Frank Tuttle
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American film director, born in 1892. A director at Paramount during the early sound era, he directed Sweetie (1929) starring Nancy Carroll and Helen Kane. His other credits include This Gun for Hire (1942) with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. He died in 1963.
Directed
Musical, Comedy
A pre-Code musical comedy directed by Frank Tuttle for Paramount. Nancy Carroll plays Barbara Pell, a chorus girl who inherits a school for boys and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the man who jilted her. Helen Kane, the "Boop-Oop-a-Doop Girl" whose vocal style inspired Betty Boop, co-stars as Helen Fry. Jack Oakie appears as Tap-Tap Thompson. As a work published before 1930, the film is in the public domain.
Musical · Comedy · Romance
Sweetie
1929 - Musical
Crime, Mystery
A 1930 pre-Code crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the 1926 novel by S. S. Van Dine. William Powell stars as the aristocratic detective Philo Vance, investigating the murder of a wealthy broker at his Long Island estate. The film co-stars William "Stage" Boyd, Eugene Pallette, Paul Lukas, and Natalie Moorhead. The screenplay was adapted by Bartlett Cormack. The film entered the public domain on January 1, 2026.
Crime · Mystery · Thriller
The Benson Murder Case
1930 - Crime
Comedy, Romance
A 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy directed by Frank Tuttle for Paramount, starring Clara Bow and Fredric March. Ruby Nolan (Bow) is a counter girl at a San Diego drugstore with a sailor boyfriend on every ship. When the competing sailors try to set her up with ace gunner "Bull's-Eye" McCoy (March), the inevitable happens — but misunderstandings and pride threaten their romance. The screenplay was written by Herman J. Mankiewicz, who later co-wrote Citizen Kane (1941). The film entered the public domain due to non-renewal of its copyright.
Comedy · Romance
True to the Navy
1930 - Comedy