The best Claire Du Brey’s comedy movies

Claire Du Brey

Claire Du Brey

31/08/1892- 01/08/1993
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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.

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait
7.3/10
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

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.

Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/11/1937
  • Character: Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)
When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

Topper

Topper
7.2/10
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird
6.2/10
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of happiness, meeting friends and foes along the way.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 22/08/1949
  • Character: Mrs. Grimsby
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).

High School

High School
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1940
  • Character: Miss Huggins
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.

Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/04/1936
  • Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
6.9/10
A businessman's (Charles Winninger) youngest daughter (Deanna Durbin) helps her innocent sisters in love.

Prosperity

Prosperity
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/11/1932
  • Character: Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
6.6/10
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.

Never Say Die

Never Say Die
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1939
  • Character: Hotel Guest
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?

Rise and Shine

Rise and Shine
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeRomance
  • Release: 21/11/1941
  • Character: Miss Pinkham (as Claire DuBrey)
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game

The Affairs of Annabel

The Affairs of Annabel
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/09/1938
  • Character: Convict (uncredited)
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.

Blossoms On Broadway

Blossoms On Broadway
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 19/11/1937
  • Character: Fake Nurse (uncredited)
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.

The Baroness and the Butler

The Baroness and the Butler
6.5/10
A Butler (Powell) gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
7.1/10
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

That Certain Age

That Certain Age
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 06/10/1938
  • Character: Horsewoman
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do their best to sway young Alice's feelings away from the older man. It's a difficult task though, as she is at 'that certain age.'

The Magnificent Dope

The Magnificent Dope
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1942
  • Character: Peter's Secretary
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?

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