The best Harry Shannon’s comedy movies

Harry Shannon

Harry Shannon

13/06/1890- 27/07/1964
Today we present the best Harry Shannon’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 Shannon’s movies.
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
7.2/10
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.

Gypsy

Gypsy
7.1/10
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Once Upon a Honeymoon
6.4/10
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

The Farmer's Daughter

The Farmer's Daughter
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1947
  • Character: Mr. Holstrom
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

True to Life

True to Life
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/12/1943
  • Character: Mr. Mason
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.

The Powers Girl

The Powers Girl
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/01/1943
  • Character: Mr. Hendricks
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

Tugboat Annie Sails Again
5.6/10
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.

Too Many Girls

Too Many Girls
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 08/10/1940
  • Character: Mr. Casey
Mr Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
6.5/10
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
6.1/10
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville, Indiana in an attempt to uncover a notorious safecracker, believed to be masquerading as one of the town's upstanding citizens.

Heads Up

Heads Up
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 10/10/1930
  • Character: Capt. Denny
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Jack is not invited. Meanwhile, Mary suspects Rex of picking up contraband beyond the 12-mile limit and refuses his proposal of marriage, while Betty, her impish sister, drives Skippy to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port by a coast guard, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary; but on a subsequent cruise, he hides himself in a lifeboat with two aides. When the captain stops to take on a cargo of rum, Jack and his aides take over the vessel, and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, and Jack proves his heroism, while Rex reveals his true colors and is identified as a fugitive bootlegger.

Smoked Hams

Smoked Hams
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/10/1934
  • Character: The Landlord
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.

Three Little Words

Three Little Words
6.9/10
Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact, that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relation.

The Lemon Drop Kid

The Lemon Drop Kid
7/10
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.

The Girl from Avenue A

The Girl from Avenue A
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/08/1940
  • Character: Timson
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

Sailor's Lady

Sailor's Lady
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/07/1940
  • Character: Father McGann
Sailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

The Mad Martindales

The Mad Martindales
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/05/1942
  • Character: Policeman
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

No More West

No More West
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/03/1934
  • Character: Bank Robber
Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who prescribes him rest and relaxation...out West.

Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'

Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/06/1948
  • Character: Chauncey
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.

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