The best Edward Brophy’s comedy movies on Google Play Movies

Edward Brophy

Edward Brophy

27/02/1895- 27/05/1960
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Edward Brophy’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 Edward Brophy.

The Thin Man

The Thin Man
7.9/10
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

The Cameraman

The Cameraman
8/10
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Cover Girl

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

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue
7.6/10
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

The Whole Town's Talking

The Whole Town's Talking
7.3/10
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance
6.8/10
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

The Bride Came C.O.D.

The Bride Came C.O.D.
6.9/10
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow
7/10
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/02/1938
  • Character: Lefty
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
7.1/10
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Spring Fever

Spring Fever
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/10/1927
  • Character: Golf Game Spectator (uncredited)
Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.

Strike Me Pink

Strike Me Pink
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/01/1936
  • Character: Killer
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

What! No Beer?

What! No Beer?
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/02/1933
  • Character: Spike Moran
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.

Bundle of Joy

Bundle of Joy
6/10
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...

Swing Parade of 1946

Swing Parade of 1946
5.2/10
The Three Stooges help an aspiring singer, Carol Lawrence, and a nightclub owner, Danny Warren, find love. It features dizzy dishwashers Moe, Larry, and Curly, and musical numbers by Connee Boswell and the Louis Jordan and Will Osborne orchestras, including "Stormy Weather" and "Caldonia."

Doughboys

Doughboys
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 30/08/1930
  • Character: Sgt. Brophy
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.

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