Comedy

<p>Bing Crosby is in top form in the musical comedy Here Come the Waves co-starring Betty Hutton as identical twins! Johnny Cabot (Crosby) is a swell and stylish entertainer who gets enlisted by Uncle Sam to serve in the Navy, despite being turned down...

<p>The Wild Life stars Christopher Penn, Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Jenny Wright and Ilan Mitchell-Smith as teens on the verge of adulthood who discover that playing grown-up can be a confusing game. Older men, singles apartments, all-night parties and falling in love bring heartbreak...

<p>When Mary Peppertree (Deanna Durbin), a White House telephone operator, breaks her engagement to marry Phillip Manning (Jeffrey Lynn), an attorney for the Justice Department, it causes a stir and encourages two new admirers, David (Don Taylor) and Tom (Edmond O'Brien), to pursue her....

<p>After appearing in a Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac, actor John Sheridan (Charles Laughton) informs playwright Paul Taylor (Franchot Tone) that he wants a young, unknown actress to star opposite him in their next production, Strange Laughter. When waitress Kim Walker (Deanna Durbin)...

<p>Singing sensation Deanna Durbin stars an American schoolteacher who pretends she is the widow of a wealthy sailor to escape war-torn China with eight orphans in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Academy Award winner Barry Fitzgerald co-stars as the hilarious first mate who helps Mrs....

<p>Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race...

<p>Starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, The Bride Comes Home (1936) is a screwball comedy set against the backdrop of Chicago during the Depression. At the center of a romantic triangle is Jeanette Desmereau (Colbert), a socialite left penniless by the stock market crash...

<p>Hollywood legends Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray star in the classic screwball comedy Hands Across the Table. Regi Allen (Lombard) is a marriage-minded manicurist employed in a swanky hotel barbershop where she hopes to find herself a wealthy husband. She soon meets charming playboy...

<p>Ruby Carter (Mae West), the night club sensation of St. Louis, relocates to New Orleans and becomes the prize attraction of "The Sensation Club." West's risque brand of humor and naughty musical numbers enliven a plot that involves jewel thieves, a fixed boxing match...

<p>Dick Powell stars as a hardboiled PI with a taste for kibble in the over-the-top screwball comedy You Never Can Tell. When an eccentric tycoon leaves six million dollars to his faithful dog King, trustee Ellen Hathaway (Peggy Dow) is besieged by fortune hunters...

<p>Screen legend James Stewart teams up with Joan Fontaine in the romantic comedy You Gotta Stay Happy. Dee Dee Dilwood (Fontaine), a wealthy heiress, has just made the mistake of her life: marrying the wrong man. On the night of her wedding, she decides...

<p>The Prisoner of Zenda stars the unpredictable Peter Sellers stars in three hilarious roles in the hilarious comedy about a London cabby who becomes a king. The crazy old monarch of Ruritania (Sellers) dies, leaving the throne to son Rudolph (Sellers). But his evil...

<p>Two of the most popular entertainers of all time, Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields, pair up for the musical comedy Mississippi. Set in the Old South, a gentleman (Crosby) loses his honor and the respect of his fiance after he refuses to engage in...

<p>Two of the most popular actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, star in Maid of Salem. Inspired by the true-life Salem "witch trials", an independent young woman's (Colbert) liberal attitude and love for an adventurer (MacMurray) leads to...

<p>Lady in a Jam is a classic screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne as Jane, a young lady who is suspected of insanity after she squanders her entire inheritance yet refuses to accept her poor financial state. Dr. Enright (Patric Knowles) is the handsome doctor...

<p>Cary Grant and Joan Bennett chase down clues to bust a gang of crooks in Big Brown Eyes, a snappy comic mystery directed by Raoul Walsh and co-starring Walter Pidgeon. When her bickering banter with police detective Danny Barr (Grant) loses Eve Fallon (Bennett)...

<p>One of Hollywood's favorite screen duos of all time, Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, join together in the romantic comedy No Time for Love. A working class man (MacMurray) falls for a sophisticated fashion photographer (Colbert), but the picture is not pretty when he...

<p>Comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello gallop their way to the racetrack in It Ain't Hay - a rare, early film based on a short story by Damon Runyon. When a taxi driver (Costello) unwittingly kills a carriage driver's elderly horse, he and...

<p>Starring Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich, A FOREIGN AFFAIR is a cynical satire that mirrors the bewildering moral climate of the late 1940s. Phoebe Frost Arthur), an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying...

<p>Donald O'Connor headlines the musical comedy Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948) with co-stars Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, of Ma and Pa Kettle fame. When hair tonic salesman Wilbur McMurty (O'Connor) gets caught up in a rivalry between two frontier towns, he finds himself...

<p>Screen legend Claudette Colbert shines in the hilarious screwball-comedy Three-Cornered Moon. After losing their fortune in an unexpected stock market crash, the eccentric Rimplegar family must quickly learn to change their extravagant lifestyles. To make matters worse, the grown children must now get jobs...

<p>A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.</p>

<p>Starring Doris Day, The Ballad of Josie is a rousing western-comedy about a feisty widow who is determined to make a better life for herself and her young son. Independent and unwilling to fall into another submissive relationship, Josie decides to raise sheep, despite...

<p>Penny (Deanna Durbin) has a knack for matchmaking and realizes that her own two sisters Joan (Nan Grey) and Kay (Helen Parrish) could use her help since one of them is in love with the other's boyfriend. In attempting to manipulate the situation so...

<p>Newspaper publisher Bill Fullerton (John Halliday) offers his guest house to visiting reporter Vincent Bullitt (Melvyn Douglas) who is under a tight deadline to finish an important article and needs a quiet place to write. His arrival creates resentment from Fullerton's daughter Alice (Deanna...

<p>In The Perfect Furlough, the fun begins when the Army's top brass meet to discuss the morale problems occurring at an outpost in the remote Arctic. It seems that the 104 bachelors stationed there for the past seven months are going utterly stir crazy....

Comedy legend W.C. Fields stars as a touring actor in search of a wife in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. A struggling mother with five mouths to feed, Mrs. Wiggs (Pauline Lord) waits patiently for her husband, who has been gone for three...

Kirk Douglas plays matchmaker to three luscious sisters in the zany romantic comedy For Love or Money co-starring Mitzi Gaynor and Gig Young. Despairing at her three daughters' choices in men, an eccentric widow (Thelma Ritter) pays attorney Deke Gentry (Douglas) $100,000 to pair...

<p>It Started with Eve brings together the exceptional talents of Deanna Durbin and Charles Laughton in a hilarious misadventure of love and romance. An old millionaire (Laughton), believed to be in his final days, wishes to meet the young lady that his son Johnny...

<p>Claudette Colbert stars with Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young in the romantic comedy I Met Him in Paris. After saving enough money for her dream vacation, fashion designer Kay Denham (Colbert) sails to Paris leaving her dull fiance behind. Once there, she meets a...

<p>Matthew Broderick stars in the outrageous comedy Out on a Limb. When hotshot Manhattan stockbroker Bill Campbell (Broderick) receives a call for help from his younger sister, who is convinced her stepfather is up to no good, he gets mixed up in a kidnapping...

<p>Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) is the world's most famous movie star. William Thacker (Hugh grant) owns a travel bookstore in the quaint neighborhood of Notting Hill. When their paths cross, the couple comes to face the ultimate question: can two people fall in love...

<p>Screen legend Claudette Colbert leads an all-star cast in the adventure-filled Four Frightened People directed by Cecil B. DeMille. When a deadly bubonic plague breaks out on a coastal steamer ship, four passengers steal a lifeboat and set sail on a mission of survival....

<p>Mae West plays Peaches O'Day, a con artist who can sell anything, including the Brooklyn Bridge.</p>

<p>Sean Connery heads an all-star cast in A Good Man in Africa - a wickedly funny comedy about sex, power and colliding cultures. Politics are already strained between English imperialists and the West African government of Kinjanja when womanizing British diplomat Morgan Leafy (Colin...

<p>In Family Honeymoon (1948), Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray star as a couple engaged to be married... but there's a hitch! Though it is the first time to the altar for Grant (MacMurray), his bride Katie (Colbert) is a widow with three children and...

<p>Bing Crosby stars as press agent Tony Marvin whose job at a pineapple company is to turn Hawaii into pure paradise in the musical comedy Waikiki Wedding. Tony is tasked with escorting a beauty contest winner (Shirley Ross) and her friend (Martha Raye) on...

<p>It's a spoof to end all spoofs as Marty Feldman shatters the Gary Cooper/French Foreign Legion classic in The Last Remake of Beau Geste. Set in England and Morocco in 1906, Feldman's "remake" mocks all the do-or-die extravaganzas we've known and loved as he...

<p>Natalie Wood and George Segal star in The Last Married Couple in America - a contemporary comedy that addresses the divorce epidemic that has been sweeping the country head on. Mari (Wood) and Jeff Thomson (Segal) are a happily married couple in Beverly Hills...

<p>Sophie has just one wish to make her wedding perfect: to have her father walk her down the aisle. Now she just has to find out who he is. Join the music, laughter and fun of the irresistibly charming Mamma Mia! The Movie. Academy...

<p>Trotter Polling Company employee Pete Marshall (Fred MacMurray) is sent down the back roads and into the backwoods in search for a missing fellow employee in Murder, He Says (1945). The city slicker soon finds himself mixed up with a family of homicidal hillbillies...

<p>Undeniably one of the most glamorous actresses to ever grace the silver screen, Marlene Dietrich stars as the impoverished Countess Claire Ledoux in Flame of New Orleans. With only one thing on her mind -- to marry a mean of means -- Ledoux's engagement...

<p>Comic genius Jim Carrey stars with Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman in the entertaining comedy hit of the year that critics are applauding as a "laugh a minute" (Jim Ferguson, FOX-TV). Bruce Nolan (Carrey) is a TV reporter who believes the entire universe is...

<p>Crackers stars Donald Sutherland, Sean Penn and Jack Warden as part of a bunch of crazy, off-the-wall characters who would buy the American Dream...if only they could afford the down payment! There's Weslake, out of work but never short of hope; Boardwalk, a pimp...

<p>A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman...

<p>Academy Award winners Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald re-team in Welcome Stranger - their follow-up film to Best Picture winner Going My Way. Dr. McRory (Fitzgerald) is a crotchety old physician who decides to take his first vacation in years. He requests a substitute...

<p>Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich makes her American film debut opposite Gary Cooper in Morocco. Jaded cabaret singer Mademoiselle Amy Jolly (Dietrich) falls for Tom Brown (Cooper), a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion. After Tom overhears the wealthy man-of-the-world Monsieur La Bessier (Adolphe...

<p>The Other Side of the Mountain is the inspirational true story of Olympic hopeful Jill Kinmont (Marilyn Hassett). Kinmont, an up-and-coming world-class skier, faces her greatest challenge when she is left paralyzed from the neck down after a tragic accident during a pre-Olympic competition...

<p>An often overlooked comedy gem, The Gilded Lily (1935) marks the first teaming of screen legends Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray and is the epitome of a New York City urban fantasy. Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert), nicknamed Lynn,...

<p>In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) is a powerful anti-war drama in which Cary Grant and Fredric March play rival pilots with opposing codes of honor during World War I. The story was written...