The best John Kelly’s comedy movies

John Kelly

John Kelly

29/06/1901- 09/12/1947
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Kelly’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 Kelly.
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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby
7.8/10
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

Coney Island

Coney Island
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 18/06/1943
  • Character: Drunken Bricklayer
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.

Road to Singapore

Road to Singapore
6.6/10
Bing Crosby an Bob Hope star in the first of the 'Road to' movies as two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...

My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 09/02/1940
  • Character: Henchman (uncredited)
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.

Little Miss Marker

Little Miss Marker
6.9/10
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, where his girl, Bangles Carson sings, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but is unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his daughter, Marthy Jane (Shirley Temple), as security, or in bookie's terms, a "marker". Having lost his bet, he commits suicide, leaving "little Miss Marker" under the care of Sorrowful Jones. As Steve hides out in Chicago to avoid investigation for his crooked bets, he entrusts Sorrowful to watch over Bangles during his absence, at which time the "gold digger" helps "tight-wod" with his trouble. When Big Steve learns Bangles is involved with Sorrowful, he returns to New York to do something about it.

Kid Nightingale

Kid Nightingale
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 03/11/1939
  • Character: Dynamite Dennis (uncredited)
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

Havana Widows

Havana Widows
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/11/1933
  • Character: Tully, Star Turkish Bath Attendant (uncredited)
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

No Time for Love

No Time for Love
6.8/10
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

Live, Love and Learn

Live, Love and Learn
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1937
  • Character: Sailor (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.

Son of a Sailor

Son of a Sailor
5.8/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 29/11/1933
  • Character: Sailor (uncredited)
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/03/1928
  • Character: Biff Simpson
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".

Sudden Money

Sudden Money
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1939
  • Character: Butch
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.

The Devil Is a Sissy

The Devil Is a Sissy
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/09/1936
  • Character: 'Shivvy' the Tire Man
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Big City Blues

Big City Blues
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/09/1932
  • Character: Driver (uncredited)
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.

Kid Millions

Kid Millions
6.7/10
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

The Nuisance

The Nuisance
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 03/06/1933
  • Character: Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.

Woman Wanted

Woman Wanted
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/08/1935
  • Character: Truck Driver Hitting Police Car (uncredited)
Ann Grey is wrongly convicted of murder. On her way to prison a car accident gives her the opportunity to escape. She is helped by young lawyer Tony Baxter. He hides her from the police, as well as his fiancée, with the help of his butler Peedles. Ann is also wanted by the mobsters who really committed the murder as they think she knows where $250,000 worth of bonds are hidden. When the mobsters find and abduct her, Tony enlists the help of the D.A. and the police to try to get her back.

23 1/2 Hours Leave

23 1/2 Hours Leave
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/03/1937
  • Character: Sgt. Tubbs
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.

Suicide Fleet

Suicide Fleet
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 20/11/1931
  • Character: Sailor at Sally's
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.

Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/06/1934
  • Character: Mike
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.

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