The best Dorothy Appleby’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Dorothy Appleby’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Dorothy Appleby.
Gold Rush Maisie
6.2/10
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
The Women
7.7/10
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Live, Love and Learn
5.9/10
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
From Nurse to Worse
7.5/10
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
7.1/10
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.
The Doctor Takes a Wife
6.9/10
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
General Nuisance
5.7/10
A millionaire falls for an army nurse, who tells him she likes men in uniform. So he enlists at Camp Cluster. She still has no time for him, so he figures out how to get into the hospital and under her care.
Two Heads on a Pillow
5.3/10
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
His Ex Marks the Spot
5.2/10
Buster's home life is disrupted when his ex-wife and her boyfriend move in.
You Said a Hatful!
6.7/10
When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
The Spook Speaks
5.5/10
A magician hires Buster as a housekeeper while he's away.
Loco Boy Makes Good
7.5/10
The stooges decide to get some easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an old lady who is about to lose her lease to the evil landlord. The stooges decide to help her fix up the place and start by beating up the landlord and stealing his watch. After their usual antics in renovating the place, the hotel is ready for the grand re-opening. The stooges put on a big show with a famous critic in attendance. Their corny act goes over poorly until Curly accidentally puts on a magicians coat and becomes a sensation and the place is a success.
Black Eyes and Blues
Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.
Pardon My Berth Marks
6/10
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
The Taming of the Snood
5.7/10
A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
7.9/10
The stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At the last minute the real murderers confess and the stooges are pardoned. The girls are now stuck with the stooges so they plot to get rid of them by making them become gentlemen. The girl's lawyer convinces them to throw a big party in the hope that the stooges will humiliate them and they can get a divorce. The boys do just that as the party degenerates into a wild pie fight. But the girls decide to keep the stooges and give their lawyer the boot.
What's the Matador?
7.5/10
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
Fate's Fathead
7.2/10
Accidental meetings and misconceptions lead a blissfully happy couple to fight and squabble.
Nothing But Pleasure
6/10
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
