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Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director.
He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin.
In 1917, he turned his attention to directing, making more than 50 mostly forgettable films — including a silent film version of Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1924) — before he won acclaim with Cimarron in 1931. The adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Cimarron, about homesteaders settling in the prairies of Oklahoma, was the first Western to win an Academy Award as Best Picture.
Although Ruggles followed this success with the light comedy No Man of Her Own (1932) with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, the comedy I'm No Angel (1933) with Mae West and Cary Grant , College Humor (1933) with Bing Crosby, and Bolero (1934) with George Raft and Carole Lombard, few of his later films were in any way memorable (an exception is Arizona).
His career was on the downslide when he teamed with the Rank Organisation in 1946 to produce and direct London Town with Sid Field and Petula Clark, based on a story he wrote. The film — British cinema's first attempt at a Technicolor musical extravaganza — is notable as being one of the biggest critical and commercial failures in that country's film history. Ironically, Ruggles had been hired to helm it because as an American, it was thought, he was better equipped to handle a musical — despite the fact that nothing in his past had prepared him to work in the genre. It was his last film. An abridged version was released in the U.S. under the title My Heart Goes Crazy by United Artists in 1953.
Ruggles died in 1972 in Santa Monica and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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21 January 1929
Episode 37 of "The Collegians" Series of the 46 short films
13 November 1931
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
08 July 1932
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area.
15 October 1922
While studying in Paris, Princess Oluf of Kosnia (Andree LeJon) befriends an American girl, Ruth Townley (Clayton), and gives her a locket bearing her name and the royal coat of arms.
06 October 1936
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman.
07 June 1920
Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
08 November 1926
The Collegians was a four year series of 46 two-reel films, in which the same players played the same roles through four years of college life, as envisioned by Hollywood's screenwriters of the mid-1920's.
15 November 1925
Chorus girl Rosalie Ryan catches the eye of Bob Westbrook, a wealthy playboy. He proposes to her but she refuses, mainly because of his heavy drinking.
11 June 1923
The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed to evade capture until his latest job, when he is wounded.
01 February 1920
When newlywed Robert Ellis suspects that his missing wife is having a clandestine affair, he appeals to his friend, Pat Murphy, to find her.
25 December 1940
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie.
14 March 1927
Chapter 11 of the silent serial "The Collegians".
30 January 1927
When the freshman girls beat the sophomore girls in the big relay race, the 'Frosh' start lording it over the 'Sophs.
05 July 1930
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
08 January 1928
Young and ambitious but so far unsuccessful shoe clerk Andy Whittaker meets June Allen and tries to impress her by pretending to be an important businessman, she discovers his deception but before too long because of complications and luck good fortune finds its way to the pair.
01 November 1919
American newspaper reporter Jim Crocker's madcap escapades in London earn him notoriety and the nickname "Piccadilly Jim.
04 October 1915
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen.
01 April 1943
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
26 November 1965
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965).
01 March 1951
Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915).
03 November 1929
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
28 February 1927
Series #1, Episode #9 of The Collegians with the main focus on rowing and clubbing.
26 January 1931
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita.
20 November 1915
A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.
05 July 1933
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
03 January 1927
Restricted to his room at college Ed sneaks out dressed as a girl attracting the attention of Don until he discovers Ed is not a girl and the two get into a fight.
05 December 1920
A young woman, Natalie Storm works in a sweatshop and struggles to support her mother and little sister, Beatrice.
13 January 1933
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
02 August 1915
Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.
25 April 1915
Gussle Rivals Jonah is a silent comedy
11 August 1918
As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff.
27 April 1929
1929 picture starring Laura La Plante, Huntley Gordon, and John Boles.
13 November 1916
During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio.
13 May 1917
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
25 December 1935
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
02 September 1938
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling.
25 January 1935
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her.
07 June 1939
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
06 February 1915
Featuring Charlie Chaplin's half-brother as The Husband, Phyllis Allen as The Wife, Slim Summerville as The Boy Friend, Cecile Arnold as The Girl Friend, and Mack Swain as The Bartender.
20 December 1926
Series #1, Episode #4 of The Collegians.
18 March 1944
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences.
02 October 1927
Sam and Molly Thornhill, a married couple very much in love, are nevertheless continually quarreling.
23 February 1934
The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.
23 August 1935
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
06 March 1922
Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. Years later, in South Africa, she encounters the man she suspects of the murder.
25 April 1921
After her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse and turns to Arctic explorer Frank, who has long loved her and promised to come back to her whenever she needs his help.
29 March 1930
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
22 October 1941
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
03 October 1926
A vamp is hired to destroy an impending wedding.
19 March 1923
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime is a silent comedy film.
30 December 1932
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
06 October 1933
Bold performer Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent financial need, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation — flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
27 August 1942
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
03 April 1940
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
02 October 1916
A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.
22 March 1935
A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
28 July 1929
A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he be forced to complete his sentence behind bars.
15 May 1916
An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.
24 December 1937
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney.
01 October 1926
Jack Banning is a motorcycle cop by day and undercover agent by night. Disguising himself as "Strongarm Samson," Banning infiltrates a gang of smugglers headed by Richard Courtney.
