Screenplay: Moss Hart

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


You Can't Take it With You

1938 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Lionel Barrymore · Edward Arnold

Synopsis The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly in the trade of weapons, and...

8.1

8K votes

8.1

8K votes

A Star Is Born

1954 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford

Synopsis Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into romance before tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Gentleman's Agreement

1947 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Gregory Peck · Dorothy McGuire · John Garfield · Celeste Holm

Synopsis Gregory Peck is an investigative journalist assigned to write about anti-Semitism. Frustrated with cold facts and statistics, he decides to get an insider's view by telling people he is Jewish. An excellent study of the insidious nature of prejudice.

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

A Star Is Born

2018 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Bradley Cooper

Cast Bradley Cooper · Lady Gaga · Sam Elliott · Rafi Gavron

Synopsis Music star Jackson Maine discovers—and falls in love with—struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer… until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally’s career takes...

6.6

27K votes

6.6

27K votes

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

Synopsis 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 his new show. Bert Keeler, a paper man, gets this...

6.6

87 votes

6.6

87 votes

Flesh

1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Wallace Beery · Ricardo Cortez · Karen Morley · Jean Hersholt

Synopsis Slimy American con man Nicky and his girl Laura Nash (Ricardo Cortez & Karen Morley) are in a German jail. Laura is released but has no means to free Nicky until she stumbles into the beer garden of Mr. Herman...

6.2

135 votes

6.2

135 votes

Hans Christian Andersen

1952 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Danny Kaye · Farley Granger · Zizi Jeanmaire · Joseph Walsh

Synopsis A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid".

6.0

397 votes

6.0

397 votes

That Lucky Touch

1975 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Miles

Cast Roger Moore · Susannah York · Shelley Winters · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis A European arms dealer (Roger Moore) meets a liberated woman journalist (Susannah York), who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting. Needless to say, the two meet and...

5.4

32 votes

5.4

32 votes

Lady in the Dark

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Ginger Rogers · Ray Milland · Warner Baxter · Jon Hall

Synopsis Ginger Rogers, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuos daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why.

5.2

57 votes

5.2

57 votes

Once in a Lifetime

1932 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Russell Mack

Cast Jack Oakie · Sidney Fox · Aline MacMahon · Russell Hopton

Synopsis Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.

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The Masquerader

1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Ronald Colman · Elissa Landi · Juliette Compton · David Torrence

Synopsis MP John Chilcote is addicted to drugs and its made his already unpleasant personality more so. When he lets down his party in Parliament by botching an important speech he walks out into a London fog and bumps into his...

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Direction Hal Kanter · Bob LaHendro

Cast Harry Morgan · Lois Nettleton · Richard Sanders · Lisa Aliff

Synopsis The show takes place in Staten Island, New York. Unlike the stage play and film versions, the TV show was set in the then-modern era of the late 1980s. Martin lives in a Victorian home with his daughter Penny, her...

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Direction Alex Segal · Lawrence Carra · Charles S. Dubin · Frank Telford

Cast Charles Dingle · Nina Foch · James Dunn · Wright King

Synopsis Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, etc.

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Prince of Players

1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Philip Dunne

Cast Richard Burton · Maggie McNamara · John Derek · Raymond Massey

Synopsis A tragic and sentimental story that depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor, Edwin Booth with some mention of the events leading to the assassination of President Lincoln by Edwin's brother, John Wilkes Booth. In the film,...

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George Washington Slept Here

1942 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Jack Benny · Ann Sheridan · Charles Coburn · Percy Kilbride

Synopsis New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution. Much of the humor...

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The Decision of Christopher Blake

1948 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast Alexis Smith · Robert Douglas · Cecil Kellaway · Ted Donaldson

Synopsis Evelyn and Ken Blake are about to break up their marriage and get a divorce. While she still loves him, she can not forgive his infidelity. Their son, 12-year-old Christopher, is hurt and confused. The divorce suit goes to court...

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Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Paul Mescal · Ben Platt · Beanie Feldstein

Synopsis "Merrily We Roll Along" follows Franklin Shepard, a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career in New York and all his friends in order to produce movies in Los Angeles.

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Winged Victory

1944 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Lon McCallister · Jeanne Crain · Edmond O'Brien · Jane Ball

Synopsis Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and...

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Act One

1963 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Dore Schary

Cast George Hamilton · Jason Robards · Jack Klugman · Sam Levene

Synopsis Moss Hart's best-selling autobiography provided the basis for this colorful backstage story. The film depicts Hart as a struggling young playwright in 1929, searching for a sympathetic impresario. Although his manuscript is rejected by a Broadway tycoon, a less prominent...

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