The best Louise Beavers’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Louise Beavers’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Louise Beavers.
Holiday Inn
7.3/10
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
7.2/10
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
42nd Street
7.3/10
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
Doctor X
6.4/10
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Shadow of the Thin Man
7.2/10
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Made for Each Other
6.3/10
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Bombshell
7.1/10
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
She Done Him Wrong
6.3/10
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
The Expert
6/10
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
Tammy and the Bachelor
6.9/10
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
Good Sam
6.2/10
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
I've Got Your Number
6.3/10
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Election Day
6.2/10
This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.
Wide Open
5.9/10
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
No Time for Comedy
6.2/10
Director William Keighley's 1940 film adaptation of S. N. Behrman's stage hit, about an aspiring playwright who finds himself an overnight Broadway success, stars James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin, Louise Beavers, Charles Ruggles and Allyn Joslyn.
The Midnight Patrol
7.1/10
Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.
Her Bodyguard
5.9/10
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. However, soon the bodyguard and the star begin to become attracted to each other.
The Dark Horse
6.7/10
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
Brother Rat
6.2/10
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
The Vanishing Virginian
6.8/10
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
