Charles Ruggles
Charles Ruggles had one of the longest careers in Hollywood, lasting more than 60 years and encompassing more than 100 films. He made his film debut in 1914 in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and worked steadily after that. He was memorably paired with Mary Boland in a series of comedies in the early 1930s, and was one of the standouts in the all-star comedy If I Had a Million (1932), as a harried, much-put-upon man who finally goes berserk in a china shop. Ruggles' slight stature and distinctive mannerisms - his fluttery, jumpy manner of speaking, his often befuddled look whenever events seemed about to overwhelm him, which was often - endeared him to generations of moviegoers. Memorable as Maj. Applegate the big-game hunter in the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938). Many will remember him as the narrator of the "Aesop's Fables" segment of the animated cartoon The Bullwinkle Show (1961). He was the brother of director Wesley Ruggles.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.097 |
| Birthday | 1886-02-08 |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Charlie Ruggles, Charles Sherman Ruggles, |
1932
Trouble in Paradise
7.4/286
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide t...
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Trouble in Paradise
1938
Bringing Up Baby
7.5/992
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo...
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Bringing Up Baby
1966
The Ugly Dachshund
6.6/171
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself...
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The Ugly Dachshund
1931
The Smiling Lieutenant
6.9/56
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
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The Smiling Lieutenant
1932
Love Me Tonight
6.6/78
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
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Love Me Tonight
1931
Husband's Holiday
0/0
A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.
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Husband's Holiday
1933
Alice in Wonderland
6.1/57
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Alice in Wonderland
1915
Peer Gynt
0/0
A fantasy from Ibsen's verse drama. Ne'er-do-well and braggart Peer Gynt has many adventures in varied countries, making and losing money, gaining for...
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Peer Gynt
1966
Follow Me, Boys!
6.6/27
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general sto...
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Follow Me, Boys!
1940
The Invisible Woman
5.7/73
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invis...
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The Invisible Woman
1935
Ruggles of Red Gap
7.1/74
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a...
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Ruggles of Red Gap
1945
Her Favorite Patient
5.8/5
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and...
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Her Favorite Patient
1947
Ramrod
6.4/49
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "...
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Ramrod
1932
One Hour with You
6.5/72
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist h...
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One Hour with You
1947
The Perfect Marriage
4/1
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
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The Perfect Marriage
1946
A Stolen Life
6.4/46
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
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A Stolen Life
1929
The Lady Lies
5/2
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
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The Lady Lies
1933
Murders in the Zoo
5.8/43
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in...
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Murders in the Zoo
1932
Madame Butterfly
5.5/18
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later...
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Madame Butterfly
1939
Invitation to Happiness
0/0
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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Invitation to Happiness
1930
Roadhouse Nights
4.5/2
Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and...
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Roadhouse Nights
1961
The Parent Trap
7/383
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their...
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The Parent Trap
1938
Hollywood Handicap
4.5/10
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Sa...
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Hollywood Handicap
1932
This Is the Night
5.6/12
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cov...
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This Is the Night
1947
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
7.1/74
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the a...
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1949
The Lovable Cheat
3/1
Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced into this life of crime to keep up appearances, so...
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The Lovable Cheat
1963
Papa's Delicate Condition
5.4/14
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and o...
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Papa's Delicate Condition
1938
Breaking the Ice
4.8/3
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm...
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Breaking the Ice
1949
Look for the Silver Lining
5.7/6
After getting her start in her parents' vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue. He senses the girl's e...
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Look for the Silver Lining
1944
The Doughgirls
7/4
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, hi...
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The Doughgirls
1961
All in a Night's Work
5.9/21
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a...
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All in a Night's Work
1932
If I Had a Million
6.5/40
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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If I Had a Million
1933
Melody Cruise
5.2/6
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
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Melody Cruise
1933
Terror Aboard
6/5
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
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Terror Aboard
1941
Honeymoon for Three
5.8/5
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy...
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Honeymoon for Three
1961
The Pleasure of His Company
6.2/12
Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jessica, but he pops up again as she prepares to marr...
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The Pleasure of His Company
1939
Balalaika
4.2/4
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Balalaika
1935
No More Ladies
5.1/7
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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No More Ladies
1934
Six of a Kind
5.8/12
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand...
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Six of a Kind
1941
The Perfect Snob
6.3/3
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fash...
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The Perfect Snob
1945
Incendiary Blonde
5.1/7
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underwor...
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Incendiary Blonde
1940
No Time for Comedy
5.4/9
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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No Time for Comedy
1934
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
6/3
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten dow...
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1931
Honor Among Lovers
5.7/12
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
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Honor Among Lovers
1938
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
6/1
A visit to Buck Jones's new ranch and his horse, Silver, to James Gleason and his dog, to Charles Ruggles and his kennels; on the set of 'You Can't Ta...
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Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
1933
Good-bye Love
5.5/2
A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor...
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Good-bye Love
1964
I'd Rather Be Rich
5.8/4
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet h...
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I'd Rather Be Rich
1934
The Pursuit of Happiness
5.8/6
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local milit...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
1947
My Brother Talks to Horses
6/1
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. Wh...
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My Brother Talks to Horses
1944
The Road to Victory
5.5/2
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosper...
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The Road to Victory
1936
Anything Goes
5.3/9
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he...
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Anything Goes
1936
Hearts Divided
5/3
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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Hearts Divided
1930
Charley's Aunt
5/2
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
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Charley's Aunt
1935
The Big Broadcast of 1936
5.4/9
Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of...
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
1930
Queen High
6/1
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he pro...
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Queen High
1930
Young Man of Manhattan
5.5/3
Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.
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Young Man of Manhattan
1932
Evenings for Sale
6/2
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in...
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Evenings for Sale
1944
3 Is a Family
0/0
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his w...
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3 Is a Family
1938
Service de Luxe
6.5/6
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for i...
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Service de Luxe
1936
Early to Bed
7/1
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...
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Early to Bed
1936
Mind Your Own Business
0/0
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy S...
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Mind Your Own Business
1948
Give My Regards to Broadway
7/1
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
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Give My Regards to Broadway
1941
Go West, Young Lady
6.9/4
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
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Go West, Young Lady
1937
Exclusive
6/1
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government C...
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Exclusive
1937
Turn Off the Moon
0/0
Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited ten years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His ast...
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Turn Off the Moon
1939
Boy Trouble
5/4
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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Boy Trouble
1939
Sudden Money
5/1
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $15...
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Sudden Money
1944
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
7.3/3
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadve...
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1933
Girl Without a Room
5.3/3
A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe...
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Girl Without a Room
1944
The Shining Future
4/2
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosper...
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The Shining Future
1934
Murder in the Private Car
5.4/12
Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daug...
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Murder in the Private Car
1930
Her Wedding Night
6/1
Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "...
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Her Wedding Night
1932
The Night of June 13
7/3
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudi...
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The Night of June 13
1933
Mama Loves Papa
0/0
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
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Mama Loves Papa
1941
Model Wife
0/0
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
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Model Wife
1940
Public Deb No. 1
4.2/3
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his c...
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Public Deb No. 1
1946
Gallant Journey
6.1/10
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford...
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Gallant Journey
1943
Dixie Dugan
5/1
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast abo...
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Dixie Dugan
1915
The Majesty of the Law
0/0
The story of a Virginia judge who sternly hands down severe sentences while in court only to later help the families of those he condemns
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The Majesty of the Law
1932
This Reckless Age
5/1
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that t...
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This Reckless Age
1940
The Farmer's Daughter
5/3
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Claric...
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The Farmer's Daughter
1936
The Preview Murder Mystery
6/4
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuse...
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The Preview Murder Mystery
1956
Eloise
0/0
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
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Eloise
1936
Hollywood Boulevard
2.5/2
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w...
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Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Yours for the Asking
1/1
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....
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Yours for the Asking
1941
The Parson of Panamint
5/3
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the tow...
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The Parson of Panamint
1940
Maryland
6.2/2
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his fa...
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Maryland
1938
His Exciting Night
3/1
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
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His Exciting Night
1929
Gentlemen of the Press
5/1
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.
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Gentlemen of the Press
1963
Son of Flubber
5.9/65
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hope...
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Son of Flubber
1929
The Battle of Paris
6/1
Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petrie), an American artist, the two fall in love.
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The Battle of Paris
1931
The Beloved Bachelor
0/0
Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous...
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The Beloved Bachelor
1942
Friendly Enemies
5.8/5
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has ta...
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Friendly Enemies
1967
Carousel
0/0
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the nai...
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Carousel
1934
Melody in Spring
6/1
It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," a...
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Melody in Spring
1953
Ben and Me
6.8/47
A revisionist version of American history as a small mouse comes to live with Benjamin Franklin and turns out to be responsible for many of his ideas;...
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Ben and Me
1932
Make Me a Star
5.5/4
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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Make Me a Star
1936
Wives Never Know
0/0
Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital a...
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Wives Never Know
1932
70,000 Witnesses
4.8/4
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and...
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70,000 Witnesses
1939
Night Work
7/1
The Fitch family is managing an apartment building when the grandfather of their adopted son Butch decides the family isn't worthy of raising his gran...
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Night Work
1923
The Heart Raider
0/0
A young troublemaker sets her eyes on a confirmed bachelor.
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The Heart Raider
1940
Opened by Mistake
0/0
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
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Opened by Mistake
1931
The House That Shadows Built
7/1
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the...
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The House That Shadows Built
1935
People Will Talk
3/1
Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter,...
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People Will Talk
1931
The Girl Habit
0/0
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
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The Girl Habit
1915
The Reform Candidate
0/0
Realizing that his mayoral campaign is in serious trouble, reform candidate Frank Grandell sends his people out to dig up some dirt on Art Hoke, the b...
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