Comedy Movies of 1937
A Day at the Races
A Day at the Races was the Marx Brothers' follow-up to their incomparable A Night at the Opera. Groucho Marx is cast as Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a veterinarian who passes himself off as a human doctor when summoned by ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Nothing Sacred
"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Shall We Dance?
The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
The Awful Truth
Leo McCarey directed this classic screwball comedy in which Cary ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Stand-In
Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Easy Living
Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest investment bankers in the country, but he also knows the value of a dollar. And when ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Fit for a King
In this romantic comedy, a rookie reporter works for his ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Hollywood Hotel
In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
The Affairs of Cappy Ricks
Returning from a trip, wealthy seaman Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) is annoyed to find his home automated, his ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Sing, Cowboy, Sing
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter once again battled the ornery Charles King in this average music Western from poverty row company Grand National. The ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
The Mandarin Mystery
There was some novelty value in the fact that an actor whose initials were E.Q. was cast as intellectual sleuth Ellery Queen in Republic's The Mandarin Mystery. That actor was Eddie Quillan, ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Swing It, Sailor!
Men may come and men may go, but silly service comedies like Swing It Sailor go on forever. James Dunn and Ray Mayer star as Pete Kelly ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Beware of Ladies
Beware of Ladies is a lightweight attempt at romantic comedy from the Republic studio mills. Donald Cook, who'd just finished playing Ellery Queen in Republic's Spanish Cape Mystery, is as stalwart and ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
A Bride for Henry
If the big-time studios could score in the "screwball comedy" genre, then small-time Monogram Pictures could join the club with A Bride for Henry. Warren Hull, fresh from a contract dispute with ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
Slaves in Bondage
A police raid on a roadhouse leads to a war on vice that results in the downfall of a vicious gangster and the sadistic madam who runs his prostitution ring in this ... [ Comedy movie - 1937 ]
