The best George Melford’s comedy movies

George Melford

George Melford

17/02/1877- 25/04/1961
Today we present the best George Melford’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 George Melford’s movies.
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Remember the Night

Remember the Night
7.6/10
When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1940
  • Character: Senior Senator (uncredited)
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/02/1941
  • Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomanceWar
  • Release: 24/12/1943
  • Character: U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.

My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 09/02/1940
  • Character: Greasewood Sheriff-Elect on Train (uncredited)
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.

Golden Hoofs

Golden Hoofs
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/02/1941
  • Character: Eldridge
A teenage horse trainer (Jane Withers) fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

Dixie Dugan

Dixie Dugan
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/03/1943
  • Character: Mr. Sloan
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/11/1939
  • Character: Dugan
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.

That Other Woman

That Other Woman
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/11/1942
  • Character: Zineschwich
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.

The Family Next Door

The Family Next Door
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/03/1939
  • Character: Bank Manager
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.

Buck Benny Rides Again

Buck Benny Rides Again
6.9/10
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.

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