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
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Bing Crosby · Ethel Merman · Charles Ruggles · Ida Lupino
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
Direction Melville W. Brown
Cast Arthur Lake · Sue Carol · Lucien Littlefield · William Collier Sr.
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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.
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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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