Charlotte Wynters

Acting

Charlotte Wynters

Born — Died

1899-12-04 — 1991-01-07

Place of birth

Wheeling, West Virginia, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 18 titles

Harvest Melody poster
6.5

Farmer Tommy and his girl Jane come in from the country for a night at the Hollywood Trocadero. There, they meet Chuck, Hollywood's Number One press agent, and his Girl Friday, Daisie. Hearing of the hardships imposed down on the farm by the war-related labor shortage, Chuck offers the help of his clients, movie star Gilda Parker, heavyweight boxer Canvas, and Eddie Le Baron and his whole orchestra, to help harvest the crops.

Harvest Melody

1943

Lulu Belle poster
5.0

Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.

Lulu Belle

1948

Queen of the Mob poster
6.2

Ma Webster and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Queen of the Mob

1940

Dr. Kildare's Victory poster
6.2

Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.

Dr. Kildare's Victory

1942

Married Bachelor poster
6.4

A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.

Married Bachelor

1941

Parole Fixer poster
5.0

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

Parole Fixer

1940

Design for Scandal poster
5.1

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.

Design for Scandal

1941

Tomboy poster
NR

Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.

Tomboy

1940

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen poster
6.2

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen

1942

The Falcon's Brother poster
6.4

A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.

The Falcon's Brother

1942

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

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring poster
5.6

The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

1941

The Underdog poster
8.0

During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.

The Underdog

1943

Half Way to Shanghai poster
6.0

A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.

Half Way to Shanghai

1942

The Phantom Speaks poster
5.7

The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.

The Phantom Speaks

1945

Gallant Sons poster
7.4

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

Gallant Sons

1940

Man of Courage poster
5.6

A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.

Man of Courage

1943

City of Chance poster
5.6

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

City of Chance

1940

1930s · 22 titles

The Women poster
7.2

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

The Women

1939

His Woman poster
4.3

Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.

His Woman

1931

Girl Overboard poster
9.0

A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.

Girl Overboard

1937

Smart Blonde poster
6.4

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Smart Blonde

1937

The Calling of Dan Matthews poster
4.7

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.

The Calling of Dan Matthews

1935

Let's Make a Million poster
7.5

A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.

Let's Make a Million

1936

Reformatory poster
6.5

A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.

Reformatory

1938

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter poster
6.2

When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter

1939

Sunset Trail poster
6.3

Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.

Sunset Trail

1939

A Burglar to the Rescue poster
7.5

He is working on the books to cover his crimes, when a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversation that ensues, it is revealed that the visitor is an escaped convict that was a former employee of the bank. He was railroaded to prison to cover the crooked banker's crime. As with other entries in this series, there is a shadow projected every so often with a voice forecasting what is to come.

A Burglar to the Rescue

1931

Renegade Trail poster
5.0

Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King's Men songs include: "Hi Thar Stranger" and "Lazy Rolls the Rio Grande."

Renegade Trail

1939

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7.0

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

Mister Cinderella poster
7.0

Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.

Mister Cinderella

1936

Cipher Bureau poster
5.3

The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.

Cipher Bureau

1938

Sinners in Paradise poster
5.4

After a plane crash in the Pacific, the disparate band of survivors must learn to work together on a isolated island, change their self-centered ways, and examine their motives for wanting to escape from their pasts.

Sinners in Paradise

1938

Panama Patrol poster
7.5

A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.

Panama Patrol

1939

The Ivory-Handled Gun poster
7.0

Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud started by their fathers.

The Ivory-Handled Gun

1935

Clarence poster
9.0

The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand the boy.

Clarence

1937

Professor Beware poster
6.0

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.

Professor Beware

1938

Personal Maid poster
6.5

Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family.

Personal Maid

1931

The Struggle poster
6.7

Spanning from 1911 into the Prohibition era, Jimmie Wilson picks up drinking. When he falls in love with and proposes to Florrie, he vows to stop. The young couple gets married, has a daughter and enjoys a happy family life until old habits rise again.

The Struggle

1931

That Goes Double poster
6.7

Complications ensue when a singer discovers he has a double in this musical short film.

That Goes Double

1933