The best Ethel Wales’s comedy movies

Ethel Wales

Ethel Wales

04/04/1878- 15/02/1952
Today we present the best Ethel Wales’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 Ethel Wales’s movies.
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Sudden Money

Sudden Money
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1939
  • Character: Miss Perkins
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.

The Monster

The Monster
6.2/10
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

Blonde Alibi

Blonde Alibi
6.3/10
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer
6.2/10
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.

Another Face

Another Face
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/12/1935
  • Character: Aunt Hattie (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!

Saturday Night

Saturday Night
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/01/1922
  • Character: Party Guest
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.

Miss Lulu Bett

Miss Lulu Bett
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1921
  • Character: Grandma Bett
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Theodore Roberts (as Dwight Deacon); running the house with an iron fist, he is both a dentist and a Justice of the Peace. As the latter, he accidentally marries Ms. Wilson to his visiting brother Clarence Burton (as Ninian Deacon) while they are out for dinner. Schoolteacher Milton Sills (as Neil Cornish) is also interested in Wilson...

Loose Ankles

Loose Ankles
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/02/1930
  • Character: Aunt Katherine Harper
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.

Bobbed Hair

Bobbed Hair
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1922
  • Character: Mrs. Lamont
A young woman spurns her too conventional fiancé and flees to an artists' colony.

Beggar on Horseback

Beggar on Horseback
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/06/1925
  • Character: Mrs. Cady
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?

The Merry Frinks

The Merry Frinks
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/05/1934
  • Character: United Charities Worker
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

The Saturday Night Kid

The Saturday Night Kid
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1929
  • Character: Lily Woodruff
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.

Gold Dust Gertie

Gold Dust Gertie
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/06/1931
  • Character: Arnold's Secretary
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.

Love Among the Millionaires

Love Among the Millionaires
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 06/07/1930
  • Character: Disapproving Dowager (uncredited)
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and his family in Palm Springs.

In Old Caliente

In Old Caliente
5.6/10
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include "Sundown on the Rangeland" and "Ride on Vaquero."

Nice People

Nice People
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/07/1922
  • Character: Mrs. Heyfer
Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A stranger (Billy Wade) also seeking shelter saves her from Scotty's unwelcome attentions but not from the scandal which results from her father's discovery of her and Scotty--alone--the next morning. Hurt by the snubbing she receives from her friends, Teddy settles down and agrees to become an old-fashioned wife to Billy.

Let Women Alone

Let Women Alone
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/01/1925
  • Character: Ma Benham
A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore.

Merton of the Movies

Merton of the Movies
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1924
  • Character: Mrs. Montague
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.

The Rag Man

The Rag Man
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/02/1925
  • Character: Mrs. Bernard
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York freely. He meets Max Ginsberg, an old Jewish junk dealer with rheumatism, and the two strike a partnership and a close friendship.

My Friend from India

My Friend from India
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/12/1927
  • Character: Arabella Mott / Bedelia Smith
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.

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