Charles Ruggles

Charles Ruggles

Born: February 8, 1886
Died: December 23, 1970
in Los Angeles, California, USA
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.

Movies for Charles Ruggles...

Carousel
Title: Carousel
Character: The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
Released: May 7, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Follow Me, Boys!
Title: Follow Me, Boys!
Character: John Everett Hughes
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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 store of a small town. Trying to fit in, he volunteers to become scoutmaster of the newly formed Troop 1. Becoming more and more involved with the scout troop, he finds his plans to become a lawyer being put on the back burner, until he realizes that his life has been fulfilled helping the youth of the small town.
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The Ugly Dachshund
Title: The Ugly Dachshund
Character: Dr. J. L. Pruitt
Released: February 16, 1966
Type: Movie
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles - and viewers to howls of laughter!
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I'd Rather Be Rich
Title: I'd Rather Be Rich
Character: Dr. Charles Crandall
Released: August 25, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Vacation Playhouse
Character: Eli Harcourt
Released: July 22, 1963
Type: TV
The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.
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Papa's Delicate Condition
Title: Papa's Delicate Condition
Character: Anthony Ghio
Released: March 6, 1963
Type: Movie
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 oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.
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Son of Flubber
Title: Son of Flubber
Character: Judge Murdock
Released: January 16, 1963
Type: Movie
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
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The Pleasure of His Company
Title: The Pleasure of His Company
Character: Mackenzie Savage
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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 marry a California rancher. Though Pogo's ex-wife remains unimpressed, Jessica quickly falls for her father's charismatic offensive. Soon, however, his reappearance causes complications for the bride-to-be, and she must decide whether or not to go ahead with the wedding.
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The Parent Trap
Title: The Parent Trap
Character: Charles McKendrick
Released: May 13, 1961
Type: Movie
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 parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
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All in a Night's Work
Title: All in a Night's Work
Character: Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr
Released: March 15, 1961
Type: Movie
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 loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: John Canfield
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Title: The Bullwinkle Show
Character: Aesop (voice)
Released: November 19, 1959
Type: TV
A variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right, Peabody's Improbable History, and Fractured Fairy Tales, among others.
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Eloise
Title: Eloise
Character: Murphy
Released: November 22, 1956
Type: Movie
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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Title: The World of Mr. Sweeney
Character: Cicero P. Sweeney
Released: June 30, 1954
Type: TV
The World of Mr. Sweeney is an American sitcom that aired on NBC in primetime and daytime. The series first aired live in primetime from June 30, 1954 to August 20, 1954, four nights a week from Tuesday to Friday, and from October 1954 to December 1955 five days a week in daytime. A total of 345 episodes were produced. The series began as a segment on The Kate Smith Evening Hour.
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Ben and Me
Title: Ben and Me
Character: Ben Franklin (voice)
Released: November 11, 1953
Type: Movie
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; including the beginning of the Declaration of Independance!
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Look for the Silver Lining
Title: Look for the Silver Lining
Character: Caro "Pop" Miller
Released: July 30, 1949
Type: Movie
Musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star
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The Lovable Cheat
Title: The Lovable Cheat
Character: Claude Mercadet
Released: May 11, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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Give My Regards to Broadway
Title: Give My Regards to Broadway
Character: Toby Helper
Released: June 8, 1948
Type: Movie
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
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Ramrod
Title: Ramrod
Character: Ben Dickason
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
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, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Character: Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
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 actual home owners.
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Title: My Brother Talks to Horses
Character: Richard Pennington Roeder
Released: February 4, 1947
Type: Movie
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.
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The Perfect Marriage
Title: The Perfect Marriage
Character: Dale Williams, Sr.
Released: January 24, 1947
Type: Movie
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
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Gallant Journey
Title: Gallant Journey
Character: Jim Montgomery
Released: September 24, 1946
Type: Movie
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.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.
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A Stolen Life
Title: A Stolen Life
Character: Freddie Linley
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
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Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: Cherokee Jim
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Her Favorite Patient
Title: Her Favorite Patient
Character: Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
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".
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The Doughgirls
Title: The Doughgirls
Character: Stanley Slade
Released: November 25, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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3 Is a Family
Title: 3 Is a Family
Character: Sam Whitaker
Released: November 23, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Title: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Character: Otis Skinner
Released: November 2, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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The Road to Victory
Title: The Road to Victory
Character: Mr. Ames (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1944
Type: Movie
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).
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The Shining Future
Title: The Shining Future
Character: Mr. Ames
Released: April 11, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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Dixie Dugan
Title: Dixie Dugan
Character: Pa Dugan
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Friendly Enemies
Title: Friendly Enemies
Character: Heinrich Block
Released: June 21, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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The Perfect Snob
Title: The Perfect Snob
Character: Dr. Edgar Mason (as Charlie Ruggles)
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Go West, Young Lady
Title: Go West, Young Lady
Character: Jim Pendergast
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
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The Parson of Panamint
Title: The Parson of Panamint
Character: Chuckawalla Bill Redfield
Released: July 25, 1941
Type: Movie
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo 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.
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Model Wife
Title: Model Wife
Character: Milo Everett
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
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Honeymoon for Three
Title: Honeymoon for Three
Character: Harvey Wilson
Released: January 18, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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The Invisible Woman
Title: The Invisible Woman
Character: George
Released: December 28, 1940
Type: Movie
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 invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
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No Time for Comedy
Title: No Time for Comedy
Character: Philo Swift
Released: September 14, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Milburn
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Maryland
Title: Maryland
Character: Dick Piper
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Opened by Mistake
Title: Opened by Mistake
Character: Buzz Nelson
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
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The Farmer's Daughter
Title: The Farmer's Daughter
Character: Nickie North
Released: March 29, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Balalaika
Title: Balalaika
Character: Nicki Popoff
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Night Work
Title: Night Work
Character: Homer C. Fitch
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
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 grandson.
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Invitation to Happiness
Title: Invitation to Happiness
Character: Henry 'Pop' Hardy
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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Sudden Money
Title: Sudden Money
Character: Sweeney J. Patterson
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Boy Trouble
Title: Boy Trouble
Character: Homer C. Fitch
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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His Exciting Night
Title: His Exciting Night
Character: Adam Tripp
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
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Service de Luxe
Title: Service de Luxe
Character: Robinson
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Breaking the Ice
Title: Breaking the Ice
Character: Sam Terwilliger
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
Title: Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
Character: Charles Ruggles
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Hollywood Handicap
Title: Hollywood Handicap
Character: Himself
Released: May 28, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Bringing Up Baby
Title: Bringing Up Baby
Character: Horace Applegate
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
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 have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Tod Swain
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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Turn Off the Moon
Title: Turn Off the Moon
Character: J. Elliott Dinwiddy
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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Mind Your Own Business
Title: Mind Your Own Business
Character: Orville Shanks
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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Wives Never Know
Title: Wives Never Know
Character: Homer Bigelow
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Charles Ruggles - Actor - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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Yours for the Asking
Title: Yours for the Asking
Character: Sunbather
Released: July 23, 1936
Type: Movie
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. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
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Hearts Divided
Title: Hearts Divided
Character: Henry
Released: June 20, 1936
Type: Movie
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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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Chester R. Beatty
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Title: The Preview Murder Mystery
Character: Cameo Appearance as Himself at Preview (Uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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Anything Goes
Title: Anything Goes
Character: Rev. Dr. Moon
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
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 discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
Title: The Big Broadcast of 1936
Character: Wilbur Sealingsworth
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
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 George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
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No More Ladies
Title: No More Ladies
Character: Edgar Holden
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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People Will Talk
Title: People Will Talk
Character: Henry Wilton
Released: May 24, 1935
Type: Movie
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.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Egbert Floud
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
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' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Title: The Pursuit of Happiness
Character: Aaron Kirkland
Released: September 27, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Title: Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Character: Asaph 'Ace' Holliday
Released: July 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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Murder in the Private Car
Title: Murder in the Private Car
Character: Godfrey D. Scott
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
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 daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vindictive brother Elwood, and placed with strangers.
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Melody in Spring
Title: Melody in Spring
Character: Warren Blodgett
Released: April 7, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Six of a Kind
Title: Six of a Kind
Character: J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles)
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: March Hare
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
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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Girl without a Room
Title: Girl without a Room
Character: Vergil Crock
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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Good-bye Love
Title: Good-bye Love
Character: Oswald Groggs
Released: November 9, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: Wilbur Todd
Released: July 14, 1933
Type: Movie
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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Melody Cruise
Title: Melody Cruise
Character: Pete Wells
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
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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Terror Aboard
Title: Terror Aboard
Character: Blackie Witherspoon
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
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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Murders in the Zoo
Title: Murders in the Zoo
Character: Peter Yates
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.
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Madame Butterfly
Title: Madame Butterfly
Character: Lieutenant Barton
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
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, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Henry Peabody
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
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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Evenings for Sale
Title: Evenings for Sale
Character: Bimpfl
Released: November 12, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Trouble in Paradise
Title: Trouble in Paradise
Character: Major
Released: October 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
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The Night of June 13
Title: The Night of June 13
Character: Philo Strawn (as Charlie Ruggles)
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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70,000 Witnesses
Title: 70,000 Witnesses
Character: Johnny Moran
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Me Tonight
Title: Love Me Tonight
Character: Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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Make Me a Star
Title: Make Me a Star
Character: Charles Ruggles (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1932
Type: Movie
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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This Is the Night
Title: This Is the Night
Character: Bunny West
Released: April 8, 1932
Type: Movie
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 cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
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One Hour with You
Title: One Hour with You
Character: Adolph
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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This Reckless Age
Title: This Reckless Age
Character: Goliath Whitney (as Charlie Ruggles)
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Husband's Holiday
Title: Husband's Holiday
Character: Clyde Saunders
Released: December 19, 1931
Type: Movie
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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The Beloved Bachelor
Title: The Beloved Bachelor
Character: Jerry Wells
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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The Smiling Lieutenant
Title: The Smiling Lieutenant
Character: Max
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
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 House That Shadows Built
Title: The House That Shadows Built
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 8, 1931
Type: Movie
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 studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
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The Girl Habit
Title: The Girl Habit
Character: Charlie Floyd
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
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Honor Among Lovers
Title: Honor Among Lovers
Character: Monty Dunn
Released: February 28, 1931
Type: Movie
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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Charley's Aunt
Title: Charley's Aunt
Character: Fancourt Babberley
Released: December 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
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Her Wedding Night
Title: Her Wedding Night
Character: Bertie Bird
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
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 "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes 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.
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Queen High
Title: Queen High
Character: T. Boggs Johns
Released: August 23, 1930
Type: Movie
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.
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Young Man of Manhattan
Title: Young Man of Manhattan
Character: Shorty Ross
Released: April 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.
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Roadhouse Nights
Title: Roadhouse Nights
Character: Willie Bindbugel
Released: February 15, 1930
Type: Movie
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.
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The Battle of Paris
Title: The Battle of Paris
Character: Zizi
Released: December 30, 1929
Type: Movie
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 Lady Lies
Title: The Lady Lies
Character: Charlie Tayler
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
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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Gentlemen of the Press
Title: Gentlemen of the Press
Character: Charlie Haven
Released: May 4, 1929
Type: Movie
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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The Heart Raider
Title: The Heart Raider
Character: Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk)
Released: June 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A young troublemaker sets her eyes on a confirmed bachelor.
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The Reform Candidate
Title: The Reform Candidate
Released: December 16, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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Peer Gynt
Title: Peer Gynt
Character: The Button Molder
Released: September 15, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Majesty of the Law
Title: The Majesty of the Law
Character: Lawrence Evans
Released: August 26, 1915
Type: Movie
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