Screenplay: Dorothy Yost

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


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

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

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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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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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