Comedy Movies

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.

Popeye and Bluto run adjoining (and competing) fire companies. When Olive’s huge house catches fire, they are soon more interested in fighting each other than the fire. When Bluto goes…

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

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the…

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…

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

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…

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

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,…

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…

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…

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.

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

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.