Charles Lederer – Scripts on Screen

Monkey Business (1952) Script

celluloid — Wed, 11 May 2022 00:49:05 +0000

Year:1952

Director:Howard Hawks

Written by:I. A. L. Diamond (Screenplay), Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Harry Segall (Story)

Script Synopsis:Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Monkey Business Script Resources:

Monkey Business Script PDF - 2/28/52 FINAL - AKA Darling, I Am Growing Younger at Script City ($)
Monkey Business Transcript at scripts.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

Monkey Business ( tt0044916 ) at IMDb
Monkey Business ( 24008 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Can Can Script

celluloid — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 11:31:43 +0000

Year:1960

Director:Walter Lang

Written by:Dorothy Kingsley (Screenplay), Charles Lederer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:1896, Montmartre: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female charm to let the representatives of law enforcement look the other way - or even attend the shows. But then the young ambitious judge Philippe Forrestier decides to bring this to an end. Will Simone manage to twist him round her little finger, too? Her boyfriend Francois certainly doesn't like to watch her trying.

Can Can Script Resources:

Can Can Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Can Can Script PDF - 8/27/1955 at Script City ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

Can Can ( tt0053690 ) at IMDb
Can Can ( 33726 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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I Was A Male War Bride Script

celluloid — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 12:39:04 +0000

Year:1949

Director:Howard Hawks

Written by:Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Leonard Spigelgass (Screenplay), Hagar Wilde (Screenplay), Henri Rochard (Story)

Script Synopsis:Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. Zany gender-confusing antics follow.

I Was A Male War Bride Script Resources:

I Was A Male War Bride Script PDF - 2/4/49 SHOOTING FINAL at Script City ($)
I Was A Male War Bride Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
I Was A Male War Bride Transcript at scripts.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

I Was A Male War Bride ( tt0041498 ) at IMDb
I Was A Male War Bride ( 23567 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Script

celluloid — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:26:28 +0000

Year:1953

Director:Howard Hawks

Written by:Anita Loos (Novel), Joseph Fields (Theatre Play), Charles Lederer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Script Resources:

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Transcript at Script-O-Rama

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( tt0045810 ) at IMDb
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 759 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Follow That Dream Script

celluloid — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:12:12 +0000

Year:1962

Director:Gordon Douglas

Written by:Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Richard Powell (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" children - Holly, Ariadne and the twins - start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.

Follow That Dream Script Resources:

Follow That Dream Script PDF - 5/29/61 FINAL at Script City ($)
Follow That Dream Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Follow That Dream Transcript at scripts.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

Follow That Dream ( tt0055992 ) at IMDb
Follow That Dream ( 18643 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Mutiny On The Bounty Script

celluloid — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:36:09 +0000

Year:1962

Director:Lewis Milestone

Written by:Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Charles Nordhoff (Novel)

Script Synopsis:The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.

Mutiny On The Bounty Script Resources:

Mutiny On The Bounty Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Mutiny On The Bounty Script PDF - 10/17/60 FINAL REVISED (XXL) at Script City ($)
Mutiny On The Bounty Transcript at Script-O-Rama

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

Mutiny On The Bounty ( tt0056264 ) at IMDb
Mutiny On The Bounty ( 11085 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Spirit of St. Louis

celluloid — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:23:10 +0000

Year:1957

Director:Billy Wilder

Written by:Billy Wilder (Screenplay), Charles A. Lindbergh (Novel), Wendell Mayes (Screenplay), Charles Lederer (Adaptation)

Script Synopsis:Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

The Spirit of St. Louis Script Resources:

The Spirit of St. Louis Script PDF - January 8, 1957 final draft at The Daily Script
The Spirit of St. Louis Script PDF - 1/8/57 FINAL*pg at Script City ($)
The Spirit of St. Louis Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

The Spirit of St. Louis ( tt0051003 ) at IMDb
The Spirit of St. Louis ( 18776 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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His Girl Friday

celluloid — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:38:14 +0000

Year:1940

Director:Howard Hawks

Written by:Ben Hecht (Theatre Play), Charles MacArthur (Theatre Play), Charles Lederer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

His Girl Friday Script Resources:

His Girl Friday Script PDF at The Script Savant
His Girl Friday Script - Undated Shooting Draft at IMSDb
His Girl Friday Script at Screenplays For You
His Girl Friday Script at The Daily Script
His Girl Friday Script PDF - 9/26/39 REVISED FINAL. (XL) at Script City ($)
His Girl Friday Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
His Girl Friday Transcript at Script-O-Rama

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

His Girl Friday ( tt0032599 ) at IMDb
His Girl Friday ( 3085 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Thing From Another World

celluloid — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:31:41 +0000

Year:1951

Director:Howard Hawks, Christian Nyby

Written by:Howard Hawks (Screenplay), Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Scientists and U.S. Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

The Thing From Another World Script Resources:

The Thing From Another World Script PDF at The Script Savant
The Thing From Another World Script at Horror Lair
The Thing From Another World Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
The Thing From Another World Transcript at Script-O-Rama

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

The Thing From Another World ( tt0044121 ) at IMDb
The Thing From Another World ( 10785 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Lady from Shanghai

celluloid — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:44:50 +0000

Year:1947

Director:Orson Welles

Written by:Orson Welles (Screenplay), Sherwood King (Novel), William Castle (Writer), Charles Lederer (Writer), Fletcher Markle (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

The Lady from Shanghai Script Resources:

The Lady from Shanghai Script PDF at scribd.com
The Lady from Shanghai Script PDF - [REV. 8-17-1946] at Script Fly ($)
The Lady from Shanghai Transcript at Script-O-Rama
The Lady from Shanghai History and Criticism at filmsite.org
The Lady from Shanghai History and Criticism at tcm.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

The Lady from Shanghai ( tt0040525 ) at IMDb
The Lady from Shanghai ( 3766 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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