Cast: Charles Butterworth
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Charles Butterworth. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 37
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 Life of the Party
1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Winnie Lightner · Irene Delroy · Jack Whiting · Charles Butterworth
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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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