Screenplay: John Emerson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Emerson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 20
The Struggle
1931 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction D.W. Griffith
Cast Hal Skelly · Zita Johann · Charlotte Wynters · Evelyn Baldwin
Synopsis A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
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The Girl from Missouri
1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway · Sam Wood
Cast Jean Harlow · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone · Lewis Stone
Synopsis With her pal Kitty, Eadie Chapman escapes from the sleazy roadhouse run by her mother and stepfather, only to become a showgirl. But her former milieu gave her a poor...
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The Matrimaniac
1916 · Movie · 46 min. · United States
Direction Paul Powell
Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Constance Talmadge · Wilbur Higby · Fred Warren
Synopsis A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before...
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Woman's Place
1921 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Constance Talmadge · Kenneth Harlan · Hassard Short · Florence Short
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Reaching for the Moon
1917 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction John Emerson
Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Richard Cummings · Eugene Ormonde
Synopsis A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he...
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Ghosts
1915 · Movie · 49 min. · United States
Direction George Nichols · John Emerson
Cast Henry B. Walthall · Mary Alden · Loretta Blake · Monte Blue
Synopsis Helen and Manders are in love and wish to marry. Her parents object to his poverty and want her to marry Alving, a notorious rake, who is wealthy and powerful....
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1928 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Ruth Taylor · Alice White · Ford Sterling · Holmes Herbert
Synopsis Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands.
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Red Hot Romance
1922 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Basil Sydney · Henry Warwick · Frank Lalor · Carl Stockdale
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Conspiracy
1930 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Christy Cabanne
Cast Bessie Love · Ned Sparks · Hugh Trevor · Ivan Lebadeff
Synopsis For the last four years Margaret Holt has been helping her brother, assistant D.A. Victor Holt, to try to bring down the dope dealing Schemer Marko gang. Margaret kills Marko...
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The Social Secretary
1916 · Movie · 52 min. · United States
Direction John Emerson
Cast Norma Talmadge · Kate Lester · Helen Weir · Gladden James
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The Love Expert
1920 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Kirkland
Cast Constance Talmadge · John Halliday · Arnold Lucy · Natalie Talmadge
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Wild and Woolly
1917 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction John Emerson
Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Calvert Carter · Charles Stevens
Synopsis A rich young Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long...
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Mama's Affair
1921 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Constance Talmadge · Effie Shannon · Kenneth Harlan · George LeGuere
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Social Register
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Colleen Moore · Charles Winninger · Pauline Frederick · Alexander Kirkland
Synopsis Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama...
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His Picture in the Papers
1916 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction John Emerson
Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Clarence Handyside · Rene Boucicault · Jean Temple
Synopsis A young man can only get the woman he loves if he becomes famous and manages to get his picture in the newspapers. He determines to let nothing stand in...
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A Temperamental Wife
1919 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Kirkland
Cast Constance Talmadge · Wyndham Standing · Ben Hendricks Sr. · Eulalie Jensen
Synopsis Capricious Billie Billings determines to marry bashful bachelor Senator Newton of Nevada and succeeds. She discovers on her honeymoon that her husband's secretary "Smith" is actually a woman. When the...
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Getting Mary Married
1919 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Marion Davies · Norman Kerry · Matt Moore · Frederick Burton
Synopsis Young Mary feels like a prisoner in the New York apartments of her step-father John Bussard but everything changes when her heartless guardian dies in an accident. Mary is left...
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A Rumor of Love
1961 · Movie · 120 min. · Egypt
Direction Fatin Abdel Wahab
Cast Omar Sharif · Soad Hosny · Youssef Wahby · Ehsan Sherif
Synopsis A father invents a lurid past for his awkward young nephew to present him as an exciting suitor for his daughter.
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The Americano
1916 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction John Emerson
Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Alma Rubens · Spottiswoode Aitken · Carl Stockdale
Synopsis Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia (Aitken) wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter,...
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Down to Earth
1917 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction John Emerson
Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Charles McHugh
Synopsis A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their "illnesses" are all in...
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