Ruth Chatterton Trailers
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Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was at her most popular in the early to mid-1930s, and in the same era gained prominence as an aviator, one of the few female pilots in the United States at the time. In the late 1930s, Chatterton retired from film acting but continued her career on the stage. She had several TV roles beginning in the late 1940s and became a successful novelist in the 1950s.
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Total trailers found: 30
06 May 2003
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content.
10 March 1934
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
21 September 1938
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
08 August 1936
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.
28 December 1929
A society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of her child.
25 July 1931
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
27 December 1930
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
11 November 1933
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
17 August 1929
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton).
15 August 1930
A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
14 March 1931
In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
23 September 1936
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
08 July 1931
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912.
22 April 1930
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cres
13 May 1933
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival barker, and then falling for a young engineer.
19 May 1932
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
14 March 1930
A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family.
05 February 1932
A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon.
03 March 2008
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
14 January 1933
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of a wealthy married couple.
17 August 1929
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France.
09 March 1929
The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the person who kidnapped Peggy Meredith, the daughter of wealthy Agnes and Trumbull Meredith.
09 October 1932
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
28 December 1928
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man.
24 May 1930
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
21 February 1936
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
11 November 1937
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him.
26 January 1929
Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man.
07 November 1931
A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris.
09 May 1957
Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor.
