The best Edgar Norton’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Edgar Norton’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 Edgar Norton.
Red-Headed Woman
7/10
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
Love Me Tonight
7.5/10
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
A Chump at Oxford
7.2/10
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid (Stan in drag) for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The thankful bank president sends them to Oxford to get an education. Predictable results ensue.
Brother Orchid
7/10
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
The Love Parade
7/10
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Thirty Day Princess
6.7/10
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
Oh Kay!
6.3/10
A silent film version of the famed Gershwin musical.
Rings on Her Fingers
6.6/10
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
Strictly Dynamite
5.7/10
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
One Romantic Night
5.6/10
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
The Girl Said No
5.2/10
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
The Richest Girl in the World
6.3/10
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
The Ocean Waif
6.3/10
An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.
The Amazons
Three sisters, all raised as boys, have trouble fitting into male-dominated society. A lost film.
Fast and Furious
5.3/10
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield's beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight…
The Big Broadcast
6.6/10
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
A Lady's Profession
6.3/10
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
The Lady of Scandal
5.7/10
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Learning to Love
A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
The Bachelor Father
6.4/10
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
