Screenplay: Ethel Hill

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


Virtue

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Carole Lombard · Pat O'Brien · Ward Bond · Shirley Grey

Plot A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver--who first meet when she stiffs him for the fare--but other matters keep getting in...

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

The Little Princess

1939 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Shirley Temple · Richard Greene · Anita Louise · Ian Hunter

Plot Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s popular children’s book and stage play, THE LITTLE PRINCESS features one of Shirley Temple’s most memorable performances and her first Technicolor appearance. Temple stars as...

5.9

529 votes

5.9

529 votes

Two Smart People

1946 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Lucille Ball · John Hodiak · Lloyd Nolan · Hugo Haas

Plot Ace Connors (John Hodiak) is a con man and he's got half a million dollars in bonds hidden in a cookbook. When he tries to sell a bogus oil investment...

5.3

23 votes

5.3

23 votes

Let's Get Married

1937 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Ida Lupino · Walter Connolly · Ralph Bellamy · Raymond Walburn

Plot Joe Quinn, a wealthy political boss, wants his daughter Paula, known as "Red," to marry socially connected George Willoughby, who is running for Congress with Joe's assistance. Red is amenable...

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The Best Man Wins

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Edmund Lowe · Jack Holt · Bela Lugosi · Florence Rice

Plot A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go...

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For You Alone

1937 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Robert Riskin

Cast Grace Moore · Cary Grant · Aline MacMahon · Henry Stephenson

Plot In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot enter the country unless she is married. To this...

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Party Wire

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Jean Arthur · Victor Jory · Helen Lowell · Robert Allen

Plot When the daughter of the town's leading citizen and a local dairyman have a romance,and the man makes a sudden-and-unexplained trip out of town, the local gossips, employing the small-town's...

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Whirlpool

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Jack Holt · Jean Arthur · Donald Cook · Allen Jenkins

Plot Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows...

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Just Around the Corner

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Shirley Temple · Joan Davis · Charles Farrell · Amanda Duff

Plot The film focuses on the tribulations of little Penny Hale (Temple) and her architect father (Farrell) after he is forced by circumstances to accept a job as janitor.

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Dollar Down

1925 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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More Than a Secretary

1936 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Jean Arthur · George Brent · Lionel Stander · Ruth Donnelly

Plot When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the...

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The Public Menace

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Jean Arthur · Douglass Dumbrille · George Murphy · George McKay

Plot Non-citizen Arthur marries reporter Murphy for a bogus gangster's confession. A divorce is needed, and Murphy is fired. The gangster wants her to be his girlfriend, the police are outside,...

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In Old Oklahoma

1943 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast John Wayne · Martha Scott · Albert Dekker · George 'Gabby' Hayes

Plot Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.

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Dance Hall

1941 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Cesar Romero · Carole Landis · William Henry · June Storey

Plot Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.

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Man from Frisco

1944 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Michael O'Shea · Anne Shirley · Gene Lockhart · Dan Duryea

Plot Matt Braddock (a fictional version of real-life Henry Kaiser) is an engineer with revolutionary ideas for shipbuilding. When he tries to set up yards for prefabricating ships on the West...

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Eight Bells

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Ann Sothern · Ralph Bellamy · John Buckler · Catherine Doucet

Plot Marge Walker, the daughter of a steamship-line owner, stows away on one of her father's ships bound for Shanghai. Roy Dale, the captain of the ship, is in love with...

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Fog

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Mary Brian · Donald Cook · Reginald Denny · Robert McWade

Plot The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion before the actual killer...

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It Happened in Hollywood

1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Richard Dix · Fay Wray · Victor Kilian · Franklin Pangborn

Plot The arrival of sound wrecks the career of a leading western actor while his leading lady rises to new heights. While hospitalized young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim...

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Twice Blessed

1945 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Preston Foster · Gail Patrick · Lee Wilde · Richard Gaines

Plot Stephanie and Terry are two identical twins who have been split up since their parents divorced seven years before. Each envies the life style of the other so they decide,...

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Side Streets

1934 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Aline MacMahon · Paul Kelly · Ann Dvorak · Dorothy Tree

Plot A destitute sailor secures a job with a spinster who runs a small fur trimming shop. They marry, and soon have a child, but he cheats on her with serious...

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