Steven Gaye, a successful New York playwright has passed forty and thinks he has bid farewell to the world of romance. Read More »
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You Belong to Me (1941) Wesley Ruggles, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan, Comedy, Romance
On a ski trip, rich, idle Peter Kirk pursues and falls (literally) for Helen Hunt, M.D. After a courtship of hypochondria Read More »
No Man of Her Own (1932) Wesley Ruggles, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Drama, Romance
Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. Read More »
Cimarron (1931) Wesley Ruggles, Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Drama, Western
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. Read More »
Roar of the Dragon (1932) Wesley Ruggles, Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, Adventure, Romance
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Read More »
Are These Our Children (1931) Wesley Ruggles, Howard Estabrook, Eric Linden, Beryl Mercer, Billy Butts, Drama
A good kid with no record commits a robbery, kills an old man and winds up on death row. The authorities try to figure out why he went bad.
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Too Many Husbands (1940) Wesley Ruggles, Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Comedy, Romance
It’s been a year since Bill Cardew was declared dead by drowning, and his widow Vicky is now married to his old friend and business partner, Henry Lowndes. When Bill unexpectedly returns from the island where he was marooned, what is Vicky to do? Well, having twice been a rather neglected wife, Vicky finds all the attention from two husbands competing for her favors delightful, and is in no hurry to make a decision…much to the discomfiture of hapless Bill and Henry.
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Im No Angel (1933) Wesley Ruggles, Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she’ll put her head into a lion’s muzzle! With this attraction the circus makes it to New York and Tira can persue her dearest occupation: flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents. Among the guys she searches the love of her life, from whom she only knows from a fortune-teller that he’ll be rich and have black hair. When she finally meets him, she becomes a victim of intrigue.
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