The best Gertrude Messinger’s comedy movies

Gertrude Messinger

Gertrude Messinger

28/04/1911- 08/11/1995
Today we present the best Gertrude Messinger’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 Gertrude Messinger’s movies.

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables
7/10
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.

Zenobia

Zenobia
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/04/1939
  • Character: Party Guest
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Madame Racketeer

Madame Racketeer
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/07/1932
  • Character: Patsy Hicks
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.

Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch

Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
5.8/10
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.

Our Leading Citizen

Our Leading Citizen
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/08/1939
  • Character: Phone Operator
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

Air-Tight

Air-Tight
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/05/1931
  • Character: Gertie
The college aerial club is at the airfield to inaugurate a new glider. Alabam gets a lot of teasing for being a "land lizard," never wanting to fly. Mary takes him aside to boost his spirits and offers to take his photo if he'll sit on a glider parked nearby. Dave is ready to take the club's glider up, but Mickey hooks the wrong rope to his car and pulls Alabam into the air. He hasn't a clue what to do; below, Mickey and Dave try to shout instructions while the glider's owner gives chase. What goes up . . .

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
5.3/10
In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alchemist al-Talib, her father's choice. Al-Talib consults his Evil Spirit, who advises him to find the magic lamp hidden in an underground cave. Unable to get it himself, al-Talib hires Aladdin, who secures the lamp but keeps it when he realizes al-Talib's wickedness. With wealth obtained through wishes, Aladdin courts the princess. After the lamp changes hands between al-Talib and Aladdin, al-Talib steals it and abducts the princess to the desert. Aladdin follows with only a gourd of water. Suffering from thirst and exhaustion, Aladdin nearly succumbs, but the horsemen of the Sultan, who learned of his daughter's abduction, ride up and rescue Aladdin.

Call a Cop!

Call a Cop!
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/08/1931
  • Character: Gertie
The boyfriends rush into action when the girlfriends think there's a burglar in the house.

Penrod and Sam

Penrod and Sam
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/06/1923
  • Character: Marjorie Jones

Two Weeks Off

Two Weeks Off
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/05/1929
  • Character: Tessie McCann
Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works at her store. Just as she is getting ready to leave home, Dave, a handsome young plumber, arrives to repair a leaky faucet. Her vacation turns into a bust when it rains at the beach, but a hunky lifeguard shows up to brighten her day. Then, of all people, Dave the plumber shows up, too. Complications ensue.

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