The best Edward Nugent’s comedy movies

Edward Nugent

Edward Nugent

07/02/1904- 03/01/1995
Today we present the best Edward Nugent’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Edward Nugent’s movies.
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Night Nurse

Night Nurse
7/10
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

42nd Street

42nd Street
7.3/10
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Our Modern Maidens

Our Modern Maidens
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/09/1929
  • Character: Reg
Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.

Pigskin Parade

Pigskin Parade
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/10/1936
  • Character: Sparks
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. But the hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.

Bunker Bean

Bunker Bean
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/06/1936
  • Character: Mr. Glab (as Edward Nugent)
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Baby Face Harrington

Baby Face Harrington
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/04/1935
  • Character: Albert
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.

Up Pops the Devil

Up Pops the Devil
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/05/1931
  • Character: George Kent
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.

Remote Control

Remote Control
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/11/1930
  • Character: Radio Engineer
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

Ah, Wilderness!

Ah, Wilderness!
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/12/1935
  • Character: Wint
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembered, small town America.

The Old Homestead

The Old Homestead
6.6/10
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.

Dancing Feet

Dancing Feet
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/01/1936
  • Character: Jimmy Cassidy
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.

Local Boy Makes Good

Local Boy Makes Good
6.1/10
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.

She Loves Me Not

She Loves Me Not
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 31/08/1934
  • Character: Buzz Jones
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

Loose Ankles

Loose Ankles
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/02/1930
  • Character: Andy Martin (as Eddie Nugent)
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives and without scandal. Otherwise the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.

Doughnuts and Society

Doughnuts and Society
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/03/1936
  • Character: Jerry Flannagan
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, friendly quarreling between themselves. This changes when Belle suddenly becomes heir to a small fortune which allows her to crash high-society and make her daughter,Joan, a débutante. This creates a rift between the two former partners, with the result that the proud Kate refuses to accept her friend's good fortune nor allow her son, Jerry, who is in love with Joan, to do so.

A Fool's Advice

A Fool's Advice
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/02/1932
  • Character: Steve
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.

The Girl in the Show

The Girl in the Show
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/08/1929
  • Character: Dave Amazon
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.

This Side of Heaven

This Side of Heaven
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/02/1934
  • Character: Vance
Lionel Barrymore stars in this 1934 comedy-drama about a man contending with personal and family problems.

Girl o' My Dreams

Girl o' My Dreams
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/11/1934
  • Character: Larry Haines
A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the school.

College Humor

College Humor
5.9/10
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

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