Jane Murfin
From Wikipedia Jane Murfin (October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter. The author of several successful plays, she wrote some of them with actress Jane Cowl—most notably Smilin' Through (1919), a sentimental fantasy that was adapted three... Read full bio →
Dragon Seed
Chinese peasants fight to survive the Japanese occupation during World War II.
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
Pride and Prejudice
The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.
The Women
Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a Reno divorce Mary meets the Countess and Miriam (in an affair with Fowler's husband).
Come and Get It
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Roberta
An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.
Alice Adams
A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.
Spitfire
A story about a savage girl in an American outback who is suspected of witchcraft.
What Price Hollywood
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood producer.
Way Back Home
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
The Pay-Off
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.