The best Almira Sessions’s comedy movies

Almira Sessions

Almira Sessions

16/09/1888- 03/08/1974
We present our ranking of the best Almira Sessions’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Almira Sessions.
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Harvey

Harvey
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 04/12/1950
  • Character: Mrs. Halsey (uncredited)
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/09/1947
  • Character: Lena Couvais
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

The Bishop's Wife

The Bishop's Wife
7.6/10
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels
7.9/10
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk
5.8/10
A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans.

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomanceWar
  • Release: 24/12/1943
  • Character: Mrs. Mariah Woodson (uncredited)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.

Watermelon Man

Watermelon Man
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1970
  • Character: Woman On Bus
Jeff Gerber, a racist insurance agent and fitness freak, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself, when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him.

It's Always Fair Weather

It's Always Fair Weather
7/10
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.

Three Girls About Town

Three Girls About Town
6.4/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 23/10/1941
  • Character: Tessie Conarchy, scrubwoman
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.

Here Comes the Groom

Here Comes the Groom
6.3/10
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

Sun Valley Serenade

Sun Valley Serenade
7.1/10
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1943
  • Character: Peggy's landlady (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

The Over-the-Hill Gang

The Over-the-Hill Gang
6/10
Capt. Oren Hayes, a retired Texas Ranger, while visiting his daughter, finds that her husband is running for mayor against corrupt town boss, Nard Lundy. Lundy has no intention of allowing the free election of an honest man, so he has his henchmen do some dirty dealing. Hayes then calls for the help of some of his old buddies in the Rangers. Upon arriving in town, they realize quickly that age has caught up with them and they must rely on their sheer wits, and even some underhandedness, to outsmart and defeat Lundy.

The Doughgirls

The Doughgirls
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/11/1944
  • Character: Hotel maid
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.

Oklahoma Annie

Oklahoma Annie
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 24/03/1952
  • Character: Carrie Fudge
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.

Obliging Young Lady

Obliging Young Lady
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1942
  • Character: Maid at Lake Mohawk Lodge
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Love and Learn

Love and Learn
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/05/1947
  • Character: The Bride (uncredited)
Jack Carson and Robert Hutton are two would-be songwriters.

Forever Female

Forever Female
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/11/1953
  • Character: Mother at Airport (uncredited)
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 14/08/1953
  • Character: Aunt Naomi
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.

The Last of the Secret Agents?

The Last of the Secret Agents?
4.6/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 25/05/1966
  • Character: Middle-Aged Lady at Topless a Go-Go (uncredited)
Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty.

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