Charles Butterworth

Charles Butterworth was born on Jul 26, 1896 in USA. Charles Butterworth's big-screen debut came with Ladies of Leisure directed by Frank Capra in 1930, strarring Party Guest (uncredited). Charles Butterworth is known for Love Me Tonight directed by Rouben Mamoulian, Maurice Chevalier stars as Maurice and Jeanette MacDonald as Princess Jeanette. The most recent award Charles Butterworth achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Charles Butterworth plays is Dixie Jamboree which will be released on Aug 15, 1944.

Charles Butterworth was, before he came to Hollywood in 1930, a stage attraction on Broadway. In the '30s, he had his big successes as the hero's no-nonsense best friend. He made a practice of ad-libbing dry quips and bons mots during shooting, and screenwriters took advantage of this by writing only fragments of his scripts, hoping that he would fill in the missing lines. He didn't like that very much, however, and his star began sinking in the late '30s. In the '40s, he worked for smaller studios; Warner's A production, This Is the Army (1943), was a notable exception. Two years after his last movie, Dixie Jamboree (1944) for PRC, he died in a car crash.