Roberta Script

Script by:Alice Duer Miller (Novel), Jerome Kern (Theatre Play), Jane Murfin (Screenplay), Sam Mintz (Screenplay), Allan Scott (Screenplay)
Directed by:William A. Seiter
Year:1935

Plot:Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.
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Alice Adams Script

Script by:Jane Murfin (Screenplay), Mortimer Offner (Screenplay), Booth Tarkington (Novel), Dorothy Yost (Screenplay)
Directed by:George Stevens
Year:1935

Plot:In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
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What Price Hollywood? Script

Script by:Jane Murfin (Screenplay), Ben Markson (Screenplay), Gene Fowler (Writer), Rowland Brown (Writer), Adela Rogers St. Johns (Story)
Directed by:George Cukor
Year:1932

Plot:Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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