The best Charles Rogers’s 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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Wings

Wings
7.5/10
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away. Cinema's first ever gay kiss?

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.

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.

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.

Close Harmony

Close Harmony
6.1/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 12/04/1929
  • Character: Al West
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.

Illusion

Illusion
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/09/1929
  • Character: Carlee Thorpe
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudeville partner, Claire, has chosen a new partner, but her "heart isn't in it" because she is disconsolate over Carlee. Curious about her new act, Carlee attends a performance and sees Claire nearly killed when she fails to substitute fake bullets for real ones. Rushing to her aid, Carlee realizes how much Claire means to him.

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 Parson and the Outlaw

The Parson and the Outlaw
4.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/09/1957
  • Character: Jericho Jones
Billy the Kid fakes his own death at the hands of Pat Garret, but is forced to come out of hiding to stop a ruthless cattle baron from destroying a small frontier community.

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.

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
5.9/10
  • Genre: Family
  • Release: 20/11/1935
  • Character: Buddy Rogers
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
7.5/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryTV Movie
  • Release: 14/06/1999
  • Character: Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Wings' (voice)
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.

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.

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
6/10
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Road to Reno

The Road to Reno
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/09/1931
  • Character: Tom Wood
Lilyan Tashman as Jackie, the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert (Irving Prichel) is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom (Charles Buddy Rogers), who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.

River of Romance

River of Romance
5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 28/06/1929
  • Character: Tom Rumford
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.

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