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screwball comedy film
Fickle Juliet Marsden (Shirley Ross) breaks off her engagement to Lucius Lorimer (Jerome Cowan) for the third time to marry handsome singer and ladykiller Rodney Trask (Dennis Morgan). After the wedding, Juliet's Southern cousin, Laura Anders (Jane Wyatt), calls from South Carolina to apologize for not attending because of appendicitis. Juliet promises to visit Laura on her honeymoon and has Rodney write down the address.
Comedy drama
A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
An aging actor, John Mannering, is surprised when his estranged daughter, Kay Martin, shows up. She is an actress trying to succeed on Broadway. He is persuaded to perform on Broadway for the first time in twelve years in a play with her.
Comedy horror
Four friends find more than they bargained for on a trip to the country.
Comedy
Newlyweds Ted (Kirk) and Margie Hastings (Helm) go on honeymoon at the hotel of Margie's uncle, Jacques Phillipe (Bergerac). Nervous about the prospect of having sex, Margie picks up a copy of Mother Goose and begins reading from it, causing Ted to faint. Dr.
Comedy
Three teenagers seem to be on an interminably long wait for university. In the hiatus, they carry on with various shenanigans. Uzzie tries his hand on becoming an artist, his friend Segun keeps a bag packed for an always impending trip to New York and the other one tries to make his father believe in and respect him.
Comedy, Drama
This time around, the East Side Kids, a gang of well-meaning young rough-necks in New York, are pulled into a murder mystery. They manage to rescue a young girl by the name of Sylvia from her violent stepfather Morley's abuse. Soon after, the stepfather is killed by a gangster called McGaffey for interfering with his racketeering operation by stealing his money.
Comedy
Comedy
Sach has lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he was not paid. Slip accompanies Sach to the detective's office to demand payment but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective.
Comedy
Comedy
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous that his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt, which causes her to leave.
Comedy
romantic comedy
After they are separated shortly after their marriage, Annabelle doesn't really know what her husband looks like. When they meet later she finds herself falling in love with him, without realizing that they are already married.
Comedy
Anxious to go fishing, Spanky skips out of Sunday school, despite the admonitions of his pals Alfalfa, Mildred, Sidney, and Marianne that "Something's going to happen to you." Actually, everything happens to Spanky and his kid brother (Eugene "Porky" Lee) in the course of the morning. Chased out of a private estate by a cantankerous caretaker, the two boys wander into a dark, mysterious woods just as an eclipse occurs and at the same time a large group of Black worshipers are holding a mass baptism ceremony. Some view the baptism and background singing of the Negro spiritual "I Am Leaning on The Lord", which contains the words: "Why don't…
Comedy drama
This story explores a bookmaker Ronnie Fortescue, who becomes headmaster of a boys' school, and of his and his pupil's adventures in passing examinations and on a subsequent free trip to Paris. Once in Paris, headmaster and pupils become embroiled in gambling casinos, and in a plot to steal the French Crown Jewels.
Comedy
Action, Comedy, Superhero
A hairdresser transforms into the superhero Madame X to fight off the threat of Kanjeng Badai and his militant, homophobic political party in order to prevent him from winning the election.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Comedy, family film, fantasy film, slapstick, sport film, teen film
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ernest Draper is an upstanding hard-working clerk. After being posted to man the £100 bet window at a racetrack, he celebrates but loses heavily at roulette. By chance he recoups his losses and gets involved with a group of villains whom he exposes as black marketeers.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Melodrama, silent film
Gladys O'Brien, a chorus girl, sees James Gordon driving an expensive custom-built automobile and assumes that he is a millionaire playboy, so she sets her sights on him. In reality, James is only an badly-paid insurance salesman who was driving his boss's car to do an errand. James is trying to sell an insurance policy to Turner, a real Broadway playboy.
musical film, romantic comedy
pornographic film
Ben-Hur Ova (played by Little), who has a loving and devoted wife, Miassis (played by Reddy), is voted the "World's Most Faithful Husband" by Ladies House Companion magazine. Lucifer U. Devil (played by Gardens) is upset because there have not been enough new souls in Hell.
Comedy
Eddie MacIntyre, press agent, talent scout, and right-hand man to J.R. Russell, Producer/Director of Perfection Pictures, is planning a scheme in which he will "plant" his girlfriend, actress Esther Harrington, in the Ozark Mountains, then "discover" her for the role of "Ruthybelle" in Perfection's upcoming production, "Thunder Over the Ozarks." With the full approval of Nicholas Raptis, Goldwynian president of Perfection Pictures, Eddie farms Esther out to a hillbilly family to remain until she is "discovered"---a discovery to be accompanied by fanfare and publicity. Russell has heard a recording or Esther's voice, but he has never seen…