Comedy Movies
Beach Picnic (1939)
Donald Duck is at the beach and tries to ride a rubber horse. He notices Pluto sleeping at the shore and decides to have some fun with him by sending…
The Girl from Mexico (1939)
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay’s shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and…
The Gorilla (1939)
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards….
Donald’s Cousin Gus (1939)
Donald Duck’s gluttonous cousin, Gus Goose, comes for a visit and practically eats him out of house and home. When the direct approach to getting rid of his voracious houseguest…
Some Like It Hot (1939)
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk…
Lucky Night (1939)
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The…
The Mikado (1939)
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month’s time, Ko-Ko…
Zenobia (1939)
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter’s upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
The Hardys Ride High (1939)
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In…
East Side of Heaven (1939)
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child’s family.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
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 fiancĂ©, and the youngest sister…
Midnight (1939)
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Let’s Be Famous (1939)
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.
An Hour for Lunch (1939)
Benchley shows how to budget one’s time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned.
The Little Princess (1939)
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
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…
Never Say Die (1939)
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…
Pygmalion (1939)
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…
Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
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…
Fast and Loose (1939)
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
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,…
The Three Musketeers (1939)
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)
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
St. Louis Blues (1939)
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…
Honolulu (1939)
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.
Society Dog Show (1939)
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…
My Friend the Monkey (1939)
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.
Idiot’s Delight (1939)
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Gunga Din (1939)
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)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
The Great Man Votes (1939)
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…
Sweethearts (1938)
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
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)
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)
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…
Thanks for Everything (1938)
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…
The Girl Downstairs (1938)
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…