The best Joan Davis’s music 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.

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.

Thin Ice

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

George White's Scandals

George White's Scandals
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 09/10/1945
  • Character: Joan Mason
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Beautiful But Broke

Beautiful But Broke
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 28/01/1944
  • Character: Dottie Duncan
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.

He's My Guy

He's My Guy
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/03/1943
  • Character: Madge Donovan
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.

Wake Up and Live

Wake Up and Live
6.7/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 23/08/1937
  • Character: Comic Spanish Dancer
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

She Gets Her Man

She Gets Her Man
6/10
The corny daughter (Joan Davis) of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

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.

Kansas City Kitty

Kansas City Kitty
6.6/10
A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.

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