The best Joan Shawlee’s comedy movies
We present our ranking of the best Joan Shawlee’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 Shawlee.
Some Like It Hot
8.2/10
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
The Apartment
8.3/10
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Irma la Douce
7.3/10
A Parisian policeman gives up everything for the love of a free-living sex worker.
Buddy Buddy
6.5/10
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.
Buck Privates Come Home
6.8/10
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Live a Little, Love a Little
5.6/10
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.
The Reluctant Astronaut
6.3/10
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
White Tie and Tails
7.2/10
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
Bowery to Bagdad
6.2/10
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
All Ashore
4.9/10
Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
Lover Come Back
6.2/10
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
Francis Joins the WACS
6.3/10
Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!
Kiss My Grits
4.7/10
A man heads for Mexico with a mobster's girlfriend.
