Screenplay: George Abbott

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


All Quiet on the Western Front

1930 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Lew Ayres · Louis Wolheim · John Wray · Arnold Lucy

Plot A realistic anti-war epic based on the pacifist novel by Erich Maria Remarque. Seven German youths enthusiastically join the German army after a professor preaches the glories of war. The...

7.8

7K votes

7.8

7K votes

Damn Yankees!

1958 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction George Abbott · Stanley Donen

Cast Tab Hunter · Gwen Verdon · Ray Walston · Russ Brown

Plot Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.

6.0

93 votes

6.0

93 votes

The Pajama Game

1957 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction George Abbott · Stanley Donen

Cast Doris Day · John Raitt · Carol Haney · Eddie Foy Jr.

Plot Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee...

5.9

142 votes

5.9

142 votes

Coquette

1929 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Johnny Mack Brown · Matt Moore · John St. Polis

Plot A flirtatious southern belle is compromised with one of her beaus.

5.2

32 votes

5.2

32 votes

Broadway

1942 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast George Raft · Pat O'Brien · Janet Blair · Broderick Crawford

Plot George Raft, hoofer at the Paradise Club, shares his ambitions with his dancing partner, Billie Moore. She is also the quarry of Stave Crandall, a big-shot racketeer and bootlegger. When...

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Where's Charley?

1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Butler

Cast Ray Bolger · Allyn Ann McLerie · Robert Shackleton · Horace Cooper

Plot From the popular Broadway show, a musical adaptation Brandon Thomas's 1890's farce about an Oxford undergraduate posing as a classmate's aunt from Brazil--"where the nuts come from." Notable mainly for...

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Those We Love

1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Mary Astor · Kenneth MacKenna · Lilyan Tashman · Hale Hamilton

Plot A young author meets and marries the woman who bought the first copy of his new book. They live happily with their son, but some time later, as the husband...

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The Boys from Syracuse (TV)

1986 · Movie · min. · Canada

Direction Norman Campbell

Cast Colm Feore · Geraint Wyn Davies · Keith Thomas · Benedict Campbell

Plot A taping of the Rogers & Hart musical comedy, as performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

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Manslaughter

1930 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction George Abbott

Cast Claudette Colbert · Fredric March · Emma Dunn · Natalie Moorhead

Plot A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before....

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Highway West

1941 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Brenda Marshall · Arthur Kennedy · William Lundigan · Olympe Bradna

Plot A woman discovers her respectable husband is a notorious gangster.

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Broadway

1929 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Pál Fejös

Cast Glenn Tryon · Evelyn Brent · Merna Kennedy · Thomas E. Jackson

Plot A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

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Night Parade

1929 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

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Trois hommes sur un cheval

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Marcel Moussy

Cast Robert Dhéry · Colette Brosset · Jean Poiret · Pierre Tornade

Plot A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.

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My Sin

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction George Abbott

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · Fredric March · Harry Davenport · Scott Kolk

Plot Tallulah Bankhead is a prostitute living in Panama. She shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. Frederic March takes her case and gets her acquitted. He fronts her money...

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The Boys from Syracuse

1940 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Allan Jones · Irene Hervey · Martha Raye · Joe Penner

Plot The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins...

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The Sea God

1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

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Secrets of a Secretary

1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

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Stolen Heaven

1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction George Abbott

Cast Nancy Carroll · Phillips Holmes · Louis Calhern · Edward Keane

Plot Engineering a $20,000 robbery, Mary and Joe draw up a pact to spend all the money foolishly and then commit suicide.

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Lilly Turner

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ruth Chatterton · George Brent · Frank McHugh · Guy Kibbee

Plot A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer.

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Love 'Em and Leave 'Em

1926 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

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