Screenplay: Dorothy Yost
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Dorothy Yost. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 29
The Gay Divorcee
1934 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Alice Brady
Plot Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Swing Time
1936 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Betty Furness · Victor Moore
Plot Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act, and has to make $25000 to be allowed to marry her....
6.8
979 votes
6.8
979 votes
Alice Adams
1935 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Fred MacMurray · Fred Stone · Evelyn Venable
Plot In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When...
6.5
539 votes
6.5
539 votes
Blackmail
1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction H.C. Potter
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Hussey · Gene Lockhart · Bobs Watson
Plot John Ingram, successful oil-field firefighter, is really a chain-gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him...
6.2
21 votes
6.2
21 votes
Smoky
1946 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Fred MacMurray · Anne Baxter · Bruce Cabot · Esther Dale
Plot Clint Barkley (MacMurray) first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards (Anne Baxter). He is given a job...
5.7
23 votes
5.7
23 votes
The Big Cat
1949 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast Lon McCallister · Peggy Ann Garner · Preston Foster · Forrest Tucker
5.5
46 votes
5.5
46 votes
Smoky
1966 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Fess Parker · Diana Hyland · Katy Jurado · Hoyt Axton
Plot A cowboy finds, captures and patient trains a beautiful wild stallion until a bond develops between the two that is almost unbreakable. The cowboy's brother, however, needing money to pay...
5.4
23 votes
5.4
23 votes
Sporting Blood
1940 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Robert Young · Maureen O'Sullivan · Lewis Stone · William Gargan
Plot Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to...
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Hello, Everybody!
1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Kate Smith · Randolph Scott · Sally Blane · Charley Grapewin
Plot The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate...
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Jackie
1921 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Shirley Mason · William Scott · Harry Carter · George Stone
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Too Many Wives
1937 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Ben Holmes
Cast Anne Shirley · John Morley · Gene Lockhart · Dudley Clements
Plot An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
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Forty Little Mothers
1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Eddie Cantor · Judith Anderson · Ralph Morgan · Rita Johnson
Plot An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he...
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Kentucky Pride
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Gertrude Astor · Peaches Jackson · J. Farrell MacDonald · Man o' War
Plot Mr. Beaumont, a Kentucky horseman of the old school, loses several of his horses at the card table and pins all his hopes on Virginia's Future, a colt entered in...
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Laddie
1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast John Beal · Gloria Stuart · Virginia Weidler · Donald Crisp
Plot A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
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Thunderhead, son of Flicka
1945 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Roddy McDowall · Preston Foster · Rita Johnson · James Bell
Plot A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
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There Goes the Groom
1937 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Ann Sothern · Burgess Meredith · Mary Boland · Onslow Stevens
Plot A young man scores seeking Alaskan gold, comes home to claim his bride. When she snubs him, he falls for the younger sister instead.
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For the Soul of Rafael
1920 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Harry Garson
Cast Clara Kimball Young · Bertram Grassby · Eugenie Besserer · Juan de la Cruz
Plot Marta Estevan is ready to leave the convent where she has been reared. Dona Luisa Artega, mother of Rafael and the young girl's guardian, arranges a marriage between the two,...
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Hills of Kentucky
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Howard Bretherton
Cast Jason Robards Sr. · Dorothy Dwan · Tom Santschi · Billy Kent Schaefer
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Bad Little Angel
1939 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Wilhelm Thiele
Cast Virginia Weidler · Gene Reynolds · Guy Kibbee · Ian Hunter
Plot A Bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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The Sea Bat
1930 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Lionel Barrymore · Wesley Ruggles
Cast Raquel Torres · Charles Bickford · Nils Asther · George F. Marion
Plot The West Indies island of Portuga exists mainly for sponge diving. But the best area of collection is frequented by a very large manta ray. Nina loses her brother to...
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