The best Grant Mitchell’s comedy movies

Grant Mitchell

Grant Mitchell

17/06/1874- 01/05/1957
We present our ranking of the best Grant Mitchell’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 Grant Mitchell.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: Senator MacPherson
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/09/1944
  • Character: Reverend Harper
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/12/1933
  • Character: Ed Loomis
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady
6.8/10
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue
7.6/10
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/02/1941
  • Character: George Payne
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1942
  • Character: Walter Sherwood
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.

Gold Diggers of 1935

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

On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time
7.7/10
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.

Larceny, Inc.

Larceny, Inc.
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/04/1942
  • Character: Mr. Aspinwall
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/12/1932
  • Character: Prison Priest (uncredited)
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

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.

Our Betters

Our Betters
6.1/10
Although the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps are our equals, in morality.

Guest Wife

Guest Wife
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/07/1945
  • Character: House Detective
Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband's idolizing. On the eve of the Price's second-honeymoon trip to New York City, Joe arrives and tells Chris that he needs someone to pose as his wife in order to fool his boss in NYC, who thinks Joe got married to an overseas woman while on an assignment. Chris pushes Mary into posing as Joe's wife. In New York, this leads to many complications and misunderstandings, with Mary finally deciding to teach Chris and Joe a lesson by making them believe she is in love with Joe.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.8/10
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

Honeymoon

Honeymoon
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/05/1947
  • Character: Congressman Crenshaw
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.

Lady Behave!

Lady Behave!
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/12/1937
  • Character: Burton Williams
It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Ernest W. Stanley
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1941
  • Character: Mr. Bishop
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle T.T. Ralston will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.

One More Spring

One More Spring
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/02/1935
  • Character: Henry Sheridan
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

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