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Comedy Movies of 1942

The Road to Morocco

Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African coast. Commandeering a convenient camel (who takes time to ad-lib a spit in ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

The Talk of the Town

George Stevens' Talk of the Town is a quick-witted ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

The Palm Beach Story

As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

To Be or Not to Be

Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of comedienne Carole Lombard. In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

Woman of the Year

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn costarred for the first ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

The Major and the Minor

A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

Holiday Inn

Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

Mr. Wise Guy

In this "East Side Kids" escapade (the eighth in the series), the gang, led by Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), help a man load a barrel on a ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

Baby Face Morgan

This homey little comedy is predicated on the notion that bucolic country boy Morgan (Richard Cromwell) is the son of a notorious Roaring-Twenties racketeer. Morgan ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

The Bashful Bachelor

The Bashful Bachelor was the second of six 1940s B films inspired by the popular radio series Lum 'N' Abner. The two principal characters are the proprietors of the Jot 'Em Down Store in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Lum (Chester Lauck) ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

Hillbilly Blitzkrieg

Popular comic strip characters Snuffy Smith, his pal Barney Google, and their ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

Inside the Law

In this crime comedy, a gang of reformed criminals takes over the town bank and must then fight with their temptation to rob it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

Hay Foot

Instant recall allows a man to become a very valuable Good Samaritan in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

Three Smart Saps

Three lovely young ladies have to rely on their fiancés -- the Three Stooges -- to get their father out of prison. Surprisingly, their trust is not misplaced. ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]

Jesusita En Chihuahua

A Mexican man elected to the office of mayor is forced to choose between love and justice after he is injured by one of his sworn enemies and becomes aware of a clandestine romance that could set his town ... [ Comedy movie - 1942 ]


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