The best Ludwig Stössel’s comedy movies

Ludwig Stössel

Ludwig Stössel

12/02/1883- 29/01/1973
Today we present the best Ludwig Stössel’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 Ludwig Stössel’s movies.
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Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year
7.1/10
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

Great Guns

Great Guns
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1941
  • Character: Dr. Schickel
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.

G.I. Blues

G.I. Blues
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/11/1960
  • Character: Owner of Puppet Show
Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean (Elvis Presley) hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a venture, but a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili (Juliet Prowse) is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But, when that friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart.

A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born
6.9/10
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.

The Sun Shines Bright

The Sun Shines Bright
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1953
  • Character: Herman Felsburg
John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
7.1/10
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Call Me Madam

Call Me Madam
6.7/10
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance
6.8/10
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 30/10/1942
  • Character: Dr. Anton Marek
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Too Young to Kiss

Too Young to Kiss
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/11/1951
  • Character: German Piano Accompanist (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.

Geraldine

Geraldine
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1954
  • Character: Professor Berger
Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors.

Me and the Colonel

Me and the Colonel
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 01/10/1958
  • Character: Dr. Szicki
Jacobowsky, a Jewish refugee, flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic, anti-semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. Jurgens learns to appreciate Jacobowsky, despite their competition for the same woman, and together they outwit their pursuers

Her Highness and the Bellboy

Her Highness and the Bellboy
6.4/10
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.

Man braucht kein Geld

Man braucht kein Geld
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/12/1931
In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.

Johannisnacht

Johannisnacht
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/08/1933
  • Character: Theaterdirektor
Film by Reiber.

No Time for Flowers

No Time for Flowers
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1952
  • Character: Papa Svoboda
A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.

Return to Yesterday

Return to Yesterday
6.4/10
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

Die Privatsekretärin

Die Privatsekretärin
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/01/1931
  • Character: Personalchef Klapper

Eine Nacht in Venedig

Eine Nacht in Venedig
4.7/10

The Countess of Monte Cristo

The Countess of Monte Cristo
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/04/1932
The two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real breakthrough is slow in coming. Jeanette especially desperately needs a big success, since her friend, the journalist Stephan, is about to lose his job. When the two have their chance to take a ride in a posh car during a shooting, Jeanette slams on the throttle and the two friends take off. Their aimless journey takes them to a fashionable winter sports’ hotel, where Jeanette reserves a name under “The Countess of Monte Christo”. Everything’s going dandy; no one suspects a thing. That is, until two impostors, Rumowski and “The Baron” take residence in the same hotel.

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