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Charles MacArthur is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, ADR Coordinator and Additional Dialogue American born on 5 november 1895 at Michigan (USA)

Charles MacArthur

Charles MacArthur
Charles MacArthur participated to 38 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 4 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Scriptwriter

Rasputin and the Empress, 2h1
Directed by Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard, Edward Arnold
Rating64% 3.244233.244233.244233.244233.24423
The story takes place in the Russian Empire during the last years of the reign of Czar Nicholas II and the Czarina Alexandra. Reform-minded Prince Paul has long been concerned about the plight of the common people and knows a revolution is brewing. Prince Alexei, heir to the throne, is loved by the people but has hemophilia, and a slight fall turns out to be life-threatening. When royal physician Dr. Remezov is powerless to stop the boy's bleeding, Princess Natasha, Alexandra's lady-in-waiting and Paul's fiancee, recommends Rasputin as a healer. He convinces the frantic Empress that he has been sent by God to cure the child. Left alone with Alexei, he hypnotizes the boy and relieves his agony but also gradually makes Alexei a slave to his will.
The Front Page, 1h41
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Théâtre, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett
Roles Writer
Rating66% 3.347333.347333.347333.347333.34733
The film, considered a screwball comedy, centers on a reporter, Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson (Pat O'Brien) and his editor (Adolphe Menjou), who hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped accused murderer, Earl Williams (Stone) and hide him in a rolltop desk while everybody else tries to find him.
Wuthering Heights, 1h44
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Actors Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp
Rating74% 3.747433.747433.747433.747433.74743
A traveller named Lockwood (Miles Mander) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, despite the cold behaviour of his aged host, Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier). Late that night, after being shown into an upstairs room that was once a bridal chamber, Lockwood is awakened by a cold draft and finds the window shutter flapping back and forth. Just as he is about to close it, he feels an icy hand clutching his and sees a woman outside calling, "Heathcliff, let me in! I'm out on the moors. It's Cathy!" Lockwood calls Heathcliff and tells him what he saw, whereupon the enraged Heathcliff throws him out of the room. As soon as Lockwood is gone, Heathcliff frantically calls out to Cathy, runs down the stairs and out of the house, into the snowstorm.
The Sin of Madelon Claudet, 1h15
Directed by Edgar Selwyn
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays
Actors Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, Robert Young, Cliff Edwards, Neil Hamilton
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.291033.291033.291033.291033.29103
When neglected wife Alice (Karen Morley) decides to leave her doctor husband Lawrence (Robert Young), his friend Dr. Dulac (Jean Hersholt) stops her and tells her the life story of another woman, Madelon Claudet (Helen Hayes), who was persuaded by her American boyfriend, artist Larry Maynard (Neil Hamilton), to run away with him. Eventually, he has to return to the U.S. because his father is sick. Once there however, he betrays her and marries a woman approved of by his parents.