The best Evalyn Knapp’s comedy movies

Evalyn Knapp

Evalyn Knapp

17/06/1908- 12/06/1981
Today we present the best Evalyn Knapp’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 Evalyn Knapp’s movies.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

Side Show

Side Show
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/09/1931
  • Character: Irene
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

His Private Secretary

His Private Secretary
5.5/10
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.

Idiot's Delight

Idiot's Delight
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/01/1939
  • Character: Nurse #4
A group of disparate travelers are caught are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

High Pressure

High Pressure
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/01/1932
  • Character: Helen Wilson
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber...

The Millionaire

The Millionaire
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/05/1931
  • Character: Barbara Alden
A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.

Madame Racketeer

Madame Racketeer
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/07/1932
  • Character: Alice Hicks
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.

Big City Blues

Big City Blues
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/09/1932
  • Character: Jo-Jo (uncredited)
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.

Slightly Married

Slightly Married
6.1/10
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for vagrancy. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.

Ladies Crave Excitement

Ladies Crave Excitement
5.8/10
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.

Laughing Irish Eyes

Laughing Irish Eyes
4.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1936
  • Character: Peggy Kelly
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.

In Old Santa Fe

In Old Santa Fe
5.7/10
Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and has the stage robbed, Kentucky finds the outlaws and brings them in. Tracy frames him for the murder of the driver but his pal Cactus gets him out of jail. He returns just as Chandler shoots Tracy and Kentucky finds himself arrested for another murder.

A Successful Calamity

A Successful Calamity
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1932
  • Character: Peggy Wilton
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.

Fireman, Save My Child

Fireman, Save My Child
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/02/1932
  • Character: Sally Toby
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?

Sauce for the Gander

Sauce for the Gander
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/02/1940
  • Character: Secretary
Working stiff Tom Tupper is stopped by a 'man on the spot' reporter during his daily commute. Asked for his opinion on male/female relations, Tom tells the radio audience that he thinks men could do a better job running the household than women. When he arrives home, his infuriated wife Margaret proposes that her husband put his money where his mouth is. The couple switch roles, with Margaret going to the office and Tom cooking and cleaning. While Margaret becomes a successful entrepreneur, the man of the house comes dangerously close to having a nervous breakdown. Overwhelmed by a woman's work, Tom begs Margaret to go back to the way things were, but his now-independent wife isn't interested.

50 Million Frenchmen

50 Million Frenchmen
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/02/1931
  • Character: Miss Wheeler-Smith
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman with out spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchman to stop him.

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