The best Jim Backus’s romance movies

Jim Backus

Jim Backus

25/02/1913- 03/07/1989
We present our ranking of the best Jim Backus’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 Jim Backus.
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The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex
6.1/10
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back.

Angel Face

Angel Face
7.2/10
An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.

Pat and Mike

Pat and Mike
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/06/1952
  • Character: Charles Barry
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.

Ask Any Girl

Ask Any Girl
6.5/10
Sales girl falls for the younger of a company run by two brothers. The elder falls for her but plans to help her get his brother because he doesn't know he's in love.

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Meet Me in Las Vegas
6.1/10
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...

His Kind of Woman

His Kind of Woman
7/10
In a desperate attempt to get out of debt, career gambler Dan Milner agrees to rendezvous with a mysterious contact at a distant Mexican resort in exchange for $50,000. Upon arriving, Milner meets his fellow guests, including a plastic surgeon, a philandering movie star and his beautiful girlfriend. Soon Milner discovers that the man who hired him may be the ruthless gangster Nick Ferraro -- a deported crime boss looking to re-enter the USA.

Sunday in New York

Sunday in New York
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/11/1963
  • Character: Chief Pilot Drysdale
Eileen is 22 and is smarting from her breakup with Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, Adam, who is an airline pilot. Eileen confides to her brother that she thinks she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the world. Adam assures her that sex is not what all men look for and insists he hasn't slept around. Of course, Adam is lying and is in hot pursuit of a tryst with his occasional girlfriend Mona. However, Adam's date with Mona has a series of job related interruptions. Meanwhile, Eileen decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York, and seems to find the perfect candidate in Mike, a man she meets on the bus. But things get complicated when Russ pops in with a proposal and a mistaken assumption.

I Love Melvin

I Love Melvin
6.5/10
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.

One Last Fling

One Last Fling
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/06/1949
  • Character: Howard Pritchard
A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.

Critic's Choice

Critic's Choice
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/04/1963
  • Character: Dr. William Von Hagedorn
Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin.

Francis in the Navy

Francis in the Navy
5.7/10
In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note urges Pete to hurry to the Coronado, California naval base, where Francis is about to be sold as surplus. Pete rushes to the train station, but before he can board, nurse Betsy Donevan mistakes him for her shell-shocked brother, Navy boatswain Slicker Donevan. She tries to forcibly remove his uniform so he will not get into trouble for impersonating an Army officer. Finally she realizes that Pete is not Slicker but merely his mirror image.

You Can't Run Away from It

You Can't Run Away from It
5.9/10
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

There Goes The Bride

There Goes The Bride
3.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/07/1980
  • Character: Mr. Perkins
A nervous ad executive (Tom Smothers) creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl (Twiggy) he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't catch.

Billie

Billie
5.7/10
A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
6.2/10
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.

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