The best Diana Lynn’s comedy movies

Diana Lynn

Diana Lynn

07/10/1926- 18/12/1971
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The Major and the Minor

The Major and the Minor
7.4/10
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.

Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Diana Lynn (uncredited)
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
7.6/10
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.

Variety Girl

Variety Girl
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/08/1947
  • Character: Herself
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Every Girl Should Be Married

Every Girl Should Be Married
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1948
  • Character: Julie Hudson
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage

The Bride Wore Boots

The Bride Wore Boots
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 05/06/1946
  • Character: Mary Lou Medford
Rich and beautiful Southern heiress Sally Warren loves horse-racing and running her horse-farm although her husband of seven years hates the four-legged mammals. Spouse Jeff Warren is a successful author, Civil War scholar, and popular lecturer on the ladies club circuit. After Jeff buys aging twelve-year old nag Albert in the mistaken belief that he's a colt and Sally purchases a desk for her husband in the naive belief that it once belonged to Jefferson Davis, it's obvious that they have few interests in common. The squabbling is complicated by Jeff's jealousy of Sally's relationship with Lance Gale, her childhood friend, neighbor, and fellow horse breeder.

You're Never Too Young

You're Never Too Young
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/08/1955
  • Character: Nancy Collins
When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.

And the Angels Sing

And the Angels Sing
6.2/10
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Our Hearts Were Growing Up
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/06/1946
  • Character: Emily Kimbrough
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.

My Friend Irma

My Friend Irma
6.4/10
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.

Bedtime for Bonzo

Bedtime for Bonzo
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 05/04/1951
  • Character: Jane Linden
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/07/1948
  • Character: Perry Dunklin
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.

Duffy's Tavern

Duffy's Tavern
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 28/09/1945
  • Character: Diana Lynn
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

Peggy

Peggy
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1950
  • Character: Peggy Brookfield
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.

Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour

Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/04/1943
  • Character: Phyllis Michael
Teenager Henry Aldrich (Jimmy Lydon) becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.

Out of This World

Out of This World
6.4/10
After struggling to become a success, Betty Miller and her all-girl orchestra finally hit pay dirt when crooner Herbie Fenton comes on board. Problems arise when Betty and her girls try to find backers to invest in Herbie and they sell 125 percent of him.

The Thief

The Thief
6.9/10
The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.

My Friend Irma Goes West

My Friend Irma Goes West
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 25/06/1950
  • Character: Jane Stacy
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.

Hollywood Victory Caravan

Hollywood Victory Caravan
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/09/1945
  • Character: Herself
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

The Hard-Boiled Canary

The Hard-Boiled Canary
6.7/10
A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She must overcome the suspicions of the other students in order to prove herself.

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