List of the best Rudy Vallee movies: Sweet Music(1935), Gold Diggers in Paris(1938), The Vagabond Lover(1929), So This Is New York(1948), Unfaithfully Yours(1948), The Palm Beach Story(1942), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying(1967), Mother Is a Freshman(1949), The Admiral Was a Lady(1950), The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend(1949), Live a Little, Love a Little(1968), Gentlemen Marry Brunettes(1955) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
90 Minutes
Skip Houston
Rudy Vallee Ann Dvorak Helen Morgan Ned Sparks Alice White Allen Jenkins
College band-leader "Skip" Houston keeps his band together after graduation, they turn professional, and they are a big hit on the radio and in nightclubs. He falls in love with Bonnie ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
95 Minutes
Rudy Vallee The Schnickelfritz Band Rosemary Lane Hugh Herbert Allen Jenkins Gloria Dickson Melville Cooper Mabel Todd Fritz Feld Edward Brophy Curt Bois
club owner ballet instructor ballerina ex-wife gangster thug madcap lighthearted nightclub theater paris new york city mistaken identity ballet performance con game pursuit quest 1930s
Owners and show girls of the bankrupt Club Ballé are mistaken for the Academy Ballet of America and are off to Paris to compete in an International Dance Exposition.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1929
69 Minutes
Rudy Bronson
musician niece neighbor socialite promoter band member amusing lighthearted playful long island, n.y. estate new york city impersonation aspirations class distinctions music big break burglary revenge underdog
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
Comedy
1948
79 Minutes
Herbert Daley
Henry Morgan Rudy Vallee Bill Goodwin Hugh Herbert Leo Gorcey Virginia Grey Dona Drake Jerome Cowan
husband wife sister-in-law con artist clerk madcap witty charming new york city small town street inheritance con game family marriage city vs. country underdog discovery adventure 1910s
A financial windfall sends a man to the bright lights of New York on a search for a husband for his sister.
Romance
USA
1948
105 Minutes
August Henshler
Rex Harrison Linda Darnell Rudy Vallee Barbara Lawrence Kurt Kreuger Lionel Stander Edgar Kennedy Alan Bridge Julius Tannen Torben Meyer
orchestra conductor brother-in-law wife detective secretary amusing charming family home concert stage love marriage infidelity jealousy classical music love revenge 1930s
While conducting a symphony orchestra, Sir Alfred De Carter imagines three different ways of dealing with his wife's suspected infidelity, then tries acting out his fantasies, but things do... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1942
90 Minutes
John D. Hackensacker III
Claudette Colbert Joel McCrea Rudy Vallee Mary Astor Sig Arno Robert Warwick Arthur Stuart Hull Torben Meyer Jimmy Conlin Victor Potel William Demarest
husband wife architect millionaire sister amusing madcap lighthearted palm beach, fla. yacht new york city train mansion deception romance love triangle wealth marriage love pursuit
An inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1967
119 Minutes
Jasper B. Biggley
Robert Morse Michele Lee Rudy Vallee Anthony "Scooter" Teague Maureen Arthur John Myhers Carol Worthington Kay Reynolds Ruth Kobart Sammy Smith Jeff DeBenning
businessman secretary executive amusing lighthearted cheery new york city office success business romance ambition love quest rise 1960s
Armed with the titular manual, an ambitious window washer seeks to climb the corporate ladder.
Romance
USA
1949
81 Minutes
John Heaslip
Loretta Young Van Johnson Rudy Vallee Barbara Lawrence Bob Arthur Betty Lynn Griff Barnett Kathleen Hughes
college student widow lawyer professor dean daughter amusing campy spirited college new york city mother/daughter relationship romance campus life money family love rivalry growing up 1940s
In order to afford her daughter's college tuition, a woman enrolls herself at the same school aided by a rare large bursary but they both fall in-love with the same cute English professor.
Comedy
USA
1950
87 Minutes
Peter Pedigrew
Edmond O'Brien Wanda Hendrix Rudy Vallee Steve Brodie Johnny Spencer Richard Erdman Hillary Brooke Richard Lane Garry Owen Fred Essler
boxer cab driver interior decorator wave officer employment counselor ex-soldier madcap lighthearted playful witty unemployment office store boat boxing ring house romance relationships postwar america returning home veterans
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
Comedy, Western
1949
77 Minutes
Charles Hingleman
A saloon girl (Betty Grable) shoots at her boyfriend (Cesar Romero), leaves town, poses as a schoolteacher and woos a mineowner (Rudy Vallee).
Musical
USA
1968
90 Minutes
Penlow
Elvis Presley Michele Carey Don Porter Rudy Vallee Dick Sargent Sterling Holloway Celeste Yarnall Eddie Hodges Joan Shawlee Mary Grover Emily Banks
elvis presley landlady photographer amusing passionate office building united states photo shoot secret double life love discovery 1960s
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1955
97 Minutes
Rudy Vallee
Jane Russell Jeanne Crain Alan Young Rudy Vallee Scott Brady Guy Middleton Eric Pohlmann Ferdinand Mayne Leonard Sachs Guido Lorraine
sister showgirl boyfriend agent mother singer amusing heartwarming melodramatic new york city paris nightclub monte carlo, monaco the louvre stage aspirations fame travel singing rise
Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.
Comedy
1945
70 Minutes
Pat O'Brien Adolphe Menjou Ellen Drew Rudy Vallee Fortunio Bonanova Jonathan Hale
Comedy
1947
95 Minutes
Tommy
Cary Grant Myrna Loy Shirley Temple Rudy Vallee Ray Collins Harry Davenport Johnny Spencer Don Beddoe Lillian Randolph Veda Ann Borg Dan Tobin
playboy judge teen girl psychiatrist district attorney boyfriend cheeky hilarious california high school courtroom nightclub sport tournament love triangle sibling rivalry misunderstanding innocence hero worship forbidden love growing up
A judge (Myrna Loy) orders a playboy (Cary Grant) to date her infatuated teenage sister (Shirley Temple) to cure the girl's crush on him.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
81 Minutes
Alfred Monroe
Mary Martin Dick Powell Betty Hutton Eddie Bracken Rudy Vallee Mabel Paige Eric Blore Clem Bevans Sir Lancelot Ben Carter Lillian Randolph
cigarette girl american best friend dancer wealthy man voodoo queen lighthearted amusing ship boat sea caribbean hotel deck gold digging impersonation romance deception voodoo drunkenness
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
Comedy
USA
1948
94 Minutes
Charles Harris
Laraine Day Kirk Douglas Keenan Wynn Helen Walker Rudy Vallee Florence Bates Alan Mowbray Grady Sutton Irene Ryan Gale Robbins Virginia Hewitt
novelist secretary publisher neighbor wife husband cheeky playful apartment beach house las vegas nightclub writing romantic dilemma publishing unlikely romance love transformation discovery 1940s
A romance novelist appoints a would-be writer as his secretary. Although she is initially dismayed by his work ethic and playboy attitude, they begin to fall in love.
Musical
1929
96 Minutes
Himself (Revue Scenes)
Millard Webb Mary Eaton Edward Crandall Gloria Shea Eddie Cantor Rudy Vallee Otto Kahn Johnny Weissmuller
Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee and other Ziegfeld stars appear in the story of a struggling chorus girl (Mary Eaton).
Comedy
1947
79 Minutes
Lynn Sargent
Harold Lloyd Frances Ramsden Jimmy Conlin Raymond Walburn Edgar Kennedy Arline Judge Lionel Stander Rudy Vallee
bookkeeper tycoon gambler bartender banker lion dark hilarious dreamy office bar bank jail amnesia double life circus lions panic drinking adventure
Unemployed, unattached and with little money to his name, Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) heads to his local watering hole where, when he awakens from his drunken stupor, he learns he's purchased a struggling circus.
Comedy
1947
90 Minutes
Lynn Sargent
Harold Lloyd Frances Ramsden Jimmy Conlin Raymond Walburn Edgar Kennedy Arline Judge Lionel Stander Rudy Vallee
football player boss secretary hustler bartender worker outlandish amusing lighthearted locker room bar jail office unemployment ambition the past success midlife crisis new life transformation
After being fired from his office job, Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) gets drunk, goes on a wild binge, and buys a near-bankrupt circus.