Comedies

After years of missteps, Tom Wakefield (Robert Young) succeeds in selling his razorless shaving cream for the life-changing sum of $250,000 and promptly goes on a madcap spending spree, much to the dismay of his levelheaded fiancee, June Baylin (June...

If this is overcrowding, squeeze yourself in - fast. With a clutch of pros spinning comedy gold from a topical situation - the Washington, DC World War II housing shortage - The Doughgirls, from Joseph Fieldss Broadway hit, starts at a farcical gallop...

June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young. In this romantic comedy a talented but unrecognized concert pianist decides to change her luck by dressing like a 12-year-old girl and posing as a child prodigy to gain the professional attention of an impresario,...

Long before she was crowned the queen of TV, Lucille Ball reigned as the "Queen of the Bs" for RKO Pictures, appearing in over 43 films in under a decade. Although she had yet to find her niche, Lucy's prodigious talents, grace and charm as a performer...

Wisecracking Lee Tracy (Bombshell, Blessed Event) and screen beauty Gloria Stuart (The Invisible Man, Titanic) costar in this rollicking RKO comedic mystery about a pair of top-notch U.S. mail postal inspectors hot on the trail of mail thieves. After a...

Don't tell our beloved Queen Victoria, but prostitutes throng the streets of London, blocking access to tradesmen's shops. What to do? Her Majesty's Home Secretary has an idea: open an opulent government-run brothel and sweep the competition off the...

One of the longest-running comedy series in radio history, Fibber McGee and Molly starred Jim and Marian Jordan as a blowhard husband and his patient, long-suffering wife. Airing from 1935 to 1959, the series introduced a host of memorable supporting...

A genteel ladies' art institute is definitely no place for a free thinker. So the school boots independent-minded Dinah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) back to Baltimore. There, the scandalized townsfolk don't know which is more shocking, that Dinah is a...

Marge and Gower Champion dance up a storm in their first starring roles in this dazzling marital musical comedy costarring Dennis OKeefe. On the eve of their smash Broadway debut, hoofers Pamela and Chuck Hubbard (Marge and Gower Champion) find out...

In the Early Sound Era, talent from all over ' veteran vaudevillians, musical icons, radio personalities, Broadway luminaries ' performed in specialty shorts augmenting main features that packed moviehouses. One particular pack stood out: the amazingly...

Jealousy rears it's head in laughter as Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis and Van Heflin battle the green-eyed monster in The Feminine Touch, a snappy screwball comedy co-written by Ogden Nash. A college professor who believes there's no place...

Deep in the Ozarks, wrestling promoter Ed Hatch comes up with a great idea: pit his muscle-bound meathead of a wrestler against the local blacksmith, an Amazon named Sadie. Think of the publicity! Think of the ticket sales! This is the break Ed's been...