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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour star in this romantic comedy/film noir parody. Spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style, the film features Lon Chaney, Jr. playing Willie, a character based on his Of Mice and Men role Lennie; Peter Lorre as Kismet, a comic take on his many film noir roles; an...
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Parlor Bed And Bath (1931)
Buster Keaton's third talking picture after his successful silent career. It was filmed partly at Keaton's own house. MGM insisted on watering down Buster's ideas but it still entertains. Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket, Ukelele Ike) appears as the Bellhop.
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Borrowed Wives (1930)
Borrowed Wives is a 1930 American pre-Code Comedy directed by Frank R. Strayer. Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
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ZIS BOOM BAH (1941)
With Peter Lind Hayes, Huntz Hall and Skeets Gallagher. Grace Haye (essentially playing herself) has been playing the vaudeville circuit to finance her son's college education.
Tiring of the road, she goes incognito to visit her son (played by her real-life son Peter Lind Hayes) with her assista... -
Earthworm Tractors (1936)
Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Dick Foran. The film is based on a series of stories in The Saturday Evening Post. The series featured Alexander Botts, an eternally optimistic self-proclaimed "natural-born salesman", and the Earthworm Tractor Company, and was inspired in part by author William Hazlett...
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IT'S A JOKE SON (1947)
Features radio comedian Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, the inspiration for the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn.
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Dixiana (1930)
It's a toss-up whether this is a musical or a comedy but since it features Wheeler and Woolsey, it's officially a comedy.
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Father's Little Dividend (1951)
This sequel to to the MGM hit Father of the Bride stars Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett and Billie Burke. This film too was a major hit.
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Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943)
Mantan Moreland, Edgar Kennedy, and Gale Storm. Two criminal organizations engage in kidnapping for ransom. The entrance of Cosmo Jones. The police are at a loss to stop a crime wave by these gangsters, when Cosmo Jones steps in to save the day.
Mantan Moreland, Edgar Kennedy, Gale Storm
