The best John Barrymore’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Barrymore’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about John Barrymore.
Twentieth Century
7.3/10
Oscar Jaffe is a successful Broadway director, Lily Garland his biggest star. When she leaves his direction, his success goes with her. When he recognizes her aboard the Twentieth Century Limited, the train that both of them are riding, he tries to get her back for a new show. But accomplishing that feat isn't as simple as he had thought.
Midnight
7.8/10
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Dinner at Eight
7.5/10
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
The Invisible Woman
6/10
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
True Confession
6.6/10
Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest, and therefore unsuccessful lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the circumstantial evidence points at her. She is put on trial for murder, and her husband defends her. He thinks she is lying again when she says she didn't do it, and insists she plead that she did, but in self defense. Charlie, a shady, odd character who may or may not know something about what really happened, hangs around the courtroom and jail making rude comments and noises. After Helen is acquitted, he tries to blackmail them.
Topaze
6.7/10
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.
Spawn of the North
6.7/10
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
Playmates
5.4/10
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
The Great Profile
6.2/10
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
An American Citizen
7.4/10
Here Comes the Bride
7.6/10
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
The Man from Blankley's
6.8/10
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
Nearly a King
7.9/10
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.
On the Quiet
8.5/10
Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.
The Lost Bridegroom
7.8/10
Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.
The Red Widow
9/10
An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star and political intrigue.
The Incorrigible Dukane
6.8/10
A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a tramp and dressed in the tramp's clothes he's mistaken for a laborer.
The Man from Mexico
8.2/10
A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.
