Charles Butterworth Movies

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.

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...

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 publishe...

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 balle...

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

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 cou...

Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.

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....

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.

A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.

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 f...

A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

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 c...