The best Dorothy Christy’s comedy movies

Dorothy Christy

Dorothy Christy

26/05/1906- 21/05/1977
We present our ranking of the best Dorothy Christy’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Dorothy Christy.
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Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street
7.9/10
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.

Sons of the Desert

Sons of the Desert
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/12/1933
  • Character: Mrs. Betty Laurel
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

Little Giant

Little Giant
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/02/1946
  • Character: Jim's wife (uncredited)
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

East Side of Heaven

East Side of Heaven
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 07/04/1939
  • Character: Mrs. Henry Smith (uncredited)
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/02/1931
  • Character: Angelica Embrey
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving (Keaton) passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.

Love Is News

Love Is News
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/02/1937
  • Character: Boardinghouse Beauty (uncredited)
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?

Junior Miss

Junior Miss
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1945
  • Character: Mrs. Cummings
A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.

Big Business Girl

Big Business Girl
5.9/10
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

Early to Bed

Early to Bed
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/06/1936
  • Character: Nurse
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.

Union Depot

Union Depot
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 14/01/1932
  • Character: Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.

Slightly Married

Slightly Married
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/10/1932
  • Character: Marjorie Reynolds
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for vagrancy. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.

You Can't Have Everything

You Can't Have Everything
6.3/10
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

Playboy of Paris

Playboy of Paris
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/10/1930
  • Character: Mlle. Berengere
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.

Love Birds

Love Birds
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/05/1934
  • Character: Kitten
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)

The Fabulous Joe

The Fabulous Joe
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/08/1947
  • Character: Grace
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!

Gold Dust Gertie

Gold Dust Gertie
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/06/1931
  • Character: Mabel Guthrie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.

Servants' Entrance

Servants' Entrance
7.1/10
Servants' Entrance is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical comedy film. The movie was written by Samson Raphaelson from the Sigrid Boo novel and directed by Frank Lloyd, with a cartoon sequence by Walt Disney.

One Exciting Adventure

One Exciting Adventure
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/09/1934
  • Character: Woman with Earrings
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.

Fashion Model

Fashion Model
5.3/10
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.

That's My Wife

That's My Wife
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/03/1929
  • Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pressed into duty (and into drag) to impersonate Oliver's loving spouse.

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