The best Gary Cooper’s comedy movies

Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

07/05/1901- 13/05/1961
Today we present the best Gary Cooper’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 Gary Cooper’s movies.
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Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon
7.1/10
Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.

Design for Living

Design for Living
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/12/1933
  • Character: George Curtis
An independent woman can't chose between the two men she loves.

Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe
7.6/10
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

Desire

Desire
7.1/10
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

Along Came Jones

Along Came Jones
6.4/10
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.

Good Sam

Good Sam
6.2/10
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.

Variety Girl

Variety Girl
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/08/1947
  • Character: Himself
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

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.

Alias Jesse James

Alias Jesse James
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 20/03/1959
  • Character: Cowboy (uncredited)
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/03/1938
  • Character: Michael Brandon
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.

Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/12/1941
  • Character: Professor Bertram Potts
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

It

It
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 05/02/1927
  • Character: Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."

If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/12/1932
  • Character: Steve Gallagher
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

It's a Great Feeling

It's a Great Feeling
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/08/1949
  • Character: Gary Cooper (uncredited)
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.

The Cowboy and the Lady

The Cowboy and the Lady
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/11/1938
  • Character: Stretch Willoughby
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.

The Stolen Jools

The Stolen Jools
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1931
  • Character: Newspaper Editor
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

The Last Remake of Beau Geste
6/10
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.

Casanova Brown

Casanova Brown
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/08/1944
  • Character: Casanova (Cass) Brown
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.

It's a Big Country

It's a Big Country
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/11/1951
  • Character: Texas
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.

You're in the Navy Now

You're in the Navy Now
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 23/02/1951
  • Character: Lt. John W. Harkness
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.

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