The best Dell Henderson’s comedy movies

Dell Henderson

Dell Henderson

05/07/1877- 02/12/1956
Today we present the best Dell Henderson’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 Dell Henderson’s movies.
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Love Affair

Love Affair
7.3/10
French playboy Michel Marnet and American Terry McKay fall in love during the transatlantic passage of a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.

The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth
7.7/10
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

The Major and the Minor

The Major and the Minor
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/09/1942
  • Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.

The Sunbeam

The Sunbeam
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/02/1912
  • Character: The Bachelor
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1943
  • Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Show People

Show People
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 20/11/1928
  • Character: Colonel Pepper
Peggy Pepper arrives in Hollywood, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things do not go entirely according to plan.

Artists & Models

Artists & Models
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 04/08/1937
  • Character: Lord (uncredited)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/10/1945
  • Character: Benson (uncredited)
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

It's a Gift

It's a Gift
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1934
  • Character: Mr. Abernathy
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.

5th Ave Girl

5th Ave Girl
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/09/1939
  • Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Du Barry Was a Lady

Du Barry Was a Lady
6.1/10
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

Wrong Again

Wrong Again
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/02/1929
  • Character: Painting owner
Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse. They take the horse to the owner's house to claim the reward. The owner instructs them to put "Blue Boy" on the piano and Ollie explains, "these millionaires are peculiar."

Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1935
  • Character: Sam
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
7.1/10
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.

Steamboat Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend
6.9/10
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

The Patsy

The Patsy
7.5/10
Jealous that her older sister Grace has landed handsome and successful Tony Anderson, Patricia Harrington launches an elaborate charm offensive to win his heart. Patricia shrugs off her diffidence and, in the hope that Tony will be drawn to her new persona, tries to carry herself with the self-confidence of the era's silent film stars. When this doesn't have the desired effect, Patricia takes things a step further.

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/1934
  • Character: House Manager
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.

Hot Tip

Hot Tip
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/08/1935
  • Character: Sheriff
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.

Once More, My Darling

Once More, My Darling
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/09/1949
  • Character: Hotel Clerk
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.

Little Big Shot

Little Big Shot
6.2/10
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

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