Charles Ruggles

Charles Ruggles

Nacimiento : 1886-02-08, Los Angeles, California, USA

Muerte : 1970-12-23

Historia

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.

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Charles Ruggles

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Carousel
The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.
Veinte docenas de hijos
John Everett Hughes
Un músico de jazz acepta trabajar en el almacén del pequeño pueblo en el que se instala. Cuando comprueba que nadie se ocupa de la educación de los niños, decide formar un grupo de boy scouts. Su idea, al principio, es recibida con mucho recelo, pero poco a poco consigue que los muchachos se entusiasmen con el proyecto.
Los perros de mi mujer
Dr. J. L. Pruitt
Fran y su esposo, Mark, tienen una perra salchicha que ha ganado algún premio de belleza y está a punto de traer al mundo sus primeros cachorros. Varias multas de tráfico despues, la familia cuenta con tres preciosas crías. Pero Mark se ha encaprichado de otro recién nacido, un gran danés, último de una numerosa camada, que no puede ser alimentado por su madre. Y a costa de largas discusiones logra traerlo a casa
Hollywood My Home Town
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
I'd Rather Be Rich
Dr. Charles Crandall
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 her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.
Hollywood Without Make-Up
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Papa's Delicate Condition
Anthony Ghio
Si a la esposa de Jack Griffith no le gusta el color de la casa de un vecino, se las arreglará para que sea una casa de otro color. Si el dueño de la heladería no cree en vender triple banana split por un centavo, Jack comprará el establecimiento. Y si la niña de Jack quiere al pony en el desfile del circo, ¿por qué no comprar todo el circo? Esta última broma envía a Amberlyn Griffith de regreso a Texarkana c. 1900, donde su padre se postula para su tercer mandato como alcalde. Jack lo sigue, trayendo a todo el circo.
El sabio en apuros
Judge Murdock
El invento del flubber no ha proporcionado al profesor Ned Brainard las riquezas que pensaba. El Pentágono ha declarado el invento top secret y el IRS acosa al profesor con enormes impuestos por el descubrimiento. Además, su mujer Betty está celosa por las atenciones que recibe Brainard de una antigua novia de universidad. Mientras tanto, el científico está creando el flubbergas, que entre otras cosas puede cambiar la atmósfera o hacer ganar partidos de fútbol...
Su grata compañía
Mackenzie Savage
Jessica Poole va a casarse con Roger Handerson, un ganadero del Valle del Napa. Mientras se ocupa de los preparativos de la boda, se pregunta si asistirá al enlace su padre, un vagabundo al que no ve desde hace años.
Tú a Boston y yo a California
Charles McKendrick
Dos niñas gemelas, separadas por el divorcio de sus padres, se encuentran en un campamento de verano. Inicialmente no se percatan de su origen común, pero tras ser ambas castigadas a compartir la misma habitación, se dan cuenta de que son gemelas. Ahí también se prometen un objetivo: volver a juntar a sus padres. Para ello deciden intercambiarse.
Todo en una noche
Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr
El fundador de un gran imperio de empresas de publicidad amanece muerto, con una sonrisa en su rostro, en su hotel de vacaciones. Su sobrino hereda la poderosa compañía, y tanto él como su junta directiva sospechan que una empleada puede ser la asesina de su tío. El motivo: un detective del hotel la vio salir casi desnuda de la habitación.
Franklin y Yo
Ben Franklin (voice)
Una versión revisionista de la historia americana, en la que un pequeño ratón convive con Benjamin Franklin y es el responsable de todas sus ideas... ¡incluyendo el comienzo de la Declaración de Independencia!
Look for the Silver Lining
Caro "Pop" Miller
Musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star
The Lovable Cheat
Claude Mercadet
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 that his daughter Julie can land herself a rich husband.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Toby Helper
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
La mujer de fuego
Ben Dickason
En una comarca ganadera del Medio Oeste americano se reproduce la eterna guerra entre vaqueros y ovejeros. Worl, un ovejero que pretende asentarse en el lugar, se ve obligado a abandonar sus tierras. El problema es que está ligado sentimentalmente a Connie, la hija del ranchero que lo ha expulsado. Con el apoyo del ayudante de Worl, Connie se enfrentará a su padre.
Sucedió en la 5ª avenida
Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
Un vagabundo neoyorquino se muda a una mansión y, por el camino, se va reuniendo con sus amigos a los que lleva a vivir con él.
My Brother Talks to Horses
Richard Pennington Roeder
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. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
The Perfect Marriage
Dale Williams, Sr.
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
Gallant Journey
Jim Montgomery
Biografía de John Montgomery, un pionero de la aviación norteamericana, que en 1883 construyó el primer prototipo.
Una vida robada
Freddie Linley
Mientras pasan el verano en casa de su primo, las hermanas gemelas Kate (Bette Davis) y Patricia (Bette Davis) se enamoran de Bill Emerson (Glenn Ford). Bill se enamora de Patricia y se casa con ella, pero Kate no puede olvidar a Bill.
La rubia de los cabellos de fuego
Cherokee Jim
La vida de la bulliciosa animadora Texas Guinan se recuerda desde su pobre infancia con un padre con mala suerte hasta su reinado como la Reina de los Clubes Nocturnos. En el camino, también encuentra el romance y la angustia.
Her Favorite Patient
Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks
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 help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
The Doughgirls
Stanley Slade
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, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.
3 Is a Family
Sam Whitaker
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 wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Otis Skinner
In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
The Road to Victory
Himself
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 prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place. Edited down from The Shining Future (1944).
The Shining Future
Mr. Ames
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 prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
Dixie Dugan
Pa Dugan
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 about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
Friendly Enemies
Heinrich Block
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 taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.
The Perfect Snob
Dr. Edgar Mason
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-fashioned family values. Director Ray McCarey's 1941 comedy stars Lynn Bari, Cornel Wilde, Charles Ruggles, Anthony Quinn, Charlotte Greenwood, Alan Mowbray and Chester Clute.
Go West, Young Lady
Jim Pendergast
Glenn Ford interpreta al nuevo sheriff de Headstone. Él y su mujer acaban de llegar al lugar que padece los ataques constantes de una banda de forajidos. El matrimonio pronto es víctima del "comité de bienvenida" que les han preparado, aunque pronto aprenden y optan por reponerse para acabar con ellos para siempre.
The Parson of Panamint
Chuckawalla Bill Redfield
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield (Ruggles) recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo (Phillip Terry) rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory (Ellen Drew).
Model Wife
Milo Everett
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Honeymoon for Three
Harvey Wilson
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 Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
La mujer invisible
George
El profesor Gibbs inventa una máquina que puede hacer invisible a la gente, y la usa con Kitty Carroll, una atractiva y aventurera modelo. Pero unos gansters roban la máquina para su jefe, así que tendrán que enfrentarse a la mujer invisible.
No Time for Comedy
Philo Swift
Gaylord escribe una obra de teatro que triunfa en Broadway. Todo le va a las mil maravillas porque además consigue casarse con la chica a la que ama y que es quien ha protagonizado la historia. El éxito sobre los escenarios se sucede con nuevas obras pero las cosas cambian cuando decide olvidarse de las comedias e intentar escribir una buena tragedia. El nuevo reto
Public Deb No. 1
Milburn
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 company.
Maryland
Dick Piper
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 father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Opened by Mistake
Buzz Nelson
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
The Farmer's Daughter
Nickie North
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
Balalaika
Nicki Popoff
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Night Work
Homer C. Fitch
El abuelo de un muchacho adoptado llega a la casa de la familia y decide que no es adecuada para educar a su nieto.
Invitation to Happiness
Henry 'Pop' Hardy
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Sudden Money
Sweeney J. Patterson
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
Hijos a prueba
Homer C. Fitch
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
His Exciting Night
Adam Tripp
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
Service de Luxe
Robinson
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 is a man who can take care of himself.
Breaking the Ice
Sam Terwilliger
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, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
Charles Ruggles
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 Take it With You', director Frank Capra and stars James Stewart and Jean Arthur celebrate Lionel Barrymore's sixtieth birthday; a ski meet is held at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Hollywood Handicap
Himself
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 Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
La fiera de mi niña
Horace Applegate
David Huxley (Cary Grant) es un paleontólogo tímido y despistado que está a punto de acabar la laboriosa reconstrucción del esqueleto de un brontosaurio, al que sólo le falta una clavícula intercostal. También está a punto de casarse con su anodina secretaria. En un partido de golf con el abogado de una solterona millonaria, potencial mecenas del museo para el que trabaja, Huxley conoce a Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), una joven adinerada y caprichosa que hará lo posible para que no culmine ninguno de sus dos proyectos: se dedicará a manipular a Huxley para seducirlo con un estilo muy peculiar: le abolla el coche, le desgarra el smoking, esconde su ropa, le rompe las gafas y por si fuera poco, lo embauca para que cuide a un joven leopardo llamado "Baby".
Exclusive
Tod Swain
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Turn Off the Moon
J. Elliott Dinwiddy
Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited ten years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His astrological advisor, Dr. Wakefield, has told him that if he can unite a boy and a girl in true love before midnight, he can propose to Myrtle the following night at 3:15 a.m. and she will accept. Fate brings unemployed dancer Caroline Wilson into the music department of Dinwiddy's, where she meets handsome songwriter Terry Keith. Keith has been writing music for Dinwiddy's Silver Jubilee show and has allowed Dinwiddy's nephew, Truelove Spencer, to take all the credit. That night, Terry comes into Dinwiddy's to work on the music and finds Caroline asleep in the Honeymoon Cottage, the section of the department store Spencer supervises. Posing as a man named "Pinky," Dinwiddy promises Caroline that Spencer will hire her as the bride of the Honeymoon Cottage and invites her to live there.
Mind Your Own Business
Orville Shanks
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 Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
Wives Never Know
Homer Bigelow
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 advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
Hollywood Boulevard
Charles Ruggles - Actor - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
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 write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Yours for the Asking
Sunbather
El operador de casino Johnny Lamb contrata a la socia social Lucille Sutton como su anfitriona del casino, para ayudarla y mejorar los ingresos del casino. Pero los amigos de Lamb temen que pueda seguir a Lucille por el camino recto y angosto, lo que no sería bueno para los negocios. Así que contratan a Gert Malloy y Dictionary McKinney, un par de estafadores, para manipular a Johnny para que salga del camino de la rectitud.
Hearts Divided
Henry
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
Early to Bed
Chester R. Beatty
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 marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
The Preview Murder Mystery
Cameo Appearance as Himself at Preview (Uncredited)
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
Todo vale
Rev. Dr. Moon
Adaptación de un musical de gran éxito en Broadway.
Cazadores de estrellas
Wilbur Sealingsworth
El propietario de una emisora de radio es secuestrado por una admiradora, una condesa insaciable.
No más mujeres
Edgar Holden
Una mujer de la alta sociedad trata de reformar a su marido, un playboy, tratando de ponerle celoso.
People Will Talk
Henry Wilton
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, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how distasteful domestic bickering appears; She enters into an agreement with Henry that they will fake a fuss to serve as an object lesson. Clarice's will to play the game and her sense of humor play out at about the same time when Henry's remarks become more pointed as the charade goes on. Their fake fight is soon a real barn-burner.
Nobleza obliga
Egbert Floud
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 poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
The Pursuit of Happiness
Aaron Kirkland
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 militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Friends Of Mr. Sweeney
Asaph 'Ace' Holliday
Un hombre tímido y apocado finge ser un sofisticado hombre de mundo cuando recibe la visita de un antiguo compañero de la universidad.
Murder in the Private Car
Scott
Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed.
Melody in Spring
Warren Blodgett
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," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.
Six of a Kind
J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles)
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 dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
Alicia en el país de las Maravillas
March Hare
Historia de magia y fantasía en la que Alicia se adentra en el sorprendente País de las Maravillas y conoce a extraordinarios personajes como Tweedledee y Tweedledum, el Sombrerero Loco, La Reina de Corazones y el frenético Conejo Blanco. Adaptación de las novelas de Lewis Carroll.
Girl without a Room
Vergil Crock
In this comedy, 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 and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.
Good-bye Love
Oswald Groggs
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 a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.
Mama Loves Papa
Wilbur Todd
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Melody Cruise
Pete Wells
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
Terror Aboard
Blackie Witherspoon
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
El asesino diabólico
Peter Yates
Un zoólogo, millonario, deportista y celoso hasta la locura utiliza los animales del zoológico para eliminar a los pseudo pretendientes y no tanto de su esposa. La primera víctima aparece con los labios sellados para que «no bese nunca más a otra mujer casada».
Madame Butterfly
Lieutenant Barton
Un oficial norteamericano se siente enormemente atraído por una bella geisha.
Si yo tuviera un millón
Henry Peabody
Un millonario que está a punto de morir decide repartir su fortuna entre desconocidos cuyos nombres saca de la guía telefónica. Los afortunados emplean el dinero de diferentes formas: el oficinista plantará cara a su jefe, la prostituta intentará cambiar su vida, etc. Un filme compuesto por episodios en el que la Paramount empleó a sus mejores directores, James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter y Norman Taurog y a sus estrellas más relevantes como Charles Laugthon, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Jack Oakie o W. C. Fields. El mejor episodio es precisamente el dirigido por Lubitsch sobre la reacción de un oficinista al saberse repentinamente millonario, que interpreta Charles Laughton.
Evenings for Sale
Bimpfl
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 love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
Un ladrón en la alcoba
Major
Lily (Miriam Hopkins), una carterista que se hace pasar por condesa, conoce en Venecia al famoso ladrón Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), quien a su vez se hace pasar por barón, y se enamoran. Gaston roba al aristócrata François Fileba y huye con Lily antes de que le descubran. Casi un año después, en París, Gaston roba un bolso con diamantes incrustados a la viuda Mariette Colet, pero se lo devuelve y la cautiva de tal forma que lo contrata como secretario.
The Night of June 13
Philo Strawn
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
70,000 Witnesses
Johnny Moran
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 dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
Ámame esta noche
Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
Encantador y romántico musical que marcó el paso de muchos de los posteriores. Un sastre de París y una princesa se enamoran en esta obra maestra con el gran Maurice Chevalier.
Make Me a Star
Himself (uncredited)
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.
Esta es la noche
Bunny West
Un campeón olímpico de jabalina monta en cólera cuando se entera de que su mujer está coqueteando con otro hombre. Esto llevará a una serie de situaciones comprometidas que se desarrollan en ciudades tan sofisticadas como París y Venecia.
Una hora contigo
Adolph
El doctor André Bertier y Colette, su esposa, viven felices hasta que Mitzi Olivier, una coqueta amiga del colegio de aquélla, les hace una visita. Mediante intrigas, Mitzi consigue quedarse a solas con André, fingiéndose enferma, e intenta seducirle, pero el marido de ella, el profesor Olivier, ha contratado a un detective para que recoja pruebas de las infidelidades de Mitzi.
This Reckless Age
Goliath Whitney
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 they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
Husband's Holiday
Clyde Saunders
A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.
The Beloved Bachelor
Jerry Wells
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 of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.
El teniente seductor
Max
El teniente Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn se enamora de la violinista Franzi en Viena, donde se convierten en amantes. Cuando el rey de Flausenthurm llega a la ciudad con su poco agraciada hija Anna, Niki forma parte de la guardia de honor de las calles. Niki sonríe a Franzi, quien se encuentra en la acera de enfrente, le guiña un ojo justo cuando pasa el carruaje, y Anna cree que estos gestos van dirigidos a ella.
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built (1931) es un largometraje, de aproximadamente 55 minutos de duración, de Paramount Pictures, hecho para celebrar el vigésimo aniversario de la fundación del estudio en 1912. La película fue una película promocional para expositores y nunca tuvo un teatro teatral habitual. lanzamiento. La película incluye una breve historia de Paramount, entrevistas con varios actores y clips de los próximos proyectos (algunos de los cuales nunca llegaron a buen término). El título proviene de una biografía del fundador de Paramount Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), de William Henry Irwin.
The Girl Habit
Charlie Floyd
El amante de la esposa de un gangster intenta que le lleven a la cárcel para evitar la furia del marido engañado.
Honor Among Lovers
Monty Dunn
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
Charley's Aunt
Fancourt Babberley
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
Her Wedding Night
Bertie Bird
Norma Martin (Clara Bow) 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 "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes (Larry Charters) she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
Queen High
T. Boggs Johns
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year.
Young Man of Manhattan
Shorty Ross
Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.
Roadhouse Nights
Willie Bindbugel
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 cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.
The Battle of Paris
Zizi
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.
The Lady Lies
Charlie Tayler
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
Gentlemen Of The Press
Charlie Haven
A newsman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.
The Heart Raider
Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk)
A young troublemaker sets her eyes on a confirmed bachelor.
The Reform Candidate
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 boss of the city's political machine.
Peer Gynt
The Button Molder
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 fortune at others' expense, until he finds salvation in the love of Solveig.
Eloise
Murphy