The best Don Ameche’s comedy movies

Don Ameche

Don Ameche

31/05/1908- 06/12/1993
Today we present the best Don Ameche’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 Don Ameche’s movies.
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Coming to America

Coming to America
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/06/1988
  • Character: Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

Trading Places

Trading Places
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/06/1983
  • Character: Mortimer Duke
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Midnight

Midnight
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/03/1939
  • Character: Tibor Czerny
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
6.9/10
Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.

Cocoon

Cocoon
6.7/10
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

Harry and the Hendersons

Harry and the Hendersons
6.1/10
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this). As you guessed, it isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant.

Corrina, Corrina

Corrina, Corrina
6.6/10
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.

Oscar

Oscar
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/04/1991
  • Character: Father Clemente
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.

Cocoon: The Return

Cocoon: The Return
5.4/10
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?

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.

Things Change

Things Change
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 21/10/1988
  • Character: Gino
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!

Folks!

Folks!
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/05/1992
  • Character: Harry Aldrich
A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life fall apart soon after.

Hollywood Cavalcade

Hollywood Cavalcade
6.5/10
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/09/1944
  • Character: Kenneth Harvey
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

Love Is News

Love Is News
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/02/1937
  • Character: Martin J. Canavan
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiance showing up. Can an heiress be a human being, and can a reporter get a scoop?

That Night in Rio

That Night in Rio
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 11/04/1941
  • Character: Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte
An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.

One in a Million

One in a Million
6/10
American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.

Ladies In Love

Ladies In Love
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/10/1936
  • Character: Dr. Rudi Imre
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.

Josette

Josette
6/10
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.

The Magnificent Dope

The Magnificent Dope
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1942
  • Character: Dwight Dawson
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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