The best Gig Young’s comedy movies

Gig Young

Gig Young

04/11/1913- 19/10/1978
We present our ranking of the best Gig Young’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 Gig Young.
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That Touch of Mink

That Touch of Mink
6.6/10
Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.

Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1958
  • Character: Dr. Hugo Pine
A rugged city editor (Clark Gable) poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor (Doris Day).

Desk Set

Desk Set
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/08/1957
  • Character: Mike Cutler
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.

Lovers and Other Strangers

Lovers and Other Strangers
6.5/10
Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.

Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/02/1965
  • Character: Richard Bramwell
In London, stuffy statesman Carter Harrison meets Toni, a Bohemian artist with a hot Italian temper. The two impulsively marry and then find that they disagree on everything. Shortly afterward they separate. We then meet them five years later on the eve before their divorce becomes final. After seeing each other again, sparks are reignited and they spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on, until Carter that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married. He schemes to win back Toni and eventually succeeds. But can he keep her from destroying his career by posing as Lady Godiva in a protest movement?

Breakdowns of 1942

Breakdowns of 1942
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Self
This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers.

Too Young to Kiss

Too Young to Kiss
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/11/1951
  • Character: John Tirsen
Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
7.8/10
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.

For Love or Money

For Love or Money
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/08/1963
  • Character: John Dayton "Sonny" Smith
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.

You're in the Army Now

You're in the Army Now
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1941
  • Character: Soldier
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

The Tunnel of Love

The Tunnel of Love
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/11/1958
  • Character: Dick Pepper
The Pooles are unable to have a baby after years of trying. They apply to the Rock-A-Bye Adoption Agency, and are assigned Miss Novick as an investigator. Through a farfetched mis-communication she gets a very bad impression of Augie Poole and indicates her report will be unfavorable. Through even more far-fetched circumstances, Augie is able to change Miss Novick's mind, and later comes to believe the baby she is carrying is his. Rock-A-Bye does find the Pooles a baby, and Augie is convinced it is Miss Novick's, and that he is the real father...so much so that his wife comes to believe it, too. She threatens to leave him, but all the misunderstandings are finally cleared up for a happy ending.

Ask Any Girl

Ask Any Girl
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/08/1959
  • Character: Evan Doughton
Sales girl falls for the younger of a company run by two brothers. The elder falls for her but plans to help her get his brother because he doesn't know he's in love.

The Male Animal

The Male Animal
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/03/1942
  • Character: Student (uncredited)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.

A Ticklish Affair

A Ticklish Affair
5.8/10
A young widow Amy Martin with three young boys is investigated by the Navy after one of her children inadvertently sends out a distress signal in Morse code by the blinds on his upstairs bedroom window. Commander Weedon and crew observe the signal from their ship and investigates. He falls for the young mother and proposes marriage. However, she is reluctant to have her family live out of a suitcase and initially declines. Gramps tries to bring her on board to sail the sea of love with the commander.

The Tanks Are Coming

The Tanks Are Coming
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/10/1941
  • Character: Jim Allen
Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tankist training in the American Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical Army trainee from the Bronx.

Tell It to the Judge

Tell It to the Judge
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/11/1949
  • Character: Alexander Darvac
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.

You for Me

You for Me
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/07/1952
  • Character: Dr. Jeff Chadwick
A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.

Misbehaving Husbands

Misbehaving Husbands
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 20/12/1940
  • Character: Floor Walker (as Byron Barr)
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".

The Great Ice Rip-Off

The Great Ice Rip-Off
7.3/10
A retired cop goes up against a slick jewel thief and his gang, who have pulled a diamond heist and are trying to smuggle the diamonds cross-country.

The Mad Martindales

The Mad Martindales
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/05/1942
  • Character: Peter Varney (as Byron Barr)
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

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