Cast: Charles Ruggles
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Charles Ruggles. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Invisible Woman
1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland
Cast Virginia Bruce · John Barrymore · John Howard · Charles Ruggles
Plot The eccentric Professor Gibbs puts an ad in the newspaper: "WANTED: A human being willing to become invisible. No remuneration. Box P19." But Gibbs is no crackpot. He really did...
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4.9
84 votes
Hollywood Handicap (S)
1938 · Movie · 10 min. · United States
Direction Buster Keaton
Cast The Original Sing Band · Charles Ruggles · Mickey Rooney · Stuart Erwin
Plot 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...
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4.6
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The Night of June 13
1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Stephen Roberts
Cast Clive Brook · Frances Dee · Charles Ruggles · Gene Raymond
Plot 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,...
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Incendiary Blonde
1945 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Betty Hutton · Arturo de Córdova · Charles Ruggles · Albert Dekker
Plot The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way,...
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Invitation to Happiness
1939 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Wesley Ruggles
Cast Irene Dunne · Fred MacMurray · Charles Ruggles · Billy Cook
Plot Trainer Pop Hardy thinks his heavyweight boxer 'King' Cole could be champ...some day; he wants to sell a half interest in Cole to his rich friend Wayne. Wayne's daughter Eleanor...
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Sudden Money
1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Charles Ruggles · Marjorie Rambeau · Charley Grapewin · Broderick Crawford
Plot Winning a $150,000 prize in a sweepstakes gives the Patterson family grand plans. Particularly head of the family Sweeney, a frustrated drummer who decides to start up his own band....
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Jack Oakie · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Lyda Roberti
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Early to Bed
1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · George Barbier · Gail Patrick
Plot 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...
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Allen
Cast Gail Russell · Diana Lynn · Charles Ruggles · Dorothy Gish
Plot In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivity and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many...
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Give My Regards to Broadway
1948 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Dan Dailey · Charles Winninger · Nancy Guild · Charles Ruggles
Plot The Norwick family has had a successful run on the vaudeville circuit, but now some of the family wants out. Mom is ready to retire on the family's farm, and...
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Evenings for Sale
1932 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Walker
Cast Herbert Marshall · Sari Maritza · Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland
Plot 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...
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Melody Cruise
1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Charles Ruggles · Phil Harris · Helen Mack · Greta Nissen
Plot A popular playboy goes on a cruise from New York in winter to California. He brings a friend to keep him from getting too serious with any of the many...
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Hollywood Boulevard
1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast John Halliday · Marsha Hunt · Robert Cummings · C. Henry Gordon
Plot 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....
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Three Is a Family
1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Marjorie Reynolds · Charles Ruggles · Fay Bainter · Helen Broderick
Plot Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled...
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Breaking the Ice
1938 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast Bobby Breen · Charles Ruggles · Dolores Costello · Irene Dare
Plot Tommy Martin lives with mother Martha in a conservative religious community but dreams of a singing career. He leaves to join a traveling show where he befriends skating sensation Irene...
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Friendly Enemies
1942 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Charles Winninger · Charles Ruggles · James Craig · Nancy Kelly
Plot 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...
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Gallant Journey
1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Glenn Ford · Janet Blair · Charles Ruggles · Henry Travers
Plot Producer/director William A. Wellman also co-scripted this biopic devoted to John J. Montgomery (Glenn Ford), the unsung 19th-century innovator of glider design. Montgomery's invention of a gold separator proves lucrative,...
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Public Deb No. 1
1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Ratoff
Cast George Murphy · Brenda Joyce · Ralph Bellamy · Elsa Maxwell
Plot 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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Young Man of Manhattan
1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Claudette Colbert · Norman Foster · Ginger Rogers · Leslie Austin
Plot Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature writer for...
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Bedside Manner
1945 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Andrew L. Stone
Cast John Carroll · Ruth Hussey · Charles Ruggles · Ann Rutherford
Plot 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...
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