
Ruth Gillette
Actor · 1906 – 1994 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Movies24
Movie7.6ThrillerDramaA violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
In a Lonely Place
1950 · 683 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaA couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Made for Each Other
1939 · 57 votes
Movie6.7DramaHistoryThe O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
In Old Chicago
1938 · 50 votes
Movie6.8DramaFamilyRebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 · 26 votes
Movie4.4DramaRomanceOwner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
Slander House
1938 · 8 votes
Movie5.7Science FictionHorrorAfter a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
The Monster and the Girl
1941 · 33 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceA horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a scheming bookie in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Saratoga
1937 · 23 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Life Begins at Forty
1935 · 1 votes
Movie4.5ComedyCrimeWhen his father - who owned a circus - dies, Oscar inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the apes or just one gets sick or dies during the next 3 years, the zoologic society will get all the money. So he not only has to deal with 3 apes and an annoyed girlfriend, but also with a greedy zoologic society's president.
Going Ape!
1981 · 21 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceSocial butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceA sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
The Chaser
1938 · 2 votes
Movie8.0CrimeDramaIn Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
The Gentleman from Louisiana
1936 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaAn aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.
I Believed in You
1934 · 1 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
Woman in the Dark
1934 · 20 votes
Movie6.3ComedyMusicSet at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Coney Island
1943 · 10 votes
Movie6.3WesternIn Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
The Return of the Cisco Kid
1939 · 3 votes
Movie7.3RomanceCrimePresident McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
This Is My Affair
1937 · 18 votes
Movie6.3DramaRomanceKitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Stage Mother
1933 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedyDramaThe Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
Off to the Races
1937 · 1 votes
Movie5.6MysteryEllery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935 · 11 votes
Movie7.2ComedyCrimeTwo young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
Josette
1938 · 5 votes
- Movie
Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Rogers, Ruth Gillette, Theodore Lurch, Charlie Hall.
Keg o' My Heart
1933
- Movie7.0ActionAdventure
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
Pride of the Navy
1939 · 1 votes
Movie6.5RomanceAdventureA young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
Wild Gold
1934 · 2 votes
Series2
TV6.8ComedyFamilyThe Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career.
The Partridge Family
1970 · 35 votes
TV7.9Madame's Place is an American sitcom that featured the misadventures of Madame, a puppet in the form of a bawdy old movie star with a naughty sense of humor.
Madame's Place
1982 · 8 votes