Screenplay: Howard Lindsay

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


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

State of the Union

1948 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Van Johnson · Angela Lansbury

Plot Kay Thordyke loves Grant Matthews and helps him become Republican nominee for President. The party machine begins to worry as Grant begins to speak for himself. At an important dinner...

6.7

780 votes

6.7

780 votes

A Slight Case of Murder

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jane Bryan · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Plot Remy Marco announces he's going legit with the end of Prohibition. His fortune declines because the beer he makes tastes terrible. His daughter falls in love with a rich man's...

6.5

75 votes

6.5

75 votes

Life with Father

1947 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Irene Dunne · Elizabeth Taylor · Edmund Gwenn

Plot In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is...

6.4

312 votes

6.4

312 votes

Woman's World

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Clifton Webb · June Allyson · Van Heflin · Lauren Bacall

Plot Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples...

6.1

116 votes

6.1

116 votes

Call Me Madam

1953 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Ethel Merman · Donald O´Connor · Vera-Ellen · George Sanders

Plot Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

5.5

29 votes

5.5

29 votes

Tall Story

1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Jane Fonda · Anthony Perkins · Elizabeth Patterson · Ray Walston

Plot Jane Fonda plays a young girl who's come to college to get married-that's all. She is a huge basketball fan-especially of the team's star player played by Anthony Perkins.

5.3

93 votes

5.3

93 votes

The Sound of Music (TV)

2013 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Beth McCarthy-Miller · Rob Ashford

Cast Carrie Underwood · Stephen Moyer · Laura Benanti · Audra McDonald

Plot A live telecast of the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

5.2

24 votes

5.2

24 votes

Anything Goes

1936 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

5.2

40 votes

5.2

40 votes

True to the Army

1942 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Judy Canova · Allan Jones · Ann Miller · Jerry Colonna

Plot She's a high wire walker whose witness to a murder and seeks refuge at her boyfriend's army camp as the most unconvincing man imaginable.

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Artists and Models Abroad

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Jack Benny · Joan Bennett · Mary Boland · Charley Grapewin

Plot Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the...

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The Sound of Music Live (TV)

2015 · Movie · 155 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Coky Giedroyc · Richard Valentine

Cast Kara Tointon · Julian Ovenden · Alexander Armstrong · Maria Friedman

Plot An apprentice nun tasked with caring for the children of a retired naval officer finds herself falling in love with him as the Nazi invasion of Austria looms on the...

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She Loves Me Not

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bing Crosby · Miriam Hopkins · Kitty Carlisle · Edward J. Nugent

Plot Curly Flagg, Philadelphia nightclub dancer, witnesses a murder and runs away to avoid being held as material witness. Landing in Princeton, she hides out in a college dorm, decked out...

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She's My Weakness

1930 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

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Producers' Showcase (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 90 min. · United States

Direction Clark Jones · Kirk Browning · Delbert Mann · Vincent J. Donehue

Cast Cyril Ritchard · Lorne Greene · Nehemiah Persoff · Claire Bloom

Plot Live 90 minute productions were aired under this title every fourth Monday on NBC for three seasons. The productions were lavish and included many memorable performances by top stars. Peter...

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Remains to Be Seen

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis

Cast June Allyson · Van Johnson · Louis Calhern · Angela Lansbury

Plot A girl vocalist and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

Not rated

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The Big Broadcast of 1938

1938 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast W.C. Fields · Martha Raye · Dorothy Lamour · Shirley Ross

Plot New ocean liner S.S. Gigantic is about to race its rival, the Colossal. Gigantic owner T.F. Bellows sends his brother S.B. on the Colossal, hoping he will cause trouble; delayed...

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Stop, You're Killing Me

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Broderick Crawford · Claire Trevor · Virginia Gibson · Bill Hayes

Plot After the repeal of Prohibition, a beer - maker decides to sell beer legally, but no one wants to buy his revolting beet, and he does not want to force...

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How to Be Very, Very Popular

1955 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Nunnally Johnson

Cast Betty Grable · Sheree North · Robert Cummings · Charles Coburn

Plot Song-and-dance girls Curly and Stormy Tornado hide out with the guys at Bristol College when they know they can identify the killer of a fellow performer at their San Francisco...

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Not rated