Screenplay: Sally Benson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sally Benson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Teresa Wright · Joseph Cotten · Macdonald Carey · Henry Travers
Plot Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting wold happen and knows exactly what they need:...
7.6
11K votes
7.6
11K votes
No Man of Her Own
1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter
Plot Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.
7.2
519 votes
7.2
519 votes
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Vincente Minnelli
Cast Judy Garland · Margaret O'Brien · Mary Astor · Lucille Bremer
Plot St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
Anna and the King of Siam
1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Irene Dunne · Rex Harrison · Linda Darnell · Gale Sondergaard
Plot ad feedbackIn 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects...
6.4
549 votes
6.4
549 votes
Come to the Stable
1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Loretta Young · Celeste Holm · Hugh Marlowe · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small New England town with a plan to build a children's hospital. They enlist the help of several colorful characters in...
6.0
62 votes
6.0
62 votes
Conspirator
1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Victor Saville
Cast Robert Taylor · Elizabeth Taylor · Robert Flemyng · Harold Warrender
Plot London, 1949. A young American beauty, Melinda Greyton, flighty and immature, falls in love with a dashing but solitary and lonely English major, Michael Curragh, and he with her. His...
5.4
88 votes
5.4
88 votes
Viva Las Vegas
1964 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Elvis Presley · Ann-Margret · Cesare Danova · William Demarest
Plot Lucky Jackson (Elvis) arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine....
5.0
735 votes
5.0
735 votes
The Singing Nun
1966 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Debbie Reynolds · Ricardo Montalban · Greer Garson · Agnes Moorehead
Plot A Belgian nun, Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls like, Nichole and little Dominic. When Father Clementi hears Sister Ann's...
4.8
66 votes
4.8
66 votes
Shadow of a Doubt (TV)
1991 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Karen Arthur
Cast Mark Harmon · Margaret Welsh · Norm Skaggs · William Lanteau
Plot Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. But she soon discovers that her namesake, a "Wall Street financier," has...
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Joy in the Morning
1965 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal
Cast Richard Chamberlain · Yvette Mimieux · Arthur Kennedy · Oskar Homolka
Plot Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country - and Carl's parents want better for their son than Annie,...
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Signpost to Murder
1964 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction George Englund
Cast Joanne Woodward · Stuart Whitman · Edward Mulhare · Alan Napier
Plot Alex Forrester, convicted of murdering his wife, fails to gain his release after spending 10 years in a British asylum for the criminally insane. Dr. Mark Fleming, Forrester's psychiatrist, informs...
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Meet Me in St. Louis (TV)
1959 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction George Schaefer
Cast Tab Hunter · Jane Powell · Walter Pidgeon · Jeanne Crain
Plot A year in the life of the Smith family as they prepare to move to NYC and anticipate the 1904 St Louis World's Fair. Many musical numbers as Esther and...
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Curtain Call (TV Series)
1952 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Clark Jones · Hal Keith · Kirk Browning · John Goetz
Cast Richard Kiley · Charlton Heston · Jack Palance · Boris Karloff
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Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (TV)
1958 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lumet · George Schaefer
Cast Tab Hunter · Peggy King · Jarmila Novotna · Dick Button
Plot In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn to participate in December's great ice skating race on the canal.
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Summer Magic
1963 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction James Neilson
Cast Hayley Mills · Burl Ives · Dorothy McGuire · Deborah Walley
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Betty Grable · Dale Robertson · Thelma Ritter · John Carroll
Plot Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable...
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Junior Miss
1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction George Seaton
Cast Peggy Ann Garner · Stephen Dunne · Allyn Joslyn · Faye Marlowe
Plot New York teenager gets involved in everyone's lives by playing cupid. She turns the household upsidedown and gets her dad fired by fixing up her uncle with the boss's daughter.
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