The best Johnny Arthur’s 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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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.

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.

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.

Dames

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

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...

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.

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.

Nazty Nuisance

Nazty Nuisance
4.5/10
Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy's Mussolini and Japan's Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his buddies.

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.

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.

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.

Traveling Saleslady

Traveling Saleslady
6.8/10
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.

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

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.

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.

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 Masked Marvel

The Masked Marvel
7.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 06/11/1943
  • Character: Mura Sakima
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima.

Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns
5.9/10
  • 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.

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.

Show of Shows

Show of Shows
5.8/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 21/11/1929
  • Character: Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.

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