Charles Ruggles — Actor (20)
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The Doughgirls (1944) IMDb TMDB
The Doughgirls
director: James V. Kern actor: Ann Sheridan / Alexis Smith …
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he returns, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet suite Arthur expected. As long as there's anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay and there will be no honeymoon.
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All in a Night's Work (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB
All in a Night's Work
director: Joseph Anthony actor: Dean Martin / Shirley MacLaine …
other title: Una notte movimentata / A Dama da Madrugada …
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
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Incendiary Blonde (1945) IMDb TMDB
Incendiary Blonde
director: George Marshall actor: Betty Hutton / Arturo de Córdova …
other title: La rubia de los cabellos de fuego
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) IMDb TMDB
Ruggles of Red Gap
director: Leo McCarey actor: Charles Laughton / Mary Boland …
other title: Il maggiordomo / Ein Butler in Amerika …
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
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Murder in the Private Car (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Murder in the Private Car
director: Harry Beaumont actor: Charles Ruggles / Una Merkel …
other title: El vagón de la muerte / Le Mystère du rapide
Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vindictive brother Elwood, and placed with strangers.
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Son of Flubber (1963) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Son of Flubber
director: Robert Stevenson actor: Fred MacMurray / Nancy Olson …
other title: Professore a tuttogas / As Descobertas do Sr. Professor …
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934) IMDb TMDB
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
director: Edward Ludwig actor: Charles Ruggles / Ann Dvorak …
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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Six of a Kind (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Six of a Kind
director: Leo McCarey actor: Charles Ruggles / Mary Boland …
other title: Viaje de placer / Poker Party …
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
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This Is the Night (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB
This Is the Night
director: Frank Tuttle actor: Lili Damita / Charles Ruggles …
other title: La belle nuit / Esta es la noche …
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
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Anything Goes (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Anything Goes
director: Lewis Milestone actor: Bing Crosby / Ethel Merman …
other title: Todo vale / Transatlantic Follies
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 heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
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Follow Me, Boys! (1966) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Follow Me, Boys!
director: Norman Tokar actor: Fred MacMurray / Vera Miles …
other title: I ragazzi di Camp Siddons / Vierzig Draufgänger …
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, he volunteers to become scoutmaster of the newly formed Troop 1. Becoming more and more involved with the scout troop, he finds his plans to become a lawyer being put on the back burner, until he realizes that his life has been fulfilled helping the youth of the small town.