74 votes
5.3
74 votes
The Secret Hour
1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Rowland V. Lee
Cast Pola Negri · Jean Hersholt · Kenneth Thomson · Christian J. Frank
Plot The Secret Hour was the first of three screen versions of Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted. The owner of a prosperous California orange grove, Italian-born...
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Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau
1930 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Victor Sjöström
Cast Vilma Bánky · Edward G. Robinson · Joseph Schildkraut · Conrad Seideman
Plot Tony, a prosperous Italian vineyardist in California, advertises for a young wife, passing off a photograph of his handsome hired man, Buck, as himself.
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series)
1950 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal · Lawrence Carra · Charles S. Dubin · Frank Telford
Cast Charles Dingle · Nina Foch · James Dunn · Wright King
Plot Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, etc.
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Yellow Jack
1938 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Robert Montgomery · Virginia Bruce · Lewis Stone · Andy Devine
Plot In the fever-stricken areas of Cuba a brave band of scientists, doctors and U. S. Marines fight a losing battle against the deadly plague of 'Yello Jack,' until the great...
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Producers' Showcase (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 90 min. · United States
Direction Clark Jones · Kirk Browning · Delbert Mann · Vincent J. Donehue
Cast Cyril Ritchard · Lorne Greene · Nehemiah Persoff · Claire Bloom
Plot Live 90 minute productions were aired under this title every fourth Monday on NBC for three seasons. The productions were lavish and included many memorable performances by top stars. Peter...
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Lowell Sherman
Cast Joan Blondell · Madge Evans · Ina Claire · David Manners
Plot A trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a...
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A Lady to Love
1930 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Victor Sjöström
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Vilma Bánky · Robert Ames · Richard Carle
Plot An Italian wine-maker woos a mail-order bride by sending her a picture of his handsome foreman.
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Celanese Theatre (TV Series)
1951 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal · David Alexander
Cast Wendell Corey · Ralph Morgan · Philip Coolidge · Wesley Addy
Plot TV Series (1951-1952). 1 season. 20 episodes. This program consisted of adaptations of high-quality plays written by leading playwrights.
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Christopher Bean
1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Marie Dressler · Lionel Barrymore · Helen Mack · Beulah Bondi
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Bulldog Drummond
1929 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction F. Richard Jones
Cast Ronald Colman · Claud Allister · Lawrence Grant · Montagu Love
Plot Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when...
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He Stayed for Breakfast
1940 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast Loretta Young · Melvyn Douglas · Alan Marshal · Eugene Pallette
Plot Paul Beliot, a Communist organizer working as a waiter in Paris, shoots a coffee cup from the hand of fat capitalist Maurice Duval because the banker's lifted pinky finger annoys...
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One Heavenly Night
1931 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Evelyn Laye · John Boles · Leon Errol · Lilyan Tashman
Plot A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
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