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The Ugly Dachshund

The Ugly Dachshund (1965) more movies like this

directed by Norman Tokar
featuring Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Charlie Ruggles, Kelly Thordsen, Parley Baer

Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette star in this Walt Disney family comedy as Mark and Fran Garrison, a dog-loving couple with different tastes in canines. When their dachshund gives birth to puppies, kindly veterinarian Dr. Pruitt (Charlie Ruggles) convinces Mark to take a Great Dane puppy home with him. The Great Dane, named Brutus, grows up with ...

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The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap (1961) more movies like this

directed by David Swift
featuring Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charlie Ruggles, Una Merkel

We get a double dose of Hayley Mills in this Disney vehicle: she plays 13-year-old identical twins Susan and Sharon, who meet for the very first time in summer camp. They soon learn that they were separated at a very early age when their parents Mitch and Maggie (Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara) divorced. On a lark, the girls switch places: the one ...

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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby (1938) more movies like this

directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both their lives. David Huxley (Grant) is the stuffy paleontologist who needs to finish an exhibit on dinosaurs and thus land a $1 million grant for his museum. At a ...

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Follow Me, Boys!

Follow Me, Boys! (1966) more movies like this

directed by Norman Tokar
featuring Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charlie Ruggles, Elliott Reid, Kurt Russell

Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old reliable "kid hanging over cliff by rope" bit. Corny, sentimental and obvious though it may be, the film is a delight to watch, especially whenever Fred MacMurray dominates the screen. MacMurray plays Lem Siddons, a 1930s musician ...

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Balalaika

Balalaika (1939) more movies like this

directed by Reinhold Schünzel
featuring Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charlie Ruggles, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill

In this romantic musical, a Russian prince sees a lovely singer in a town cafe and falls head-over-heels. Realizing that he cannot be seen with her in royal garb, he masquerades as a worker. Later he secretly arranges for her to sing at the Imperial Opera. Unfortunately, his father the emperor is wounded that night by the wicked Reds. The girl's ...

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Look for the Silver Lining

Look for the Silver Lining (1949) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring June Haver, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Charlie Ruggles, Rosemary de Camp

The short but colorful life of American musical comedy star Marilyn Miller is given the standard prettified Hollywood treatment in Look for the Silver Lining. June Haver, an accomplished dancer-singer in her own right, is well-cast as Miller, who rises from an appendage in her parents' vaudeville act to the toast of Broadway. Along the way, she ...

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Papa's Delicate Condition

Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) more movies like this

directed by George Marshall
featuring Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Charlie Ruggles, Laurel Goodwin, Linda Bruhl

This charming tale is about a young girl's father and his slightly erratic behavior after sampling a refreshing alcoholic beverage. Although Papa Jack Griffith (Jackie Gleason) never appears to be drunk, his "delicate condition" is well known to his family. His wife is definitely unhappy over his penchant but loves him just the same. He is adored ...

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Ramrod

Ramrod (1947) more movies like this

directed by André De Toth
featuring Veronica Lake, Joel McCrea, Preston S. Foster, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Charlie Ruggles, Donald Crisp

This cowboy drama from Hungarian director Andre De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author Luke Short. Veronica Lake stars as Connie Dickason, strong-willed daughter of Ben Dickason (Charles Ruggles), a ranch owner who has become the toady of a powerful local cattleman, Frank Ivey (Preston Foster), whom Ben once ...

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Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) more movies like this

directed by Leo McCarey
featuring Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams

Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by Leo McCarey in 1935. The story opens in Paris, circa 1908. Ruggles, beautifully underplayed by Charles Laughton, is the ultra-obedient manservant to the bibulous Earl of Burnstead (Roland Young). During one of the Earl's nocturnal ...

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Six of a Kind

Six of a Kind (1934) more movies like this

directed by Leo McCarey
featuring Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, George Burns, W.C. Fields, Gracie Allen

The "six" are Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, George Burns, Gracie Allen, W.C. Fields, and Alison Skipworth, who star in this cross-country comedy. Planning a motor vacation to California, J. Pinkham Whinney (Ruggles) and Flora Whinney (Boland) advertise for a couple to help drive and share expenses. That couple turns out to be George Edwards (Burns ...

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Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise (1932) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton

Ernst Lubitsch used Laszlo Aladar's play The Honest Finder as a springboard for one of his most delightful early-'30s Paramount confections. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play Gaston and Lily, a pair of Parisian thieves, both disguised as nobility, who decide to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis); Gaston gets a ...

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The Perfect Marriage

The Perfect Marriage (1946) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Allen
featuring Loretta Young, David Niven, Eddie Albert, Charlie Ruggles, Virginia Field

If the Perfect Marriage in this romantic comedy were truly perfect, there wouldn't be any story, would there? Outwardly an ideal couple, Maggie and Dale Williams (Loretta Young, David Niven) have grown tired of one another after 10 years. Petty squabbles lead to major battles, exacerbated by the well-meaning interference of friends and relatives. ...

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Love Me Tonight (1932) more movies like this

directed by Rouben Mamoulian
featuring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charlie Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy

One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight (1932) had a profound effect on the shape of the musical genre (especially the films of Vincente Minnelli), and remains a candidate for best movie musical ever made, some seven decades after its release. And that distinction ...

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If I Had a Million (1932) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch, H. Bruce Humberstone, James Cruze, Lothar Mendes, Norman Taurog, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen R. Roberts, William Seiter
featuring Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, Charlie Ruggles, George Raft, Jack Oakie

Based on a story by Robert Andrews, If I Had a Million is a multipart comedy-drama employing Paramount's top directorial and acting talents. Refusing to leave his fortune to his grasping relatives, dying millionaire Richard Bennett selects several people at random from the phone book and bestows upon each of them a check for one million dollars. ...

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Breaking the Ice (1938) more movies like this

directed by Edward F. Cline
featuring Bobby Breen, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Costello, Robert H. Barrat, Dorothy Peterson

Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite relatives, our hero gets a job singing at a Philadelphia ice-skating rink. Here he tries to earn enough money to help his beloved widowed mother (Dolores Costello) wrest herself free of those selfsame relatives. The plot ...

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Her Favorite Patient (1945) more movies like this

directed by Andrew L. Stone
featuring John Carroll, Ruth Hussey, Charlie Ruggles, Ann Rutherford, Claudia Drake

Her Favorite Patient is the TV title for Bedside Manner, an improbable comedy directed by future master of "realism" Andrew L. Stone. Ruth Hussey plays a big-city doctor who travels to a small town to assist her surgeon uncle (Charlie Ruggles). The townsfolk resist the notion of a female physician, but she wins them over by proving to be an expert ...

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