Comedy Movies of 1940
Road to Singapore
The story goes that such stars as Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie and Burns & Allen had turned down The Road to Singapore before the leading roles went to Bing ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Pride and Prejudice
Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Brother Orchid
Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with usurping mobster Jack Buck ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
The Philadelphia Story
We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
The Great Dictator
"This is the story of the period between two world ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and newly hired ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
My Favorite Wife
Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
His Girl Friday
The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Torrid Zone
Torrid Zone star James Cagney once described the film as "The Front Page among the bananas." Indeed, the screenplay diligently follows the Front Page plot device of a tough boss (Pat O'Brien) pulling every underhanded trick in the book to keep his ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Young People
"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
The Ghost Breakers
Paramount followed up its successful Bob Hope/Paulette Goddard co-starrer The Cat and the Canary (1939) by warming up another venerable "old dark house" stage play, Paul ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Slightly Honorable
The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly Honorable. Adapted from F. ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Shooting High
Singing cowboy Gene Autry makes a rare appearance outside his usual Republic Pictures stamping grounds in 20th Century-Fox's Shooting High. Instead of playing "himself" as he usually does, Autry is ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Up in the Air
In this fast paced mystery, an eager page boy for a radio station tries to convince the owners to ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Remedy for Riches
Remedy for Riches was the fourth in RKO Radio's six-entry "Dr. Christian" series. Jean Hersholt returns as Dr. Christian, the wise and beneficent general practitioner of the town of River's End. The plot is thickened on this occasion by an ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
That Gang of Mine
Despite the ridicule of the rest of the East Side Kids, Mugs Maloney (Leo Gorcey) aspires to be a jockey. He gets his chance with the help of elderly stablehand Ben (Clarence Muse), the owner of a thoroughbred race horse. Ben agrees to ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Ahí está el detalle
In this Spanish-language comedy with echoes of a subplot in Chaplin's City Lights, the Mexican ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Featuring even more musical numbers than usual, this Tex Ritter Western from Monogram marked the feature film ... [ Comedy movie - 1940 ]
