The best Cora Witherspoon’s comedy movies

Cora Witherspoon

Cora Witherspoon

05/01/1890- 17/11/1957
Today we present the best Cora Witherspoon’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 Cora Witherspoon’s movies.
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Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/10/1936
  • Character: Mrs. Burns-Norvell
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

The Women

The Women
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1939
  • Character: Mrs. Van Adams
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

It Should Happen to You

It Should Happen to You
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/01/1954
  • Character: Macy's Saleslady (uncredited)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/11/1940
  • Character: Agatha Sousé
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

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.

Over 21

Over 21
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/08/1945
  • Character: Mrs. Gates
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

The Mating Season

The Mating Season
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/01/1951
  • Character: Mrs. Williamson
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.

Professor Beware

Professor Beware
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/07/1938
  • Character: Mrs. Ophelia Pitts
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.

I Was an Adventuress

I Was an Adventuress
6.7/10
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...

Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/08/1936
  • Character: Nesta Pett, Ann's Aunt
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.

Quality Street

Quality Street
6.2/10
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

He Couldn't Say No

He Couldn't Say No
5.7/10
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.

Just for You

Just for You
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/09/1952
  • Character: Mrs. Angevine
Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. Girlfriend, Carolina a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to take his kids on a vacation and get to know them before they are all grown up. Is Jordan already too late?

On the Avenue

On the Avenue
6.7/10
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.

Just Around the Corner

Just Around the Corner
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/11/1938
  • Character: Aunt Julia Ramsby
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

Ladies of the Jury

Ladies of the Jury
6.3/10
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.

Dangerous Number

Dangerous Number
5.1/10
Marital comedy, from 1937, starring Robert Young and Ann Sothern

Personal Property

Personal Property
6.5/10
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.

Three Loves Has Nancy

Three Loves Has Nancy
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/09/1938
  • Character: Mrs. Herford
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Beg, Borrow or Steal
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/12/1937
  • Character: Mrs. Elizabeth Miller
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.

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