88% Ruggles of Red Gap 90 min, [Comedy, Romance] [Leo McCarey] [08 Mar 1935]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins.
Actors: Charles Laughton, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Zasu Pitts
Plot: An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Writer: Harry Leon Wilson (novel), Walter DeLeon (screenplay), Harlan Thompson (screenplay), Humphrey Pearson (adaptation)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
88% Love Me Tonight 104 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Musical, Romance] [Rouben Mamoulian] [14 Oct 1932]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Charles Butterworth, Charles Ruggles, Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier
Plot: A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
Writer: Samuel Hoffenstein (screen play), George Marion Jr. (screen play), Waldemar Young (screen play), Léopold Marchand (based on a play by), Paul Armont (based on a play by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
87% Trouble in Paradise 83 min, [Comedy, Crime, Romance] [Ernst Lubitsch] [01 Jan 1933]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 8.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 92%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins.
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins
Plot: A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
Writer: Samson Raphaelson (screenplay), Grover Jones (adaptation), Aladar Laszlo (play)
Language: English, Italian, Russian, Spanish, German Country: USA More Info: IMDB
87% Bringing Up Baby 102 min, [Comedy, Family, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [18 Feb 1938]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 8.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 95%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins.
Actors: Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Catlett
Plot: While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
Writer: Dudley Nichols (screen play), Hagar Wilde (screen play), Hagar Wilde (from the story by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
83% The Smiling Lieutenant 93 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Romance, Musical] [Ernst Lubitsch] [01 Aug 1931]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Claudette Colbert, Maurice Chevalier, Miriam Hopkins
Plot: An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
Writer: Leopold Jacobson (operetta), Felix Dormann (operetta), Hans Müller (novel), Ernest Vajda (screenplay), Samson Raphaelson (screenplay)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
80% The Parent Trap 129 min, G, [Comedy, Family, Romance] [David Swift] [21 Jun 1961]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 89%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
Actors: Brian Keith, Charles Ruggles, Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara
Plot: Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.
Writer: Erich Kästner (book), David Swift (written for the screen by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
77% Ben and Me 21 min, PASSED, [Animation, Comedy, Family] [Hamilton Luske] [10 Nov 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.7/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Hans Conried, Sterling Holloway
Plot: A mouse tells the story of how he guided Benjamin Franklin to success and prominence.
Writer: Robert Lawson (original story), Bill Peet (story), Winston Hibler (story adaptation), Del Connell (story adaptation), Ted Sears (story adaptation)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
77% It Happened on Fifth Avenue 116 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Music, Romance] [Roy Del Ruth] [19 Apr 1947]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.7/10, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Don DeFore, Victor Moore
Plot: A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Writer: Everett Freeman (screen play), Vick Knight (additional dialogue), Herbert Clyde Lewis (original story), Frederick Stephani (original story)
Language: English, Spanish Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
74% Hearts Divided 87 min, APPROVED, [Drama, History, Musical] [Frank Borzage] [20 Jun 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.4/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Claude Rains, Dick Powell, Marion Davies
Plot: Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to ...
Writer: Laird Doyle (screen play), Casey Robinson (screen play), Rida Johnson Young (from the play: "Glorious Betsy" by)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
72% Follow Me, Boys! 131 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Family] [Norman Tokar] [01 Dec 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.2/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Fred MacMurray, Lillian Gish, Vera Miles
Plot: 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, ...
Writer: Louis Pelletier (screenplay), MacKinlay Kantor (book)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
71% Our Hearts Were Young and Gay 81 min, [Comedy] [Lewis Allen] [02 Sep 1944]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.1/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Diana Lynn, Dorothy Gish, Gail Russell
Plot: In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivity and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic ...
Writer: Sheridan Gibney, Emily Kimbrough (book), Cornelia Otis Skinner (book)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
71% The Lady Lies N/A, [Drama] [Hobart Henley] [21 Sep 1929]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.1/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Claudette Colbert, Patricia Deering, Walter Huston
Plot: Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
Writer: Mort Blumenstock (titles), Garrett Fort (adaptation), John Meehan (play), John Meehan (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
70% Incendiary Blonde 113 min, APPROVED, [Biography, Musical, Romance] [George Marshall] [31 Aug 1945]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.0/10, External Reviews
Actors: Albert Dekker, Arturo de Córdova, Betty Hutton, Charles Ruggles
Plot: The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way, she also ...
Writer: Claude Binyon (screenplay), Frank Butler (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
69% Six of a Kind 62 min, PASSED, [Comedy] [Leo McCarey] [09 Feb 1934]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.9/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, George Burns, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields
Plot: When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
Writer: Keene Thompson (story), Douglas MacLean (story), Walter DeLeon (screen play), Harry Ruskin (screen play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
68% Honor Among Lovers 75 min, [Drama, Romance] [Dorothy Arzner] [21 Mar 1931]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.8/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley
Plot: Jerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. When she realizes her mistake, she goes back to him. Doris Brown is her girlfriend who is in love with a man named Monty Dunn.
Writer: Austin Parker (screenplay), Austin Parker (story), Gertrude Purcell
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
67% The Ugly Dachshund 93 min, [Comedy, Family] [Norman Tokar] [16 Feb 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.7/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Dean Jones, Kelly Thordsen, Suzanne Pleshette
Plot: Fran Garrison's all in a tizzy because her prize Dachshund, Danke, is having pups, and she has hopes of one of the pups becoming a champion. But at the vet's, her husband Mark is talked ...
Writer: Albert Aley (screenplay), G.B. Stern (book)
Language: English, Japanese Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
66% Papa's Delicate Condition 98 min, [Comedy] [George Marshall] [02 Dec 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.6/10, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Glynis Johns, Jackie Gleason, Laurel Goodwin
Plot: If Jack Griffith's wife doesn't like the color of a neighbor's house, he'll arrange for it to be a house of a different color. If the owner of the ice cream parlor doesn't believe in ...
Writer: Corinne Griffith (book), Jack Rose
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB
66% Young Man of Manhattan 79 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Musical, Romance] [Monta Bell] [17 May 1930]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.6/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster
Plot: Two flappers (Claudette Colbert and Ginger Rogers) try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.
Writer: Katharine Brush (novel), Robert Presnell Sr. (adaptation)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
66% Anything Goes 92 min, [Comedy, Musical] [Lewis Milestone] [24 Jan 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.6/10, External Reviews
Actors: Bing Crosby, Charles Ruggles, Ethel Merman, Ida Lupino
Plot: 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 ...
Writer: Guy Bolton (play), P.G. Wodehouse (play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
65% Gallant Journey 85 min, APPROVED, [Drama, History] [William A. Wellman] [24 Sep 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.5/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Glenn Ford, Henry Travers, Janet Blair
Plot: Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider ...
Writer: Byron Morgan, William A. Wellman
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
63% All in a Night's Work 94 min, [Comedy] [Joseph Anthony] [22 Mar 1961]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.3/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Cliff Robertson, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
Plot: Colonel Ryder, the publisher of a magazine, dies while on vacation. Tony, his swinging nephew, inherits the magazine and takes over. Presently, the magazine is planning to expand and to do ...
Writer: Edmund Beloin (screenplay), Maurice Richlin (screenplay), Sidney Sheldon (screenplay), Margit Veszi (story), Owen Elford (play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
61% The Invisible Woman 72 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi] [A. Edward Sutherland] [27 Dec 1940]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.1/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, John Barrymore, John Howard, Virginia Bruce
Plot: An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.
Writer: Curt Siodmak (original story), Joe May (original story), Robert Lees (screenplay), Frederic I. Rinaldo (screenplay), Gertrude Purcell (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
55% No More Ladies 80 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Romance] [Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor] [14 Jun 1935]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 5.5/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Ruggles, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery
Plot: A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Writer: Donald Ogden Stewart (screen play), Horace Jackson (screen play), A.E. Thomas (from the play by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia