Cast: Charles Butterworth

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Charles Butterworth. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Love Me Tonight

1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Myrna Loy · Charles Ruggles

Synopsis Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a viscount (Charles Ruggles). Stalling for time, the titled but penniless nobleman moves Maurice into the family chateau and passes him off as a baron....

7.1

542 votes

7.1

542 votes

Magnificent Obsession

1935 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · Robert Taylor · Charles Butterworth · Betty Furness

Synopsis The life of spoiled Robert Merrick (Robert Taylor) is saved through the use of a hospital's only pulmotor, which results in the death of Dr. Hudson, a selfless, brilliant surgeon and generous philanthropist. Merrick falls in love with Hudson's widow,...

6.6

317 votes

6.6

317 votes

Penthouse

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Charles Butterworth · Mae Clarke

Synopsis Racketeer Tony Gazotti is thankful that lawyer Jackson Durant helps him beat a murder rap, but Durant just does it for the thrill of it and refuses payment. Durant's defense of mobsters causes his firm to disown him and his...

6.3

59 votes

6.3

59 votes

Swing High, Swing Low

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Dorothy Lamour · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to...

6.0

139 votes

6.0

139 votes

The Mad Genius

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Barrymore · Marian Marsh · Charles Butterworth · Donald Cook

Synopsis A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.

5.9

25 votes

5.9

25 votes

Illicit

1931 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · James Rennie · Ricardo Cortez · Natalie Moorhead

Synopsis Ann, a young lady of scandalously "advanced" ideas, has been living in near-sin with blueblood lover Dick, due to her conviction that marriage will destroy their love. Finally, social pressure forces them to marry; in due course, it looks as...

5.7

32 votes

5.7

32 votes

Forsaking All Others

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Robert Montgomery · Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis Dyl leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dyl, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.

5.7

28 votes

5.7

28 votes

The Stolen Jools (S)

1931 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction William McGann · John G. Adolfi · Victor Heerman · Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Buster Keaton · Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Wallace Beery

Synopsis Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry. Laurel & Hardy appear briefly (as...

5.6

32 votes

5.6

32 votes

Second Chorus

1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Fred Astaire · Paulette Goddard · Artie Shaw · Burgess Meredith

Synopsis Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. The two trumpet players scheme to get into Shaw's outfit themselves, each trying to trump the other's plays.

5.6

413 votes

5.6

413 votes

Road Show

1941 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Hal Roach

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Carole Landis · John Hubbard · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis A playboy on the run hooks up with a sideshow''s beautiful owner.

5.5

46 votes

5.5

46 votes

Follow the Boys

1944 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast George Raft · Vera Zorina · Grace McDonald · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at...

5.3

25 votes

5.3

25 votes

Hollywood Handicap (S)

1938 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton

Cast The Original Sing Band · Charles Ruggles · Mickey Rooney · Stuart Erwin

Synopsis A musical short in which a group of musician stable hands race a horse in the Hollywood Handicap at Santa Anita Park racetrack with many celebrities of the day in attendance.

4.6

21 votes

4.6

21 votes

This Is the Army

1943 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast George Murphy · Joan Leslie · George Tobias · Ronald Reagan

Synopsis In WW I dancer Jerry Jones (George Murphy) stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets...

4.2

33 votes

4.2

33 votes

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Ronald Colman · Loretta Young · C. Aubrey Smith · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone. He finds none, but he does find a body -...

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The Night Is Young

1935 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Ramon Novarro · Evelyn Laye · Charles Butterworth · Una Merkel

Synopsis Young Austrian Archduke Paul “Gustl” Gustave is in an arranged engagement to Princess Matilda, but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl continue his fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck. Lisi is not Gusti’s lover, but a decoy.

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The Moon's Our Home

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Henry Fonda · Margaret Sullavan · Charles Butterworth · Beulah Bondi

Synopsis A comedy about marriage and everything relating to it. A New York novelist Henry Fonda meets up with an actress, Margaret Sullavan, and the two date and later marry, though neither knows of the other's fame. The real adventure begins...

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Let Freedom Ring

1939 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Nelson Eddy · Virginia Bruce · Victor McLaglen · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis Railroad owner Jim Knox uses everything to get the land he needs for his new railroad cheaply. Everybody hopes, that Steve Logan ends his regime, but he allies with Jim Knox. Nobody knows, that he's actually a government agent. But...

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Orchids to You

1935 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast John Boles · Jean Muir · Charles Butterworth · Ruthelma Stevens

Synopsis An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

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Baby Face Harrington

1935 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Charles Butterworth · Una Merkel · Donald Meek · Harvey Stephens

Synopsis Willie Harrington is a wimpy small-town bookkeeper at a bank who unwittingly gets involved with the country's toughest gangster and his gang, and he gets suspected of being the leader of the gang. Hiis wife, Millie, files for divorce when...

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