Playwright Movies
- 1937
You Can't Have Everything
You Can't Have Everything5.71937HD
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon...
- 1932
Merrily We Go to Hell
Merrily We Go to Hell6.41932HD
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him...
- 1940
No Time for Comedy
No Time for Comedy5.41940HD
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
- 1970
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You4.71970HD
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
- 2011
Ring of Curse
Ring of Curse6.4552011HD
In observing a solitary classmate, a student begins to suspect that the loner has the ability to write words that will kill those who read them.
- 2018
Every Act of Life
Every Act of Life72018HD
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay...
- 1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven61948HD
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...
- 1950
Trial Without Jury
Trial Without Jury01950HD
A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder.
- 1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage01994HD
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...
- 2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw62018HD
Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne -...
- 2017
Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway
Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway6.72017HD
It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to the attention of legions of fans across the...
- 2010
Amour de vivre
Amour de vivre5.52010HD
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...
- 1995
Last Summer in the Hamptons
Last Summer in the Hamptons5.51995HD
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles....
- 1941
Appointment for Love
Appointment for Love5.21941HD
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her...
- 1986
Shadow Play
Shadow Play6.31986HD
A playwright, who lost her fiance to suicide, is haunted by his spirit while staying on a remote island with his mother.
- 1932
Rockabye
Rockabye6.21932HD
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
- 1940
Curtain Call
Curtain Call7.31940HD
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
- 1970
Move
Move4.61970HD
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife...
- 1920
Bonnie May
Bonnie May01920HD
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,...
- 2015
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century7.52015HD
An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected...