Comedy Movies of 1936
Libeled Lady
Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, and William Powell star in this crackling screwball comedy about a cut-throat newspaper editor's scheme to prevent a libel suit that ends up exploding in ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Wife vs. Secretary
Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Follow the Fleet
This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave. For reasons unknown, Fred and Ginger are virtually ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
My Man Godfrey
One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
The Milky Way
One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Pigskin Parade
The first of 20th Century-Fox's college musicals, Pigskin Parade is also close to the best of them in musical terms -- though they were all at least pretty good on that level -- principally ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Modern Times
This episodic satire of the Machine Age is considered Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film, although Chaplin uses ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Something to Sing About
Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a New York bandleader who heads to Hollywood when he is offered a movie contract. The down-to-Earth Rooney resists the ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
August Week-End
Chesterfield Films, one of the busiest (though not necessarily one of the best) ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Earthworm Tractors
Joe E. Brown was an ideal choice for the character of Alexander Botts, the brash, arrogant "natural born salesman" created for The Saturday ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Drôle de Drame
In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by his cousin, a vicar, who shows up unannounced for a visit. Since the servants have just ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
The Gay Desperado
The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican bandit, Pablo Braganza, who ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Country Gentlemen
The zany vaudeville comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson was still one year away from their smash Broadway hit Hellzapoppin' when they starred in Republic's Country Gentlemen. The daffy duo ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Arizona Mahoney
Fabled Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who hadn't been seen on screen since 1930's Rain or Shine, essayed the title role in 1937's Arizona Mahoney. As in his ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
As You Like It
This film version of the famed Shakespearean comedy features Laurence Olivier as ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
Ticket to Paradise
In this comedy, an amnesiac takes off with a young woman. This causes the woman's father to hire a detective to find them. Real mayhem ensues when a nightclub owner/gangster gets involved. ~ Sandra ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
The Amazing Adventure
Amazing Quest was the original British release title of the 1937 comedy Romance and ... [ Comedy movie - 1936 ]
