The best Douglas Spencer’s comedy movies

Douglas Spencer

Douglas Spencer

10/02/1910- 06/10/1960
We present our ranking of the best Douglas Spencer’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 Douglas Spencer.
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Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride
7.1/10
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

Monkey Business

Monkey Business
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/09/1952
  • Character: Dr. Brunner
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Fall In

Fall In
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/11/1942
  • Character: Military Policeman
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.

Lucky Partners

Lucky Partners
6.5/10
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

Christmas in July

Christmas in July
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1940
  • Character: Man Listening to Radio (uncredited)
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.

Princess O'Rourke

Princess O'Rourke
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/10/1943
  • Character: Pilot (uncredited)
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

Trouble Along the Way

Trouble Along the Way
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/04/1953
  • Character: Father Procurator aka George
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.

Little Nellie Kelly

Little Nellie Kelly
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamilyMusic
  • Release: 22/11/1940
  • Character: Policeman in Dance Line (uncredited)
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/11/1941
  • Character: Hotel Guest
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.

The Day the Bookies Wept

The Day the Bookies Wept
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/09/1939
  • Character: Auction Spectator
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer. Comedy.

She's Back on Broadway

She's Back on Broadway
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/03/1953
  • Character: Lew Ludlow
When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Evans put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.

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