The best Johnny Downs’s comedy movies

Johnny Downs

Johnny Downs

10/10/1913- 06/06/1994
Today we present the best Johnny Downs’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 Downs’s movies.
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Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland
7.1/10
Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.

Pigskin Parade

Pigskin Parade
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/10/1936
  • Character: Chip Carson
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. But the hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.

Good Cheer

Good Cheer
6.8/10
On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Santa Claus really exists for those who wish fervently enough.

Blonde Trouble

Blonde Trouble
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 06/08/1937
  • Character: Fred Stevens
Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself. On the train he meets dental assistant Edna Baker, and the two embark upon a friendship that evolves into her falling for him. While struggling in Tin Pan Alley, Fred falls in with his composer partner's gold-digging sister-in-law Eileen. Eileen really becomes interested when she finds out Fred is carrying his life savings.

Campus Rhythm

Campus Rhythm
5.4/10
Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. But her guardian, her Uncle Willie signs the contract in order to pay off his own debts. But this time Joan won't take no for an answer and enrolls under an assumed name. When Joan goes missing, the radio institutes a search for Joan via a publicity stunt.

45 Minutes from Hollywood

45 Minutes from Hollywood
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/1926
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.

Telling Whoppers

Telling Whoppers
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 19/12/1926
  • Character: Toughey Thompson
Farina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear he's been murdered and think they'll get the blame.

Freckles Comes Home

Freckles Comes Home
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/01/1942
  • Character: Freckles Winslow
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.

College Holiday

College Holiday
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1936
  • Character: Johnny Jones
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Honeymoon for Three

Honeymoon for Three
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/01/1941
  • Character: Chester T Farrington III
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/05/1940
  • Character: Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.

It's in the Stars

It's in the Stars
6.2/10
Musical short about a fraternity and a sorority that call a halt to dating between their houses to improve their grades.

The Arizona Raiders

The Arizona Raiders
5.3/10
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay's ranch where they get jobs. There they run into Adams who they learn is planning to rustle Lindsay's horses.

Shootin' Injuns

Shootin' Injuns
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/05/1925
  • Character: Johnnie
Shootin' Injuns is a 1925 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 38th Our Gang short subject released.

Thrill of a Lifetime

Thrill of a Lifetime
5.7/10
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.

All-American Co-Ed

All-American Co-Ed
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 31/10/1941
  • Character: Bob Sheppard / Bobbie DeWolfe
All-girl school Mar Brynn tries to get more pupils and publicity by making fun of the Quincton college. For revenge, the boys there sent Bob Sheppard to Mar Brynn, dressed as a girl, to give them a slight scandal. But he falls in love with Virginia, the girl who is putting on a show there. Now Bob has the problem of getting revenge for Quinceton and not loosing his girl, especially when Quinceton hears about his relationship and decides to sent him support...

Thundering Fleas

Thundering Fleas
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/07/1926
  • Character: Johnny
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

Coronado

Coronado
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/11/1935
  • Character: Johnny Marvin
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.

The First Baby

The First Baby
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/04/1936
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.

Behind the Eight Ball

Behind the Eight Ball
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 04/12/1942
  • Character: Danny
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.

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