Screenplay: William M. Conselman

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by William M. Conselman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Young America

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Spencer Tracy · Doris Kenyon · Ralph Bellamy · Tommy Conlon

Plot Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. The druggist's wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When...

6.1

38 votes

6.1

38 votes

The Little Colonel

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Shirley Temple · Sidney Blackmer · Lionel Barrymore · Evelyn Venable

Plot After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several...

5.2

133 votes

5.2

133 votes

365 Nights in Hollywood

1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast James Dunn · Alice Faye · Frank Mitchell · Jack Durant

Plot Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out...

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Arizona to Broadway

1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction James Tinling

Cast James Dunn · Joan Bennett · Herbert Mundin · Sammy Cohn

Plot In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to accompany him to...

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Private Number

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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A Connecticut Yankee

1931 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

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Fifty Roads to Town

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Don Ameche · Ann Sothern · Slim Summerville · Jane Darwell

Plot A man hides out in the country to avoid testifying in his friends' divorce. A girl who he thinks is a process server thinks he's a gangster. So do the...

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Life Begins at 40

1935 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Will Rogers · Richard Cromwell · George Barbier · Rochelle Hudson

Plot In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for...

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Heartbreak

1931 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

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George White's Scandals

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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Ella Cinders

1926 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Colleen Moore · Lloyd Hughes · Vera Lewis · Doris Baker

Plot Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end...

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Stowaway

1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Shirley Temple · Robert Young · Alice Faye · Eugene Pallette

Plot Ching-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker,...

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Whoopee!

1930 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ethel Shutta · Paul Gregory · Eleanor Hunt

Plot Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's...

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That's Right - You're Wrong

1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Kay Kyser · Adolphe Menjou · May Robson · Lucille Ball

Plot Radio sensation Kay Kyser and his band are lured to Hollywood to make a movie, but the screenwriters assigned to the project have difficulty tailoring a script to Kyser's persona.

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The Great Hospital Mystery

1937 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction James Tinling

Cast Jane Darwell · Sig Ruman · Sally Blane · Thomas Beck

Plot When gangsters threaten the life of the brother of a nurse, she and her superintendent make it look as if he died while a hospital patient.

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Jimmy and Sally

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction James Tinling

Cast James Dunn · Claire Trevor · Harvey Stephens · Lya Lys

Plot A young man gets into trouble with his girl when he tries his hand at a publicity campaign for a meatpacking house.

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She Learned About Sailors

1934 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Lew Ayres · Alice Faye · Frank Mitchell · Jack Durant

Plot Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shangahai, he is of the oppinion that he cannot support her in the States, so...

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The Mad Game

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Spencer Tracy · Claire Trevor · Ralph Morgan · Howard Lally

Plot Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson...

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Bright Eyes

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Shirley Temple · James Dunn · Jane Darwell · Judith Allen

Plot When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple she used to work for. A custody...

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So This Is London

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Robertson Hare · Alfred Drayton · George Sanders · Berton Churchill

Plot American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal.

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