Screenplay: Samuel Hoffenstein
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Samuel Hoffenstein. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Laura
1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Clifton Webb · Judith Anderson
Plot Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for the case. As...
8.1
17K votes
8.1
17K votes
Cluny Brown
1946 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Charles Boyer · Jennifer Jones · Peter Lawford · Helen Walker
Plot Czech author Adam Belinski has escaped from the Nazis, taking refuge at the country home of the rich, snobbish English Carmel family. The maid is Cluny Brown, who is also...
7.6
2K votes
7.6
2K votes
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Fredric March · Miriam Hopkins · Rose Hobart · Holmes Herbert
Plot Henry "Harry" Jekyll is a well respected member of London society. In his personal life, he is pre-engaged to Muriel Carew, the daughter of a brigadier general. In his professional...
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
Design for Living
1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Fredric March · Gary Cooper · Miriam Hopkins · Edward Everett Horton
Plot Painter George Curtis and playwright Tom Chambers, flatmates in a Paris apartment, meet fellow American and commercial artist Gilda Farrell on a train bound for the French capital. While both...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Love Me Tonight
1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Myrna Loy · Charles Ruggles
Plot Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a viscount (Charles Ruggles). Stalling for time, the titled but penniless nobleman moves Maurice into...
7.1
542 votes
7.1
542 votes
Tales of Manhattan
1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Charles Boyer · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · Ginger Rogers
Plot A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.
7.0
536 votes
7.0
536 votes
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
An American Tragedy
1931 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Josef von Sternberg
Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Frances Dee · Irving Pichel
Plot Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's...
6.6
125 votes
6.6
125 votes
Conquest
1937 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown · Gustav Machatý
Cast Greta Garbo · Charles Boyer · Reginald Owen · Alan Marshal
Plot A polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.
6.5
187 votes
6.5
187 votes
The song of songs
1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Marlene Dietrich · Brian Aherne · Lionel Atwill · Alison Skipworth
Plot Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Persuaded half-reluctantly to pose for Richard, her physical charms...
6.5
177 votes
6.5
177 votes
The Great Waltz
1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Julien Duvivier · Victor Fleming · Josef von Sternberg
Cast Fernand Gravey · Luise Rainer · Miliza Korjus · Hugh Herbert
Plot Take the story of a man torn between two women, add the music of Johann Strauss and the scenery of 1840's Vienna and you have The Great Waltz, an irresistible...
6.4
95 votes
6.4
95 votes
Flesh and Fantasy
1943 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Charles Boyer · Barbara Stanwyck · Betty Field
Plot Three speculative stories dealing with the supernatural. In the first, an ugly woman wears a beautiful mask for a night to win a man who never noticed her before. In...
6.4
274 votes
6.4
274 votes
Phantom Of The Opera
1943 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Nelson Eddy · Susanna Foster · Claude Rains · Edgar Barrier
Plot Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and...
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
His Butler's Sister
1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Deanna Durbin · Franchot Tone · Pat O'Brien · Akim Tamiroff
Plot A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.
6.0
37 votes
6.0
37 votes
White Woman
1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Walker
Cast Carole Lombard · Charles Laughton · Charles Bickford · Kent Taylor
Plot A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and...
5.8
21 votes
5.8
21 votes
That Night in Rio
1941 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Carmen Miranda · S.Z. Sakall
Plot An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.
5.6
48 votes
5.6
48 votes
The Fountain
1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Ann Harding · Brian Aherne · Paul Lukas · Jean Hersholt
Plot Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there,...
5.4
33 votes
5.4
33 votes
Carnival in Costa Rica
1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Ratoff
Cast Dick Haymes · Vera-Ellen · Cesar Romero · Celeste Holm
Plot Pepe Castro and Luisa Molina return to Costa Rica from U.S. schools to find that their parents have arranged their marriage. Pepe has brought his new sweetheart Celeste with him...
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Give My Regards to Broadway
1948 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Dan Dailey · Charles Winninger · Nancy Guild · Charles Ruggles
Plot The Norwick family has had a successful run on the vaudeville circuit, but now some of the family wants out. Mom is ready to retire on the family's farm, and...
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Bridal Suite
1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Wilhelm Thiele
Cast Annabella · Robert Young · Walter Connolly · Reginald Owen
Plot An American playboy dumps his greedy finace and ends up marrying a woman from the alps.
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