Screenplay: Helen Logan

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


Sun Valley Serenade

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Sonja Henie · John Payne · Glenn Miller · Milton Berle

Synopsis When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits,...

5.8

33 votes

5.8

33 votes

Charlie Chan in Egypt

1935 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Warner Oland · Pat Paterson · Thomas Beck · Rita Hayworth

Synopsis While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.

5.4

29 votes

5.4

29 votes

Pin Up Girl

1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Betty Grable · John Harvey · Martha Raye · Joe E. Brown

Synopsis Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into...

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The Great American Broadcast

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Cesar Romero · Alice Faye · Jack Oakie · John Payne

Synopsis After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is...

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Charlie Chan at the Circus

1936 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Warner Oland · Francis Ford · George Brasno · Keye Luke

Synopsis While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.

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The Lady in Scarlet

1935 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Reginald Denny · Patricia Farr · Jameson Thomas · Dorothy Revier

Synopsis When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.

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Red Lights Ahead

1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Roland Reed

Cast Andy Clyde · Lucile Gleason · Roger Imhof · Ben Alexander

Synopsis Pa Wallace, an ardent member of the Whales, is offered a chance to invest $5,000 in a gold mine by the head of the Whales, Grand Harpoon F. Q. Whitney....

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Happiness C.O.D.

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

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Down on the Farm

1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

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Charlie Chan at the Olympics

1937 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Warner Oland · Katherine DeMille · Pauline Moore · Allan Lane

Synopsis When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Charlie traces the strategically important invention to...

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Four Jills in a Jeep

1944 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Kay Francis · Carole Landis · Martha Raye · Mitzi Mayfair

Synopsis Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

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Susannah of the Mounties

1939 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Shirley Temple · Randolph Scott · Margaret Lockwood · Martin Good Rider

Synopsis Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is...

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The Escape

1939 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Ricardo Cortez

Cast Kane Richmond · Amanda Duff · June Gale · Edward Norris

Synopsis An embittered Louie Peronni (Edward Norris) returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni (Amanda Duff), is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell (Kane Richmond), and also finds that...

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Tin Pan Alley

1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Alice Faye · Betty Grable · Jack Oakie · John Payne

Synopsis In 1915, Calhoun and Harrigan are struggling songwriters who team up with vocal talents Katie and Lily Blane. With the Blanes singing their songs, the writers become more prosperous and...

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Something for the Boys

1944 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Carmen Miranda · Michael O'Shea · Vivian Blaine · Phil Silvers

Synopsis The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a...

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Laughing at Trouble

1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Frank R. Strayer

Cast Jane Darwell · Brook Byron · Allan Lane · Sara Haden

Synopsis A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer...

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Sharpshooters

1938 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction James Tinling

Cast Brian Donlevy · Lynn Bari · Wally Vernon · John 'Dusty' King

Synopsis Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who...

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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Eugene Forde

Cast Warner Oland · Keye Luke · Virginia Field · Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail...

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