Joan Davis Movies

A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ed Wynn

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley Temple

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Kyser

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Henie

A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Henie

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Faye

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tyrone Power

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers

Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ginger Rogers

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dick Powell

The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Douglas

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Cantor

This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings....

Genre: Music

Cast: Ken Murray

This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features...

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Cast: Joan Davis

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Eddie Cantor

The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Davis

The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Genre: Music

Cast: Walter Winchell

When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Al Ritz

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joyce Compton

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Henie

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Don Ameche

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Winchell

A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jane Darwell

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nancy Kelly

A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Davis

The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.

Genre: Western

Cast: Joan Davis

A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Albert Dekker

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Claire Trevor

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lynn Bari

Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Martin

The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Davis

A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Sterling

A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gil Lamb

The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hedda Hopper

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Owen Davis Jr.

A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ned Sparks

Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers