Screenplay: Bert Kalmar

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


Duck Soup

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Plot The small state of Freedonia is in a financial mess, borrowing a huge sum of cash from wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale. She insists on replacing the current president with crazy...

8.1

39K votes

8.1

39K votes

Horse Feathers

1932 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Plot Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff is hired as the new president of Huxley College. In order to beat Darwin, their rival school, in a football game, Wagstaff hires two ringers. However,...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

The Kid from Spain

1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Eddie Cantor · Lyda Roberti · Robert Young · Ruth Hall

Plot An innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police.

5.2

39 votes

5.2

39 votes

Everybody Sing

1938 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Allan Jones · Judy Garland · Fannie Brice · Reginald Owen

Plot Judy Bellaire, played by Judy Garland, is the center of trouble at her exclusive private and very conservative school. She is expelled when she starts singing in a Jazzy style...

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The Circus Clown

1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Joe E. Brown · Patricia Ellis · Dorothy Burgess · Don Dillaway

Plot Joe E. Brown plays a dual role as young acrobat Happy and his father Chuck. In the opening scene we see Chuck Howard telling his old boss at the circus...

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Broadminded

1931 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Joe E. Brown · Ona Munson · Marjorie White · William Collier Jr.

Plot Jack's father is sending Jack away to keep him from the gambling, booze, girls and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jack's companion, not knowing that Ossie does the...

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Check and Double Check

1930 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

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Walking on Air

1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Gene Raymond · Ann Sothern · Jessie Ralph · Henry Stephenson

Plot A stubborn young woman hires a struggling singer to play her obnoxious suitor in a scheme to overturn her father's objections to the man she really wants to marry.

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The Life of the Party

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

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Top Speed

1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Joe E. Brown · Bernice Claire · Jack Whiting · Frank McHugh

Plot Two clerks pose as rich playboys at a swanky summer resort. One of them falls in love with a millionaire's daughter who has a very disapproving father, until he wins,...

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Kentucky Kernels

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Mary Carlisle · George 'Spanky' McFarland

Plot The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the...

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Look for the Silver Lining

1949 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast June Haver · Ray Bolger · Gordon MacRae · Charles Ruggles

Plot This biopic chronicles the vaudeville-to-Broadway story of 1920s' star Marilyn Miller (June Haver). From her start on the boards in Finley, Ohio, Marilyn sings and dances her way to Broadway...

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Hips, Hips, Hooray!

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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Ship Ahoy

1942 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Eleanor Powell · Red Skelton · Bert Lahr · Virginia O'Brien

Plot Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for...

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Bright Lights

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Joe E. Brown · Ann Dvorak · Patricia Ellis · William Gargan

Plot Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who...

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The Cuckoos

1930 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Paul Sloane

Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · Jobyna Howland

Plot Fake fortune teller Professor Bird and his assistant Sparrow are in a Mexican resort near a gambling casino. Sparrow has fallen for Anita, an American girl who has lived with...

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