The best Johnny Arthur’s comedy movies

Johnny Arthur

Johnny Arthur

20/05/1883- 31/12/1951
Today we present the best Johnny Arthur’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Johnny Arthur’s movies.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue
7.6/10
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 01/09/1938
  • Character: Kirby's Office Aide (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

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...

Pick a Star

Pick a Star
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 21/05/1937
  • Character: Newlywed
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

Dames

Dames
7/10
A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.

The Monster

The Monster
6.2/10
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

Things You Never See on the Screen

Things You Never See on the Screen
6/10
Collection of Warner's stars blundering through missed takes.

Doubting Thomas

Doubting Thomas
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/07/1935
  • Character: Ralph Twiller
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.

Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/11/1940
  • Character: Montague
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.

Freshman Love

Freshman Love
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/01/1936
  • Character: Mr. Fields
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Something to Sing About

Something to Sing About
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/09/1937
  • Character: Mr. Daviani (as John Arthur)
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.

The Bride Comes Home

The Bride Comes Home
6.2/10
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.

Stage Struck

Stage Struck
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/09/1936
  • Character: Oscar Freud
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless,whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

Under Cover of Night

Under Cover of Night
5.8/10
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.

Penrod and Sam

Penrod and Sam
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/10/1931
  • Character: Mr. Bassett
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.

Going Wild

Going Wild
5.8/10
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana

Blossoms On Broadway

Blossoms On Broadway
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 19/11/1937
  • Character: P. T. Quinterfield Jr.
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.

Many Happy Returns

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

One Wild Night

One Wild Night
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/06/1938
  • Character: Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.

It's in the Air

It's in the Air
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1935
  • Character: Jones, Photographer
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.

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