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...
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7.8
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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
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Aileen Pringue · Hugh Trevor · Dorothy Gulliver · Robert Ellis
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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
Direction George Abbott
Cast Richard Arlen · Fay Wray · Eugene Pallette · Robert Gleckler
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Secrets of a Secretary
1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction George Abbott
Cast Claudette Colbert · Herbert Marshall · Georges Metaxa · Betty Lawford
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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
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Evelyn Brent · Lawrence Gray · Louise Brooks · Osgood Perkins
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