Released Date:
1935-03-08
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (2532 Reviews)
Director:
Leo McCareyHarry Leon Wilson (novel)
Walter DeLeon (screenplay)
Harlan Thompson (screenplay)
Humphrey Pearson (adaptation)
While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle. However, Egbert is more interested in partying and he takes Ruggles to the local 'beer bust'. When word gets out that "Colonel Ruggles is staying with his close friends" in the local paper, the butler becomes a town celebrity. After befriending Mrs. Judson, a widow who he impresses with his culinary skills, Ruggles decides to strike out on his own and open a restaurant. His transition from servant to independent man will depend on its success.
Released Date:
1939-09-01
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
133 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
(9188 Reviews)
Director:
George CukorClare Boothe Luce (from the play by)
Anita Loos (screen play)
Jane Murfin (screen play)
Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a Reno divorce Mary meets the Countess and Miriam (in an affair with Fowler's husband). While they are at Lucy's dude ranch, Fowler arrives for her own divorce and the Countess meets fifth husband-to-be Buck. Back in New York, Mary's ex is now unhappily married to Crystal who is already in an affair with Buck. When Sylvia lets this story slip at an exclusive nightclub, Crystal brags of her plans for a still wealthier marriage, only to find the Countess is the source of all Buck's money. Crystal must return to the perfume counter and Mary runs back to her husband.
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