List of the best Charles Butterworth movies: Always a Bridesmaid(1943), Beauty and the Boss(1932), Magnificent Obsession(1935), Thanks for the Memory(1938), Every Day's a Holiday(1937), Swing High, Swing Low(1937), Student Tour(1934), Love Me Tonight(1932), Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back(1934), The Nuisance(1933), The Cat and the Fiddle(1934), The Mad Genius(1931) ... ...
Musical
USA
1943
61 Minutes
Colonel Winchester
The Andrews Sisters Charles Butterworth Patric Knowles Grace McDonald Billy Gilbert Edith Barrett O'Neill Nolan Anne Rooney Jivin' Jacks and Jills
A detective, working undercover, joins a Lonely Hearts Club in order to to expose a swindler using it for nefarious reasons.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Ludwig Pfeffer Jr.
Marian Marsh Warren William Charles Butterworth Frederick Kerr Mary Doran Lilian Bond Polly Walters Robert Greig Yola d'Avril Barbara Leonard
An executive hires a mousy, plain woman as his secretary so she will not divert him from his work, but she still becomes determined to win his heart.
Drama
USA
1935
112 Minutes
Tommy Masterson
Irene Dunne Robert Taylor Charles Butterworth Betty Furness Sara Haden Ralph Morgan Henry Armetta Gilbert Emery Arthur Hoyt
millionaire widow mentor best friend doctor melodramatic heartwarming brightwood hospital house repentance accidental death new love forgiveness sacrifice wretched excess transformation 1930s
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, it results in the death ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Biney
Bob Hope Shirley Ross Charles Butterworth Otto Kruger Hedda Hopper Laura Hope Crews Emma Dunn Roscoe Karns Eddie Anderson
Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
80 Minutes
Larmadou Graves
At the turn of the century, a con woman finds herself in trouble with the law while dealing with multiple suitors.
Musical
USA
1937
95 Minutes
Harry
Carole Lombard Fred MacMurray Charles Butterworth Jean Dixon Dorothy Lamour Harvey Stephens Cecil Cunningham Charles Arnt Franklin Pangborn Anthony Quinn Charles Judels
singer jazz musician roommate old flame agent hypochondriac gripping brooding panama court apartment club new york city radio station musicians poverty marriage jealousy infidelity depression
A singer stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by work and the arrival of an old flame.
Comedy
USA
1934
87 Minutes
Ethelred Lippincott
Jimmy Durante Betty Grable Charles Butterworth Maxine Doyle Phil Regan Florine McKinney Nelson Eddy Herman Brix
A college rowing team's world tour is in jeopardy because a philosophy professor plans to flunk the entire crew. Ann, the instructor's niece, convinces him to tutor the team on the ocean ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1932
104 Minutes
Count de Savignac
Maurice Chevalier Jeanette MacDonald Charles Ruggles Charles Butterworth Myrna Loy C. Aubrey Smith Elizabeth Patterson Ethel Griffies Joseph Cawthorn Ethel Wales Marion Byron
tailor princess viscount widow countess amusing engaging playful france paris castle countryside love deception social standing royalty love forbidden love discovery 1930s
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
83 Minutes
Algy Longworth, Mousey
Ronald Colman Loretta Young Warner Oland Charles Butterworth
captain prince niece cheeky suspenseful mansion boat london murder smuggling romance adventure mystery 1930s
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.... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1933
83 Minutes
Floppy Phil Montague
Lee Tracy Madge Evans Frank Morgan Charles Butterworth John Miljan Virginia Cherrill David Landau Greta Meyer Herman Bing Samuel S. Hinds Syd Saylor
An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
90 Minutes
Charles
Ramon Novarro Jeanette MacDonald Frank Morgan Charles Butterworth Jean Hersholt Vivienne Segal Frank Conroy Henry Armetta Adrienne D'Ambricourt Joseph Cawthorn
ingénue singer composer fiancé musician patron charming touching tender melodramatic theater brussels, belgium paris café hotel opera infidelity perseverance love triangle creative process
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Drama
USA
1931
81 Minutes
Karimsky
John Barrymore Marian Marsh Donald Cook Charles Butterworth Luis Alberni Carmel Myers Andre Luguet Frankie Darro Boris Karloff Mae Madison
A crippled man finds a boy and vows to make him a great dancer.
Comedy
USA
1941
87 Minutes
Harry Whitman
Adolphe Menjou Hal Roach Carole Landis John Hubbard Charles Butterworth Patsy Kelly George E. Stone Margaret Roach Polly Ann Young Edward Norris
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1941
72 Minutes
'Bittsy" Conway
John Shelton Virginia Grey Albert Van Dekker Charles Butterworth Donald Meek Reginald Owen Alma Kruger Rita Quigley Marion Martin George Lessey
novelist publisher secretary uncle writer alcoholic witty new york city office penthouse family home deception fiction writing publishing integrity love triangle debt transformation 1940s
Unknown writer Jonathan Briggs is tricked into buying in to a struggling western magazine only to find that all Is not as it appears. In the meantime, he falls for the publisher's assistant and complications arise.
Romance
1934
84 Minutes
Shemp
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Robert Montgomery Charles Butterworth Billie Burke Rosalind Russell Frances Drake
friend fiancée mistress aunt hilarious emotional household wedding countryside boat love triangle friendship secret marriage divorce unrequited love love discovery 1930s
A man (Clark Gable) loves his childhood sweetheart (Joan Crawford) from afar after her fiance (Robert Montgomery) leaves her at the altar.
Musical, Comedy
1940
83 Minutes
Mr. Chisholm
Fred Astaire Paulette Goddard Burgess Meredith Artie Shaw Charles Butterworth Frank Melton Jimmy Conlin Adia Kuznetzoff Michael Visaroff Joseph Mari Don Brodie
student musician manager friend amusing charming madcap new york city college concert hall dance studio music failure romance abandonment rivalry love 1940s
College trumpet players (Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith) flirt with a girl (Paulette Goddard) who tries to get them into Artie Shaw's band.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
68 Minutes
Harvey Clemp
Jimmy Durante Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Lupe Velez Polly Moran Charles Butterworth Eddie Quillan June Clyde George Givot Jack Pearl Ted Healy
actor manager baron millionaire explorer frenetic amusing campy movie theater mansion party show business lions party dreams competition rivalry pursuit 1930s
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1939
100 Minutes
The Mackerel
Nelson Eddy Virginia Bruce Victor McLaglen Lionel Barrymore Edward Arnold Guy Kibbee Charles Butterworth H.B. Warner Raymond Walburn Dick Rich Trevor Bardette
tycoon rancher son love interest henchman spirited uplifting small town ranch newsroom office house railroad ethics impersonation deception ranchers land dispute quest adventure
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, ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
121 Minutes
Eddie Dibble
George Murphy Joan Leslie Ronald Reagan George Tobias Alan Hale Charles Butterworth Julie Oshins
actor dancer father son fiancée soldier patriotic emotional new york city family home broadway theater military base world war i world war ii broadway marriage father/son relationship friendship adventure quest
In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the war, he becomes a producer. In WWII his son Johnny Jones, who was before his ... See full summary »