A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Read More »
Tag Archives: Charles Butterworth
Swing High, Swing Low (1937) Mitchell Leisen, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. Read More »
Sis Hopkins (1941) Joseph Santley, Judy Canova, Bob Crosby, Charles Butterworth
A young girl from the “sticks” comes to the city to live with her wealthy relatives. Read More »
Half Angel (1936) Sidney Lanfield, Frances Dee, Brian Donlevy, Charles Butterworth
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Read More »
The Night Is Young (1935) Dudley Murphy, Ramon Novarro, Evelyn Laye, Charles Butterworth
Based on a story by Vicki Baum, the Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein operetta The Night is Young is set in Vienna during the Franz Josef era. Read More »
Penthouse (1933) W.S. Van Dyke, Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth
Racketeer Tony Gazotti is thankful that lawyer Jackson Durant helps him beat a murder rap Read More »
Student Tour (1934) Charles Reisner, Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Maxine Doyle
A college rowing team’s world tour is in jeopardy because a philosophy professor plans to flunk the entire crew. Read More »
Baby Face Harrington (1935) Raoul Walsh, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens
Willie Harrington is a wimpy small-town bookkeeper at a bank who unwittingly gets involved with the country’s toughest gangster and his gang Read More »
Orchids to You (1935) William A. Seiter, John Boles, Jean Muir, Charles Butterworth, Drama
Bermuda Mystery (1944) Benjamin Stoloff, Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Charles Butterworth, Mystery
Preston Foster is a private detective who gets mixed up with a somewhat ditzy Ann Rutherford. It seems she thinks her uncle was murdered. Read More »
Magnificent Obsession (1935) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Drama, Romance
The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital’s only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once Read More »
We Went to College (1936) Joseph Santley, Charles Butterworth, Walter Abel, Hugh Herbert, Comedy
Phil is high strung and needs a rest so Nina talks him into going to the Sutter College homecoming. Read More »
Manhattan Parade (1931) Lloyd Bacon, Winnie Lightner, Charles Butterworth, Joe Smith, Comedy
The John Roberts Costume Company is being run super-efficiently by Doris Roberts, but her husband demands that she give up her position to stay at home with their young son. Read More »
Every Day’s a Holiday (1937) A. Edward Sutherland, Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth, Comedy
Mae West portrays a turn-of-century confidence trickster who poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest. Read More »
The Moon’s Our Home (1936) William A. Seiter, Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda, Charles Butterworth, Comedy
A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other–they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. Read More »