List of the best Charles Ruggles movies: Turn Off the Moon(1937), Wives Never Know(1936), Murder in the Private Car(1934), Melody Cruise(1933), Goodbye Love(1934), Early to Bed(1936), Murders in the Zoo(1933), Roadhouse Nights(1930), Friendly Enemies(1942), Breaking the Ice(1938), Mama Loves Papa(1933), This Is the Night(1932) ... ...
7.2/10
Musical
USA
1937
79 Minutes
Charles Ruggles Eleanore Whitney Johnny Downs
The manager of a large department store consults the starry heavens when he needs answers to perplexing problems.
6.5/10
Comedy
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Homer Bigelow
Charles Ruggles Mary Boland Adolphe Menjou Vivienne Osborne Claude Gillingwater Fay Holden Louise Beavers Constance Bergen Purnell Pratt Irving Bacon Ed Gargan
J. Hugh Ramsey, author of "Marriage, the Living Death" decides that the marriage of his friends The Bigelows cannot possibly be as perfect as it appears.
6.2/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
60 Minutes
Scott
Charles Ruggles Una Merkel Mary Carlisle Russell Hardie Porter Hall Willard Robertson Berton Churchill Cliff Thompson Fred S. Toones
heiress father railroad tycoon detective boyfriend best friend lighthearted suspenseful train los angeles office united states murder plot mistaken identity kidnapping inheritance wealth train travel mystery 1930s
Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed that she is Ruth Carson. As a child, ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1933
76 Minutes
Charles Ruggles Phil Harris Greta Nissen Helen Mack Chick Chandler June Brewster Shirley Chambers Florence Roberts Marjorie Gateson Betty Grable
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 eligible women on the cruise. The plot... See full summary »
Romance
1934
65 Minutes
Oswald Groggs
Charles Ruggles Verree Teasdale Sidney Blackmer Mayo Methot Phyllis Barry Ray Walker
butler millionaire gold digger secretary ex-wife playful lighthearted unrestrained jail stock exchange atlantic city, n.j. hotel apartment ship money greed impersonation drinking hoax marriage
An alimony slave's (Sidney Blackmer) valet (Charlie Ruggles) woos a gold digger (Verree Teasdale) in Atlantic City.
6.7/10
Comedy
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Chester Beatty
Mary Boland Charles Ruggles George Barbier Gail Patrick Robert McWade Lucien Littlefield Colin Tapley Helen Flint Rae Daggett Sidney Blackmer Arthur Hoyt
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 secret problem.... See full summary »
6.5/10
Horror
USA
1933
66 Minutes
Lionel Atwill Charles Ruggles Randolph Scott John Lodge Kathleen Burke Gail Patrick Harry Beresford
adventurer adulterous wife lover publicist reptile expert photographer chilling uneasy dark fiery zoo reptile house new york city jungle boat murder jealousy deadly animals subterfuge evil plot
A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1930
68 Minutes
Willie Bindbugel
A boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).
5.7/10
Drama
USA
1942
95 Minutes
Heinrich Block
Charles Winninger Charles Ruggles James Craig Nancy Kelly Otto Kruger Ilka Gruning Greta Meyer Addison Richards Charles Lane Ruth Holley John Piffle
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 against Germany ... See full summary »
5.3/10
Musical
USA
1938
80 Minutes
Samuel Terwilliger
Bobby Breen Charles Ruggles Dolores Costello Irene Dare Robert Barrat Dorothy Peterson John "Dusty" King Billy Gilbert Margaret Hamilton Charles Murray
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 and performs lively tunes to make a living.
Comedy
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Wilbur Todd
Mary Boland Charles Ruggles Lilyan Tashman George Barbier Morgan Wallace Ruth Warren
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Comedy
1932
78 Minutes
Bunny West
Lili Damita Charles Ruggles Roland Young Cary Grant Irving Bacon Thelma Todd
wife husband lover actress best friend airy charming paris family home venice, italy hotel infidelity love triangle vacation misunderstanding deception forbidden love transformation 1930s
Two playboys (Charles Ruggles, Roland Young) and a French actress (Lili Damita) go to Venice with a javelin thrower and his wife.
7.8/10
Comedy
USA
1938
102 Minutes
Major Horace Applegate
Katharine Hepburn Cary Grant Charles Ruggles May Robson Barry Fitzgerald Walter Catlett Fritz Feld Ward Bond
paleontologist heiress matron fiancée police officer airy madcap witty mansion restaurant museum golf course police station love triangle mistaken identity daunting task wealth wild animals love pursuit
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
7.6/10
Comedy
USA
1935
92 Minutes
Egbert Floud
Charles Laughton Mary Boland Charles Ruggles ZaSu Pitts Roland Young Leila Hyams Maude Eburne Lucien Littlefield Leota Lorraine James Burke Dell Henderson
valet earl rancher wife neighbor amusing paris washington state boomtown family home club saloon class distinctions mistaken identity wealth social standing immigration transformation adventure 1910s
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
7.6/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1932
104 Minutes
Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
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.
7.1/10
Comedy
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Aaron Kirkland
Francis Lederer Joan Bennett Charles Ruggles Mary Boland Minor Watson Adrian Morris Barbara Barondess Walter Kingsford Duke York Burr Caruth Jules Cowles
hessian violinist beautiful woman innkeeper daughter father charming amusing witty connecticut barn inn romance culture clash american revolutionary war dessertion romantic dilemma love pursuit american revolution
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1937
85 Minutes
Tod Swain
Fred MacMurray Frances Farmer Charles Ruggles Lloyd Nolan Fay Holden Ralph Morgan Edward H. Robins Harlan Briggs Willard Robertson Horace MacMahon
journalist publisher daughter gangster father killer suspenseful rousing newsroom mountain city, tenn. father/daughter relationship love gangs murder journalism racketeering rivalry discovery 1930s
Two newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).
6.7/10
Kids & Family, Comedy
USA
1966
93 Minutes
Dr. J.L. Pruitt
Dean Jones Suzanne Pleshette Charles Ruggles Kelly Thordsen Parley Baer Robert Kino Mako Charles Lane Gil Lamb Richard Wessel
husband wife veterinarian neighbor dog lighthearted family home suburbia veterinarian's office backyard street dog show dogs suburban life marriage competition bravery transformation 1960s
The Garrisons live with a Great Dane who thinks he's a dainty dachshund. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles.
6.5/10
Comedy
USA
1941
61 Minutes
Dr. Edgar Mason
Cornel Wilde Lynn Bari Charles Ruggles Charlotte Greenwood Anthony Quinn Alan Mowbray Chester Clute Roy Mason Jack Chefe
Her mother (Greenwood) wants her to find wealth; her father (Ruggles) tells her to seek love. She (Bari) finds both in Hawaiian hunk (Wilde).
6.4/10
Musical
USA
1936
92 Minutes
Rev. Dr. Moon
Bing Crosby Ethel Merman Charles Ruggles Ida Lupino Grace Bradley Arthur Treacher Robert McWade Richard Carle Margaret Dumont Jerry Tucker Ed Gargan
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English ... See full summary »
6.4/10
Musical
USA
1939
102 Minutes
Nicki Popoff
Nelson Eddy Ilona Massey Charles Ruggles Frank Morgan Lionel Atwill C. Aubrey Smith Joyce Compton Dalies Frantz Walter Woolf King Phillip Terry Frederick Worlock
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
6.3/10
Romance
USA
1932
86 Minutes
Lt. Barton
naval officer young girl child bride geisha suitor emotional melodramatic japan bar family home abandonment misunderstanding cultural differences race relations shore leave lust love fall discovery
Lieutenant Pinkerton marries geisha-in-training but soon after abandons her and goes back to the US.
6.2/10
Comedy
USA
1961
94 Minutes
Dr. Warren Kingsley Sr.
Dean Martin Shirley MacLaine Charles Ruggles Cliff Robertson Norma Crane Gale Gordon Jerome Cowan Jack Weston Ian Wolfe Mabel Albertson Mary Treen
Tony Ryder takes over his dead uncle's media empire while trying to keep quiet the mysterious circumstances of his death in a Palm Beach hotel room.
6.1/10
Comedy
USA
1945
89 Minutes
Dr. J.H. "Doc" Fredericks
John Carroll Ruth Hussey Charles Ruggles Ann Rutherford Esther Dale Grant Mitchell
Macho pilot is treated by a woman doctor. Complications ensue.
6.1/10
Romance
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Senator Henry Ruggles
Marion Davies Dick Powell Charles Ruggles Claude Rains Edward Everett Horton Arthur Treacher Henry Stephenson Clara Blandick John Larkin Walter Kingsford Etienne Girardot
napoleon bonaparte brother socialite suitor teacher passionate lighthearted emotional baltimore france louisiana purchase negotiation impersonation arranged marriage teaching politics love sacrifice rivalry quest
Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to ... See full summary »
Comedy
1963
98 Minutes
Anthony Ghio
Jackie Gleason Glynis Johns Charles Ruggles Laurel Goodwin Charles Lane Elisha Cook Jr. Juanita Moore Murray Hamilton
A railroad inspector's (Jackie Gleason) wife (Glynis Johns) and children live with his tippling in circa-1900 Texas.
Romance
1941
77 Minutes
Harvey Wilson
Ann Sheridan George Brent Charles Ruggles Osa Massen Jane Wyman William T. Orr Lee Patrick Walter Catlett
author fiancée old flame husband lighthearted amusing unrestrained cleveland bookstore hotel farm inn writing obsessive love marriage deception lawsuit pursuit escape 1940s
A novelist (George Brent) goes to Cleveland with his fiancee (Ann Sheridan) and meets an old flame tired of her husband (Charlie Ruggles).
8.0/10
Comedy
USA
1932
83 Minutes
The Major
Miriam Hopkins Kay Francis Herbert Marshall Charles Ruggles Edward Everett Horton C. Aubrey Smith Robert Greig
thief pickpocket widow executive amusing passionate madcap paris office household love romance crime scams deception love rivalry 1930s
A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
7.7/10
Other, Comedy
USA
1947
115 Minutes
Mike O'Connor
Don DeFore Ann Harding Victor Moore Charles Ruggles Gale Storm Grant Mitchell Edward Brophy Alan Hale Jr. Dorothea Kent
businessman wealthy man drifter veteran daughter ex-wife touching charming amusing uplifting manhattan, n.y. townhouse park virginia greed homelessness father/daughter relationship class distinctions business deal second chance
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
7.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1931
88 Minutes
Max
Maurice Chevalier Claudette Colbert Miriam Hopkins Charles Ruggles George Barbier Hugh O'Connell Robert Strange Lon MacSunday Janet Reade Elizabeth Patterson Harry C. Bradley
soldier princess peasant king girlfriend playful amusing cheeky lighthearted flausenthurm palace europe royalty forced marriage adultery love triangle love 19th century
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
7.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Adolph
Ernst Lubitsch Maurice Chevalier Jeanette MacDonald Genevieve Tobin Charles Ruggles Roland Young George Barbier Josephine Dunn Richard Carle Charles Judels Barbara Leonard
cheater husband wife mistress doctor intricate hedonistic disheartening profound paris house dinner party infidelity husband/wife relationship friendship secret seduction forbidden love wretched excess discovery
An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.
7.2/10
Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1966
131 Minutes
John Everett Hughes
Fred MacMurray Vera Miles Lillian Gish Charles Ruggles Elliott Reid Kurt Russell Luana Patten Ken Murray Donald May Sean McClory Steve Franken
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying to fit in, ... See full summary »
7.1/10
Comedy, Kids & Family
USA
1961
124 Minutes
Charles McKendrick
Hayley Mills Maureen O'Hara Brian Keith Charles Ruggles Una Merkel Leo G. Carroll Joanna Barnes Cathleen Nesbitt Ruth McDevitt Crahan Denton Linda Watkins
twin father young girl mother nanny amusing playful summer camp boston california friendship divorce practical jokes camping mistaken identity sabotage love quest 1960s
Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.
6.8/10
Comedy
USA
1934
62 Minutes
J. Pinkham Whinney
W.C. Fields George Burns Gracie Allen Charles Ruggles Mary Boland Bradley Page Grace Bradley Alison Skipworth
husband wife sheriff colleague man woman hysterical madcap nevada open road hotel pool hall bank road trip robbery chase second honeymoon frame-ups investigation adventure
When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
6.7/10
Western
USA
1947
94 Minutes
Ben Dickason
Veronica Lake Joel McCrea Donald Crisp Charles Ruggles Preston Foster Don DeFore Arleen Whelan Lloyd Bridges Nestor Paiva Ray Teal
rancher father cattleman overseer sheriff alcoholic gutsy brash tense ranch saloon dressing room range street range war ambition murder romantic dilemma deception gender roles
Violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1940
98 Minutes
Philo Swift
James Stewart Rosalind Russell Genevieve Tobin Charles Ruggles Louise Beavers Allyn Joslyn Clarence Kolb Robert Greig J.M. Kerrigan Lawrence Grossmith Robert E. O'Connor
playwright actress socialite ex-husband director charming amusing emotional small town new york city party theater love triangle writing success regret broadway love rise rivalry
Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness of the ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Biography
USA
1949
100 Minutes
Caro "Pop" Miller
June Haver Ray Bolger Gordon MacRae Charles Ruggles Rosemary DeCamp Lee Wilde Lyn Wilde
dancer vaudevillian husband songwriter broadway star parent emotional inspiring spectacular ohio london stage new york city broadway theater backstage family broadway show business world war i tragic death
This musical biopic chronicles the vaudeville-to-Broadway story of 1920s' star Marilyn Miller (June Haver). From her start on the boards in Findlay, Ohio, Marilyn sings and dances her way ... See full summary »
6.1/10
Sci-Fi
USA
1941
72 Minutes
George
Virginia Bruce John Barrymore John Howard Charles Ruggles Oscar Homolka Edward Brophy Donald MacBride Margaret Hamilton Shemp Howard Anne Nagel Kathryn Adams
An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.
6.0/10
Comedy
USA
1946
87 Minutes
Dale Williams, Sr.
Loretta Young David Niven Eddie Albert Charles Ruggles Virginia Field Rita Johnson ZaSu Pitts
Jenny and Dale Williams have been married ten years have a 9-year-old daughter, "Cookie." They live well, have separate careers, are surrounded by sophisticated friends, and are afflicted ... See full summary »
6.1/10
Comedy
USA
1946
93 Minutes
Richard Pennington Roeder
Jackie "Butch" Jenkins Peter Lawford Beverly Tyler Edward Arnold Charles Ruggles Spring Byington O.Z. Whitehead Paul Langton Ernest Whitman Irving Bacon Lillian Yarbo
A classic film featuring a boy who is able to hear what the racehorses at the track are thinking. Using his knowledge of their moods, he figures out how well they will run, and tells his ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Romance
USA
1935
81 Minutes
Edgar
Joan Crawford Robert Montgomery Franchot Tone Edna May Oliver Charles Ruggles Arthur Treacher Gail Patrick Vivienne Osborne Joan Fontaine David Horsley
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
5.9/10
Drama
USA
1940
92 Minutes
Dick Piper
Walter Brennan Fay Bainter John Payne Brenda Joyce Charles Ruggles Hattie McDaniel Marjorie Weaver Sidney Blackmer
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
6.9/10
Comedy
USA
1961
115 Minutes
Mackenzie Savage
Fred Astaire Debbie Reynolds Lilli Palmer Tab Hunter Gary Merrill Charles Ruggles Harold Fong Elvia Allman Edith Head
daughter father bride rancher emotional heartwarming california family dysfunction marriage father/daughter relationship absence wedding love 1960s
San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is marrying Napa Valley cattle rancher, Roger Henderson, and hopes her peripatetic father, "Pogo" Poole, whom she hasn't seen for years, comes to the... See full summary »
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1944
102 Minutes
Stanley Slade
Ann Sheridan Alexis Smith Jane Wyman Jack Carson Irene Manning Charles Ruggles Eve Arden John Ridgely Alan Mowbray John Alexander Craig Stevens
bureaucrat newlywed judge soldier news reporter nazi hunter wild hilarious playful hotel white house washington, d.c. marriage honeymoon love triangle misunderstanding friendship love discovery rivalry
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he ... See full summary »
5.8/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
97 Minutes
Wilbur Sealingsworth
Jack Oakie Lyda Roberti Bing Crosby Ethel Merman Charles Ruggles Wendy Barrie Carlos Gardel
Spud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.
6.1/10
Comedy, Kids & Family
USA
1963
100 Minutes
Judge Murdock
Fred MacMurray Nancy Olson Keenan Wynn Tommy Kirk Elliott Reid Joanna Moore Leon Ames Ed Wynn Charles Ruggles Paul Lynde
professor scientist wife student loan shark government official amusing lighthearted outlandish emotional college classroom house laboratory football field inventions weird science government secrets marriage debt
When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.
5.5/10
Fantasy, Kids & Family, Adventure
USA
1914
81 Minutes
Violet MacMillan Frank Moore Raymond Russell Haras Dranet Bobbie Gould Marie Wayne Richard Rosson Frank Bristol Ben Deeley Fred Woodward Todd Wright
Ojo and Unc Nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the Emerald City where they will never starve. Along the way, they meet Mewel, a waif and stray (mule) who leads them to Dr.... See full summary »
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