The best Ruth Terry’s movies

Ruth Terry

Ruth Terry

21/10/1920- 11/03/2016
Today we present the best Ruth Terry’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ruth Terry’s movies.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
7.4/10
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Alexander's Ragtime Band
6.8/10
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.

Blondie Goes Latin

Blondie Goes Latin
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/02/1941
  • Character: Singer
The 8th film in the Blondie series - Blondie Goes Latin. Mr. Dithers invites the Bumstead's on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.

International Settlement

International Settlement
6.6/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 04/02/1938
  • Character: Vera Dale
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

The Cheaters

The Cheaters
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/07/1945
  • Character: Therese Pidgeon
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.

Sleepytime Gal

Sleepytime Gal
7/10
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.

Hotel for Women

Hotel for Women
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/08/1939
  • Character: Craig's Receptionist
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

Man from Music Mountain

Man from Music Mountain
6.3/10
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 30/10/1943
  • Character: Laramie Winters
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.

Slightly Honorable

Slightly Honorable
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Anne Seymour
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

Heart of the Golden West

Heart of the Golden West
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/11/1942
  • Character: Mary Lou Popen
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.

Wife, Husband and Friend

Wife, Husband and Friend
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/03/1939
  • Character: Carol
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

Hands Across the Border

Hands Across the Border
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 05/01/1944
  • Character: Kim Adams
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
6.1/10
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville, Indiana in an attempt to uncover a notorious safecracker, believed to be masquerading as one of the town's upstanding citizens.

Appointment for Love

Appointment for Love
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 31/10/1941
  • Character: Edith Meredith
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.

An Angel from Texas

An Angel from Texas
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/04/1940
  • Character: Valerie Blayne
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

Jamboree

Jamboree
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 05/05/1944
  • Character: Ruth Cartwright
A trio of competing bands vie for a spot on a rural radio program.

Steppin' in Society

Steppin' in Society
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/07/1945
  • Character: Lola Forrest
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.

Call of the Canyon

Call of the Canyon
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/08/1942
  • Character: Katherine 'Kit' Carson
A radio saleswoman (Ruth Terry) helps a singing cattleman (Gene Autry) trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

Love and Hisses

Love and Hisses
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/1937
  • Character: Hawaiian Specialty Singer
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Youth on Parade

Youth on Parade
5.5/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 24/10/1942
  • Character: Patty Flynn / Betty Reilly
In this musical, a gang of college students decide to play a little trick by creating the perfect student. The fictional gal has everything a university would ever want. The trouble begins when the campus psych professor becomes determined to meet this girl. If the gang cannot bring her forward, they will be expelled. They hire a New York actress to portray the imaginary girl and all is well at the end. Songs include: "It Seems I've Heard That Song Before," "You're So Good to Me" "If It's Love," "Man," "Gotcha Too Ta Mee," "You Got to Study, Buddy." All the songs were penned by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne who went on to become one of Hollywood's top song-writing teams.

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