The best Henry Armetta’s comedy movies

Henry Armetta

Henry Armetta

04/07/1888- 21/10/1945
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Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen
6.2/10
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance

Red-Headed Woman

Red-Headed Woman
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/06/1932
  • Character: Waiter Warning Bill of Lipstick (uncredited)
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.

The Big Store

The Big Store
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/06/1941
  • Character: Guiseppi
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.

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.

Central Park

Central Park
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 10/12/1932
  • Character: Tony, Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow
7.2/10
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

Speak Easily

Speak Easily
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/08/1932
  • Character: Tony
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

Hide-Out

Hide-Out
6.9/10
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.

Two in a Crowd

Two in a Crowd
6.4/10
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.

The Passionate Plumber

The Passionate Plumber
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/02/1932
  • Character: Bouncer
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.

The Devil's Brother

The Devil's Brother
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 05/05/1933
  • Character: Matteo
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.

Jazz Heaven

Jazz Heaven
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1929
  • Character: Tony
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.

Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time
6.1/10
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.

Penthouse Rhythm

Penthouse Rhythm
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/06/1945
  • Character: Cafe Owner Joe
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline

Manhattan Moon

Manhattan Moon
Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They go to the opera and, after hearing Yvonne Malloy sing, Dan falls in love with her. Reggie introduces them, but the introduction is to Yvonne's double and stand-in, Toots. This leads to many complications for all concerned.

Kiss and Make-Up

Kiss and Make-Up
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/07/1934
  • Character: Banquet Chairman
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic-surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the affects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher...after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/11/1937
  • Character: Spadoni
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."

So This Is Africa

So This Is Africa
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/04/1933
  • Character: Street Cleaner
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send them and their lions to Africa with a great naturalist, in order to make a jungle picture. An earlier expedition by this same naturalist was a failure, because she is afraid of animals. They all head to Africa and the lions are not mentioned again. Once in the jungle they have to fend off the amorous advances of the naturalist, of a vine-swinging native girl, and of a gorilla. They then run into the fearsome Amazon tribe, made up entirely of nubile females. Eventually they disguise themselves as Amazons to avoid being "loved to death." But these disguises lead to further difficulties when the all-male tribe of Tarzans show up for their annual mating ritual with the Amazons.

Everybody Sing

Everybody Sing
6.2/10
The story is about a bunch of eccentrics in a family that are intent on putting on a show and bursting into song numbers at the drop of a hat.

Top of the Town

Top of the Town
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 17/04/1937
  • Character: Bacciagalluppi
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"

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