David Butler Movies

Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is...

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.

After getting her start in her parents' vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue. He senses the girl's...

First film adaptation of Arnold Ridley's mystery-thriller play.

Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director...

Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.

Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a...

A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding...

While visiting Hollywood, starstruck movie fan Aloysius Babson fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure.

Mary Murphy, the oldest waif in an orphanage, steals a dress and three dollars, then escapes to the city. Grosset, the superintendent of the...

An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.

When Rin-Tin-Tin's master is found murdered, Rinty is accused of the crime.

Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

Ralph Grey visits France with his shipbuilder father, and falls in love with Blossom, granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not...

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program...

Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.