Screenplay: Marc Connelly
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Marc Connelly. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 16
Captains Courageous
1937 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Spencer Tracy · Freddie Bartholomew · Lionel Barrymore · Melvyn Douglas
Synopsis Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is a wealthy, spoiled 12-year-old who falls overboard on his way to Europe. When he regains consciousness on a Gloucester fishing boat, the ship’s captain (Lionel Barrymore) puts him to work next to his own son...
8.1
7K votes
8.1
7K votes
I Married a Witch
1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction René Clair
Cast Fredric March · Veronica Lake · Robert Benchley · Susan Hayward
Synopsis In 1672, two witches (Jennifer and her father Daniel) are burned by puritan Jonathan Wooley; in 1942, they re-materialize to plague his descendant Wallace Wooley, candidate for state governor. Wallace is about to marry tart-tongued Estelle, but Jennifer has other...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
Cabin in the Sky
1943 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Vincente Minnelli · Busby Berkeley
Cast Ethel Waters · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Lena Horne · Louis Armstrong
Synopsis In this musical, Little Joe, an inveterate gambler, promises his wife Petunia he'll reform and confess his sins at church, but he slips out the side door to play craps at the Paradise club; he's shot and brought home with...
6.1
130 votes
6.1
130 votes
Reunion in France
1942 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Jules Dassin
Cast Joan Crawford · John Wayne · Philip Dorn · Reginald Owen
Synopsis Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director Jules Dassin -- who was promptly demoted back to the MGM "B" department when the picture tanked at the box office. Joan Crawford...
6.0
77 votes
6.0
77 votes
Not So Dumb
1930 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Marion Davies · Elliott Nugent · Raymond Hackett · Franklin Pangborn
Synopsis Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
5.2
28 votes
5.2
28 votes
Exit Smiling
1926 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor
Cast Beatrice Lillie · Jack Pickford · Doris Lloyd · DeWitt Jennings
Synopsis A maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company's productions, but is determined to do anything she can to show that she deserves a...
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series)
1950 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal · Lawrence Carra · Charles S. Dubin · Frank Telford
Cast Charles Dingle · Nina Foch · James Dunn · Wright King
Synopsis Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, etc.
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The Green Pastures
1936 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley · Marc Connelly
Cast Rex Ingram · Oscar Polk · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Frank H. Wilson
Synopsis God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
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The Impostor
1944 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Jean Gabin · Richard Whorf · Allyn Joslyn · Ellen Drew
Synopsis The most dangerous man a woman ever loved!
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The Green Pastures (TV)
1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction George Schaefer
Cast William Warfield · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Harry Baird · Terry Carter
Synopsis A Sunday school teacher in the deep South describes Biblical events in terms that the her youngsters can readily understand.
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Dulcy
1940 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Ann Sothern · Ian Hunter · Roland Young · Reginald Gardiner
Synopsis A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
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Cradle Song
1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Dorothea Wieck · Evelyn Venable · Guy Standing · Louise Dresser
Synopsis The only filmed English version of Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic Spanish play
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Betty Grable · Dale Robertson · Thelma Ritter · John Carroll
Synopsis Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's...
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Make Me a Star
1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Joan Blondell · Stuart Erwin · ZaSu Pitts · Ben Turpin
Synopsis Menton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Actress Flips gives him a chance in a bit part, but he...
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Janet Gaynor · Henry Fonda · Charles Bickford · Slim Summerville
Synopsis A love story set in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider leaving the exciting life on the...
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The Wild Man of Borneo
1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Robert B. Sinclair
Cast Frank Morgan · Mary Howard · Billie Burke · Donald Meek
Synopsis In 1902, medicine show con man Dan Thompson settles down with the daughter he hardly knows in a New York theatrical boarding house full of eccentric characters. Forced to take a job in an arcade sideshow, he tries to con...
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