Comedies

The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps wearing a flowing gold lame dress. You've got to be out of your minds, Day exclaimed in a voice heard across the soundstage. I can't...

In 1979, Gilda Radner threw a summerlong party at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. Everybody came: Lisa Loopner, Judy Miller, Emily Litella, Rhonda and the Rhondettes, Candy Slice, Roseanne Roseannadanna. And many thousands of cheering theatergoers...

How did alley cats Top Cat, Choo-Choo, Brain, Fancy-Fancy and Benny the Ball end up in the swanky mansion of Gertrude Vandergelt? What's Benny doing in a dog pound? And why are the conniving butler Snerdly and his mad wolfhound Rasputin out to get Benny?...

Dignity Always. That's the motto of the ritzy department store owned by the Spear family - and that's the comportment corporate scion John Spear expects of his intended bride Josephine who toils in the store's accounting department.

Tom Smothers plays magician Donald Beeman soon to go up in lights as Beeman the Marvelous. Trained in magic by the odd Mr. Delasandro and issued his own rabbit Donald finds fulfillment and a special admirer while wowing locals at strip clubs.

Oscar and Golden Globe-nominee Joan Blondell (Grease, The Champ) stars in this enjoyable comedy about an eccentric millionaire who hires a gold digger to run his business. Dick Powell (42nd Street, Murder, My Sweet) and Ruby Keeler (That's Dancing!, 42nd...

On vacation with his family on California's Catalina Island, Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) falls head over swim fins for a sophisticated young beauty (Eleanor Lynn). Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) warns his son that she is too fast for him. But to Andy, that...

From best-selling humorist Max Shulman (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) comes this zany comedy starring Van Johnson, Janet Leigh and Louis Calhern, based on a story co written by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (The Caine Mutiny). When...

Julie Hampton (Lucille Ball) can tote a lunch pail and carry a tune. She's a Broadway star who's joined the Rosie the Riveters at Morgan Shipyards. Working with her is aspiring playwright Swanee Swanson, who insists Julie toil among the yard workers...

George White's Scandals was a Broadway sensation a series of revues bursting with comedy music and American beauties. The movie celebrates that tradition with knockabout comic Joan Davis and song-and-joke man Jack Haley playing stars and lovebirds.

Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West ' and into an adventure that will make him the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the...

A tenant gives her high-strung landlord a new lease on life in this sparkling romantic comedy starring Academy Award winners David Niven, Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford. When his business manager buys Eric Phillips (Niven) an apartment house as an...