The best Jimmy Lydon’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jimmy Lydon’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 Jimmy Lydon.
Life with Father
7.1/10
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
The Time of Your Life
6.2/10
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Gasoline Alley
6.3/10
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
Good News
6.7/10
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
Little Men
5.6/10
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
When Willie Comes Marching Home
6.4/10
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Cynthia
6.2/10
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
The Town Went Wild
5.5/10
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Twice Blessed
6/10
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
7.4/10
Adventures of a young amateur detective.
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
6.1/10
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.
Affairs of Geraldine
6.2/10
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
6.3/10
Henry (Jimmy Lydon) and his pal Dizzy (Charles Smith) become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
The Last Time I Saw Archie
5.8/10
Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.
Corky of Gasoline Alley
6.4/10
A small town family discovers an unwanted houseguest is harder to eject than they expected. Comedy.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
6.1/10
A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.
The Mad Martindales
6.7/10
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
6.4/10
Teenager Henry Aldrich (Jimmy Lydon) becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.
Henry Aldrich Haunts a House
6.2/10
Henry Aldrich (Jimmy Lydon) and his high-school pals investigate a local haunted house.
My Best Gal
5.8/10
A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
