Screenplay: Sid Silvers

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


Broadway Melody of 1936

1935 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth · W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Jack Benny · Eleanor Powell · Robert Taylor · Una Merkel

Plot Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show, but he is short of money. He gets an offer of money by the young widow Lilian, if she can dance in...

6.6

87 votes

6.6

87 votes

Broadway Melody of 1938

1937 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Robert Taylor · Eleanor Powell · George Murphy · Judy Garland

Plot A young singer/dancer (Eleanor Powell) goes to New York City in hopes of becoming a Broadway star. Along the way she encounters two vaudeville hopefuls (George Murphy and Buddy Ebsen),...

6.4

132 votes

6.4

132 votes

For Me and My Gal

1942 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Judy Garland · George Murphy · Gene Kelly · Mártha Eggerth

Plot Set during WW I, Palmer and Hayden team up as vaudeville artists. Harry Palmer deliberately injures his hand to avoid being drafted to the army. Later, he makes up for...

6.3

122 votes

6.3

122 votes

Born to Dance

1936 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Eleanor Powell · James Stewart · Virginia Bruce · Una Merkel

Plot Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway....

6.2

106 votes

6.2

106 votes

The Gorilla

1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Jimmy Ritz · Harry Ritz · Al Ritz · Anita Louise

Plot When a wealthy man (Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion...

4.9

21 votes

4.9

21 votes

Two Tickets to Broadway

1951 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction James V. Kern

Cast Tony Martin · Janet Leigh · Gloria DeHaven · Eddie Bracken

Plot Nancy Peterson and her friends wants to get a spot on Bob Crosby's TV show, but their agent has linked them.

4.7

40 votes

4.7

40 votes

The Fleet's In

1942 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Dorothy Lamour · William Holden · Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton

Plot Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. His buddies then make a bet with some other sailors...

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52nd Street

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Harold Young

Cast Ian Hunter · Leo Carrillo · Pat Paterson · Ella Logan

Plot Story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.

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Bottoms Up

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Spencer Tracy · Pat Paterson · John Boles · Herbert Mundin

Plot Promoter Smoothe King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée...

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Follow the Leader

1930 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Ed Wynn · Ginger Rogers · Stanley Smith · Lou Holtz

Plot Crickets is the cheery, lovable chef at gangland's favorite restaurant and, inadvertently ( and barely explainable), he becomes a hero in their eyes and becomes their unwilling leader. A romance...

Not rated

Not rated

Oh, Sailor Behave!

1930 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

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