Comedy Movies of 1959

Some Like It Hot

The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters were male musicians so desperate to get a job that they ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

I'm All Right Jack

Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features Ian Carmichael as the inept Stanley Windrush, a hopeless twit with -- we are to believe -- an Oxford degree. ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

The Mouse That Roared

The economy of the teeny-tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick is threatened when an American manufacturer comes up with an imitation of Fenwick's ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

A Hole in the Head

Although the main character, Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra), in this light ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

Pillow Talk

The fabulously successful Pillow Talk was essentially Shop Around the Corner for the 1950s. Playboy composer Rock Hudson and interior-decorator Doris Day are obliged to share a telephone party ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

Operation Petticoat

Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) visits the submarine Sea Tiger on the morning of its decommissioning and reminisces about his ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

It Happened to Jane

Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

The Shaggy Dog

This is a routine Disney comedy-fantasy about a boy who turns into a large sheep dog at the most inopportune moments. That is assuming there would be opportune moments. Young ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

Li'l Abner

1959's Li'l Abner was adapted from the hit 1956 Broadway musical--which, in turn, was inspired by the ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

Santa Claus

Yet another oddball Mexican fantasy brought to ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

When Comedy Was King

Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy), When Comedy Was King covers the years 1914 ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

The Wild Women of Wongo

In this oddball cult favorite, Mother Nature decides to try out a fun little experiment on a remote tropical island. Two different primitive tribes ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]

The Headless Ghost

In this spooky film, three American exchange students visit an English castle purported to be haunted. The lads want to see if the local legend is true. At sundown the boys are accosted by ... [ Comedy movie - 1959 ]