Comedies

Glenn Fords first try at light domestic comedy demonstrates that he has the touch (The Motion Picture Guide) in the brisk and breezy Young Man with Ideas, costarring Ruth Roman. A shy Montana attorney who's never argued in court, Maxwell Webster (Ford)...

It's start-to-finish laughs when Polly Bergen is America's first female president.

A dose of Brit humor for what ails you! Terry-Thomas leads a cast of British wits and wags in a zany whodunit set in a posh spa. He plays private eye J. Barker-Rynde, hired by a wealthy dowager to investigate mysterious goings-on at Green Glades, a...

Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda (Klute, on Golden Pond) and Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland (A Time to Kill, Outbreak) star in this story about a zany group of free-wheeling outcasts set out to buck the establishment by stealing an old World War II...

Which rarely screened comedy has what Gene Kelly calls some of his favorite dance creations? That's right: Living in a Big Way. This 1947 movie is Kelly in a big way. Like many postwar films, Living in a Big Way embraces a familiar theme: The plight of...

People who live in glass houses... should shut the curtains, okay? Especially if red-haired, on-the-make window washer Ginger (Victor Henry) is on the job. The incessant amorous pursuits of Ginger and his pal Dwyer (Jack Shepherd) are coupled with...

Comedy sails merrily along on a sea of bathtub gin with two Prohibition-era romps. Formidable comedienne Louise Fazenda makes an unlikely flapper in Loose Ankles, playing the disapproving aunt of free-spirited Loretta Young. But when auntie is tricked...

After Love Me Tonight, Jeanette MacDonald left for Europe... and returned with an M-G-M contract. I Married an Angel was the studio's choice for the soprano's first Metro film. Choose again, said the censors. They would not approve a script about an...

Broadway star Maggie Garret sings for her supper. And for everybody else's. She's the meal ticket for relatives who sap her of money and time, rob her of the joy of living. But Maggie's workaday world changes when she meets a carefree millionaire who...

Everyone in Brookford can claim heroic ancestors of the Revolutionary War. Everyone that is except ex-entertainers Sam and Susie Parker. Until they find a letter from George Washington that acknowledges the heroism of a long-ago Parker patriarch.

Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver and Gregory Hines star as a team of ruthless arms dealers who will do anything to sell second-rate weapons to third world countries... until they get the chance to close a deal between a giant U.S. defense contractor and a...

Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner) is a very nice young man anxious to step out into the "adult world." His plan is to move out of his parents' Long Island house into an eighth-floor Greenwich Village walkup - and try to convince someone to share his...