The best Frankie Darro’s comedy movies

Frankie Darro

Frankie Darro

22/12/1917- 25/12/1976
We present our ranking of the best Frankie Darro’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 Frankie Darro.
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Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat
7.2/10
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Riding High

Riding High
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/1950
  • Character: Jockey Williams
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
6.3/10
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.

Saratoga

Saratoga
6.5/10
A horse breeder's (Lionel Barrymore) granddaughter (Jean Harlow) falls in love with a gambler (Clark Gable) in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Freddie Steps Out

Freddie Steps Out
4.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/06/1946
  • Character: Roy Donne
A high school student is mistaken for a famous radio singer who goes missing.

Angels' Alley

Angels' Alley
5.9/10
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.

Kiki

Kiki
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1926
  • Character: Pierre
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

Charlie Chan at the Race Track
7/10
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.

Mind Your Own Business

Mind Your Own Business
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/12/1936
  • Character: Bob
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.

Up in the Air

Up in the Air
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 09/09/1940
  • Character: Frankie Ryan
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.

Sarge Goes to College

Sarge Goes to College
6.4/10
A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service, requires an operation, and Navy psychiatrist Captain R. S. Handler, recommends to Marine Captain Russ Morgan and Colonel Winters that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through Dean McKinley of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. The teenagers are rehearsing a school show and Freddie is worried because they have no band. Freddie, Dodie Rogers and Betty Rogers find Sarge asleep in the park, and the girls put him up at their house when they learn he can't find a room. Betty has a row with boyfriend Roy , and in order to make him jealous gets Freddie to invite her to the school dance after telling Freddie that his girlfriend Dodie is going with Sarge. Many misunderstandings follow but all is well when Sarge gets his marine captain to bring his band over to the school for the school's BIG SHOW.

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1934
  • Character: Ted Williams
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Junior Prom

Junior Prom
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/07/1946
  • Character: Roy Donne
During the Whitney High School student government election, a rich man’s son tries to pay his way into office with promises of new athletic uniforms. His desperate competitors decide to stage a series of song and dance spectacles to try to garner votes.

The Merry Frinks

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

Tugboat Annie

Tugboat Annie
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/08/1933
  • Character: Alec, as a Child
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.

Fighting Fools

Fighting Fools
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/03/1949
  • Character: Johnny Higgins
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.

Memory Lane

Memory Lane
7.6/10
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.

Let's Go Collegiate

Let's Go Collegiate
5/10
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.

The Gang's All Here

The Gang's All Here
5.4/10
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.

Trouble Makers

Trouble Makers
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/01/1949
  • Character: Ben Feathers
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.

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