Movies (59) tagged by 'Playwright'
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All About Eve (1951)
Stage star Margo Channing is friend to playwright Lloyd Richards and his wife Karen, in love with director Bill Samson, and the idol of Eve Harrington who beco...
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Young William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) falls for Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow), reawakening his creativity, but she is betrothed to Wessex. ...
Somewhere in Time (1981)
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out ab...
Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Sidda Walker (Sandra Bullock), who is high on life--about to marry Connor (Angus MacFadyen) and flushed with success because her new play is about to open on ...
An Intimate Friendship (2000)
A family of friends is forever changed when two of the friends realize that their love for one another goes beyond the confines of their conventional relationsh...
Man of La Mancha (1973)
In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisiti...
Frances (1982)
When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas tow...
Looking For Richard (1996)
Director Al Pacino juxtaposes scene's from Richard III, scenes of rehearsals for Richard III, and sessions where parties involved discuss the play, the times t...
The Leading Man (1998)
A brash young American celebrity, Robin Grange (John Bon Jovi), goes to London to star in a major new play, and becomes the central character in a real-life m...
Author! Author! (1982)
While facing the stress of his latest work being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with a hopeless second act,a dissatisfied, adulterous wife, his teena...
The Producers (1968)
Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Biyalistok is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. When timid accountant Leo Bloom reviews Max's b...
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comebac...
Barton Fink (1992)
Barton Fink is a troubled New York playwright obsessed with bringing his new idea of "Theater of the Common Man" to the producers he loves to hate. After his f...
The Normal Heart (2014)
A gay activist attempts to raise HIV/AIDS awareness during the early 1980s.
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved...
Bullets Over Broadway (1995)
David Shayne, a neurotic playwright, has just found a way to have his play produced. Mob boss Nick Valenti has faith that the play will bring in big bucks. Nic...
Sudden Fear (1952)
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a "romantic leading man." ...
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2003)
Peter McGowan (Kenneth Branagh) is a Los Angeles playwright with writer's block. He still carries a reputation as a cynical bad boy, an image he earned with the...
Will There Really Be a Morning (1983)
Based on the fast and frantic life of actress Frances Farmer tracing her life from her childhood in Seattle, through her college years, her flirtation with radi...
Girl Most Likely (2012)
Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News. After both her career a...
Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
richly textured drama about self discovery leavened by humor and irony, Multiple Sarcasms follows Gabriel Richmond (Timothy Hutton) as he takes ...
Lope (2010)
A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theater.
The Three-Way Wedding (2010)
A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
The Group (1966)
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The ...
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Nere-do-well Jerry Corbett finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentiss. Unfortunately their wedded bliss is interrupted when Jerry's play becomes a ...
Molière (2007)
Imprisoned for debt, playwright Molière is rescued by an aristocrat who needs his help in order to seduce a young marquise.
The Ghost Walks (1934)
Playwright Prescott Ames and his secretary, Glora Shaw, are bringing a producer, Herman Wood and his secretary, Erskine, to Prescott's country home to hear Pre...
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These ac...
Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (1948)
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to Ne...
Bedtime Story (1941)
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" ...
Collaborator (2011)
NT Live provides a unique opportunity for viewers to see live productions from the stages of London's National Theatre to cinema s...
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970)
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
Loitering with Intent (2014)
Two male actors/close friends want to jumpstart their careers. They end up making a big shot producer think that they have a hot script that everyone wants to g...
Illuminata (1998)
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". ...
Design for Living (1933)
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
All Is True (2018)
A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.
Planet of Snail (2011)
Young-Chan comes from planet of snail where deaf blind people live slow and quiet lives. When Young-Chan came to Earth, nobody understood his language and he wa...
Romantic Comedy (1983)
Two of the screen's finest comic actors, Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen, star as successful writing partners whose timing is perfect on stage but amusingly p...
Angels Over Broadway (1940)
A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.
Morning Glory (1933)
When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate succ...
Old Acquaintance (1943)
Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp nov...
Surrender, Dorothy (2006)
When her daughter Sara (Davalos) unexpectedly passes away, Natalie (Keaton) retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best fri...
Affair with a Stranger (1953)
When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York ...
No Time for Comedy (1940)
Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily marri...
Shakespeare: The Legacy (2016)
To the world, Shakespeare left a lasting legacy and an awful lot of unanswered questions. Follow John Nettles as he recounts the life of William Shakespeare.
Critic's Choice (1963)
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play...
Bells Are Ringing (1960)
A Brooklyn answering service operator becomes involved in the lives of her clients, including a struggling playwright with whom she begins to fall in love.
Enemy of Women (1944)
Young Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, an unsuccessful playwright, is forced, in order to support himself, to take a position as tutor in the household of Herr Quandt....
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby ...
Everybody Sing (1938)
Judy Bellaire, played by Judy Garland, is the center of trouble at her exclusive private and very conservative school. She is expelled when she starts singing i...
England, My England (1995)
In 1960s, a British playwright attempts to reconstruct the life of real life 17th century English composer Henry Purcell even though little is known about him. ...
Curtain Call (1940)
A naive playwright sells her awful play, "The End of Everything," to two Broadway producers who want to get even with an ungrateful star.
Lovers Courageous (1932)
Aspiring playwright jumping from job to job falls for admiral's daughter.
'Dad's Army' & Beyond: The Frank Williams Story (2008)
A documentary about the life and work of Frank Williams.
The Wine of Summer (2015)
A frustrated actor travels to Spain in search of a playwright, a trip that unexpectedly binds him to a group of five previously unconnected people.
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