The best Glenda Farrell’s comedy movies

Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell

30/06/1904- 01/05/1971
We present our ranking of the best Glenda Farrell’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 Glenda Farrell.
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The Disorderly Orderly

The Disorderly Orderly
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/12/1964
  • Character: Dr. Jean Howard
The Disorderly Orderly is a 1964 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Jerry Lewis. The film was produced by Paul Jones with a screenplay by director Frank Tashlin, based on a story by Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas.

The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town
7.5/10
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.

Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/03/1935
  • Character: Betty Hawes
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/09/1933
  • Character: Missouri Martin
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.

Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel
6.4/10
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical.

Havana Widows

Havana Widows
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/11/1933
  • Character: Sadie Appleby
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

Susan Slept Here

Susan Slept Here
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/07/1954
  • Character: Maude Snodgrass
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.

Kissin' Cousins

Kissin' Cousins
5.3/10
An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a look-alike cousin.

Things You Never See on the Screen

Things You Never See on the Screen
6/10
Collection of Warner's stars blundering through missed takes.

Little Big Shot

Little Big Shot
6.2/10
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Torchy Gets Her Man

Torchy Gets Her Man
6.5/10
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.

I've Got Your Number

I've Got Your Number
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/02/1934
  • Character: Bonnie aka Madame Francis
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.

Ever Since Venus

Ever Since Venus
6.3/10
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue. (IMDb)

Breakdowns of 1936

Breakdowns of 1936
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/12/1936
  • Character: Herself
Time marches on.

Torchy Runs for Mayor

Torchy Runs for Mayor
6.3/10
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Gold Diggers of 1937

Gold Diggers of 1937
6.4/10
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.

Twin Beds

Twin Beds
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/04/1942
  • Character: Sonya Cherupin
Twin Beds (1942) is a film distributed by United Artists, directed by Tim Whelan, and starring by George Brent and Joan Bennett. The screenplay was written by Kenneth Earl, Curtis Kenyon and Eddie Moran, based on play by Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo.

The Road to Reno

The Road to Reno
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1938
  • Character: Sylvia Shane
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.

The Law in Her Hands

The Law in Her Hands
5.7/10
A female lawyer (Margaret Lindsay) sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.

Breakfast for Two

Breakfast for Two
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/10/1937
  • Character: Carol Wallace
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.

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