The best Gene Nelson’s comedy movies

Gene Nelson

Gene Nelson

24/03/1920- 16/09/1996
Today we present the best Gene Nelson’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 Gene Nelson’s movies.
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S.O.B.

S.O.B.
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1981
  • Character: Clive Lytell
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Tea for Two

Tea for Two
6.5/10
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.

This Is the Army

This Is the Army
5.8/10
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/03/1950
  • Character: Doug Martin
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.

So This Is Paris

So This Is Paris
6/10
Tony Curtis makes his musical-comedy debut in the frolicsome Universal production So This is Paris. Curtis, Gene Nelson and Paul Gilbert play three American sailors on leave in the City of Light. In record time, the trio makes the acquaintance of three lovely lasses: Gloria de Haven, Corinne Calvert and Mara Corday.

The West Point Story

The West Point Story
6.2/10
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

Second Fiddle

Second Fiddle
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/06/1939
  • Character: Minor Role
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Three Sailors and a Girl

Three Sailors and a Girl
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/11/1953
  • Character: Twitch
A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

Everything Happens at Night

Everything Happens at Night
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Skater
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

Lullaby of Broadway

Lullaby of Broadway
6.7/10
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.

She's Working Her Way Through College

She's Working Her Way Through College
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 09/07/1952
  • Character: Don Weston
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.

She's Back on Broadway

She's Back on Broadway
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/03/1953
  • Character: Gordon Evans
When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Evans put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.

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