The best Kenneth Howell’s comedy movies

Kenneth Howell

Kenneth Howell

21/02/1913- 28/09/1966
Today we present the best Kenneth Howell’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 Kenneth Howell’s movies.
Year:

Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/12/1941
  • Character: College Boy
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Pardon My Pups

Pardon My Pups
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/01/1934
  • Character: Harry Vanderpool
Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead, mainly because he himself wants to have a dog that he can take hunting. After a dispute with his father, Sonny leaves home. As he walks along a railroad track, he finds a frightened lost dog, and soon he begins to feel differently about dogs.

Girls' School

Girls' School
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/09/1938
  • Character: Edgar Brown
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.

Love on a Budget

Love on a Budget
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1938
  • Character: Jack Jones
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.

Quick Millions

Quick Millions
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/08/1939
  • Character: Jack Jones (as Ken Howell)
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

Big Business

Big Business
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/06/1937
  • Character: Jack Jones
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

Sweater Girl

Sweater Girl
6.9/10
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/05/1938
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Everybody's Baby

Everybody's Baby
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/03/1939
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

Pride of the Bowery

Pride of the Bowery
5.9/10
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.

Educating Father

Educating Father
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/05/1936
  • Character: Jack Jones
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.

Old Man Rhythm

Old Man Rhythm
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 02/08/1935
  • Character: College Boy
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

Scattergood Rides High

Scattergood Rides High
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/05/1942
  • Character: Phillip Dane
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.

Hot Water

Hot Water
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1937
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Every Saturday Night

Every Saturday Night
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/03/1936
  • Character: Jack Evers
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

A Trip to Paris

A Trip to Paris
5.9/10
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.

Borrowing Trouble

Borrowing Trouble
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1937
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/11/1939
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.

Young as You Feel

Young as You Feel
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/02/1940
  • Character: Jack Jones
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.

Her First Beau

Her First Beau
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/05/1941
  • Character: Roger Van Vleck
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.

Related actors