Ruth Chatterton Movies

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...

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

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.

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design...

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young...

Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing...

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...

A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.

Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.

A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.

Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man. However he is killed in a car accident and she...

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...