The best Charles Halton’s comedy movies

Charles Halton

Charles Halton

16/03/1876- 16/04/1959
Today we present the best Charles Halton’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 Charles Halton’s movies.
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The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner
8/10
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Producer Dobosh
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
6.3/10
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/09/1947
  • Character: Mr. Mittwick - High School Principal (uncredited)
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow
7/10
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Room Service

Room Service
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/09/1938
  • Character: Dr. Glass
Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.

Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/02/1941
  • Character: Mayor
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

Lucky Partners

Lucky Partners
6.5/10
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 18/02/1939
  • Character: Newspaper Publicity Man (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

I Love You Again

I Love You Again
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/08/1940
  • Character: Mr. Leonard Harkspur Sr. (uncredited)
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton
6.7/10
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Three Girls About Town

Three Girls About Town
6.4/10
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.

Pick a Star

Pick a Star
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 21/05/1937
  • Character: Julius Klawheimer
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1942
  • Character: Mr. Hawkins - Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.

Midnight Manhunt

Midnight Manhunt
5.3/10
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

The Great Mr. Nobody

The Great Mr. Nobody
5.8/10
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.

Government Girl

Government Girl
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 05/11/1943
  • Character: Wilkins - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

Blonde Inspiration

Blonde Inspiration
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/02/1941
  • Character: Mr. Packer (uncredited)
A writer (John Shelton) of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher (Albert Dekker) want to pay for.

Gold Diggers of 1937

Gold Diggers of 1937
6.4/10
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.

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