The best Irving Bacon’s comedy movies on YouTube

Irving Bacon

Irving Bacon

06/09/1893- 05/02/1965
We present our ranking of the best Irving Bacon’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 Irving Bacon.

It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/02/1934
  • Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday
7.8/10
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.8/10
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn
7.3/10
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 01/09/1938
  • Character: Henry - the Head Waiter (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
7.2/10
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/06/1939
  • Character: Clerk at Exchange Window (uncredited)
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/02/1941
  • Character: Bank Teller
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

Room for One More

Room for One More
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 10/01/1952
  • Character: Mayor Michael J. Kane
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.

The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes
6.4/10
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

At the Circus

At the Circus
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/10/1939
  • Character: Telegraph Clerk (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.

Riding High

Riding High
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/1950
  • Character: Hamburger Man
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

Here Comes the Groom

Here Comes the Groom
6.3/10
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

Big Business Girl

Big Business Girl
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/06/1931
  • Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

John Loves Mary

John Loves Mary
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/02/1949
  • Character: George Beachwood
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.

Love on a Bet

Love on a Bet
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 06/03/1936
  • Character: Farmer on Hay Wagon
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.

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