Comedies

BRAVO say critics about an entertainers tell-all memoir chronicling her days in the cabaret act Barry Nichols and Les Girls. Libel! Cries another of Les Girls, setting in motion a talons- and fact-baring litigation that proves Les Girls will be girls and...

Quintessential Fifties romantic comedy features Frank Sinatra as theater agent Charlie Reader, a hip bachelor whose ways with the women impress his unhappily married best pal and current house guest Joe McCall (David Wayne). Charlie's lifestyle is put to...

You'd think chilled borscht pulses in her veins. She's Ninotchka Yoshenka, a lovely yet severe Soviet envoy sent to Paris to rescue wayward comrades from the perils of champagne and capitalism. But there may be a thaw in Ninotchka's Cold War. She meets...

New York adman Jim Blandings is ready to say goodbye to his cramped city apartment and build, from the ground up, a Connecticut home with room enough for his growing family and dreams. All it will cost him is his time and money and perhaps his job,...

Bored socialite Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) was irked by the devotion of banker husband James (Ian Bannen) to his job-and that resentment found expression in outrageous bouts of kleptomania. As she launches elaborate schemes to plunder from their...

Before she became a great star and two-time Academy Award winner, Jane Fonda was a screen ingenue who sent a string of bubbly romantic comedies soaring, including this charmer from the prolific pen of Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother, The Devil and Miss...

It's social season in London, and amid the swirl of coming-out balls, the aristocratic Broadbents (real-life marrieds Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall) are intent on giving their American-educated 17-year-old daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee), the right entry into...

Lively musical-comedy starring Doris Day as Marjorie Winfield, a tomboy in a small Indiana town before World War I who falls for unconventional college student William Sherman (Gordon MacRae), much to the dismay of her banker father. Partially based on...

Left in the lurch when a singer client bails on his radio show contract, agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson) has to scramble for a new talent-and he thinks he has one when he hears the vocals of factory worker/single mom Martha Gibson (Doris Day). But, is he...

Starting his career with Nichols and May, training most of the original cast of SNL and forming Second City, and being the inspiration for the ever popular Upright Citizens Brigade theater (UCB), there isn't a comic working today who wasn't fostered or...

David Mamet's sly and charming comedy is set in a quaint New England town where a Hollywood production team takes residence to shoot the period drama "The Old Mill." A series of surprising entanglements ensue-romantic and otherwise-involving the cast,...

When her best friend Danny ropes her into taking her spot at the Women's Arm Wrestling Championship, nice girl baker Melanie must trade whisks for barbells to fight the reigning champ for a chance at the grand prize and newfound badassery.