The best Ben Lyon’s comedy movies

Ben Lyon

Ben Lyon

06/02/1901- 22/03/1979
Today we present the best Ben Lyon’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 Ben Lyon’s movies.

Night Nurse

Night Nurse
7/10
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

The Stolen Jools

The Stolen Jools
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1931
  • Character: Ben Lyon
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

Lady with a Past

Lady with a Past
6.1/10
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.

Hat Check Girl

Hat Check Girl
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/10/1932
  • Character: Buster Collins
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.

The Crooked Circle

The Crooked Circle
5.3/10
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

Painted People

Painted People
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/01/1924
  • Character: Don Lane
A 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.

Hi Gang!

Hi Gang!
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/12/1941
  • Character: Her Other Half
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the popular radio series Hi Gang!.

Stardust

Stardust
4.5/10
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking for movie-producing money. He does some big-time bluffing on his own in order to get Carla to invest in a film he is making with his partner, Roy Harley. Through Carla, Roy meets actress Diana West, who is given a role in the movie, and Roy falls in love with her.

Girl Missing

Girl Missing
6.7/10
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.

Potash and Perlmutter

Potash and Perlmutter
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/09/1923
  • Character: Boris Andrieff
The film is based on an ethnic Jewish comedy with characters created by Montague Glass and Charles Klein.

Dancing Feet

Dancing Feet
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/01/1936
  • Character: Peyton Wells
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.

Wine of Youth

Wine of Youth
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/09/1924
  • Character: Lynn Talbot
Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generation" and how they think they know it all. It's also a play about love and marriage.

Bluebeard's Seven Wives

Bluebeard's Seven Wives
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/01/1926
  • Character: John Hart / Don Juan Hartez
Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache. The idea of that shakes him up so much that he gets distracted at work, comes up short in his accounts and gets fired. Unable to find another job, he begins to work as an extra at a nearby film studio to earn money. One day the leading man of a picture John is working on gets into an argument with the director and storms off the set. Angered, the director sees John and, deciding that he'll show his arrogant star that he can make a movie idol out of just about anybody, picks John to replace him. As it turns out, John has a real talent for acting and before he knows it he becomes a star. Unfortunately, "stardom" isn't what John thought it would be.

A Soldier's Plaything

A Soldier's Plaything
4.3/10
A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.

The Lyons in Paris

The Lyons in Paris
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/02/1955
  • Character: Ben
The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.

Das tanzende Wien

Das tanzende Wien
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/09/1927
  • Character: Jonny Conzaga
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.

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