List of the best Chester Clute movies: Niagara Falls(1941), The Perfect Snob(1941), The Man Who Walked Alone(1945), Something in the Wind(1947), The Doctor Takes a Wife(1940), Mary Ryan, Detective(1949), The Forest Rangers(1942), Too Many Girls(1940), Mary Lou(1948), San Diego, I Love You(1944), Dancing Co-ed(1939), The Great Garrick(1937) ... ...
Comedy
1941
43 Minutes
Potter
Marjorie Woodworth Tom Brown ZaSu Pitts Slim Summerville Chester Clute Edgar Dearing Ed Gargan Gladys Blake Leon Belasco Rand Brooks Margaret Roach
Comedy
USA
1941
61 Minutes
Nibsie Nicholson
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).
Comedy
USA
1945
70 Minutes
Mr. Monroe
Dave O'Brien Kay Aldridge Walter Catlett Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Isabel Randolph Smith Ballew Chester Clute Frank Melton
A hitch-hiking stranger manages a lift from a young woman into the town he's destined for, and she's from. Both land up in jail, twice, as the small town and its leading family slowly unravel the in-plain-sight mystery behind this man.
Musical, Romance
USA
1947
89 Minutes
Albert Beamis
Deanna Durbin John Dall Donald O'Connor Helena Carter Charles Winninger Jean Adair William Ching Chester Clute Jacqueline de Wit Jan Peerce Frank Wilcox
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
Comedy
USA
1940
89 Minutes
Loretta Young Ray Milland Gail Patrick Reginald Gardiner Edmund Gwenn Frank Sully Gordon Jones George Metaxa Charles Halton Joseph Eggenton Chester Clute
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Crime, Adventure, Drama, Action
USA
1949
68 Minutes
Marsha Hunt John Litel June Vincent Harry Shannon Wm. "Bill" Phillips Katharine Warren Victoria Horne John Dehner Arthur Space Kernan Cripps Chester Clute
Police detective Mary Ryan is given an assignment to break up a gang of jewel thieves and fences. She, using an alias as a convict, is placed in the cell with a suspected member of the gang... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK
1942
87 Minutes
Fred MacMurray Paulette Goddard Susan Hayward Lynne Overman Albert Van Dekker Eugene Pallette Regis Toomey Rod Cameron Clem Bevans James Brown Chester Clute
"Mark's Priory". the family seat of the Lebanons, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane, secretary and niece of Lady Lebanon. The strange behavior of two sinister butlers, Gilder and Brooks, ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1940
85 Minutes
Lucille Ball Richard Carlson Desi Arnaz Ann Miller Eddie Bracken Frances Langford Hal LeRoy Libby Bennett Harry Shannon Douglas Walton Chester Clute
heiress football player father friend playwright lighthearted amusing playful new mexico small town college football field college life wealth football romance father/daughter relationship escape adventure 1940s
A young lady goes to College and, without her knowledge, her father sends four football players as her bodyguards, who eventually join the college team and turn it into one of the best, while one of the players falls in love with her.
Musical, Romance
1948
65 Minutes
Robert Lowery Joan Barton Glenda Farrell Abigail Adams Frank Jenks Emmett Vogan Thelma White Pierre Watkin Charles Jordan Leslie Turner Chester Clute
A former airline stewardess becomes the new singer for a traveling nightclub band, but problems arise when the group's previous crooner demands her old job back.
Comedy
USA
1944
81 Minutes
Jon Hall Louise Allbritton Edward Everett Horton Eric Blore Buster Keaton Irene Ryan Rudy Wissler Gerald Perreau Charles Bates Don Davis Florence Lake
inventor daughter millionaire butler bus driver lighthearted endearing san diego household opposites attract money culture clash family inventions love pursuit quest 1940s
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
84 Minutes
Lana Turner Richard Carlson Roscoe Karns Ann Rutherford Lee Bowman Leon Errol Monty Woolley Thurston Hall Walter Kingsford Mary Field Chester Clute
dancer college student editor secretary producer publicist lighthearted cheery los angeles movie studio office college newsroom dance hall filmmaking contest impersonation father/daughter relationship journalism dancing
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Comedy
1937
91 Minutes
Brian Aherne Olivia de Havilland Edward Everett Horton Melville Cooper Luis Alberni Lionel Atwill Marie Wilson Lana Turner Linda Perry Craig Reynolds Dorothy Tree
actor countess love interest fan servant amusing outlandish witty paris inn england stage impersonation performance romance misunderstanding theater david garrick rivalry transformation
French actors stage a hoax to deflate the ego of the famed 18th-century British actor (Brian Aherne).
Drama
USA
1937
62 Minutes
Richard Cromwell Helen Mack Lionel Atwill Horace MacMahon Russ Powell Billy Bevan Marjorie Main Rex Evans Joseph Crehan Arthur Hoyt Syd Saylor
Bank teller Jimmy Caldwell and his fiance, Ruth Holden, grow weary of struggling to make ends meet and decide to rob Jimmy's bank. The selfish young couple agree that even if they spend ten... See full summary »
Musical
1940
90 Minutes
Maureen O'Hara Louis Hayward Lucille Ball Virginia Field Ralph Bellamy Maria Ouspenskaya Mary Carlisle Katharine Alexander Edward Brophy Walter Abel Harold Huber
A burlesque queen (Lucille Ball) competes with an aspiring ballerina (Maureen O'Hara) for a divorced playboy (Louis Hayward).
Drama
1946
97 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Walter Pidgeon June Allyson Robert Sterling Marshall Thompson Elizabeth Patterson Richard Derr Patricia Medina Eily Malyon Nicholas Joy Anna Q. Nilsson
pianist doctor father daughter mother eerie emotional suspenseful melodramatic united states family home ocean liner love marriage jealousy mental illness affair discovery forbidden love mystery
A teenager's (June Allyson) despondency over her father's suicide causes concern for her brother and stepmother (Claudette Colbert). Narrated by Hume Cronyn.
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
81 Minutes
Melvyn Douglas Virginia Bruce Warren William John Halliday Nat Pendleton Monty Woolley George Zucco E.E. Clive Rollo Lloyd Vladimir Sokoloff Tully Marshall
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1942
126 Minutes
James Cagney Joan Leslie Walter Huston Richard Whorf George Tobias Irene Manning Rosemary DeCamp Jeanne Cagney S.Z. Sakall George Barbier Walter Catlett
george m. cohan father mother sister theatrical producer songwriter patriotic spirited new york city white house theater ambition actors show business patriotism family romance rise 1940s
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
Musical, Romance
USA
1948
107 Minutes
Esther Williams Peter Lawford Ricardo Montalban Jimmy Durante Cyd Charisse Leon Ames Kathryn Beaumont Dick Simmons Marie Windsor Arthur Walsh Nina Ross
movie star lieutenant assistant director actor dancing girl orchestra conductor winsome playful rousing hawaii movie set deserted island romantic dilemma filmmaking dancing kidnapping love triangle dream vs. reality pursuit rivalry
While shooting on location in the South Pacific, a movie star is pursued by a handsome Naval officer who is convinced she is the girl for him.
Comedy
USA
1944
118 Minutes
Cary Grant Raymond Massey Priscilla Lane Peter Lorre Jack Carson Josephine Hull Jean Adair James Gleason Grant Mitchell John Alexander Edward Everett Horton
writer wife aunt brother neighbor uncle madcap quirky new york city brooklyn, n.y. family home insanity marriage murder poison discovery love 1930s
A writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to get married. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
Other, Romance
USA
1940
94 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray Beulah Bondi Elizabeth Patterson Willard Robertson Sterling Holloway Charles Waldron Paul Guilfoyle Charles Arnt John Wray Thomas W. Ross
district attorney shoplifter sheriff mother love interest amusing emotional charming new york city jail court pennsylvania indiana car romance opposites attract christmas family shoplifting redemption
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
Musical
USA
1945
143 Minutes
Frank Sinatra Gene Kelly Kathryn Grayson Dean Stockwell Carlos Ramírez Henry O'Neill Leon Ames Rags Ragland Edgar Kennedy Pamela Britton Henry Armetta
sailor admiral girlfriend singer boy amusing charming spirited los angeles vacation romance u.s. navy adventure discovery love 1940s
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
80 Minutes
Alan Ladd Veronica Lake Robert Preston Laird Cregar Tully Marshall Mikhail Rasumny Marc Lawrence Adele Pearce Harry Shannon Frank Ferguson Bernadene Hayes
hit man nightclub owner wealthy man beautiful woman police officer chemist dark brutal cool san francisco nightclub train los angeles hideout double-cross contract killing manhunt unlikely friendship reform revenge
When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
101 Minutes
Red Skelton Lucille Ball Gene Kelly Douglas Dumbrille Rags Ragland Donald Meek George Givot Zero Mostel Tommy Dorsey Virginia O'Brien Louise Beavers
singer dancer nightclub employee louis xv madame du barry charming new york city nightclub french royal court love triangle unrequited love marrying for money performance sacrifice temptation rivalry french revolution
A night club's coatroom attendant who's in-love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Comedy
1942
95 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson Jane Wyman Broderick Crawford Jack Carson Anthony Quinn Edward Brophy Harry Davenport John Qualen Barbara Jo Allen Grant Mitchell Jackie Gleason
ex-convict bank robber daughter friend thief salesman offbeat frenetic hilarious new york city soda shop bank store prison bank heist redemption small business father/daughter relationship scam friendship
An ex-convict's (Edward G. Robinson) niece (Jane Wyman) runs a shop over the tunnel he and his partners are digging to a bank vault.
Fantasy
USA
1946
101 Minutes
Paul Muni Anne Baxter Claude Rains George Cleveland Onslow Stevens Hardie Albright James Flavin Erskine Sanford Marion Martin Jonathan Hale Murray Alper
gangsters devil judge fiancée amusing creepy frightening hell earth courtroom church fantasy death relationships romance revenge metamorphosis rivalry 1940s
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Western
USA
1939
104 Minutes
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Ann Sheridan Bruce Cabot Frank McHugh Alan Hale John Litel Victor Jory Henry Travers Henry O'Neill Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
sheriff deputy girl thief cattle rustler frenetic thrilling gutsy spirited dodge city, kan. train law and order american west frontier justice cattle drives adventure love pursuit revenge 1870s
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1945
117 Minutes
Rosalind Russell Jack Carson Robert Hutton Ray Collins Kathleen Lockhart Cora Sue Collins Ann Todd Andy Clyde Arthur Shields Helene Thimig Greta Grandstedt
businesswoman banker son husband father mother melodramatic emotional family home college office new england marriage self-respect infidelity business mother/child relationship growing up love quest
In the early 1900's (not the 1920s)