Roy Del Ruth Movies

List of the best Roy Del Ruth movies: It Happened on 5th Avenue(1947), Employees' Entrance(1933), On Moonlight Bay(1951), The Little Giant(1933), Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back(1934), Blessed Event(1932), Lady Killer(1933), Beauty and the Boss(1932), On the Avenue(1937), Private Number(1936), Broadway Melody of 1936(1935), Broadway Melody of 1938(1937) ... ...

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It Happened on 5th Avenue

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

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Employees' Entrance

A working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.

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On Moonlight Bay

During World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.

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The Little Giant

When Prohibition ends, a beer baron sees the writing on the wall, quits the rackets, and tries to break into California society.

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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

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 »

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Blessed Event

Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who... See full summary »

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Lady Killer

A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.

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Beauty and the Boss

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.

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On the Avenue

Broadway producer satirizes an important New York family. The family sues but their daughter falls in love with producer.

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Private Number

A maid secretly marries the son of her wealthy boss.

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Broadway Melody of 1936

Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show. He gets an offer of money by Lillian, if she can dance in his show. Gordon's old class mate Irene, tries to get the leading role in this show, but Lillian insists in getting this part herself.

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Broadway Melody of 1938

Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a... See full summary »

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Bureau of Missing Persons

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as "kindergarten" work. When a young woman asks him to help ... See full summary »

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Born to Dance

Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway. Ted rescues the Pekinese of ... See full summary »

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Thanks a Million

Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be... See full summary »

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Ziegfeld Follies

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. looks down from Heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

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Kid Millions

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

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The First Auto

Hank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and will known. His son (Bob), however dreams only of the future of the horseless ... See full summary »

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Happy Landing

Bandleader (Romero and manager (Ameche) discover skater (Henie) in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

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Du Barry Was a Lady

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.

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Barbary Coast Gent

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.

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Three Sailors and a Girl

Three navy men run into a shady producer who convinces them to invest into his new show. When they meet the show's female star attraction, they're sold. Have they become the latest showbiz players or just three more suckers?

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Broadway Rhythm

A reluctantly retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son who thinks his father's entertainment is passe and audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show.

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My Lucky Star

The son (Romero) of a department store owner enrolls the store's sports clerk (Henie) at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for a teacher (... See full summary »

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Always Leave Them Laughing

A young comic plays second-rate nightclubs and chintzy resorts in his struggle to break into the big time.

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The Star Maker

This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.

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Starlift

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.

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The Babe Ruth Story

The famed slugger is played by Bendix, who resembles Ruth slightly in looks and not at all in baseball ability. The film traces the "life and times" of Ruth, including his famous "called ... See full summary »

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Captured

Two World War I soldiers (Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) land in a German prison camp run by one's friend (Paul Lukas) from Oxford.

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Maisie Gets Her Man

Maisie (Ann Sothern) falls on hard times and works at several odd jobs before she meets aspiring comedian Hap (Red Skelton).

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The Chocolate Soldier

An opera singer (Nelson Eddy) poses as a Russian in Vienna to test his wife's (Rise Stevens) fidelity; she plays along.

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