Comedy Movies

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he’s accused of murder.

One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general…

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school’s owner to bilk a wealthy young man out…

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They…

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the…

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss…

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother’s choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.

To improve her image, a fan dancer “adopts” an old woman to be her mother.

A college football team recruits a tough convict.

Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero.

Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.

A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny,…

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

A reformer’s daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is…

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer’s daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is…

The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she…

Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate…

Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes…

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend’s racketeer father.

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector…

Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig…

A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they’re traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he…

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York’s Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him…

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws…

A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a…

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn’t long before he ups and clips her on…

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to…

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.