Charles Butterworth
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 25, 1896
Deathday: June 13, 1946
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Love Me Tonight
1932-08-18
Love Me Tonight
Overview: A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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Second Chorus
1941-01-03
Second Chorus
Overview: Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Follow the Boys
1944-05-05
Follow the Boys
Overview: During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
Genres: Music Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-05
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Penthouse
1933-09-08
Penthouse
Overview: Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-08
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This Is the Army
1943-08-14
This Is the Army
Overview: In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-14
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Magnificent Obsession
1935-12-30
Magnificent Obsession
Overview: A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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Hollywood Handicap
1938-05-28
Hollywood Handicap
Overview: A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-28
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The Cat and the Fiddle
1934-02-16
The Cat and the Fiddle
Overview: A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-16
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Swing High, Swing Low
1937-03-12
Swing High, Swing Low
Overview: In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship with Maggie and his career.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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Illicit
1931-02-14
Illicit
Overview: Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-14
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The Moon's Our Home
1936-04-10
The Moon's Our Home
Overview: A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic war of the sexes leads inevitably to love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Forsaking All Others
1934-12-23
Forsaking All Others
Overview: A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-23
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Night in New Orleans
1942-07-01
Night in New Orleans
Overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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The Nuisance
1933-06-03
The Nuisance
Overview: Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-03
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Every Day's a Holiday
1937-12-18
Every Day's a Holiday
Overview: When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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The Mad Genius
1931-09-30
The Mad Genius
Overview: A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-30
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Road Show
1941-02-18
Road Show
Overview: 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 he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-18
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Sis Hopkins
1941-04-12
Sis Hopkins
Overview: An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-12
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Orchids to You
1935-08-09
Orchids to You
Overview: An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934-08-15
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Overview: Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-15
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Blonde Inspiration
1941-02-07
Blonde Inspiration
Overview: A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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Let Freedom Ring
1939-02-24
Let Freedom Ring
Overview: A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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Manhattan Parade
1931-12-24
Manhattan Parade
Overview: Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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The Life of the Party
1930-10-25
The Life of the Party
Overview: Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-25
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Hollywood Party
1934-05-24
Hollywood Party
Overview: Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-24
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Thanks for the Memory
1938-11-11
Thanks for the Memory
Overview: Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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The Night Is Young
1935-01-11
The Night Is Young
Overview: Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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Side Show
1931-09-19
Side Show
Overview: A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-19
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Student Tour
1934-10-05
Student Tour
Overview: A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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My Weakness
1933-09-22
My Weakness
Overview: A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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We Went to College
1936-06-19
We Went to College
Overview: Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-19
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Baby Face Harrington
1935-04-12
Baby Face Harrington
Overview: Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2."
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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Beauty and the Boss
1932-04-09
Beauty and the Boss
Overview: An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-09
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Half Angel
1936-05-22
Half Angel
Overview: Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Dixie Jamboree
1944-08-15
Dixie Jamboree
Overview: A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-15
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Rainbow on the River
1936-12-18
Rainbow on the River
Overview: A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Bermuda Mystery
1944-05-01
Bermuda Mystery
Overview: A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-01
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Ladies of Leisure
1930-04-05
Ladies of Leisure
Overview: Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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The Sultan's Daughter
1943-12-16
The Sultan's Daughter
Overview: A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
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What's Cookin'?
1942-02-20
What's Cookin'?
Overview: J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-20
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Give Out, Sisters
1942-09-01
Give Out, Sisters
Overview: The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young socialite, desperately wants to be in it too, but her prurient maiden aunts refuse to allow her to disgrace their family by becoming a common chorine. She and the club owner (who must have the aunt's permission because the girl is underage) try to convince them, but it's not easy.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
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Always a Bridesmaid
1943-09-24
Always a Bridesmaid
Overview: The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns a Lonely Hearts club which is used as a front by con artist Colonel Winchester (Charles Butterworth). Trying to promote a phony formula for synthetic rubber, Winchester gets mixed up with diligent young DA Tony Warren (Patric Knowles) and lady detective Linda Marlowe (Grace McDonald).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-24
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The Stolen Jools
1931-04-04
The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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The Boys from Syracuse
1940-07-30
The Boys from Syracuse
Overview: The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-30
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The Bargain
1931-07-23
The Bargain
Overview: A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-23
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