Comedy Movies
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier’s efforts to track down a German spy.
Sing Your Worries Away (1942)
This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has…
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he’s the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop…
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
While Judge Hardy handles a couple’s divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.
The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Roxie Hart (1942)
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in…
Whims (1942)
Ride ‘Em Cowboy (1942)
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude…
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to…
Mickey’s Birthday Party (1942)
The gang throws Mickey a surprise birthday party; his present is an electric organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey does a jazzy dance. Goofy bakes the cake, but keeps having…
Woman of the Year (1942)
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess’ hectic lifestyle.
The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
Pardon My Stripes (1942)
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of “Dope…
Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)
Karanina “Nina” Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the…
Porky’s Pastry Pirates (1942)
Porky Pig owns a bakery. Enter a bee and a fly.
All Through the Night (1942)
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Sirius (1942)
Tibor Ákos, an intrepid and dreamy Hungarian count, embarks on an incredible adventure when he accepts the inconceivable challenge set by the eccentric Professor Sirius, who has invented a peculiar…
Holiday Inn (1942)
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush….
Babes on Broadway (1941)
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to…
Louisiana Purchase (1941)
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
Porky’s Pooch (1941)
A dog named Rover explains to a black, down-on-his-luck shaggy dog named Andy how he got his master. He went into a hotel room and bothered someone taking a bath–Porky…
Playmates (1941)
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant…
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every…
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Kathleen (1941)
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams…
Steel Against the Sky (1941)
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Chef Donald (1941)
Donald decides to try cooking along with a radio show.
Ball of Fire (1941)
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated,…
Design for Scandal (1941)
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won’t be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey,…
Marry the Boss’s Daughter (1941)
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won’t listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
The Mexican Spitfire’s Baby (1941)
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Keep ‘Em Flying (1941)
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps…
Look Who’s Laughing (1941)
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the…
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Unexpected Uncle (1941)
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman’s aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
You Belong to Me (1941)
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
Great Guns (1941)
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he’s drafted.