The best Joan Marsh’s comedy movies

Joan Marsh

Joan Marsh

10/07/1913- 10/08/2000
We present our ranking of the best Joan Marsh’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 Joan Marsh.
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Suds

Suds
6.3/10
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.

Road to Zanzibar

Road to Zanzibar
6.7/10
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.

Pollyanna

Pollyanna
6.4/10
When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified by her "glad game", in which she looks for the bright side of every situation - brings a change to the staid old community.

Idiot's Delight

Idiot's Delight
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/01/1939
  • Character: Elaine Messiger
A group of disparate travelers are caught are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

King of Jazz

King of Jazz
6.7/10
  • Genre: AnimationComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/04/1930
  • Character: Blonde ("A Bench in the Park") (uncredited)
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.

Hot Water

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

Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/05/1919
  • Character: (uncredited)
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.

Keep 'em Slugging

Keep 'em Slugging
6.2/10
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

Little Accident

Little Accident
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/08/1930
  • Character: Doris
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

Life Begins in College

Life Begins in College
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1937
  • Character: Cuddles
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.

A Tailor-Made Man

A Tailor-Made Man
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/03/1931
  • Character: Beanie
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.

Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/06/1934
  • Character: Florence Allen
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.

We're Rich Again

We're Rich Again
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/07/1934
  • Character: Carolyn 'Carrie' Page
A polo-playing grandmother (Edna May Oliver) and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

Dancing Feet

Dancing Feet
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/01/1936
  • Character: Judy Jones
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.

Bachelor's Affairs

Bachelor's Affairs
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/06/1932
  • Character: Eva Mills
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.

Three-Cornered Moon

Three-Cornered Moon
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/08/1933
  • Character: Kitty
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.

Shipmates

Shipmates
5.5/10
A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.

You're Telling Me!

You're Telling Me!
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/03/1934
  • Character: Pauline Bisbee
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living.

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Mr. Muggs Steps Out
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1943
  • Character: Brenda Murray
Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help.

Follow the Leader

Follow the Leader
6/10
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.

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