The best Charles Rogers’s comedy movies

Charles Rogers

Charles Rogers

13/08/1904- 21/04/1999
We present our ranking of the best Charles Rogers’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Charles Rogers.
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Golden Hoofs

Golden Hoofs
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/02/1941
  • Character: Dean MacArdle
A teenage horse trainer (Jane Withers) fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 22/04/1930
  • Character: Himself / Boy Singer (Love Time)
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors (including Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Schertzinger and Edmund Goulding). The cast features Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Jean Arthur, William Powell, Maurice Chevalier, Kay Francis, Buddy Rogers, Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin and Nancy Carroll.

An Innocent Affair

An Innocent Affair
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/10/1948
  • Character: Claude Kimball
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and finally decides to do some flirting of her own to make him jealous. Unknown to her, she chooses cigarette tychoon Claude Kimball. In fact, Kimball hits it off well with both of the Doanes. The question is whether or not their marriage can survive all the shenanigans.

The Stolen Jools

The Stolen Jools
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1931
  • Character: 'Buddy' Rogers
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

Working Girls

Working Girls
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/12/1931
  • Character: Boyd Wheeler
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.

Fascinating Youth

Fascinating Youth
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/03/1926
  • Character: Teddy Ward
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.

My Best Girl

My Best Girl
7.5/10
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.

Old Man Rhythm

Old Man Rhythm
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 02/08/1935
  • Character: Johnny Roberts
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/11/1941
  • Character: Dennis Lindsay
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.

Heads Up

Heads Up
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 10/10/1930
  • Character: Jack Mason
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Jack is not invited. Meanwhile, Mary suspects Rex of picking up contraband beyond the 12-mile limit and refuses his proposal of marriage, while Betty, her impish sister, drives Skippy to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port by a coast guard, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary; but on a subsequent cruise, he hides himself in a lifeboat with two aides. When the captain stops to take on a cargo of rum, Jack and his aides take over the vessel, and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, and Jack proves his heroism, while Rex reveals his true colors and is identified as a fugitive bootlegger.

More Pay - Less Work

More Pay - Less Work
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/07/1926
  • Character: Willia Hinchfield
Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.

Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers
5.3/10
Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.

Get Your Man

Get Your Man
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/12/1927
  • Character: Robert deBellecontre
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.

This Way Please

This Way Please
6.2/10
A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her impending marriage.

So's Your Old Man

So's Your Old Man
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/10/1926
  • Character: Kenneth Murchison
Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of his social-climbing daughter and nagging wife.

Sing for Your Supper

Sing for Your Supper
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/12/1941
  • Character: Larry Hays
Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.

Abie's Irish Rose

Abie's Irish Rose
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1928
  • Character: Abie Levy
When a Catholic and a Jew wed they find themselves disowned by both of their families.

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/06/1942
  • Character: Dennis Lindsay
Carmelita (Lupe Velez) and Uncle Matt {Leon Errol) find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

Mexican Spitfire at Sea
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/03/1942
  • Character: Dennis Lindsay
The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series finds the characters causing mayhem on an ocean voyage.

Along Came Youth

Along Came Youth
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 20/12/1930
  • Character: Larry Brooks
Set in London, American Larry Brooks, former millionaire and now broke, pursues lovely Elinor Farrington who, encouraged by her Aunt to marry wealth, falls for him not knowing that he is poor. Trying to regain his status in the racing world since the loss of his champion racehorse and the efforts of a gangster left him penniless, he and his trainer live from hand to mouth as he tries desperately to woo the girl, despite her aunt's suspicions. But Elinor soon finds herself falling for him until he admits to all that he is not what he appears to be.

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