Comedy Movies of 1955
Mister Roberts
Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister Roberts. Written and partially directed by Joshua Logan, the film stars Fonda as Lt. ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
I Love Lucy: Season 05
I Love Lucy boasted a new sponsor (General Foods, taking over from Philip Morris Cigarettes), a new director, and new addition to its writing staff for its fifth season on the air. Otherwise, it's the same old zany redhead Lucy Ricardo ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
Guys and Dolls
This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This material was fleshed out into a 2-act libretto by Abe Burrows and Jo ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
We're No Angels
Samuel and Bella Spewack's English adaptation of French playwright Albert Husson's morbidly humorous stage piece My Three Angels was brought to the screen as the heavily laundered but still wickedly funny We're No ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
The Trouble with Harry
The trouble with Harry is that he's dead. The scene is a autumnal Vermont village, where a pre-Leave It to Beaver Jerry Mathers stumbles upon Harry's corpse in the woods. Mathers alerts his mother Shirley MacLaine (making her ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
Doctor at Sea
This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his first job as ship's doctor on a freighter, ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
The Tender Trap
Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith's Broadway hit The Tender Trap is transformed into a beguiling Frank Sinatra film vehicle. Sinatra plays a Manhattan showbiz agent, ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou hire themselves out as ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
The Seven Year Itch
Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer vacation, staying behind to ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
The Ladykillers
Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
Teaserama
Teaserama was the second feature-film project of "girlie picture" ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
Lay That Rifle Down
In this musical comedy, a young woman endures the drudgery of working as a charwoman in her aunt's ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
Smiles of a Summer Night
Bergman's comic masterpiece opens with middle-aged lawyer Frederik Egerman (Gunnar Bjornstrand) again failing to consummate his marriage with the much younger Anne (Ulla ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
Fresh from Paris
This jerry-built Allied Artists musical is also known as Showtime, Fresh From ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
The Honeymooners [TV Series]
Although he tried very hard to become a movie star as well as create and ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
The Phil Silvers Show [TV Series]
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Pablo Y Carolina
Mauricio De La Serna's romantic comedy Pablo Y Carolina concerns a woman named Carolina who juggles three different men who are pursuing her romantically. When she begins to suspect that yet another man might be her true love, she pretends ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
Cuidado Con el Amor
This Mexican musicomedy was released in English-speaking markets as Watch Out For Love. Pop star Pedro Infante plays a happy-go-lucky young man whose ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
Lo Que le Paso a Sanson
The biblical tale of Samson and Delilah comes to hilarious life in a classic musical sword and sandal parody starring screen legend Tin-Tan (aka Germán Valdés). Drifting off into a ... [ Comedy movie - 1955 ]
