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...
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