Comedy Movies
The Two-Alarm Fire (1934)
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…
Lady by Choice (1934)
To improve her image, a fan dancer “adopts” an old woman to be her mother.
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
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…
Gridiron Flash (1934)
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
A Dream Walking (1934)
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.
Belle of the Nineties (1934)
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
Wagon Wheels (1934)
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,…
Judge Priest (1934)
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.
Sing As We Go (1934)
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
The Thin Man (1934)
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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…
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…
Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame (1934)
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
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…