The best Jane Darwell’s comedy movies

Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

15/10/1879- 13/08/1967
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jane Darwell’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jane Darwell.
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Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins
7.8/10
A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

Curly Top

Curly Top
6.8/10
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones." As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.

Design for Living

Design for Living
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/12/1933
  • Character: Curtis' Housekeeper
An independent woman can't chose between the two men she loves.

The Sun Shines Bright

The Sun Shines Bright
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1953
  • Character: Aurora Ratchitt
John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.

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

We're Not Married!

We're Not Married!
6.4/10
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
7.1/10
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

I Live in Grosvenor Square

I Live in Grosvenor Square
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/07/1945
  • Character: Mrs. Patterson
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

Hit the Deck

Hit the Deck
6.5/10
Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land in the brig. But Danny's father is a Rear Admiral...

Three Husbands

Three Husbands
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/03/1951
  • Character: Mrs. Wurdeman
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Wife, Doctor and Nurse
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1937
  • Character: Mrs. Krueger
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer
6.2/10
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.

It Happened in Flatbush

It Happened in Flatbush
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/05/1942
  • Character: Mrs. Maguire
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a looser.

Love Is News

Love Is News
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/02/1937
  • Character: Mrs. Flaherty
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiance showing up. Can an heiress be a human being, and can a reporter get a scoop?

Fashions of 1934

Fashions of 1934
6.6/10
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.

It Happens Every Thursday

It Happens Every Thursday
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/04/1953
  • Character: Mrs. Spatch
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.

Roman Scandals

Roman Scandals
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/01/1933
  • Character: Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.

Excuse My Dust

Excuse My Dust
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/06/1951
  • Character: Mrs. Belden
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl friend believes in him. When he's halfway successful, another woman tries to win his heart, and his girl-friend thinks he has quit with her. But on a race for those new horse-less vehicles, he gets in trouble and only his former girl friend is able to help him.

Captain January

Captain January
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 17/04/1936
  • Character: Mrs. Eliza Croft
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.

Three Wise Fools

Three Wise Fools
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/09/1946
  • Character: Sister Mary Brigid
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.

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