The best Luis Alberni’s comedy movies

Luis Alberni

Luis Alberni

04/10/1886- 23/12/1962
Today we present the best Luis Alberni’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 Luis Alberni’s movies.
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Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 22/12/1933
  • Character: Rio Casino Manager (uncredited)
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/02/1941
  • Character: Emile, Pike's chef
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

Roberta

Roberta
7/10
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.

Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise
7.9/10
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

Easy Living

Easy Living
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/07/1937
  • Character: Louis Louis
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

Road to Zanzibar

Road to Zanzibar
6.7/10
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.

She Knew All the Answers

She Knew All the Answers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/05/1941
  • Character: Inventor
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.

Havana Widows

Havana Widows
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/11/1933
  • Character: Second Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

Obliging Young Lady

Obliging Young Lady
5.7/10
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

In Society

In Society
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/08/1944
  • Character: Luigi - Pottery Dealer (uncredited)
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly

The Good Fairy

The Good Fairy
7.5/10
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.

Topaze

Topaze
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/03/1933
  • Character: Dr. Bomb
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.

By Candlelight

By Candlelight
6.7/10
A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.

Dancing Pirate

Dancing Pirate
5.2/10
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.

Bad Boy

Bad Boy
6.4/10
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.

Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway
6.6/10
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.

High School

High School
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1940
  • Character: Signor Cicero
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.

Naughty But Nice

Naughty But Nice
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/06/1939
  • Character: Stanislaus Pysinski
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.

I'll Give a Million

I'll Give a Million
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/07/1938
  • Character: Reporter
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.

Manhattan Moon

Manhattan Moon
Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They go to the opera and, after hearing Yvonne Malloy sing, Dan falls in love with her. Reggie introduces them, but the introduction is to Yvonne's double and stand-in, Toots. This leads to many complications for all concerned.

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