Charles Butterworth
11 titles
Filmography
11 results
Side Show
(1931)
The Sultan's Daughter
(1943)
Swing High, Swing Low
(1937)In Panama's vibrant nightlife, a lively woman and a soldier on his last army day spark romance and music, leading to unexpected twists and turns.

Forsaking All Others
(1934)Here comes the bride - there goes the groom! The night before Mary Clay's (Joan Crawford) wedding, her flaky fiancé Dillon elopes with someone else. Mary's friend Jeff grabs his chance to buck up the jilted bride - and pitch some woo. Then Dillon reenters Mary's life and she must choose between the two men. Since Clark Gable plays Jeff and Robert Montgomery plays Dillon, it's a choice any woman would love to make! The three stars prove marriage is a funny affair in this snappy, sophisticated comedy. Director W.S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man), scriptwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) and supporting comedy virtuosos Rosalind Russell, Billie Burke and Arthur Treacher put extra sparkle in the wedding punch.

The Cat and the Fiddle
(1934)Jeanette MacDonald's MGM debut is a witty and colorful film based on the Kern-Harbaugh stage musical comedy.

Road Show
(1941)Wealthy playboy Drogo Gaines is in danger of marrying a gold digger and escapes by feigning insanity until he wakes up in an asylum and can't leave.

Second Chorus
(1941)Dos estudiantes se adentran en el competitivo mundo del jazz, donde reavivan su rivalidad por una hermosa mujer y un puesto en la banda de Artie Shaw.

Dixie Jamboree
(1944)A medicine man on the last showboat on the Mississippi River is mistaken for a bootlegger by two gangsters, who he now has to evade.

This Is the Army
(1943)In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank
Hollywood Party
(1934)It was all a dream... But imagine, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Latin spitfire Lupe Velez, Mickey Mouse, Jimmy Durante and Arthur Treacher all together for one big Hollywood Party. He-man jungle movie star Schnarzen the Conqueror's (Durante) movies are starting to slip at the box office because his tigers look anemic. To woo Baron Munchausen (Jack Pearl) into selling him some more aggressive tigers, Schnarzen throws a star-studded bash. But when Liondora (George Givot), Schnarzen's archrival learns of the plan, he crashes the party disguised as a Greek baron. So sit back, the fun's about to begin because the party's just getting started in this wacky celebrity free for all!

Let Freedom Ring
(1939)Combining Nelson Eddy’s fine baritone voice with its message of religious and ethnic tolerance, Let Freedom Ring distinguishes itself as a most unusual western.