The best Louis Calhern’s comedy movies

Louis Calhern

Louis Calhern

19/02/1895- 12/05/1956
We present our ranking of the best Louis Calhern’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 Louis Calhern.
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Duck Soup

Duck Soup
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 12/11/1933
  • Character: Ambassador Trentino
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

High Society

High Society
6.9/10
Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding.

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait
7.3/10
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun
6.9/10
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Athena

Athena
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/11/1954
  • Character: Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

We're Not Married!

We're Not Married!
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1952
  • Character: Freddie Melrose
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy
7.1/10
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Night After Night

Night After Night
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/10/1932
  • Character: Dick Bolton
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.

5th Ave Girl

5th Ave Girl
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/09/1939
  • Character: Dr. Kessler
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Charlie McCarthy, Detective
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Arthur Aldrich
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.

The Affairs of Cellini

The Affairs of Cellini
6/10
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

Up in Arms

Up in Arms
6.2/10
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Two Weeks with Love

Two Weeks with Love
6.8/10
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.

Confidentially Connie

Confidentially Connie
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 12/03/1953
  • Character: Opie Bedloe
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.

Woman Wanted

Woman Wanted
6.5/10
Ann Grey is wrongly convicted of murder. On her way to prison a car accident gives her the opportunity to escape. She is helped by young lawyer Tony Baxter. He hides her from the police, as well as his fiancée, with the help of his butler Peedles. Ann is also wanted by the mobsters who really committed the murder as they think she knows where $250,000 worth of bonds are hidden. When the mobsters find and abduct her, Tony enlists the help of the D.A. and the police to try to get her back.

Nancy Goes to Rio

Nancy Goes to Rio
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 10/03/1950
  • Character: Gregory Elliott
Mother and daughter (Sothern and Powell) compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.

Forever, Darling

Forever, Darling
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/02/1956
  • Character: Charles Y. Bewell
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems. Lorenzo is developing insecticide #383 at Finlay Vega Chemical Co. and plans to test it on a camping trip that he takes with Susan, but the trip becomes a an obstacle course for him.

Fast Company

Fast Company
6.6/10
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Remains to Be Seen

Remains to Be Seen
6.2/10
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

Diplomaniacs

Diplomaniacs
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/04/1933
  • Character: Winkelreid
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...

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