The best Gwen Verdon’s comedy movies

Gwen Verdon

Gwen Verdon

13/01/1925- 18/10/2000
We present our ranking of the best Gwen Verdon’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 Gwen Verdon.
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Cocoon

Cocoon
6.7/10
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

Cocoon: The Return

Cocoon: The Return
5.4/10
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?

Alice

Alice
6.6/10
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of well-established rut.

Nadine

Nadine
5.5/10
Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and Nadine are pursued by goons with guns.

Bruno

Bruno
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/04/2000
  • Character: Mrs. Drago
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.

Damn Yankees

Damn Yankees
7/10
Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.

Dreamboat

Dreamboat
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/07/1952
  • Character: Girl in Commercial (uncredited)
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.

Walking Across Egypt

Walking Across Egypt
7.2/10
The film follows the life of Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), an elderly woman who believes in strong religious convictions. The film explores the lonely qualities of life for senior citizens after their children leave as adults. Judge Reinhold and Gail O'Grady play Mattie's children who live in a deep southern town. Mattie soon finds a likable friend in the local dogcatcher, Lamar Benfield (Mark Hamill). It is through this relationship in which she meets the dogcatcher's nephew, a troubled, foul-mouthed, orphaned juvenile delinquent, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), currently serving time in juvenile detention for a recent car theft. Mattie finds that this young man is just missing direction and believes that with a little insight on Christianity he can straighten up and fly right.

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/10/1955
  • Character: Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.

Blonde from Brooklyn

Blonde from Brooklyn
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 21/06/1945
  • Character: Girl in Nightclub (uncredited)
A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach them to be "southern" so they can land a radio gig for sponsor Plantation Coffee. Comedy.

The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Farmer Takes a Wife
5.3/10
Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.

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