The best Marie Wilson’s comedy movies

Marie Wilson

Marie Wilson

19/08/1916- 23/11/1972
We present our ranking of the best Marie Wilson’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 Marie Wilson.
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Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland
7.1/10
Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 15/06/1962
  • Character: Emily Turner
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.

My Friend Irma

My Friend Irma
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/10/1949
  • Character: Irma Peterson
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.

No Leave, No Love

No Leave, No Love
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 10/03/1946
  • Character: Rosalind
A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he falls in love with a woman at the hotel at which he is staying.

Flying Blind

Flying Blind
4.6/10
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.

Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady
5.9/10
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

The Big Noise

The Big Noise
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/06/1936
  • Character: Daisy
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.

Sweepstakes Winner

Sweepstakes Winner
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1939
  • Character: Jennie Jones
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.

A Girl in Every Port

A Girl in Every Port
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/02/1952
  • Character: Jane Sweet, a dumb blonde
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.

Miss Pacific Fleet

Miss Pacific Fleet
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/12/1935
  • Character: Virginia 'Vergie' Matthews
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet". Director Ray Enright's 1935 comedy stars Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Warren Hull, Marie Wilson, Minna Gombell, Guinn Williams, Eddie Acuff and Mary Treen.

Never Wave at a WAC

Never Wave at a WAC
5.9/10
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.

Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/08/1938
  • Character: Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...

Music for Millions

Music for Millions
6.7/10
Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.

The Fabulous Joe

The Fabulous Joe
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/08/1947
  • Character: Gorgeous Gilmore
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!

My Friend Irma Goes West

My Friend Irma Goes West
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 25/06/1950
  • Character: Irma Peterson
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.

Ladies Crave Excitement

Ladies Crave Excitement
5.8/10
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.

Swingtime in the Movies

Swingtime in the Movies
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 24/12/1938
  • Character: Herself (uncredited)
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.

Public Wedding

Public Wedding
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/07/1937
  • Character: Tessie Schultz
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.

The Cowboy Quarterback

The Cowboy Quarterback
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/07/1939
  • Character: Maizie Williams
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.

Down to Their Last Yacht

Down to Their Last Yacht
4.7/10
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.

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