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...
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6.1
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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...
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133 votes
5.2
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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
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Robert Taylor · Loretta Young · Basil Rathbone · Patsy Kelly
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A Connecticut Yankee
1931 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Will Rogers · William Farnum · Frank Albertson · Maureen O'Sullivan
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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
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Charles Farrell · Madge Evans · Paul Cavanagh · Hardie Albright
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George White's Scandals
1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Thornton Freeland · Harry Lachman · George White
Cast Rudy Vallee · Jimmy Durante · Alice Faye · Adrienne Ames
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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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