Comedies

A nation called out in it's time of need. Albert Brooks answered. Yes, he would venture into India and Pakistan on a top assignment for the USA. Yes, he would see if comedy could achieve what diplomacy and power has not - make the region's 300-million...

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...

We'll show them a thing or three, Honey Hale (Ginger Rogers) says as she and Fred Ayres (Fred Astaire) take to the dance floor to do the carioca. As events turned out, Astaire and Rogers showed us three times three more, making nine other films together...

The stars come out when the night shimmers like this! Young lovers Doris Day and Gordon MacRae return in a moonlit sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Rosemary DeCamp, Mary Wickes and Billy Gray rejoin them in this remembrance of World War I-era Americana...

From director John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) comes a family who puts the dumb back in stupid! Meet Stanley, Joan, Buster and Petunia... The Stupids. The lovable but dimwitted Stupids have a problem, because they've just discovered that...

A Broadway chorine (Joan Crawford) needs a little help with her hoofing, so her dance director (Clark Gable) gets an idea. A good idea. "Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?" And Fred Astaire, making his screen debut,...

Can a penniless perfume magnate (Barbra Streisand) find happiness managing the career of a has-been prizefighter (Ryan ONeal)? This screwball comedy answers that question... pow! Right to the kisser! The two stars reignite their What's Up, Doc? chemistry...

What do you do when you have a beautiful house, two great children and a Marriage on the Rocks? If you're bored Val Edwards (Deborah Kerr), you swap your fuddy-duddy hubby Dan (Frank Sinatra) for his swinging-bachelor best friend Ernie (Dean Martin) and...

The first of three films teaming Academy Award½-winners* Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and ably directed by famed director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story), Sylvia Scarlett tells the story of a young woman disguised as a man to evade the law,...

Jobs are scarce. Rooms to rent are scarcer. Times aren't easy for returning GIs in the years after World War II. But falling in love, that's easy. It Happened in Brooklyn. And it happens with Frank Sinatra (in a performance critically hailed as the best...

From upper crust to bread crusts! When wealthy Mr. Drake goes broke, the servants hatch a plan to restore his fortune and save their jobs: have a lovely maid pose as Drake's debutante daughter, hoping she'll land a rich beau. Soon, a suitor arrives. Good...

A small-town minor league baseball player from the wrong side of the tracks, struggling to make sense of his life, falls in love with a wealthy girl in this modernized take on Romeo and Juliet. Eventually he must decide between his burgeoning baseball...