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1930 Animal Crackers Comedy N/R, 98 Minutes
Director: Victor Heerman More Info
Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Lillian Roth, Robert Greig, Louis Sorin, Hal Thompson, Margaret Irving Capt. Jeffrey Spaulding (Groucho Marx) is being honored upon his return from Africa. The party becomes the centerpiece for a scheme to substitute a forgery for a valuable painting. Uproariously funny film. Groucho Marx: "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." |
1930 Be Yourself! Comedy / Musical N/R, 65 Minutes
Director: Thornton Freeland More Info
Starring: Fanny Brice, Robert Armstrong, Harry Green, G. Pat Collins, Gertrude Astor, Budd Fine, Marjorie Kane, Rita Flynn, Anderson Lawler Down-on-his-luck boxer Jerry Moore (Robert Armstrong) is befriended by nightclub entertainer Fannie Field (Fanny Brice) who, with help from her brother Harry (Harry Green), turns Jerry into a prizefighter. But, in the process, Fannie's rival Lillian (Gertrude Astor) steals Jerry from her. Fannie solves the problem by setting up a rematch in which she tells Jerry's opponent (G. Pat Collins) to attack Jerry's newly straightened nose. The ploy works, Jerry loses the fight but realizes how important it is to win Fannie. |
1930 Check and Double Check Comedy N/R, 75 Minutes
Director: Melville W. Brown More Info
Starring: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich, Ralf Harolde, Charles Morton, Edward Martindel, Rita La Roy, Russ Powell, Roscoe Ates In this, their only film appearance, the White comedians of radio fame, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, bring their Black characters of Amos 'n' Andy to the screen. Although their radio show had been a hit, seeing them in blackface was a different matter. Years later, the characters were brought to TV and were readily accepted when Black men took on the roles of Amos 'n' Andy. |
1930 The Devil to Pay Comedy N/R, 72 Minutes
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1930 Dixiana Musical / Comedy N/R, 99 Minutes
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1930 Feet First Comedy N/R, 93 Minutes
Director: Clyde Bruckman More Info
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Robert McWade, Lillian Leighton, Barbara Kent, Alec B. Francis, Noah Young, Henry Hall, Arthur Housman, Willie Best, Noah Beery While on a cruise to Honolulu, shoe salesman Harold Horne (Harold Lloyd) falls in love with heiress Barbara Carson (Barbara Kent) who believes that Harold is a millionaire. While trying to hide the deceit, Harold becomes tied up in a mail sack and lands on a builder's hoist near a skyscraper. Now, he must find a way to climb down the building–and the acrobatic fun begins. |
1930 Free and Easy Comedy N/R, 92 Minutes
Director: Edward Sedgwick More Info
Starring: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery, Fred Niblo, Edgar Dearing, Gwen Lee, John Miljan, Lionel Barrymore, William Haines Buster Keaton speaks for the first time in the movies. Elvira (Anita Page) wins the Gopher City, Kansas, beauty contest, and the prize is a trip to Hollywood that includes a screen test. She is accompanied by her mother (Trixie Friganza) and Elmer (Keaton), and it is Elmer who becomes the star after he crashes the MGM studio gates. But not all is lost for Elvira; she finds her true love (Robert Montgomery). |
1930 Holiday Comedy N/R, 85 Minutes
Director: Edward H. Griffith More Info
Starring: Ann Harding, Robert Ames, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Hedda Hopper, William(2) Holden, Monroe Owsley, Creighton Hale, Mary Forbes, Elizabeth Forrester This is a film adaptation of Phillip Barry's play about John Case (Robert Ames) who is being coerced into changing his carefree life to join the business firm of his fiancee Julia's (Mary Astor) father. All ends well when Julia's sister Linda (Ann Harding) sees things for what they are, falls in love with John, and saves the day. Harding was nominated for an Oscar. Remade in 1938. |
1930 Hook, Line and Sinker Comedy N/R, 75 Minutes
Director: Edward F. Cline More Info
Starring: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde, Jobyna Howland, Natalie Moorhead, Hugh Herbert, George F. Marion, William B. Davidson, Stanley Fields Wilbur and Addington (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey) come to the aid of Mary (Dorothy Lee) by helping fix up her inherited, run-down hotel despite the objections of her mother who wants Mary to wed rich lawyer John (Ralf Harolde). The hotel becomes successful, but rival gangs find it as a place to do business, and John is associated with one of them. One of several films made by the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. |
1930 The Medicine Man Comedy / Drama / Romance N/R, 65 Minutes
Director: Scott Pembroke More Info
Starring: Jack Benny, Betty Bronson, Eva Novak, E. Alyn Warren, Billy Butts, Adolph Milar, George E. Stone, Tom Dugan, Vadim Uraneff, Dorothea Wolbert The Medicine Man, Dr. John Harvey (Jack Benny), meets Mamie (Betty Bronson) and her brother, Buddy (Billy Butts), when they attend his medicine show as it passes through their town. Mamie's abusive father, Goltz (E. Alyn Warren), tries to force her into a marriage for money, and, when she asks Harvey for help, he comes to her aid. |
1930 Monte Carlo Comedy / Musical / Romance N/R, 90 Minutes
Director: Ernst Lubitsch More Info
Starring: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Zasu Pitts, Claud Allister, Lionel Belmore, Tyler Brooke, John Roche, Albert Conti, Helen Garden, Donald Novis Countess Vera von Conti (Jeanette MacDonald) is engaged to Prince Otto von Seibenheim (Claud Allister), but she does not love him. So, just before the scheduled wedding, Vera heads for Monte Carlo where she loses, time after time, at the casinos. She meets a mysterious man (Jack Buchanan) who asks if he may touch her hair for luck. He strokes her hair, but it is Vera's luck that changes, and she asks him to stay by her side. What Vera does not know is that he is actually the very wealthy Count Rudolph Falliere who is posing as a commoner in order to be near Vera. The Count plays his game until he ends up winning her heart, and they live happily ever after. Among the songs MacDonald sings is, "Beyond the Blue Horizon." |
1930 Soup to Nuts Comedy N/R, 65 Minutes
Director: Benjamin Stoloff More Info
Starring: Ted Healy, Frances McCoy, Charles Winninger, George Bickel, Lucile Browne, Stanley Smith, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Hallam Cooley, Freddie Sanborn In this slapstick comedy–which marks the movie debut of The Three Stooges–Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine play firemen who are friends of Ted (Ted Healy) who is an employee of Otto Schmidt's (Charles Winninger) costume store is then told not to tell Otto's niece, Louise (Lucile Browne), that the store is going bankrupt. Meanwhile, Richard Carlson (Stanley Smith) arrives to manage the store and falls for Louise who is not at all interested in him. Ted invites Queenie (Frances McCoy) and Louise to the Firemen's Ball during which Ted and Richard will wear identical costumes in an attempt to fool Louise, but she catches on. Matters come to a head when fires break out, and the zany firemen arrive in time to rescue both Richard and Louise. |
1930 True to the Navy Comedy N/R, 71 Minutes
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1930 Up the River Comedy / Drama N/R, 90 Minutes
Director: John Ford More Info
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, William Collier Sr., Steve Pendleton, Morgan Wallace, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Bob Burns, Pat Somerset In this very early Humphrey Bogart vehicle, he plays wrongly convicted Steve whose plight is noted by St. Louis (Spencer Tracy) and Dannemora Dan (Warren Hymer) who, in turn, escape from prison to help Steve. Spencer Tracy's film debut. |
1930 Way Out West Comedy N/R, 70 Minutes
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1931 Ambassador Bill Comedy N/R, 68 Minutes
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1931 Bachelor Father Comedy N/R, 90 Minutes
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1931 Blonde Crazy Comedy N/R, 78 Minutes
Director: Roy Del Ruth More Info
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis, Guy Kibbee, Ray Milland, Charles(1) Lane, Maude Eburne, Nat Pendleton, Russell Hopton Bert and Ann (James Cagney and Joan Blondell) are a couple of con artists who go from town to town cheating people out of their money. After being tricked out of their own money, they plot to get it back. This is sort of an early version of "The Sting." |
1931 Broadminded Comedy N/R, 82 Minutes
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1931 City Lights Comedy / Drama / Romance N/R, 87 Minutes
Director: Charles Chaplin More Info
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow, Al Ernest Garcia, T.S. Alexander, Henry Bergman, Eddie McAuliffe This highly entertaining film is classic Charlie Chaplin fare. The plot involves the Little Tramp's love for a blind, flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). The story involves a comedy of mistaken identities in which an eccentric millionaire (Harry Myers) only recognizes the Little Tramp when he has been drinking. After a night of drinking, the millionaire gives the Little Tramp $1,000 for the flower girl's rent. After a few misadventures involving burglars in the millionaire's home, the Little Tramp gives the flower girl the money to pay for her rent and an eye operation. The operation is performed, and, later, the Little Tramp sees her through her window and shyly smiles. She goes outside and gives him money and a flower. She recognizes him as her benefactor and all ends happily when she tells him, "I can see." |
1931 Consolation Marriage Comedy N/R, 82 Minutes
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1931 Freedom for Us Foreign / Drama / Comedy / Musical N/R, 104 Minutes
Director: Rene Clair More Info
Starring: Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Paul Ollivier, Andre Michaud, Rolla France, Germaine Aussey, Leon Lorin, William Burke, Vincent Hyspa, Alexander D'Arcy This famous anti-capitalist statement starts with two prisoners who become friends. Louis (Raymond Cordy) escapes and becomes an executive at a phonograph factory. When his friend, Emile (Henri Marchand), gets out of jail, he ends up as an assembly-line worker at his friend's factory. The de-humanization of the workers is highlighted with comedic interludes. This is the first non-English speaking film to receive an Oscar nomination (Best Art Direction). |
1931 I Like Your Nerve Comedy N/R, 69 Minutes
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1931 I Take This Woman Comedy N/R, 74 Minutes
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1931 Indiscreet Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance N/R, 92 Minutes
Director: Leo McCarey More Info
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Barbara Kent, Monroe Owsley, Arthur Lake, Maude Eburne, Henry Kolker, Nella Walker, Harry Watson Wealthy Jerry Trent (Gloria Swanson) tries to keep her past from current beau Tony (Ben Lyon). Enter sister with a former boyfriend of Jerry's, and the "fun" begins. Gloria got big bucks for this one, but even she couldn't bail it out from the weak script and songs. |
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Full listing of Comedy movies from the 1930's | $1000 a Touchdown (1939)
365 Nights in Hollywood (1934)
Accent on Youth (1935)
After Office Hours (1935)
Ali Baba Nights (1934)
Alibi Ike (1935)
All Over Town (1937)
Amateur Crook (1937)
Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, The (1938)
Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)
Ambassador Bill (1931)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Angel (1937)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Anne of Green Gables (1934)
Arizona Raiders (1936)
As You Like It (1936)
At the Circus (1939)
August Weekend (1936)
Awful Truth, The (1937)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
Bachelor Father (1931)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Be Yourself! (1930)
Bed of Roses (1933)
Belle of the Nineties (1934)
Big Broadcast of 1937, The (1936)
Big Broadcast of 1938, The (1938)
Big Broadcast, The (1932)
Bill Cracks Down (1937)
Bizarre Bizarre (1937)
Blessed Event (1932)
Blind Date (1934)
Block-Heads (1938)
Blonde Crazy (1931)
Blondie (1938)
Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)
Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Bohemian Girl (1936)
Bonnie Scotland (1935)
Born to Dance (1936)
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Boy Meets Girl (1938)
Breakfast for Two (1937)
Bride Comes Home (1935)
Bride for Henry (1937)
Bride Walks Out (1936)
Bright Eyes (1934)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Broadminded (1931)
Broadway Bill (1934)
Brother Rat (1938)
Bulldog Jack (1935)
Cafe Metropole (1937)
Cafe Society (1939)
Call It a Day (1937)
Cat and the Canary (1939)
Cat's-Paw (1934)
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)
Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)
Check and Double Check (1930)
City Lights (1931)
City Limits (1934)
Consolation Marriage (1931)
Country Gentlemen (1936)
Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Crooked Circle (1932)
Dames (1934)
Dancing Lady (1933)
Dark Horse (1932)
Day at the Races (1937)
Design for Living (1933)
Desire (1936)
Devil to Pay (1930)
Devil's Brother (1933)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Dixiana (1930)
Doctor Bull (1933)
Double Wedding (1937)
Down to Earth (1932)
Duck Soup (1933)
Earthworm Tractors (1936)
East Side of Heaven (1939)
Easy Living (1937)
Emma (1932)
Enchanted April (1935)
Enter Madame (1935)
False Pretenses (1935)
Family Affair (1937)
Fanny (1932)
Feet First (1930)
Female (1933)
Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
Fit for a King (1937)
Flying Deuces (1939)
Forsaking All Others (1934)
Four's a Crowd (1938)
Free and Easy (1930)
Freedom for Us (1931)
French Without Tears (1939)
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
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Front Page Woman (1935)
Gay Desperado (1936)
Gilded Lily (1935)
Go West, Young Man (1936)
Goin' to Town (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Golden Arrow (1936)
Good Fairy (1935)
Goodbye Love (1934)
Gorilla (1939)
Grand Slam (1933)
Great Garrick (1937)
Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
Gunga Din (1939)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
Hands Across the Table (1935)
Hard to Get (1938)
Hard to Handle (1933)
Hardys Ride High (1939)
Here Comes the Navy (1934)
Here Is My Heart (1934)
His Double Life (1933)
His Private Secretary (1933)
Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
Holiday (1930)
Holiday (1938)
Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Hollywood Party (1934)
Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
Horse Feathers (1932)
Hot Saturday (1932)
House of Mystery (1934)
I Like Your Nerve (1931)
I Live My Life (1935)
I Take This Woman (1931)
Idiot's Delight (1939)
If I Had a Million (1932)
Indiscreet (1931)
International House (1933)
Irish in Us (1935)
Irish Luck (1939)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Gift (1934)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
It's Love I'm After (1937)
I'm No Angel (1933)
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
Judge Priest (1934)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Kiss and Make Up (1934)
Klondike Annie (1936)
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Lady by Choice (1934)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Lady Killer (1933)
Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
Last Outlaw (1936)
Lemon Drop Kid (1934)
Letter of Introduction (1938)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Little Giant, The (1933)
Little Princess (1939)
Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
Loudspeaker (1934)
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Love Is News (1937)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Love on the Run (1936)
Lucky Night (1939)
Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Made for Each Other (1939)
Man Hunt (1936)
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
Man-Proof (1938)
Manhattan Love Song (1934)
Many Happy Returns (1934)
Me and My Gal (1932)
Medicine Man, The (1930)
Men Are Such Fools (1938)
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Midnight (1939)
Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Milky Way (1936)
Million (1931)
Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Million Dollar Legs (1939)
Modern Times (1936)
Monkey Business (1931)
Monte Carlo (1930)
Movie Crazy (1932)
Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)
Murder at Dawn (1932)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Mystery Man (1935)
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)
Nancy Drew, Troubleshooter (1939)
Never Say Die (1939)
Night at the Opera, A (1935)
Ninotchka (1939)
No Funny Business (1933)
No Man of Her Own (1932)
No More Ladies (1935)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
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Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Nut Farm (1935)
Old-Fashioned Way, The (1934)
On the Avenue (1937)
Once in a Lifetime (1932)
One Hour with You (1932)
One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
Our Relations (1936)
Out West with the Hardys (1938)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Palooka (1934)
Pardon Us (1931)
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
Peck's Bad Boy (1934)
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938)
Penthouse (1933)
People Will Talk (1935)
Perfect Clue (1935)
Perfect Speciman (1937)
Perfect Understanding (1933)
Petticoat Fever (1936)
Phantom (1931)
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Poppy (1936)
Princess Comes Across (1936)
Princess Tam Tam (1935)
Private Life of Don Juan, The (1934)
Professor Beware (1938)
Pygmalion (1938)
Rage of Paris (1938)
Reaching for the Moon (1931)
Red Lights Ahead (1936)
Red Salute (1935)
Roberta (1935)
Room Service (1938)
Royal Bed (1931)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Rules of the Game (1939)
Saratoga (1937)
Say It in French (1938)
Second Fiddle (1939)
Second Honeymoon (1937)
Service de Luxe (1938)
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Show Boat (1936)
Sky Devils (1932)
Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Small Town Girl (1936)
Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
Some Like It Hot (1939)
Something to Sing About (1937)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)
Soup to Nuts (1930)
Speak Easily (1932)
Spendthrift (1936)
St. Louis Kid (1934)
Stage Door (1937)
Stand-In (1937)
Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Successful Failure (1934)
Super Sleuth (1937)
Swing Time (1936)
Swing Your Lady (1938)
Swiss Miss (1938)
Thanks a Million (1935)
Thanks for the Memory (1938)
These Glamour Girls (1939)
Thirty Day Princess (1934)
This Is the Night (1932)
Three Blind Mice (1938)
Three Musketeers (1939)
Tonight or Never (1931)
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Top Hat (1935)
Topper (1937)
Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
Tovarich (1937)
Trade Winds (1938)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
True Confession (1937)
True to the Navy (1930)
Tugboat Annie (1933)
Twentieth Century (1934)
Up the River (1930)
Up the River (1938)
Varsity Show (1937)
Vivacious Lady (1938)
Waikiki Wedding (1937)
Way Out West (1930)
Way Out West (1937)
Wedding Present (1936)
Whole Town's Talking (1935)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
Wise Girl (1937)
Woman Chases Man (1937)
Women of All Nations (1931)
Women, The (1939)
Working Man (1933)
Yank at Oxford (1938)
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Young Fugitives (1938)
Young in Heart (1938)
You're Only Young Once (1937)
You're Telling Me (1934)
Zenobia (1939)
Zero for Conduct (1933)
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