The best Etta McDaniel’s comedy movies

Etta McDaniel

Etta McDaniel

01/12/1890- 13/01/1946
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Golden Hoofs

Golden Hoofs
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/02/1941
  • Character: Divinity
A teenage horse trainer (Jane Withers) fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

You're in the Army Now

You're in the Army Now
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1941
  • Character: Della
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

The Devil Is a Sissy

The Devil Is a Sissy
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/09/1936
  • Character: Molly
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Smartest Girl in Town

Smartest Girl in Town
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/11/1936
  • Character: Phoebe
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.

The Go-Getter

The Go-Getter
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/05/1937
  • Character: Wife of Mr. J. Brown #2 (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

Life with Henry

Life with Henry
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/01/1941
  • Character: Kelopatra Johnson
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

Keep Smiling

Keep Smiling
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/08/1938
  • Character: Violet
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

Thieves Fall Out

Thieves Fall Out
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/05/1941
  • Character: Blossom
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.

Personal Maid's Secret

Personal Maid's Secret
6.5/10
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.

Living on Love

Living on Love
5.4/10
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".

Chicken Wagon Family

Chicken Wagon Family
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/08/1939
  • Character: Black Mammy
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.

The Farmer's Daughter

The Farmer's Daughter
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/03/1940
  • Character: Anna
Backstage comedy, starring Martha Raye and Charles Ruggles, about a theatrical producer rehearsing his new show with a temperamental leading lady. Not to be confused with the 1947 film of the same title that starred Loretta Young.

Palm Springs

Palm Springs
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/06/1936
  • Character: Mammy
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.

Man Bites Lovebug

Man Bites Lovebug
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/12/1937
  • Character: The Maid
A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia.

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