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...

Max

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

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

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

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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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