The best Harry Barris’s movies

Harry Barris

Harry Barris

24/11/1905- 13/12/1962
Today we present the best Harry Barris’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 Harry Barris’s movies.
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Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh
7/10
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/11/1945
  • Character: Pianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1946
  • Character: Belhop (uncredited)
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

Young Widow

Young Widow
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/03/1946
  • Character: Officer's Club Pianist (Uncredited)
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

The Shining Hour

The Shining Hour
6.4/10
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Blondie Goes Latin

Blondie Goes Latin
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/02/1941
  • Character: Musician (uncredited)
The 8th film in the Blondie series - Blondie Goes Latin. Mr. Dithers invites the Bumstead's on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.

Trade Winds

Trade Winds
6.3/10
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.

Here Come the Waves

Here Come the Waves
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/12/1944
  • Character: Bandleader (uncredited)
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.

The Fleet's In

The Fleet's In
6.6/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 24/01/1942
  • Character: Pee Wee
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.

Every Night at Eight

Every Night at Eight
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 02/08/1935
  • Character: Harry
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.

Double or Nothing

Double or Nothing
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1937
  • Character: Sing Orchestra Leader
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.

Something to Sing About

Something to Sing About
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/09/1937
  • Character: Pinky - Band Pianist
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
6.6/10
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.

Birth of the Blues

Birth of the Blues
6.3/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 07/11/1941
  • Character: Suds
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.

And the Angels Sing

And the Angels Sing
6.2/10
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.

Confessions of a Co-Ed

Confessions of a Co-Ed
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/07/1931
  • Character: Harry
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.

Rhythm on the River

Rhythm on the River
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 28/08/1940
  • Character: Bass Sax player
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.

Rambling 'Round Radio Row #2

Rambling 'Round Radio Row #2
4.8/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 22/10/1932
  • Character: Himself - Pianist / Singer
Returning to New York on an ocean liner, Loyce Whiteman, Harry Barris and Art Jarrett decide to visit composer Burton Lane, who is also aboard, to rehearse a little. Saxophonists Benny Krueger and Rudy Wiedhoeft meet and joke with their instruments, also commenting on Prohibition.

Cowboy from Brooklyn

Cowboy from Brooklyn
5.7/10
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

The Spirit of Notre Dame

The Spirit of Notre Dame
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/10/1931
  • Character: William Appleton Shellingdon Pelt ("Wasp")
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.

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