The best Joan Davis’s movies

Joan Davis

Joan Davis

29/06/1907- 22/05/1961
Today we present the best Joan Davis’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 Joan Davis’s movies.
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My Lucky Star

My Lucky Star
6/10
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.

Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 08/08/1941
  • Character: Camille Brewster
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Bunker Bean

Bunker Bean
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/06/1936
  • Character: Mabel - Bunker's Secretary
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Time Out for Romance

Time Out for Romance
5.8/10
A girl (Trevor) escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man (Whalen) in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

The Groom Wore Spurs

The Groom Wore Spurs
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/03/1951
  • Character: Alice Dean
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.

Sun Valley Serenade

Sun Valley Serenade
7.1/10
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.

Josette

Josette
6/10
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.

Manhattan Heartbeat

Manhattan Heartbeat
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/07/1940
  • Character: Edna Higgins
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.

Tail Spin

Tail Spin
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/02/1939
  • Character: Babe Dugan
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

Around the World

Around the World
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/11/1943
  • Character: Joan Davis
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

Thin Ice

Thin Ice
6.3/10
Swiss hotel ski instructor (Henie) falls in love with a man (Power) who goes skiing every morning.

Day-time Wife

Day-time Wife
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/11/1939
  • Character: Miss Applegate
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

Just Around the Corner

Just Around the Corner
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/11/1938
  • Character: Kitty
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

On the Avenue

On the Avenue
6.7/10
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.

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...

Yokel Boy

Yokel Boy
5.6/10
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.

Make Mine Laughs

Make Mine Laughs
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 03/08/1949
  • Character: (archive footage)
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.

She Wrote the Book

She Wrote the Book
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/05/1946
  • Character: Jane Featherstone
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.

Sally, Irene and Mary

Sally, Irene and Mary
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/03/1938
  • Character: Irene Keene
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Harem Girl

Harem Girl
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/01/1952
  • Character: Susie Perkins
The palace secretary (Joan Davis) to a princess (Peggie Castle) foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.

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