Screwball
by karljhickey14 | created - 27 Oct 2015 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicFrom the days when romantic comedies were actually funny ( and even romantic on occasion ). See also - all the Marx Brothers films , Million Dollar Legs , Never Give A Sucker An Even Break , Hellzapoppin' - literally screwball
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301. She Knew All the Answers (1941)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
Chorus girl Gloria Winters is overjoyed that wealthy young Randy Bradford is so eager to marry her that he's asked her to elope. Before they can leave, he is contacted by Mark Willows, who ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, John Hubbard, Eve Arden
Votes: 78
302. She Wrote the Book (1946)
80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small Midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Joan Davis, Jack Oakie, Mischa Auer, Kirby Grant
Votes: 70
303. One Night in the Tropics (1940)
82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings, Bud Abbott
Votes: 1,754
304. Unexpected Uncle (1941)
67 min | Comedy, Drama
A feisty retiree plays peacemaker for a young couple.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Anne Shirley, James Craig, Charles Coburn, Ernest Truex
Votes: 263
305. You Can't Beat Love (1937)
62 min | Comedy, Romance
Never one to turn down a dare, wealthy but eccentric lawyer Jimmy Hughes takes his faithful butler Jasper and gets a job digging ditches to fulfill a bet he made with two reporters. In his ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Joan Fontaine, Herbert Mundin, William Brisbane
Votes: 256
306. Maid's Night Out (1938)
64 min | Romance, Comedy
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Allan Lane, Billy Gilbert, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 452
307. Masquerade in Mexico (1945)
96 min | Comedy, Romance
An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish countess.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, Patric Knowles, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 114
308. Emergency Wedding (1950)
78 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In this remake of 1941's "You Belong to Me," a young millionaire, Peter J. Kirk, Jr., fails in all of his attempts to emulate his successful father. He meets and marries Dr. Helen Hunt, who... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, Willard Parker, Una Merkel
Votes: 101
309. The Affairs of Susan (1945)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancee summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Joan Fontaine, George Brent, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 373
310. Woman Chases Man (1937)
71 min | Comedy, Romance
Former millionaire B.J. Nolan is useless with money, having lost most of his fortune on crazy schemes. His son, Kenneth, has the opposite problem thanks to good sense and a large ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Charles Winninger, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 422
311. The Baroness and the Butler (1938)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: William Powell, Annabella, Helen Westley, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 631
312. Café Metropole (1937)
G | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In Paris, a young American is in debt to a nightclub owner who forces him to woo an heiress in hopes of reaping her fortune.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 662
313. Second Chorus (1940)
84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When perennial college students Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw's band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 1,605
314. The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Perry marries Della but a beautiful woman interrupts their honeymoon night and demands Perry take her case at gunpoint.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Wini Shaw, Bill Elliott
Votes: 588
315. The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
A fight promoter finds his fighter, Wayne Morris, in the sticks, a country hick left by his mother when he was young and he won't leave his home as he is still waiting for her to return to ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Joan Blondell, May Robson
Votes: 192
316. Boy Meets Girl (1938)
86 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two screenwriters in a rut come up with a story idea starring a bankable cowboy and the baby of the studio's waitress.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 720
317. Hard to Handle (1933)
78 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Cagney, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 830
318. Murder, He Says (1945)
91 min | Comedy, Mystery
Professional pollster Pete Marshall gets more than he bargained for when he heads deep into the Ozarks to investigate the disappearances of several of his colleagues.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather
Votes: 1,827
319. Beauty and the Boss (1932)
66 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
An executive hires a mousy, plain woman as his secretary so she will not divert him from his work, but she still becomes determined to win his heart.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Marian Marsh, David Manners, Warren William, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 605
320. Times Square Playboy (1936)
62 min | Comedy, Drama
A stock broker's best man thinks the bride-to-be and her family are just out for the groom's money, so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Warren William, June Travis, Barton MacLane, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 178
321. Smarty (1934)
65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Vicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her husband,Tony Wallace (Warren William), who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Edward Everett Horton, Frank McHugh
Votes: 525
322. We're in the Money (1935)
66 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Two gold-digging process servers are tasked with subpoenaing one's boyfriend, who has been using a pseudonym to avoid breach-of-promise servings and suits.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Ross Alexander
Votes: 434
323. Havana Widows (1933)
62 min | Comedy
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 504
324. Kansas City Princess (1934)
64 min | Comedy, Romance
Two wisecracking manicurists flee an irate gangster.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 407
325. Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
G | 95 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady
Votes: 2,785
326. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 8,424 | Gross: $4.80M
327. Traveling Saleslady (1935)
63 min | Comedy, Romance
Angela Twitchell is the daughter of a tooth-paste manufacturer, Rufus K. Twitchell, who has monopolized the business for many years that he has grown conservative, and his rivals have begin... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, William Gargan, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 452
328. Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)
107 min | Comedy, Romance
Congresswoman Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for commencement, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. Their ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Arden
Votes: 896 | Gross: $1.13M
329. The Footloose Heiress (1937)
59 min | Comedy, Romance
For the fifth time, this time on her eighteenth birthday, headstrong and defiant heiress Kay Allyn is determined to get married, this time to layabout Jack Pierson. While her father, J.C. ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Craig Reynolds, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel, William Hopper
Votes: 204
330. Three Men on a Horse (1936)
PG | 86 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Frank McHugh, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Carol Hughes
Votes: 499
331. He Couldn't Say No (1938)
57 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
An office clerk is harassed by his girlfriend's mother.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Frank McHugh, Jane Wyman, Cora Witherspoon, Diana Lewis
Votes: 212
332. It's in the Bag! (1945)
87 min | Comedy
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix
Votes: 570
333. Murder in Greenwich Village (1937)
68 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
An heiress uses a photographer as an alibi when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Raymond Walburn, Wyn Cahoon
Votes: 102
334. Twin Beds (1942)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: George Brent, Joan Bennett, Mischa Auer, Una Merkel
Votes: 119
335. Lady Bodyguard (1943)
69 min | Comedy
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Eddie Albert, Anne Shirley, Raymond Walburn, Roger Pryor
Votes: 51
336. The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
86 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, Allyn Joslyn, Cecil Cunningham
Votes: 142
337. Jewel Robbery (1932)
68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Hardie Albright
Votes: 2,234
338. This Is the Night (1932)
80 min | Comedy
An affair is almost exposed when Claire's husband unexpectedly returns early from the Summer Olympics.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, Lili Damita
Votes: 763
339. The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)
71 min | Comedy, Romance
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Barbara Britton, Rudy Vallee, Otto Kruger, Richard Denning
Votes: 37
340. Bride by Mistake (1944)
81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Norah is very rich, owns her own shipyard and has Sylvia double for her at all outside functions. But Sylvia is now married and wants to go to Washington with her new husband while Norah's ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Alan Marshal, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 317
341. Dangerous Blondes (1943)
81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A crime fiction writer and his wife investigate murders that are occurring at a fashion photography studio.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Edmund Lowe, John Hubbard
Votes: 350
342. There Goes the Groom (1937)
65 min | Comedy, Romance
A young man scores seeking Alaskan gold, comes home to claim his bride. When she snubs him, he falls for the younger sister instead.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Mary Boland, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 224
343. Strange Affair (1944)
78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A comic strip artist and his wife investigate a murder at a banquet honoring war refugees.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Marguerite Chapman, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 261
344. Dangerous Number (1937)
71 min | Comedy, Romance
Artificial-silk manufacturer Hank Medhill has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave her ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen, Cora Witherspoon
Votes: 225
345. It's a Small World (1935)
70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Socialite Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin run into each other in an automobile accident. Clummerhorn is a small town judge, sheriff, etc. and decides to try them. She is trouble at first,... See full summary »
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn, Virginia Sale
Votes: 89
346. A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
68 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
This Republic murder mystery starts with a radio broadcast by Greg Sherman who solves cases on the air that the local police cannot solve. As he names the perpetrator of a recent murder we ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: John Howard, Margaret Lindsay, Roscoe Karns, Mona Barrie
Votes: 154
347. Her Primitive Man (1944)
79 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman sets out to prove that a writer's ideas about "savages" are wrong. She goes to the jungle and finds a "primitive" man to bring back, unaware that it is actually the writer himself disguised as a "savage."
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Louise Allbritton, Robert Paige, Robert Benchley, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 34
348. Meet the Wildcat (1940)
66 min | Mystery
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Schildkraut, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 69
349. I Live for Love (1935)
64 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Donna (Del Rio) is a diva of the stage and wants her lover Rico (Alvarado) as her leading man. To keep this from happening, the producers (Churchill, Cavanaugh) grab Roger Kerry (Marshall) off the street and say he has a contract.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dolores del Rio, Everett Marshall, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 151
350. Baby Face Harrington (1935)
62 min | Comedy, Crime
Willie Harrington is a wimpy small-town bookkeeper at a bank who unwittingly gets involved with the country's toughest gangster and his gang, and he gets suspected of being the leader of ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 261
351. You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard
Votes: 2,674
352. Honeymoon for Three (1941)
75 min | Comedy
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, nevertheless agrees to a tete-a-tete with a former college fling, loopy Danish girl Julie who is married to ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, George Brent, Charles Ruggles, Osa Massen
Votes: 513
353. 1,000 Dollars a Minute (1935)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Roger Pryor, Leila Hyams, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 162
354. In Caliente (1935)
84 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Hard-drinking Larry MacArthur, editor of a sophisticated magazine, is taken to the Auga Caliente resort by his publisher, Harold Brandon, in order to dry out and sober up. Larry becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Dolores del Rio, Pat O'Brien, Leo Carrillo, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 352
355. Hard to Get (1938)
82 min | Comedy, Romance
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards (Olivia de Havilland) tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis (Dick Powell), he makes her work out her bill by making beds... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Charles Winninger, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 682
356. Blonde Inspiration (1941)
72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Unknown writer Jonathan Briggs is tricked into buying in to a struggling western magazine only to find that all Is not as it appears. In the meantime, he falls for the publisher's assistant and complications arise.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: John Shelton, Virginia Grey, Albert Dekker, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 215
357. Naughty But Nice (1939)
89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Professor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Ann Sheridan, Gale Page, Helen Broderick
Votes: 349
358. Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
67 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Jerry North (William Post Jr.) and his wife, Pam (Gracie Allen)return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. The spirit soon vanishes when the body of a man falls out of the liquor ... See full summary »
Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly, Rose Hobart
Votes: 321
359. Hollywood Hotel (1937)
109 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star ... See full summary »
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 769
360. On the Avenue (1937)
89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Broadway producer satirizes an important New York family. The family sues but their daughter falls in love with the producer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers
Votes: 613
361. Mad Holiday (1936)
71 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Philip Trent is tired of playing film detective Shelby James, thinking that the stories are tripe, and plans a vacation to get away from Hollywood. But on the ship he meets a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy
Votes: 202
362. Three of a Kind (1936)
68 min | Comedy, Romance
Barbara "Babs" Penfield is trying to convince her father, laundry-magnate F. Thorndyke Penfield, to invest money in a proposition from her sweetheart Rodney Randall. Her father refuses as ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, Chick Chandler, Berton Churchill, Richard Carle
Votes: 127
363. That Other Woman (1942)
75 min | Comedy, Romance
Secretary Emily Borden is in love with her boss, Henry Summers, but he is too involved with Constance Powell to notice. Ralph is interested in Emily, but she has no interest in him. Emily's... See full summary »
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Virginia Gilmore, James Ellison, Dan Duryea, Janis Carter
Votes: 47
364. Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
80 min | Comedy
A man hides out in the country to avoid testifying in his friends' divorce. A girl who he thinks is a process server thinks he's a gangster. So do the sheriff and his men.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, Slim Summerville, Jane Darwell
Votes: 78
365. Marry the Girl (1937)
68 min | Comedy, Romance
The offices of a great newspaper syndicate are presided over by John B. Radway, obviously a nut, and his sister Ollie Radway, obviously the brains in the family. David "Party" Partridge, ... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Mary Boland, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Carol Hughes
Votes: 157
366. Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
A young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Brenda Joyce, Bruce Edwards, George Barbier, Hardie Albright
Votes: 34
367. Queen High (1930)
85 min | Comedy, Musical
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play... See full summary »
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan, Stanley Smith, Ginger Rogers
Votes: 127
368. Professional Sweetheart (1933)
73 min | Comedy, Romance
A vice-free radio singer wants to experience the dark side of life, so a press agent convinces her sponsor to choose a "professional sweetheart" from her fans.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, Zasu Pitts, Frank McHugh
Votes: 669
369. Ever Since Eve (1937)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
Lecherous bosses make it difficult for an attractive secretary to keep jobs, so she decides to appear considerably more homely in hopes of holding onto work.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly
Votes: 1,512
370. Dulcy (1940)
73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Ann Sothern, Ian Hunter, Roland Young, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 322
371. In Person (1935)
87 min | Comedy, Romance
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Ginger Rogers, George Brent, Alan Mowbray, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 497
372. Murder in the Private Car (1934)
63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed that she is Ruth Carson. As a child, ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle, Russell Hardie
Votes: 493
373. The Merry Frinks (1934)
68 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
An under-appreciated mother inherits a fortune and abandons her family.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 200
374. Snowed Under (1936)
63 min | Comedy, Romance
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell, Patricia Ellis
Votes: 401
375. Personal Property (1937)
84 min | Comedy, Romance
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor
Votes: 960
376. There Goes My Girl (1937)
74 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A screwball comedy in the vein of His Girl Friday (1940). Jerry and Connie are ace reporters for rival newspapers. They are engaged to be married, but their employers try every trick in the... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Holmes, Edward Killy | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Gordon Jones, Richard Lane
Votes: 218
377. My Lucky Star (1938)
83 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The son (Romero) of a department store owner enrolls the store's sports clerk (Henie) at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for a teacher (Greene) and gets expelled.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Sonja Henie, Richard Greene, Joan Davis, Cesar Romero
Votes: 202
378. Walking on Air (1936)
70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A stubborn young woman hires a struggling singer to play her obnoxious suitor in a scheme to overturn her father's objections to the man she really wants to marry.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Jessie Ralph, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 273
379. Hooray for Love (1935)
72 min | Comedy, Musical
A young man with money falls for singer Pat Thatcher, and her con man father makes the most of it.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Bill Robinson, Maria Gambarelli
Votes: 212
380. She's Got Everything (1937)
72 min | Comedy, Romance
Carol Rogers returns from Europe to discover that her recently deceased father has left her with huge debts and no resources to pay them. Aunt Jane suggests that Carol marry a South ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick
Votes: 276
381. Smartest Girl in Town (1936)
58 min | Comedy, Romance
Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she's determined to marry a rich man. Scheduled to meet a male model aboard a yacht, she meets the yacht's rich owner Dick ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Votes: 280
382. Love on a Bet (1936)
77 min | Comedy, Romance
In order to raise money to produce a play (as well as prove that the plot isn't ridiculous), Michael McCreigh makes a bet with his Uncle Carlton that he can begin in Central Park in his ... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Helen Broderick, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 188
383. A Bride for Henry (1937)
58 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A stood-up bride uses her lawyer as a stand-in groom for her absent and unreliable fiancé, hoping to get a quick divorce after the media interest dies down. In time, she realizes she may have wed the right man, but it might be too late.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Anne Nagel, Warren Hull, Henry Mollison, Claudia Dell
Votes: 286
384. The Magnificent Rogue (1946)
74 min | Comedy, Romance
A wife, under her maiden name, runs her husband's ad agency while he is away serving the forces. After his return, he wants her to be a housewife, but she wants to sign up a big account. A bet is made and whomever wins gets their way.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, Gerald Mohr, Stephanie Bachelor
Votes: 71
385. My American Wife (1936)
65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
My American Wife is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Harold Young and written by Elmer Davis, Edith Fitzgerald and Virginia Van Upp. The film stars Francis Lederer, Ann Sothern, Fred... See full summary »
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ann Sothern, Fred Stone, Billie Burke
Votes: 68
386. Footlight Fever (1941)
69 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Unable to secure financial backers for their new Broadway play, producers Don Avery and Geoffrey Crandall are about to abandon their endeavors when they are visited by wealthy Eileen Drake,... See full synopsis »
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Alan Mowbray, Donald MacBride, Elisabeth Risdon, Lee Bonnell
Votes: 62
387. Weekend for Three (1941)
65 min | Comedy
A young married couple's weekend is interrupted by the arrival of a brash, loud-mouthed acquaintance of the wife, who knew her before her marriage. He immediately proceeds to turn their ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Jane Wyatt, Phillip Reed, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 179
388. Petticoat Fever (1936)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
A lonesome wireless operator delays a couple who become stranded in Labrador.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Reginald Owen, Winifred Shotter
Votes: 494
389. Piccadilly Jim (1936)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
In London, an American street caricaturist falls in love with a young woman who suddenly disappears, prompting him to develop a comic strip based on a "From Rags to Riches" family, that he does not know is hers, causing her embarrassment.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore
Votes: 380
390. The Goose and the Gander (1935)
65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wife #1 wants ex-husband to catch second wife being unfaithful.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, John Eldredge
Votes: 455
391. Rafter Romance (1933)
73 min | Comedy, Romance
A man and a woman share an apartment on a shift basis, never seeing each other; she dislikes him until they actually meet.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, George Sidney, Robert Benchley
Votes: 847
392. Living on Love (1937)
61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mary, a sometimes employed Midwest transplant living in New York is forced to share an apartment with Jack, a starving artist-night watchman. Both having problems paying their rent, ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: James Dunn, Whitney Bourne, Joan Woodbury, Solly Ward
Votes: 276
393. One Big Affair (1952)
80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Jean Harper, a Pomona school teacher on vacation, is taking a bus tour through Mexico. Bored, she misses the bus and soon finds herself looking at Jimmy Donovan...30 years old and six feet ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Evelyn Keyes, Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Anderson, Connie Gilchrist
Votes: 75
394. One Night with You (1948)
92 min | Comedy, Musical
Two strangers meet when they miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of It Happened One Night (1934).
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Nino Martini, Patricia Roc, Bonar Colleano, Hugh Wakefield
Votes: 87
395. So's Your Uncle (1943)
65 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Billie Burke, Donald Woods, Elyse Knox, Frank Jenks
Votes: 26
396. Let's Get Married (1937)
68 min | Adventure, Comedy
Political kingmaker Joe Quinn (Walter Connally) attempts to elevate his daughter's ambitious suitor, George Willoughby (Reginald Denny), into the the higher echelons of politics by getting ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Ida Lupino, Walter Connolly, Ralph Bellamy, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 46
397. Going Highbrow (1935)
67 min | Comedy, Romance
Cora and Matt have tons of money and have spent a lot just to be accepted into New York society. The problem is that New York society has very little money. Matt prefers lunch counters and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, Edward Everett Horton, Ross Alexander
Votes: 244
398. She Had to Eat (1937)
74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Arizona gas station owner (Haley) faces comic adventures after he is kidnapped by gangsters who have mistaken him for an escaped killer.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Jack Haley, Rochelle Hudson, Arthur Treacher, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 34
399. Mister Cinderella (1936)
75 min | Comedy, Romance
Automotive mogul Peter Randolph needs backers for his diesel engine. Eccentric millionaire Aloysius P. Merriweather is invited to dinner, but he sends barber Joe Jenkins in his place.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Jack Haley, Betty Furness, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 79
400. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
When Public Enemy No. 3 Sonny McGann meets composer Bob Gunther, he gets the idea of having Bob write music to a poem he has written about his long-lost sweetheart Sadie McGlonsky. ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Jessie Ralph, Johnny Downs, Peggy Moran
Votes: 29
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