Movies: Playwright

  • 1969
    Leading Men

    Leading Men (1969)

    Leading Men

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    In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on t...

    Leading Men
  • 1940
    Curtain Call

    Curtain Call (1940)

    Curtain Call

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    Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find....

    Curtain Call
  • 1940
    The Girl from Avenue A

    The Girl from Avenue A (1940)

    The Girl from Avenue A

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    A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright....

    The Girl from Avenue A
  • 1950
    Trial Without Jury

    Trial Without Jury (1950)

    Trial Without Jury

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    A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder....

    Trial Without Jury
  • 1932
    Lovers Courageous

    Lovers Courageous (1932)

    Lovers Courageous

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    A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit....

    Lovers Courageous
  • 1935
    Accent on Youth

    Accent on Youth (1935)

    Accent on Youth

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    A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her....

    Accent on Youth
  • 1989
    Fear, Anxiety and Depression

    Fear, Anxiety and Depression (1989)

    Fear, Anxiety and Depression

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    An unsuccessful playwright faces trials and tribulations as he seeks to find himself in New York City....

    Fear, Anxiety and Depression
  • 2012
    Lentejuelas de sangre

    Lentejuelas de sangre (2012)

    Lentejuelas de sangre

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    Antonio Gracia José (1942-2011), known as “Pierrot,” was a prominent member of the Barcelona art scene, a pioneer in the filmmaking of underground short films and Fantaterror movies, writer and playwright, magazine editor, movie poster painter, carto...

    Lentejuelas de sangre
  • 2014
    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela

    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela (2014)

    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela

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    The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his ti...

    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela
  • 1988
    Normal Service

    Normal Service (1988)

    Normal Service

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    It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the...

    Normal Service
  • 1987
    The Ten-Year Lunch

    The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

    The Ten-Year Lunch

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    The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The...

    The Ten-Year Lunch
  • 1930
    Matinee Idle

    Matinee Idle (1930)

    Matinee Idle

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    A Broadway star visits his playwright friend who's working out a scene for his new play....

    Matinee Idle
  • 1920
    Bonnie May

    Bonnie May (1920)

    Bonnie May

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    Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to stay on to help him write another play, despite t...

    Bonnie May
  • 2018
    Making Love

    Making Love (2018)

    Making Love

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    A playwright with a dark past risks his life in returning to his home city to find out if a woman with whom he once had a passionate and illicit affair ever truly loved him, only to learn that it was only ever the unknowing and distance that kept the...

    Making Love
  • 2010
    Amour de vivre

    Amour de vivre (2010)

    Amour de vivre

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    An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourg...

    Amour de vivre
  • 1966
    The Face of Genius

    The Face of Genius (1966)

    The Face of Genius

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    The Face of a Genius is a 1966 American documentary film about Eugene O’Neill, produced by Alfred R. Kelman for WBZ-TV Boston. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the first time that a film originally produced for tele...

    The Face of Genius
  • 2020
    Wake Show

    Wake Show (2020)

    Wake Show

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    Leonardo Oviedo is an ambitious theatre director, whose plays haven’t accomplished the success he dreamt of. Seeking for some recognition, he decides to write a play for four characters; a one-performance only, where all actors have to die onstage. O...

    Wake Show
  • 1937
    The Crime Nobody Saw

    The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)

    The Crime Nobody Saw

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    Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment....

    The Crime Nobody Saw
  • 2010
    Like Father, Like Son

    Like Father, Like Son (2010)

    Like Father, Like Son

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    Like Father Like Son is a hilarious play that looks at issues such as fatherhood (or the lack of it) double infidelity and the unprofessional conduct of some music producers....

    Like Father, Like Son
  • 2013
    A Common Experience

    A Common Experience (2013)

    A Common Experience

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    A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal playwright Yvette Nolan....

    A Common Experience