Biography: Charles Butterworth |
A master at playing diffident, absentminded middle-aged bachelors, American actor and Notre Dame alumnus Charles Butterworth was an established Broadway musical comedy star when he made his first film, Life of the Party (1930). Butterworth's heyday... more
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Cast: Frances Langford
Tags: Musical
Length: 69min
Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree, Frances Langford plays Susan Jackson, the daughter of a showboat skipper (Guy Kibbee). Captain Jackson's vessel, the Ellabelle, is the...
Cast: Orson Welles W.C. Fields George Raft Marlene Dietrich
Tags: Musical Comedy Showbiz Drama
Length: 122min
Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin)...
Cast: Ann Rutherford
Tags: Crime Mystery Crime Thriller Detective Film
Length: 65min
This 20th Century-Fox programmer stars Preston Foster as breezy detective Steve Carromond. When a man dies of a suspicious heart attack, the victim's niece, Constance Martin (Ann Rutherford), hires Steve to investigate. The solution to the mystery...
Cast: Patric Knowles Billy Gilbert
Length: 61min
The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns a Lonely Hearts club which is used as a front by con artist Colonel Winchester (Charles Butterworth). Trying to promote a...
Cast: Michael Curtiz George Murphy Ronald Reagan Jack L. Warner
Tags: Musical Musical Comedy
Length: 105min
The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was a reworking of Berlin's WW1 "barracks musical" Yip Yip Yaphank. In both instances, the cast was largely comprised of genuine...
Cast: Dooley Wilson Sol C. Siegel Hans Dreier
Tags: Mystery Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 75min
A solid Jonathan Latimer screenplay is one of the "plusses" of the medium-budget mystery A Night in New Orleans. Preston S. Foster plays police lieutenant Steve Abbott, at present engrossed in a baffling murder case. As he pieces the clues together,...
Cast: Irene Ryan
Tags: Musical
Length: 64min
In this frothy musical, a sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American. WW II erupts and her father finds himself courted by an agent from the German government for the rights to the oil fields. When that doesn't work, the...
Cast: Charles Butterworth
Tags: Musical
Length: 65min
The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young...
Cast: Hal Roach Adolphe Menjou
Tags: Screwball Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 87min
When millionaire bachelor John Hubbard takes a run-out powder at his own wedding, Hubbard's vengeful fiancee Polly Ann Young has the luckless fellow committed to an insane asylum. Hubbard escapes with certified looney Adolphe Menjou; together they...
Cast: Busby Berkeley
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Workplace Comedy
Length: 71min
Blonde Inspiration was one of the few non-musical directorial efforts of Busby Berkeley. MGM contract players John Shelton and Virginia Grey head the cast of this leisurely second-echelon comedy. Shelton plays a western novelist who is inspired to...
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