American films

• Animal Crackers
  Animal Crackers (film)
  Animal Crackers is a 1930 American comedy film, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. The film was both a critical and commercial success upon initial release, and remains one of the Marx...
  
  
• Check and Double Check
  Check and Double Check
  Check and Double Check is a 1930 comedy film made and released by RKO Pictures based on the then-popular Amos 'n' Andy radio show. The title was derived from a catchphrase associated with the show.-Production:...
  
  
• The Cuckoos
  The Cuckoos
  The Cuckoos is a musical comedy film, released by RKO Radio Pictures and partially filmed in two-strip Technicolor. It features the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.-Plot:...
  
  
• Dixiana
• Feet First
  Feet First
  Feet First is a 1930 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, a very popular daredevil comedian during the 1920s and early 1930s. It was Lloyd's second & most popular sound feature. It is also one of his 'thrill' comedies, involving him climbing up a tall building. Harold Lloyd was one of very few...
  
  
• Half-Shot at Sunrise
• Hook, Line and Sinker
  Hook, Line and Sinker (1930 film)
  Hook, Line and Sinker is a 1930 slapstick comedy film starring Wheeler & Woolsey with Dorothy Lee. It was directed by Edward F. Cline.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Queen High
  Queen High
  Queen High is the title of an early musical-comedy produced by Paramount Pictures in 1930.Based upon a stage musical by Buddy DeSylva, Lewis Gensler, and Laurence Schwab, the storyline loosely concerns a rivalry between two businessmen that results in a game of poker...
  
  
• The Rogue Song
• Whoopee!
  Whoopee! (film)
  Whoopee is a 1930 "All-Talking All-Color" musical comedy film photographed in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film closely followed the stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1928.-Production:...
  
  

• Caught Plastered
  Caught Plastered
  Caught Plastered is a musical comedy film, released by RKO Radio Pictures starring the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.-Plot:Tommy Tanner and Egbert G. Higginbotham are two vaudevillians who were kicked out of the last town they performed in. After fleeing to the town of Lockville, the duo befriend...
  
  
• City Lights
  City Lights
  City Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
  
  
• Cracked Nuts
  Cracked Nuts
  Cracked Nuts is a 1931 comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Wheeler & Woolsey and featuring Boris Karloff.-Cast:* Bert Wheeler - Wendell Graham* Robert Woolsey - Zander Ulysses Parkhurst* Dorothy Lee - Betty Harrington...
  
  
• Ever Since Eve
• Everything's Rosie
  Everything's Rosie
  Everything's Rosie is a 1931 slapstick comedy film starring Robert Woolsey. It was one of the few films Woolsey made without comedy partner Bert Wheeler. It was directed by Clyde Bruckman.-Cast:*Robert Woolsey as Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop...
  
  
• The Front Page
  The Front Page (1931 film)
  The Front Page is a 1931 American comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. Based on a Broadway play of the same name, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer, and distributed by United Artists. The...
  
  
• Girls Demand Excitement
  Girls Demand Excitement
  Girls Demand Excitement is a 1931 film starring Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne, and Marguerite Churchill. Wayne and Churchill had starred in the widescreen Western epic The Big Trail the previous year...
  
  
• Monkey Business
  Monkey Business (1931 film)
  Monkey Business is a 1931 comedy film. It is the third of the Marx Brothers' released movies, and the first not to be an adaptation of one of their Broadway shows. The film stars the four brothers: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx, and screen comedienne Thelma Todd. It is...
  
  
• Peach-O-Reno
• Platinum Blonde
  Platinum Blonde (film)
  Plantinum Blonde is a 1931 romantic comedy motion picture starring Jean Harlow, Robert Williams, and Loretta Young . The film was written by Jo Swerling and directed by Frank Capra....
  
  
• Too Many Cooks

• Girl Crazy
  Girl Crazy (1932 film)
  Girl Crazy is a 1932 musical film adaptation of the stage play of the same name. The film was very unlike the stage play except for its score. It was tailored for the comic talents of Wheeler & Woolsey, a popular comedy team...
  
  
• Hold 'Em Jail
• Horse Feathers
  Horse Feathers
  Horse Feathers is a Marx Brothers film comedy. It stars the four Marx Brothers and Thelma Todd. It was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S. J. Perelman, and Will B. Johnstone. Kalmar and Ruby also wrote some of the original music for the film...
  
  
• Love Me Tonight
  Love Me Tonight
  Love Me Tonight is a 1932 musical comedy film produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart. It stars Maurice Chevalier as a tailor who poses as a nobleman and Jeanette MacDonald as a princess with whom he falls in love...
  
  
• Movie Crazy
  Movie Crazy
  - Plot :Harold Hall, a young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in the movies.After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a screen-test, and goes off to Hollywood. At the studio, he does everything wrong and causes all sorts of trouble...
  
  
• That's My Boy
  That's My Boy (1932 film)
  That's My Boy is a 1932 film that stars Richard Cromwell and Dorothy Jordan. It features John Wayne in an uncredited role as a football player.-Cast:* Richard Cromwell - Tommy Jefferson Scott* Dorothy Jordan - Dorothy Whitney* Mae Marsh - Mom Scott...
  
  
• This Is the Night
  This Is the Night (film)
  This Is the Night is a 1932 comedy film made by Paramount Pictures, and directed by Frank Tuttle.The film stars Lili Damita, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd, and Cary Grant....
  
  
• Trouble in Paradise

• Bed of Roses
  Bed of Roses (1933 film)
  Bed of Roses is a Pre-Code comedy film featuring Constance Bennett and Pert Kelton as a pair of rollickingly wanton prostitutes who occasionally get hapless male pursuers drunk before robbing them, at least until the girls are caught and thrown back into jail...
  
  
• Bombshell
  Bombshell (film)
  Bombshell is a Pre-Code film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone.-Plot:...
  
  
• Christopher Bean
• Dinner at Eight
  Dinner at Eight (film)
  Dinner at Eight is a Pre-Code 1933 comedy of manners/drama produced by MGM Studios. The film was adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, with additional dialogue supplied by Donald Ogden Stewart. Produced by David O...
  
  
• Diplomaniacs
• Duck Soup
• His Private Secretary
  His Private Secretary
  His Private Secretary is a 1933 comedy film starring Evalyn Knapp and John Wayne.-Cast:* Evalyn Knapp - Marion Hall* John Wayne - Dick Wallace* Reginald Barlow - Mr. Wallace* Alec B. Francis - Rev. Hall* Arthur Hoyt - Little* Natalie Kingston - Polly...
  
  
• International House
  International House (1933 film)
  International House is a comedy film, directed by A. Edward Sutherland and released by Paramount Pictures. The tagline of the film was "the Grand Hotel of comedy".-Actors:*Peggy Hopkins Joyce as herself*W. C. Fields as Prof. Henry R...
  
  
• It's Great to Be Alive
  It's Great to Be Alive
  It's Great to Be Alive is a science fiction musical comedy film produced by Fox Film Corporation, is a remake of The Last Man on Earth , and later influenced the novel Mr. Adam by Pat Frank.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• I'm No Angel
  I'm No Angel
  I'm No Angel is Mae West's third motion picture. West received sole story and screenplay credit. A young Cary Grant plays her leading man for the second time. Being Pre-Code, this was one of the few Mae West movies that was not subjected to heavy censorship...
  
  
• She Done Him Wrong
  She Done Him Wrong
  She Done Him Wrong is a Pre-Code 1933 Paramount Pictures comedy romance film starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Others in the cast include Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., Louise Beavers and Rochelle Hudson....
  
  
• So this is Africa
  So This Is Africa
  So This Is Africa is a 1933 comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Raquel Torres, and Esther Muir. It was Wheeler and Woolsey's only film for Columbia Pictures.-Plot:...
  
  
• Sons of the Desert
  Sons of the Desert
  Sons of the Desert is a 1933 American film starring Laurel and Hardy, and directed by William A. Seiter. It was first released in the United States on December 29, 1933 and is regarded as one of Laurel and Hardy's greatest films...
  
  

• The Affairs of Cellini
  The Affairs of Cellini
  The Affairs of Cellini is a comedy film set in Florence over 400 years ago. This 1934 movie was adapted by Bess Meredyth from the play The Firebrand of Florence by Edwin Justus Mayer. It was directed by Gregory La Cava.-Plot:...
  
  
• Babes in Toyland
  Babes in Toyland (1934 film)
  Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical film released in November 1934. The film is also known by its alternate titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet , March of the Wooden Soldiers and Wooden Soldiers .Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film...
  
  
• The Cat's-Paw
  The Cat's-Paw
  The Cat’s-Paw is a 1934 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Sam Taylor. It was one of the great silent film comedian’s few sound films....
  
  
• Cockeyed Cavaliers
• Hips, Hips, Hooray!
  Hips, Hips, Hooray!
  Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee. During its initial theatrical run, it was preceded by the two-color Technicolor short Not Tonight, Josephine directed by Edward F. Cline.-Plot:Todd stars as Amelia...
  
  
• It Happened One Night
  It Happened One Night
  It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter . The plot was based on the story Night Bus by Samuel...
  
  
• It's a Gift
  It's a Gift
  It's a Gift is a 1934 comedy film starring W. C. Fields, considered by film historians to be one of Fields' best and funniest films.It concerns the trials and tribulations of a grocery store owner as he battles a shrewish wife, an incompetent assistant, and assorted annoying children, customers,...
  
  
• Kentucky Kernels
• The Thin Man
  The Thin Man (film)
  The Thin Man is a 1934 American comic detective film starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease. Nick is a hard drinking retired detective and Nora a wealthy heiress...
  
  

• The Farmer Takes a Wife
  The Farmer Takes a Wife
  The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1934 play by Frank B. Elser and Marc Connelly based on the novel Rome Haul by Walter D. Edmonds. It was well-received upon its opening night on Broadway on October 30, 1934 at the 46th Street Theatre. The production was directed by Marc Connelly and used set designs by...
  
  
• Man on the Flying Trapeze
  Man on the Flying Trapeze
  Man on the Flying Trapeze is a 1935 comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a henpecked husband. As with his other roles of this nature, Fields is put-upon throughout the film, but triumphs in the end.-Plot:...
  
  
• A Night at the Opera
  A Night at the Opera (film)
  A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King. It was the first film the Marx Brothers made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after their departure from...
  
  
• The Nitwits
• Paradise Canyon
  Paradise Canyon
  Paradise Canyon is a 1935 Western film directed by Carl L. Pierson.John Wyatt is a government agent sent to smash a counterfeiting operation near the Mexican border. Joining Doc Carter's medicine show they arrive in the town where Curly Joe , who once framed Carter, resides...
  
  
• The Rainmakers
• Ruggles of Red Gap
  Ruggles of Red Gap
  Ruggles of Red Gap was serialized beginning December 26, 1914 in the Saturday Evening Post and became a best selling novel in 1915 by Harry Leon Wilson, adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year, and made into a movie several times, most famously in 1935.In the comedy Western film...
  
  
• Top Hat
  Top Hat
  Top Hat is a 1935 screwball comedy musical film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick . He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont to win her affection...
  
  

• Libeled Lady
  Libeled Lady
  Libeled Lady is a 1936 screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy, written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway....
  
  
• The Milky Way
  The Milky Way (1936 film)
  The Milky Way is a 1936 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. Directed by comedy veteran Leo McCarey, the film was written by Grover Jones, Frank Butler and Richard Connell based on a play of the same name by Lynn Root and Harry Clork which was presented on Broadway in 1934.An example of the popular...
  
  
• Modern Times
  Modern Times (film)
  Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that has his iconic Little Tramp character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in...
  
  
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role...
  
  
• Mummy's Boys
• My Man Godfrey
  My Man Godfrey
  My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava. The screenplay was written by Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by La Cava, based on "1101 Park Avenue", a short story by Eric Hatch. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her...
  
  
• Silly Billies
• Theodora Goes Wild
  Theodora Goes Wild
  Theodora Goes Wild is a 1936 American romantic comedy film that tells the story of a small town which is incensed by a risqué novel, little knowing that it was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading family. It stars Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas and was directed by Richard...
  
  
• Wife vs. Secretary
  Wife vs. Secretary
  Wife vs. Secretary is a comedy film directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown. It stars Clark Gable as a successful businessman, Jean Harlow as his secretary, and Myrna Loy as his wife, supported by May Robson as his mother and James Stewart, in one of his first memorable roles, as the...
  
  

• The Awful Truth
  The Awful Truth
  The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades...
  
  
• A Day at the Races
  A Day at the Races (film)
  Further reading* Elisabeth Buxbaum: Veronika, der Lenz ist da. Walter Jurmann – Ein Musiker zwischen den Welten und Zeiten. Mit einem Werkverzeichnis von Alexander Sieghardt. Edition Steinbauer, Wien 2006, ISBN 3-902494-18-2-External links:*...
  
  
• Double Wedding
  Double Wedding
  Double Wedding is a 1937 romantic comedy film. A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process....
  
  
• High Flyers
  High Flyers
  High Flyers is a musical comedy film, released by RKO Radio Pictures starring the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey. It would be the last film the duo made, as Robert Woolsey died a year later.-Plot:...
  
  
• History Is Made At Night
  History Is Made at Night (1937 film)
  History Is Made at Night is a 1937 romantic drama with elements of comedy and spectacle.It deals with a love triangle among a possessive shipping magnate, his beautiful wife, and a French headwaiter, with a spectacular ocean liner as a backdrop....
  
  
• The King and the Chorus Girl
• Nothing Sacred
  Nothing Sacred (film)
  Nothing Sacred is a 1937 Technicolor screwball comedy film made by Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by William A. Wellman and produced by David O. Selznick, from a screenplay credited to Ben Hecht, based on a story by James H. Street...
  
  
• On Again, Off Again
• Topper
  Topper (film)
  Topper is a 1937 American comedy film which tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple. It was adapted by Eric Hatch, Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran from the novel by Thorne Smith. The film was directed by Norman Z. McLeod, produced by...
  
  
• Way Out West
  Way Out West (1937 film)
  Way Out West is a Laurel and Hardy comedy film released in 1937. It was directed by James W. Horne, produced by Stan Laurel and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Plot:...
  
  

• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
  The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
  The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 American crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart. It was directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros. and written by John Wexley and John Huston, based on the first play written by short-story writer Barré Lyndon, which ran for...
  
  
• Bringing up Baby
  Bringing up Baby
  Bringing Up Baby is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures....
  
  
• Love Finds Andy Hardy
  Love Finds Andy Hardy
  Love Finds Andy Hardy is a 1938 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time. It stars Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford, Mary Howard and Gene...
  
  
• Professor Beware
• Room Service
  Room Service (1938 film)
  Room Service is an RKO film comedy starring the Marx Brothers and based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray. It co-stars Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Alexander Asro, and Frank Albertson.-Plot outline:...
  
  
• A Slight Case of Murder
  A Slight Case of Murder
  A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film is based on a play by Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay. The offbeat comedy stars Edward G...
  
  
• You Can't Take It with You
  You Can't Take It with You
  You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...
  
  

• At the Circus
  At the Circus
  At the Circus is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they save a circus from bankruptcy...
  
  
• Bachelor Mother
  Bachelor Mother
  Bachelor Mother is an American comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers , David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna based on a Academy Award nominated story by Felix Jackson...
  
  
• The Cowboy Quarterback
• Dancing Co-Ed
  Dancing Co-Ed
  Dancing Co-ed is a 1939 romantic comedy film starring Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, and Artie Shaw as himself.-Plot:When a dancer's partner becomes pregnant, a nation-wide search is instituted to find a replacement from among college women...
  
  
• East Side of Heaven
• Honolulu
  Honolulu (1939 film)
  Honolulu is an American musical film that was released by MGM in 1939. The film stars dancer Eleanor Powell and Robert Young, and was directed by Edward Buzzell....
  
  
• It's a Wonderful World
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American drama film starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story. Mr...
  
  
• Ninotchka
  Ninotchka
  Ninotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, based on a screen story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full...
  
  
• Topper Takes a Trip
  Topper Takes a Trip
  Topper Takes a Trip is a 1938 film sequel of Topper . Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray reprised their roles from the earlier movie; only Cary Grant was missing . A ghost tries to reunite a couple who she had a hand in splitting up in the prior film...
  
  
• The Women
  The Women (1939 film)
  The Women is a 1939 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code in order for it to be released.The film...
  
  

Short American films

• Brats
  Brats
  Brats is a 1930 Laurel and Hardy comedy short. The film was directed by James Parrott. Laurel and Hardy play dual roles as their own children....
  
  
• Shivering Shakespeare
  Shivering Shakespeare
  Shivering Shakespeare is an Our Gang short film directed by Robert A. McGowan under the pseudonym "Anthony Mack". Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 95th Our Gang short to be released.-Plot:...
  
  
• One Way Out
• Teacher's Pet
  Teacher's Pet (1930 short)
  Teacher's Pet is a 1930 two-reel comedy short; part of the Our Gang series. It was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Robert F. McGowan, and originally released to theatres by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on October 11, 1930. It was the 101st Our Gang short to be released.-Plot:It is the first day of...
  
  

• Beau Hunks
• Chickens Come Home
  Chickens Come Home
  Chickens Come Home is a 1931 short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by James W. Horne and produced by Hal Roach. It was shot in January, 1931 and released on February 21, 1931...
  
  
• Helpmates
  Helpmates
  Helpmates is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and released by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer on January 23, 1932.- Plot :...
  
  
• The House That Shadows Built
  The House That Shadows Built
  The House That Shadows Built is a short feature film, roughly 55 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures, made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912...
  
  
• Our Wife
  Our Wife
  Our Wife is a Hal Roach comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. It was directed by James W. Horne and released in 1931 by MGM.-Plot:Oliver is making plans to be married to his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and...
  
  

• The Dentist
  The Dentist (1932 film)
  The Dentist is a 1932 American comedy short starring W.C. Fields. The film is one of four short films Fields made with the "king of comedy," Mack Sennett, at Paramount. Although Sennett was near the end of his career, he found good use of the new medium of talking pictures for comedy, as the film...
  
  
• The Music Box
  The Music Box (film)
  The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a large flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Live Action...
  
  
• County Hospital
  County Hospital
  County Hospital is the only hospital in Torfaen, Wales. It is located in the Pontypool suburb of Griffithstown....
  
  
• The Hollywood Handicap
• Running Hollywood
• The Voice of Hollywood No, 13

• Twice Two
  Twice Two
  Twice Two is a Laurel and Hardy short film. It is one of only three films where the boys each play a dual role.-Plot:A year prior to the first scene, Stan Laurel married Oliver Hardy's sister , and Oliver married Stan's sister in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan and Ollie work in...
  
  
• The Midnight Patrol
  The Midnight Patrol
  For the television cartoon, see Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone.The Midnight Patrol is a short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy released August 3, 1933.-Plot:Laurel and Hardy play two policemen on night patrol, hence the title...
  
  
• The Barber Shop
• Busy Bodies
  Busy Bodies
  Busy Bodies is a 1933 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. A series of gags set in a sawmill.Stan and Ollie arrive in high spirits for their new jobs at the sawmill and after walking into planks of wood Stan traps Ollie's hands in a window frame. After freeing him they trick Charlie Hall...
  
  
• The Fatal Glass of Beer
  The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933 film)
  The Fatal Glass of Beer is a short film released in 1933, starring W. C. Fields and produced by Mack Sennett. It was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures.-Story:...
  
  

• Going Bye Bye
• Odor in the Court
  Odor in the Court
  "Odor in the Court" is the twelfth episode in the second season, and the 35th episode overall, of the American dramedy series Ugly Betty, which aired on January 17, 2008. The episode was written by Bill Wrubel and directed by Victor Nelli, Jr.-Plot:...
  
  
• Punch Drunks
  Punch Drunks
  Punch Drunks is the second short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.-Plot:...
  
  
• Tit for Tat
  Tit for tat
  Tit for tat is an English saying meaning "equivalent retaliation". It is also a highly effective strategy in game theory for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. It was first introduced by Anatol Rapoport in Robert Axelrod's two tournaments, held around 1980. An agent using this strategy will initially...
  
  
• Woman Haters
  Woman Haters
  Woman Haters is the first short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.-Plot:...
  
  

• Pop Goes the Easel
  Pop Goes the Easel
  Pop Goes the Easel is the seventh short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Thicker than Water

• Movie Maniacs
  Movie Maniacs
  Movie Maniacs is the thirteenth short subject film starring American slapstick comedy trio the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.-Plot:...
  
  

• Termites of 1938
  Termites of 1938
  Termites of 1938 is the 28th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.-Plot:...
  
  

British films

• Ask A Policeman
  Ask A Policeman
  Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel which stars Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The title comes from the popular music hall song Ask a Policeman. The Turnbottom Round police force are threatened with dismissal by their Chief Constable and decide to...
  
  (1938)
• Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
• Dandy Dick
  Dandy Dick
  Dandy Dick is a 1935 British comedy film starring Will Hay. It was based on the 1887 play Dandy Dick by Arthur Wing Pinero. It is the second and last of his films to be based on a play by Pinero – the first was Those Were the Days which was based on The Magistrate.-Plot:A vicar who lives in...
  
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• The Divorce of Lady X
  The Divorce of Lady X
  The Divorce of Lady X is a 1938 British romantic comedy film made by London Films and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Tim Whelan and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Ian Dalrymple and Arthur Wimperis, adapted by Lajos Biró from the play Counsel's Opinion by Gilbert...
  
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• The Ghost Goes West
  The Ghost Goes West
  The Ghost Goes West is a British romantic comedy/fantasy film starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, and Eugene Pallette, and directed by René Clair, his first English-language film...
  
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• Good Morning, Boys
  Good Morning, Boys
  Good Morning, Boys is a 1937 British comedy film featuring Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Lilli Palmer and Peter Gawthorne.-Plot outline:Will Hay plays the roguish headmaster, Dr Twist, of a dubious boarding school for boys. Twist bets on the horses with his pupils and teaches them little...
  
  (1936)
• It's in the Air
  It's in the Air
  It’s in the Air is a 1938 British slapstick comedy film. It was released in the United States as George Takes the Air in 1940.- Plot outline :...
  
  (1938)
• Keep Fit
  Keep Fit
  Keep Fit is a 1937 British slapstick comedy film made at Ealing Studios.-Plot outline:George Formby again plays his working class underdog, gormless, gullible, indefatigable and triumphant hero....
  
  (1937)
• Oh, Mr Porter!
  Oh, Mr Porter!
  Oh, Mr Porter! is a British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel. While not his most commercially successful, it is probably his best-known film to modern audiences...
  
  (1937)
• Old Bones of the River
  Old Bones of the River
  Old Bones of the River is a comedy film released in 1938 starring British actor Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel...
  
  (1938)
• Pygmalion
  Pygmalion (1938 film)
  Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller....
  
  (1938)
• Trouble Brewing (1939)
• Where's That Fire?
  Where's That Fire?
  Where's That Fire? is a 1940 British comedy film, produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1939)

1930s

• The Cat Creeps
  The Cat Creeps
  The Cat Creeps is a crime/mystery film, and a sound remake of The Cat and the Canary . It is one of the many lost films of the early talkie film era....
  
  

• The Old Dark House
  The Old Dark House
  The Old Dark House is an American comedy horror film directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff, produced just one year after their success with Frankenstein, also released by Universal Studios.-Background:...
  
  

• The Cat and the Canary
  The Cat and the Canary (1939 film)
  The Cat and the Canary starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard is a 1939 comedy horror film remake of the 1927 film The Cat and the Canary, which was based on the 1922 play of the same name by John Willard...
  
  

Comedy drama

• A Successful Catanity (1932
  1932 in film
  -Events:*Cary Grant's film career begins*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*Disney released Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.*Santa, first sound film made in Mexico released....
  
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• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932 film)
  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1932 film based on the 1903 children's classic novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin.It was filmed by Fox Film Corporation and directed by Alfred Santell...
  
  (1932
  1932 in film
  -Events:*Cary Grant's film career begins*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*Disney released Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.*Santa, first sound film made in Mexico released....
  
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• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938 film)
  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1938 American musical film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, and Bill Robinson. The screenplay by Don Ettlinger and Karl Tunberg is loosely based on Kate Douglas Wiggin's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...
  
  (1938
  1938 in film
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of "Dorothy" in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. Ray Bolger is cast as the "Tinman" and Buddy Ebsen is cast as the "Scarecrow". At Bolger's insistence,...
  
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