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
Direction Melville W. Brown
Cast Freeman F. Gosden · Charles J. Correll · Sue Carol · Irene Rich
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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
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Joe Penner · Gene Raymond · Harry Einstein · Harriet Hilliard
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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
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Ruth Etting · Thelma Todd
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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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