The best Granville Bates’s comedy movies

Granville Bates

Granville Bates

07/01/1882- 08/07/1940
Today we present the best Granville Bates’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 Granville Bates’s movies.
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My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/05/1940
  • Character: Judge Walter Bryson
Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed Nick struggles to break the news to his new bride. But he gets a shock when he hears the whole story: Ellen spent those seven years alone on a desert island with another man.

Waikiki Wedding

Waikiki Wedding
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/03/1937
  • Character: Uncle Herman
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.

Chatterbox

Chatterbox
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/01/1936
  • Character: Philip Greene Sr.
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.

Brother Rat and a Baby

Brother Rat and a Baby
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/01/1940
  • Character: First Doctor
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

Eternally Yours

Eternally Yours
5.7/10
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid
7/10
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

When's Your Birthday?

When's Your Birthday?
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/02/1937
  • Character: Judge O'Day
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

Naughty But Nice

Naughty But Nice
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/06/1939
  • Character: Judge Kennith B. Walters, Superior Court
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.

Hard to Get

Hard to Get
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 05/11/1938
  • Character: Judge Harkness
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

I Live My Life

I Live My Life
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1935
  • Character: Yacht Captain (Uncredited)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

Fast and Furious

Fast and Furious
6.1/10
Joel and Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.

The Affairs of Annabel

The Affairs of Annabel
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/09/1938
  • Character: Mr. Fletcher
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.

Back in Circulation

Back in Circulation
6.3/10
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.

The Perfect Specimen

The Perfect Specimen
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/10/1937
  • Character: Hooker - Garage Owner
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Charlie McCarthy, Detective
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Judge Black
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.

Youth Takes a Fling

Youth Takes a Fling
6.2/10
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.

Woman Wanted

Woman Wanted
6.5/10
Ann Grey is wrongly convicted of murder. On her way to prison a car accident gives her the opportunity to escape. She is helped by young lawyer Tony Baxter. He hides her from the police, as well as his fiancée, with the help of his butler Peedles. Ann is also wanted by the mobsters who really committed the murder as they think she knows where $250,000 worth of bonds are hidden. When the mobsters find and abduct her, Tony enlists the help of the D.A. and the police to try to get her back.

The Smiling Lieutenant

The Smiling Lieutenant
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/08/1931
  • Character: Bill Collector (uncredited)
A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn for girlfriend, Franzi, is accidentally intercepted -- and misread -- by the visiting Princess Anna. As a result, the soldier has no choice but to marry the royal lady and move with her to the neighboring kingdom of Flausenthurm. His girlfriend follows to continue the romance and, subversively, give Princess Anna tips on how to keep her husband satisfied.

Poppy

Poppy
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/06/1936
  • Character: Mayor Farnsworth
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.

It Happened in Hollywood

It Happened in Hollywood
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/09/1937
  • Character: Sam Bennett
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

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