The best Jed Prouty’s comedy movies

Jed Prouty

Jed Prouty

06/04/1879- 10/05/1956
Today we present the best Jed Prouty’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 Jed Prouty’s movies.
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Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/10/1936
  • Character: Dickson (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

Souls for Sale

Souls for Sale
7/10
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

Ella Cinders

Ella Cinders
7/10
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Hollywood Cavalcade

Hollywood Cavalcade
6.5/10
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Obliging Young Lady

Obliging Young Lady
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1942
  • Character: Judge Rufus
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

One Hundred Men and a Girl

One Hundred Men and a Girl
6.7/10
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.

Hot Water

Hot Water
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1937
  • Character: John Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Hold 'Em Jail

Hold 'Em Jail
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/09/1932
  • Character: Lynwood Warden Charles Clark
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

Off to the Races

Off to the Races
7/10
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
6.1/10
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.

Remedy for Riches

Remedy for Riches
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/11/1940
  • Character: Vanderveer
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.

Skyway

Skyway
5.4/10
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.

Life Begins in College

Life Begins in College
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1937
  • Character: Oliver Stearns Sr.
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.

Keep Smiling

Keep Smiling
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/08/1938
  • Character: Jerome Lawson
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

The Gracie Allen Murder Case
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 02/06/1939
  • Character: Uncle Ambrose
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.

Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/05/1938
  • Character: John Jones
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Borrowing Trouble

Borrowing Trouble
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1937
  • Character: John Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

College Holiday

College Holiday
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1936
  • Character: Sheriff Trimble
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

You Can't Have Everything

You Can't Have Everything
6.3/10
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

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