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...
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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
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Ruth Roland · Henry B. Walthall · Mayme Kelso · Earl Schenck
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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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