The best Butterfly McQueen’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Butterfly McQueen’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Butterfly McQueen.
The Women
7.7/10
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Affectionately Yours
5.7/10
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
Amazing Grace
5.6/10
Amazing Grace is a 1974 light comedy featuring black comedienne Moms Mabley as a widow who tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts. Mabley appeared in the film, along with veteran actors Butterfly McQueen and Stepin Fetchit, only a year before her death at the age of 81. The film does not deal with the popular Christian hymn (with words by John Newton) but is a play on Mabley's character, who happens to be named Grace. It has been released on home video.
The Phynx
4.4/10
A rock band becomes embroiled in foreign affairs when they're sent to go on tour in Albania as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle held by communist enemies of the USA.
I Dood It
6.2/10
Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.
Killer Diller
5.5/10
An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.
