The best DeWitt Jennings’s comedy movies

DeWitt Jennings

DeWitt Jennings

21/06/1871- 01/03/1937
Today we present the best DeWitt Jennings’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 DeWitt Jennings’s movies.

Central Park

Central Park
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 10/12/1932
  • Character: Police Desk Sergeant Monahan (uncredited)
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

Movie Crazy

Movie Crazy
7.1/10
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

Front Page Woman

Front Page Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1935
  • Character: Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.

Murder on a Honeymoon

Murder on a Honeymoon
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 22/02/1935
  • Character: Captain Beegle
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.

Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights
6.7/10
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.

Exit Smiling

Exit Smiling
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/11/1926
  • Character: Orlando Wainwright
Silent comedy about the travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company.

Min and Bill

Min and Bill
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/11/1930
  • Character: Groot
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Caught Plastered

Caught Plastered
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/09/1931
  • Character: Police Chief H.A. Morton
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Seven Keys to Baldpate
6.1/10
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.

A Lady's Profession

A Lady's Profession
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/03/1933
  • Character: Mr. Stephens
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.

Fifty Roads to Town

Fifty Roads to Town
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/06/1937
  • Character: Captain Galloway
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.

The Meanest Gal in Town

The Meanest Gal in Town
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/01/1934
  • Character: Police Chief (uncredited)
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.

The Daring Young Man

The Daring Young Man
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/07/1935
  • Character: Mayor's Committee Official
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

Merton of the Movies

Merton of the Movies
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1924
  • Character: Jeff Baird
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.

Mary Jane's Pa

Mary Jane's Pa
6.4/10
A deserter (Guy Kibbee) saves his wife (Aline MacMahon) from gangsters out to ruin her newspaper.

Kelly the Second

Kelly the Second
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/08/1936
  • Character: Judge (as DeWitt C. Jennings)
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

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