Writing

Charles E. Roberts

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby poster
4.6

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

1941

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant poster
5.4

A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

1942

Fighting Hero poster
10.0

Tyler abducts a young Mexican girl to save her from a lynching when she is accused of the murder of a VIP whom she killed in self defense.

Fighting Hero

1934

Millionaire Playboy poster
4.5

A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.

Millionaire Playboy

1940

Harris in the Spring poster
3.3

Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.

Harris in the Spring

1937

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event poster
6.0

Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event

1943

Havana Rose poster
7.0

Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his domineering wife are about to sign on the dotted line for the loan when DeMarco's vivacious daughter, Estelita, upsets the deal by accidentally knocking hot coffee over the papers---and Mrs. Fillmore, who leaves the house in a huff. When word of the difficulties filters back home it's Viva la Revolution. But Estelita, disguised as a fortune teller tries to convince astrology believer Fillmore that the stars are propitious for his making the loan.

Havana Rose

1951

What a Blonde poster
4.2

American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.

What a Blonde

1945

Dummy Ache poster
5.5

Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.

Dummy Ache

1936

Mummy's Boys poster
5.0

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."

Mummy's Boys

1936

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost poster
4.8

Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost

1942

What's to Do? poster
6.5

Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his rival, Harry Vanderpool, he and his whole family are going to have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.

What's to Do?

1933

The Newlywed's Boarder poster
NR

Comedy film short

The Newlywed's Boarder

1950

Riverboat Rhythm poster
6.3

A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.

Riverboat Rhythm

1946

No artwork available
9.0

Ray Whitley and his Bar-Six musical cowboys apply for work at the Bar-X ranch. The owner refuses at first but gives in when his niece intercedes. When the owner of the Lazy Q hears the music, she steps foot on the Bar-X for the first time in years. Ray and the girl get the two owners together and they decide to marry and merge the ranches.

Rhythm Wranglers

1937

No artwork available
9.0

Ray Whitley and his Bar-Six musical cowboys apply for work at the Bar-X ranch. The owner refuses at first but gives in when his niece intercedes. When the owner of the Lazy Q hears the music, she steps foot on the Bar-X for the first time in years. Ray and the girl get the two owners together and they decide to marry and merge the ranches.

Rhythm Wranglers

1937

No artwork available
7.0

Errol loses his job because he cannot tell a lie, and when he gets involved with kidnappers, nobody will believe he is telling the truth.

Truth Aches

1939

No artwork available
7.0

Errol loses his job because he cannot tell a lie, and when he gets involved with kidnappers, nobody will believe he is telling the truth.

Truth Aches

1939

No artwork available
6.5

Driving off an Indian attack, the soldiers capture one of the Indian rifles only to learn that it came from their own warehouse. With Lieutenant Bentley and Sergeant Luke having the only keys to the guns, Bentley finds himself under suspicion and starts to investigate.

Fighting Pioneers

1935

The Fabulous Senorita poster
6.5

A Cuban businessman's daughter elopes with a professor instead of marrying a banker's son.

The Fabulous Senorita

1952

Clock Wise poster
9.0

Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.

Clock Wise

1939

No artwork available
10.0

When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house doing this simple project is a foregone conclusion.

Radio Rampage

1944

No artwork available
10.0

Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Minerva Urecal (sporting an Italian accent) shows up, wife Vivien Oakland resists attempts to get her out of the house so she can confront the interloper and her husband.

Maid to Order

1939

Goin' to Town poster
9.0

General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.

Goin' to Town

1944

Mexican Spitfire at Sea poster
4.7

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

1942

Bested by a Beard poster
7.0

Leon Errol disguises himself as a mystic, in order to fool repo men.

Bested by a Beard

1940

Many Unhappy Returns poster
NR

Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. But before he can give it to her, he gets mixed up with the blonde at the cigar-store, the doll gets burned up, and his wife is also burned up about many things.

Many Unhappy Returns

1937

Mama Loves Papa poster
10.0

A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is tossed headfirst into the world of small-town politics. Sized up as a patsy by crooked politician Kirkwood, poor Wilbur is plied with champagne as part of Kirkwood's scheme to land a sweetheart playground-equipment contract.

Mama Loves Papa

1945

Mexican Spitfire poster
5.0

Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.

Mexican Spitfire

1940

Mexican Spitfire Out West poster
5.0

Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings

Mexican Spitfire Out West

1940

No artwork available
9.0

A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.

Western Limited

1932

'Taint Legal poster
NR

Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wife Vivien who tell him about their engagement and elopement. Then Viviens father tells them that according to a law he has found in a law-book, they aren't legally married. After a series of misadventures, they learn that the law is a new one and that the Kennedy marriage is legal.

'Taint Legal

1940

Adventurous Knights poster
8.0

David De Portola, an outstanding athlete with an abundant youthful exuberance, is raised by a wealthy American guardian. He learns that he is the heir to the throne of Translavia and is recalled to accept the Crown, which along with the freedom of the country is threatened by the impostor, Black Prince. During a forbidden outing on the town with his college sidekick, Mickey Daniels, who has been brought along to make a (unintended) bungling Major Domo, David meets the lovely Princess Carmencita who, unknown to David, is to be the wife of the new King. David rejects his crown when told he must marry a girl he doesn't know. Black Prince has no trouble detaining him until David learns that Princess Carmencita is the girl he must marry. Delighted with this prospect, he saves the country, Crown and Princess following a wild and humorous escape from his captors.

Adventurous Knights

1935

No artwork available
8.0

Errol has been splurging on his hobby of collecting antiques and must hide the actual prices he has paid for them from his wife. In the meantime, his daughter has been secretly married and has yet to break the news to her father.

Don't Fool Your Wife

1948

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry poster
5.7

In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry

1941

Prunes and Politics poster
7.5

Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.

Prunes and Politics

1944

Pop Always Pays poster
6.7

A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.

Pop Always Pays

1940

Pop Always Pays poster
6.7

A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.

Pop Always Pays

1940

No artwork available
10.0

Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.

I'll Fix It

1941

Roaring Roads poster
4.7

Young David Morton, heir to millions, has been over-zealously restrained from normal youthful activities by his two old-maid Aunts, Harriet and Agatha. In an outburst from his confinement, he meets lovely Gertrude, and promises to race her injured-brothers car in the Big Race. Between the gangsters trying to win the race by disabling him, and his bungling bodyguards trying to bring him home safely, David has a battle to win the race and Gertrude's heart.

Roaring Roads

1935