The best Johnnie Davis’s movies

Johnnie Davis

Johnnie Davis

11/05/1910- 28/11/1983
We present our ranking of the best Johnnie Davis’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 Johnnie Davis.
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Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel
6.4/10
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical.

I Love to Singa

I Love to Singa
7.6/10
I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owl who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a lighthearted tribute to Al Jolson's film The Jazz Singer.

Jazz Ball

Jazz Ball
7.6/10
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Katnip Kollege

Katnip Kollege
5.8/10
At the Katnip Kollege, we see a roomful of cats taking a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and has to sit in the dunce chair. Miss Kitty Bright tells him to look her up when he learns how to swing. Finally, listening to the pendulum clock at night, Johnny gets the beat. He rushes out to where everyone is playing and sings "Easy As Rollin' Off a Log" to Kitty Bright. She joins in; he grabs a trumpet for an instrumental break, with the complete band. They both fall off a log; she covers him with kisses.

A Child Is Born

A Child Is Born
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/12/1939
  • Character: Ringer Banks
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

Brother Rat

Brother Rat
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1938
  • Character: A. Furman Towsend, Jr.
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.

Campus Cinderella

Campus Cinderella
5/10
  • Release: 17/09/1938
  • Character: Johnny Morton
This musical comedy has a popular basketball star playing for a different college than what his father wanted after he falls in love with a co-ed.

Varsity Show

Varsity Show
6.1/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 04/09/1937
  • Character: Buzz Bolton
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.

Sweepstakes Winner

Sweepstakes Winner
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1939
  • Character: Mark Downey
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.

Men Are Such Fools

Men Are Such Fools
5.3/10
The romantic hills and valleys of advertising agency secretary Linda Lawrence (Priscilla Lane) provide the basis of this comedy drama. Unlike her soon-to-be-married roommate Nancy (Penny Singleton), Linda is determined to remain single and forge a strong career. She does have a suitor, Jimmy Hall (Wayne Morris), but he is not ambitious enough for her and she keeps her distance. The girl gets her chance to climb the corporate ladder after she invents a sure-fire cure for hangovers. Sure enough she begins her ascent. Meanwhile, her suitor continues to plead with her to leave her job and become his bride. But the secretary has fallen for ambitious adman Harry Galleon (Humphrey Bogart) who is already engaged. At this point, the stage is set for considerable romantic confusion .

Garden of the Moon

Garden of the Moon
5.7/10
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.

The Shining Future

The Shining Future
6.4/10
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.

Cowboy from Brooklyn

Cowboy from Brooklyn
5.7/10
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

Slapsie Maxie's

Slapsie Maxie's
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/09/1939
  • Character: Johnny the Waiter
In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's restaurant, Maxie arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ.

Over the Goal

Over the Goal
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/10/1937
  • Character: Tiny Waldron
The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.

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