Screenplay: Avery Hopwood

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


Gold Diggers of 1933

1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Warren William · Joan Blondell · Aline MacMahon · Ruby Keeler

Plot Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. Everybody is sitting on...

6.9

612 votes

6.9

612 votes

The Bat

1926 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Roland West

Cast George Beranger · Charles Herzinger · Emily Fitzroy · Louise Fazenda

Plot A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

6.2

25 votes

6.2

25 votes

The Bat Whispers

1930 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Roland West

Cast Chester Morris · Chance Ward · Una Merkel · Richard Tucker

Plot Despite advance warning to the police, who seal off the area, The Bat, a master criminal, steals a necklace from the safe in the house of a rich socialite. He...

5.3

32 votes

5.3

32 votes

Mia moglie si diverte

1938 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Verhoeven II

Cast Käthe von Nagy · Albert Matterstock · Georg Alexander · Paul Kemp

Plot When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his comeuppance.

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Painting the Clouds with Sunshine

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Dennis Morgan · Virginia Mayo · Gene Nelson · Lucille Norman

Plot When boyfriend Vince Nichols won't give up his gambling, Abby joins vaudeville partners Carol and June in a trek to Las Vegas searching for millionaires, followed by playboy Ted Lansing...

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Sadie Love

1919 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

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Getting Gertie's Garter

1945 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Marie McDonald · Barry Sullivan · Binnie Barnes

Plot Getting Gertie's Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood. Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam....

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Fast and Loose

1930 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Fred C. Newmeyer

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Carole Lombard · Frank Morgan · Charles Starrett

Plot A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

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The Garden of Eden

1928 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Corinne Griffith · Louise Dresser · Lowell Sherman · Maude George

Plot Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in...

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The Gold Diggers

1923 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Hope Hampton · Wyndham Standing · Louise Fazenda · Gertrude Short

Plot Stephen Lee doesn’t want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men’s...

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Gold Diggers of Broadway

1929 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Nancy Welford · Conway Tearle · Winnie Lightner · Ann Pennington

Plot Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

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Der Mustergatte

1937 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Leny Marenbach · Hans Söhnker · Heli Finkenzeller

Plot A London banker makes a business trip to Venice where he falls in love with a woman who thinks her friend is cheating. They marry, but she soon gets bored...

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Miss Bluebeard

1925 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Bebe Daniels · Robert Frazer · Kenneth MacKenna · Raymond Griffith

Plot Miss Bluebeard is a surviving 1925 silent film comedy directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bebe Daniels. It is based on a play, Little Miss Bluebeard, by Avery Hopwood.

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Su noche de bodas

1931 · Movie · min. · United States

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