Comedy Movies
Footlight Parade (1933)
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
Tillie and Gus (1933)
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father’s inheritance, including a ferry franchise and…
Bombshell (1933)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Busy Bodies (1933)
In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.
The Bowery (1933)
“In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves … but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as…
I’m No Angel (1933)
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she’ll put her…
You Made Me Love You (1933)
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he’s lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
I Yam What I Yam (1933)
Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy are shipwrecked on an island of hostile Indians
I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song (1933)
Blackout gags and music, including the title song originated in the movie musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy…
Doctor Bull (1933)
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen’s novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a…
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work…
Lady for a Day (1933)
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York’s high society. Upon…
We’re in the Money (1933)
After the last human has left the department store, the toys proceed to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song “We’re in the money”. The money soon…
Turn Back the Clock (1933)
While recuperating in a hospital after he’s hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he’d made different choices twenty years earlier.
Three-Cornered Moon (1933)
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth’s goofy brothers cannot…
Tugboat Annie (1933)
Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscientious son, Alec. Annie continually loses business…
The Midnight Patrol (1933)
Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.
Double Harness (1933)
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
Popeye the Sailor (1933)
Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop.
I Lived with You (1933)
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still…
Professional Sweetheart (1933)
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor’s product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample…
The Nuisance (1933)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she’s a special investigator for a streetcar company…
Let Me Explain Dear (1933)
A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!
International House (1933)
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical…
Three Little Pigs (1933)
The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery…
Ex-Lady (1933)
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
Betty Boop’s May Party (1933)
Betty and Bimbo, as Queen and King of the May, host a giant outdoor party that gets sprayed with rubber. Koko appears briefly.
Picture Snatcher (1933)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
The Devil’s Brother (1933)
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
Elmer the Great (1933)
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only…
Diplomaniacs (1933)
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians…
Me and My Pal (1933)
On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber’s daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle from Stan as a wedding gift. The boys soon become absorbed in the…
A Bedtime Story (1933)
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
So This Is Africa (1933)
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
Betty Boop’s Birthday Party (1933)
Betty drudges in the kitchen alone until her friends (including Bimbo and Koko) hold a surprise birthday party for her… which gets rowdy.
Ye Olden Days (1933)
The princess is to wed the Prince against her wishes. When she refuses, the king locks her in the tower. Minstrel Mickey sees her and rescues her, making a rope…
Betty Boop’s Penthouse (1933)
While Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster.
Girl Missing (1933)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy’s wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for…
Twice Two (1933)
A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie’s sister, and Ollie married Stan’s sister in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan and Ollie work in…