The best Joe Penner’s movies

Joe Penner

Joe Penner

11/11/1904- 10/01/1941
We present our ranking of the best Joe Penner’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 Joe Penner.
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New Faces of 1937

New Faces of 1937
5.2/10
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.

The Day the Bookies Wept

The Day the Bookies Wept
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/09/1939
  • Character: Ernest Ambrose
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer. Comedy.

Go Chase Yourself

Go Chase Yourself
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 22/04/1938
  • Character: Wilbur Meeley
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.

The Boys from Syracuse

The Boys from Syracuse
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/07/1940
  • Character: Dromio of Ephesus / Dromio of Syracuse
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love

Millionaire Playboy

Millionaire Playboy
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/03/1940
  • Character: Joe Zany, aka Mr. Joe Potter
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.

I'm from the City

I'm from the City
5.7/10
Pete Pepper (Joe Penner) is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch (Richard Lane). Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.

College Rhythm

College Rhythm
6.1/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 23/11/1934
  • Character: Joe
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
3.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/10/1938
  • Character: Jimmie "Doodle" Bugs
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.

Collegiate

Collegiate
7.3/10
  • Release: 22/01/1936
  • Character: Joe
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.

The Life of the Party

The Life of the Party
5.6/10
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

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