The best Emma Dunn’s comedy movies

Emma Dunn

Emma Dunn

26/02/1874- 14/12/1966
We present our ranking of the best Emma Dunn’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 Emma Dunn.
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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator
8.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 23/10/1940
  • Character: Mrs. Jaeckel
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.8/10
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasyRomance
  • Release: 30/10/1942
  • Character: Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
6.3/10
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.

The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town
7.5/10
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.

Life with Father

Life with Father
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 13/09/1947
  • Character: Margaret
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

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.

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.

Waikiki Wedding

Waikiki Wedding
5.9/10
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.

Blessed Event

Blessed Event
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/09/1932
  • Character: Mrs. Roberts
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

The Cowboy and the Lady

The Cowboy and the Lady
6.6/10
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.

Hard to Handle

Hard to Handle
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/01/1933
  • Character: Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Little Big Shot

Little Big Shot
6.2/10
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway
6.6/10
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.

High School

High School
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1940
  • Character: Mrs. O'Neill
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.

Private Jones

Private Jones
5.1/10
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.

Little Orvie

Little Orvie
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/03/1940
  • Character: Mrs. Welty
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

Another Face

Another Face
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/12/1935
  • Character: Sheila's Mother (uncredited)
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!

Scattergood Baines

Scattergood Baines
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/02/1941
  • Character: Mirandy Baines
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.

This Modern Age

This Modern Age
5.7/10
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.

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