The best George Irving’s comedy movies

George Irving

George Irving

05/10/1874- 11/09/1961
We present our ranking of the best George Irving’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 George Irving.
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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/02/1938
  • Character: Alexander Peabody
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

42nd Street

42nd Street
7.3/10
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/11/1935
  • Character: Committeeman (uncredited)
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

Love Crazy

Love Crazy
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/05/1941
  • Character: Sanity Hearing Doctor (uncredited)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Blond Cheat

Blond Cheat
5.8/10
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.

Captain January

Captain January
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 17/04/1936
  • Character: John Mason
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.

Merrily We Go to Hell

Merrily We Go to Hell
6.9/10
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.

Just Imagine

Just Imagine
5.4/10
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.

Magic Town

Magic Town
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/10/1947
  • Character: Senator Wilton
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.

High Flyers

High Flyers
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/11/1937
  • Character: Chief of Police
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.

The Toast of New York

The Toast of New York
6.3/10
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.

Little Men

Little Men
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/11/1940
  • Character: Truant Officer
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.

You're Telling Me!

You're Telling Me!
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/03/1934
  • Character: President of Tire Co.
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living.

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.

Maid's Night Out

Maid's Night Out
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/03/1938
  • Character: Mr. Norman
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.

Hush Money

Hush Money
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/07/1931
  • Character: Mr. Stockton (uncredited)
Hush Money is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy-drama film featuring Joan Bennett, Hardie Albright, Owen Moore, Myrna Loy, and George Raft. The movie was directed by Sidney Lanfield.

Lady with a Past

Lady with a Past
6.1/10
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.

Mr. Skitch

Mr. Skitch
6.3/10
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.

She Couldn't Say No

She Couldn't Say No
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/12/1940
  • Character: Henry Rockwell
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.

Crashing Hollywood

Crashing Hollywood
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 07/01/1938
  • Character: Alexander Peyton
Two gangsters provide details of an actual bank robbery when helping a neophite screenwriter create a hit Hollywood film.

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