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Comedy Movies of 1961

Lover Come Back

Although not as well known as Pillow Talk (1959), this romantic-comedy pairing of stars Rock Hudson and Doris Day earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. Hudson stars as Jerry ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

The Grass Is Greener

A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's "Stately Homes of England" is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

Come September

Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

All in a Night's Work

Tony Ryder (Dean Martin) thinks that Katie Robbins (Shirley MacLaine) was the mistress of a recently deceased millionaire. On this fragile plot peg ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

The Dick Van Dyke Show [TV Series]

It is now part of TV folklore that the classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 01

The first season of The Dick Van Dyke Show finds all the familiar ingredients firmly in ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Hijinks and spyjinks lighten this effective comedy by Richard Murphy, based -- very loosely -- on an actual incident in World War II. The place is somewhere in the Pacific and the not-so-good ship USS Echo, captained by the comic Lt. ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

The Absent-Minded Professor

One of Disney's most entertaining forays into live-action, this hit family comedy stars Fred MacMurray as a college professor so forgetful that he missed his own wedding twice. He ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

One, Two, Three

In his last starring film (it was supposed to be his last film, but Ragtime came along in 1981), James Cagney plays Coca-Cola executive C.R. ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

A Woman Is a Woman

Director Jean-Luc Godard's deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features Anna Karina as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

The Errand Boy

The second of Jerry Lewis' directorial endeavors, The Errand Boy, like its predecessor ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

The Ladies' Man

Comedian Jerry Lewis began directing movies in 1960, ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

Please Not Now!

In this romantic comedy, voluptuous Parisian model Sophie (Brigitte Bardot) is angered when she learns that her boyfriend Phillipe, a photographer, has been playing ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

The Flintstones: Season 02

The second season of the animated "prehistoric" sitcom The Flintstones gets under way with "The Hit Songwriters", the series' first utilization of a celebrity guest star (or, to be more precise, a caricatured celebrity supplying his/her own ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

Very Important Person

Very Important Person is an amusing British comedy set in a German POW camp during World War II. Sir Ernest Pease (James Robertson Justice) is a self-important professor with a bloated ego and a lightning ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

Creature from the Haunted Sea

This early bit of "B"-movie fluff from Roger Corman and company is a hastily slapped-together melange of crime thriller and monster flick, laced with ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

Frankenstein, the Vampire and Co.

A thoroughly unfunny Mexican parody of Universal's ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

El Pandillero

The popular, versatile, and talented Mexican comic and singer Tin Tan (Germán Valdés) stars as a gangster in this quickly-made, ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

La Casa de los Espantos

Alfredo B. Crevenna's sequel to the same year's Echenme al Vampiro is another Mexican-Venezuelan "old dark house" comedy originally filmed in three ... [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

Suerte te de Tios

[ Comedy movie - 1961 ]

Con Quien Andan Nuestros Locos

The Mexican romantic comedy Con Quien Andan Nuestros Locos follows the exploits of a man so sick in love with a woman that he jumps through a number of bizarre hoops in order to win her affection. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1961 ]


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