The best Athene Seyler’s comedy movies

Athene Seyler

Athene Seyler

31/05/1889- 12/09/1990
Today we present the best Athene Seyler’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Athene Seyler’s movies.

Make Mine Mink

Make Mine Mink
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/08/1960
  • Character: Dame Beatrice Appleby
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.

Doctor at Large

Doctor at Large
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/03/1957
  • Character: Lady Hawkins
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers
6.9/10
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

Young Wives' Tale

Young Wives' Tale
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/11/1951
  • Character: Nanny Gallop
A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.

How to Murder a Rich Uncle

How to Murder a Rich Uncle
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/06/1957
  • Character: Grannie (Victoria Clitterbern)
A broke British nobleman (Nigel Patrick) targets his Canadian uncle (Charles Coburn), but other relatives get in the way.

For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 20/06/1954
  • Character: Miss Mainbrace
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?

The Private Life of Don Juan

The Private Life of Don Juan
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1934
  • Character: Theresa, the Innkeeper, a Middle Aged Lady of Young Sentiment
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.

Happy Is the Bride

Happy Is the Bride
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1958
  • Character: Aunt Harriet
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.

Quiet Wedding

Quiet Wedding
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/04/1941
  • Character: Aunt Mary
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

It's Love Again

It's Love Again
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 06/05/1936
  • Character: Mrs. Durland
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.

As Long as They're Happy

As Long as They're Happy
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/03/1955
  • Character: Mrs. Arbuthnot
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.

Nurse on Wheels

Nurse on Wheels
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/01/1963
  • Character: Miss Farthingale
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

Two and Two Make Six

Two and Two Make Six
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/05/1962
  • Character: Aunt Phoebe Tonks
An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.

Made in Heaven

Made in Heaven
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/11/1952
  • Character: Miss Honeycroft
Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.

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