Comedy Movies

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
IMDb: N/A
90

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another’s fiancé, and the youngest sister…

Midnight (1939)

Midnight (1939)

Midnight (1939)
IMDb: N/A
94

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Let’s Be Famous (1939)

Let’s Be Famous (1939)

Let’s Be Famous (1939)
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83

An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.

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Genre: Comedy, Music
The Little Princess (1939)

The Little Princess (1939)

The Little Princess (1939)
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93

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
An Hour for Lunch (1939)

An Hour for Lunch (1939)

An Hour for Lunch (1939)
IMDb: N/A
9

Benchley shows how to budget one’s time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned.

Genre: Comedy
Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)

Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)

Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
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75

Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn’t…

Genre: Comedy
Never Say Die (1939)

Never Say Die (1939)

Never Say Die (1939)
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82

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her…

Genre: Comedy
The Paymaster (1939)

The Paymaster (1939)

The Paymaster (1939)
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103

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Pygmalion (1939)

Pygmalion (1939)

Pygmalion (1939)
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96

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months’ training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Trouble Brewing (1939)

Trouble Brewing (1939)

Trouble Brewing (1939)
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87

Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)

Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)

Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
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68

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew’s daughter Nancy intercepts a real story…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Fast and Loose (1939)

Fast and Loose (1939)

Fast and Loose (1939)
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80

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
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76

Fields plays “Larsen E. Whipsnade”, the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure,…

Genre: Comedy
The Three Musketeers (1939)

The Three Musketeers (1939)

The Three Musketeers (1939)
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73

A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D’Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king’s Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of…

Made for Each Other (1939)

Made for Each Other (1939)

Made for Each Other (1939)
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92

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Honolulu (1939)

Honolulu (1939)

Honolulu (1939)
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84

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Society Dog Show (1939)

Society Dog Show (1939)

Society Dog Show (1939)
IMDb: N/A
8

Rather out of place at a swanky dog show, Pluto flirts with Fifi, a dainty Pekingese. The judge orders Mickey and Pluto to leave, but when a fire breaks out…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
St. Louis Blues (1939)

St. Louis Blues (1939)

St. Louis Blues (1939)
IMDb: N/A
92

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Idiot’s Delight (1939)

Idiot’s Delight (1939)

Idiot’s Delight (1939)
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107

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
My Friend the Monkey (1939)

My Friend the Monkey (1939)

My Friend the Monkey (1939)
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7

A hurdy-gurdy man goes by Betty Boop’s house; she wants to buy his monkey, which causes plenty of trouble for Pudgy the Pup.

Gunga Din (1939)

Gunga Din (1939)

Gunga Din (1939)
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117

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of…

Blackwell’s Island (1939)

Blackwell’s Island (1939)

Blackwell’s Island (1939)
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71

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Great Man Votes (1939)

The Great Man Votes (1939)

The Great Man Votes (1939)
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72

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Lone Stranger and Porky (1939)

The Lone Stranger and Porky (1939)

The Lone Stranger and Porky (1939)
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7

The Lone Stranger is sleeping when his faithful, if overly caricatured, Indian scout sees stagecoach driver Porky being robbed by a bad guy. The scout summons the Lone Stranger, who…

Sweethearts (1938)

Sweethearts (1938)

Sweethearts (1938)
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114

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)

Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)

Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
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67

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
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80

Mrs. Topper’s friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes…

There’s That Woman Again (1938)

There’s That Woman Again (1938)

There’s That Woman Again (1938)
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72

Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill’s prying wife wants to…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Girl Downstairs (1938)

The Girl Downstairs (1938)

The Girl Downstairs (1938)
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77

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn’t count on the maid falling in love with…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Thanks for Everything (1938)

Thanks for Everything (1938)

Thanks for Everything (1938)
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70

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a…

Genre: Comedy
Next Time I Marry (1938)

Next Time I Marry (1938)

Next Time I Marry (1938)
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65

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a “plain American.” Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Merbabies (1938)

Merbabies (1938)

Merbabies (1938)
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9

Walt Disney enlisted former colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to help create this underwater Silly Symphony. Ocean waves form merbabies who are summoned to an aquatic circus playground on…

Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)

Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)

Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)
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8

Daffy causes trouble on a Hollywood set.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)

The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)

The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
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62

In a wild west community populated entirely by residents with dwarfism, the Larson and Preston familes have been in a generations-long feud, recently strained by the actions of cattle rustler…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Western
Blondie (1938)

Blondie (1938)

Blondie (1938)
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70

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising…

Genre: Comedy, Family
The Daffy Doc (1938)

The Daffy Doc (1938)

The Daffy Doc (1938)
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7

After being thrown out of the operating room as Dr. Quack’s assistant, Dr. Daffy Duck makes Porky Pig his own – unwilling – patient.

Ferdinand the Bull (1938)

Ferdinand the Bull (1938)

Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
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8

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely…

Nancy Drew… Detective (1938)

Nancy Drew… Detective (1938)

Nancy Drew… Detective (1938)
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66

After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
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91

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family’s…

Thanks for the Memory (1938)

Thanks for the Memory (1938)

Thanks for the Memory (1938)
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75

Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick’s publisher who is…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance