The best Harry Hayden’s comedy movies

Harry Hayden

Harry Hayden

08/11/1882- 24/07/1955
Today we present the best Harry Hayden’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 Hayden’s movies.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: First Radio Announcer (uncredited)
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.

Without Reservations

Without Reservations
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/05/1946
  • Character: Harry Randall (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.

Variety Girl

Variety Girl
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/08/1947
  • Character: Manager at Grauman's Chinese
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Every Girl Should Be Married

Every Girl Should Be Married
6.2/10
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage

Christmas in July

Christmas in July
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1940
  • Character: Mr. Waterbury
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.

College Holiday

College Holiday
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1936
  • Character: Mr. Smith (uncredited)
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1943
  • Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 08/08/1941
  • Character: Jenkins (uncredited)
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Artists & Models

Artists & Models
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 04/08/1937
  • Character: Early (uncredited)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 09/08/1944
  • Character: Doc Bissell
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.

I Love You Again

I Love You Again
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/08/1940
  • Character: Mr. Wayne - Man in Bar on Ship (uncredited)
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Tales of Manhattan

Tales of Manhattan
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 05/08/1942
  • Character: 'Soupy' Davis (Robinson sequence)
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.

Double Dynamite

Double Dynamite
5.9/10
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.

At the Circus

At the Circus
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/10/1939
  • Character: Conductor (uncredited)
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter lets his accomplices steal the money, so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/07/1939
  • Character: Mr. MacMahon (uncredited)
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.

True to Life

True to Life
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/12/1943
  • Character: Radio Pop
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow
7/10
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

A Man Betrayed

A Man Betrayed
5.9/10
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).

Du Barry Was a Lady

Du Barry Was a Lady
6.1/10
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/04/1940
  • Character: Mr. Sharp
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.

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