Comedy Movies
Dames (1934)
A reformer’s daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
She Loves Me Not (1934)
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
Cab Calloway’s Hi-De-Ho (1934)
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…
Hide-Out (1934)
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…
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
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…
The Cat’s-Paw (1934)
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…
The Girl from Missouri (1934)
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…
Them Thar Hills (1934)
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie’s health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the…
The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)
The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with…
Midnight Alibi (1934)
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend’s racketeer father.
Baby Take a Bow (1934)
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry,…
Strong to the Finich (1934)
Olive runs some kind of boarding school. She serves her charges a huge bowl of spinach, but they are less than enthusiastic about it. Popeye comes by and demonstrates the…
Can You Take It (1934)
Popeye sees Olive going into the Bruiser Boys Club, where she works in the hospital ward. Their motto, “Can you take it?”, is a clear challenge to Popeye. President Bluto…
Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
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…
The Wise Little Hen (1934)
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…
Wild Gold (1934)
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…
Little Miss Marker (1934)
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…
The Merry Frinks (1934)
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Hollywood Party (1934)
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…
Stingaree (1934)
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…
Smarty (1934)
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…
Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame (1934)
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
Murder at the Vanities (1934)
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…
Twentieth Century (1934)
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Strictly Dynamite (1934)
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
We’re Not Dressing (1934)
Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with…
Merry Wives of Reno (1934)
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Harold Teen (1934)
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she’s preoccupied with appearing in their small town’s community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the…
You’re Telling Me! (1934)
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob….
Evergreen (1934)
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young…
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker’s daughter. The girl gets…
The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she’s gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she’s part of…
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
Come to Dinner (1934)
MGM’s all-star feature Dinner at Eight is parodied in this comic short, in which a cast of unidentified look-alike actors impersonate Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, ‘Jean Harlow’ , et al.
I’ve Got Your Number (1934)
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Fashions of 1934 (1934)
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of…
Six of a Kind (1934)
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney’s bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase,…
Search for Beauty (1934)
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
Hips Hips Hooray! (1934)
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.