The best Dorothy Vernon’s comedy movies

Dorothy Vernon

Dorothy Vernon

11/11/1875- 28/10/1970
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The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/02/1941
  • Character: One of Pike's Cooks (uncredited)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You
7.8/10
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Member of Audience at Performance of Hamlet (uncredited)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Carefree

Carefree
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 02/09/1938
  • Character: Woman at Country Club (uncredited)
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.

You'll Never Get Rich

You'll Never Get Rich
6.7/10
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

Cover Girl

Cover Girl
6.7/10
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1943
  • Character: Woman in newspaper office (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

No Time for Love

No Time for Love
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/11/1943
  • Character: Wardrobe Woman
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

The Egg and I

The Egg and I
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/05/1947
  • Character: Reveler at Country Dance (Uncredited)
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.

Rhubarb

Rhubarb
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 29/08/1951
  • Character: Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiacee Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.

Woman Haters

Woman Haters
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/05/1934
  • Character: Mary's Mother
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.

Third Finger, Left Hand

Third Finger, Left Hand
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/10/1940
  • Character: Woman at Railroad Station
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1940
  • Character: Voting Registrar (uncredited)
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 09/02/1940
  • Character: Diner (uncredited)
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.

Champagne Waltz

Champagne Waltz
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/02/1937
  • Character: Woman Patron
n Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.

Too Many Girls

Too Many Girls
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 08/10/1940
  • Character: Faculty Extra
Mr Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.

Penguin Pool Murder

Penguin Pool Murder
6.9/10
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.

Booby Dupes

Booby Dupes
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/10/1945
  • Character: Woman Customer
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.

The Monster

The Monster
6.2/10
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

The Fuller Brush Man

The Fuller Brush Man
6.8/10
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.

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