The best Mary Doran’s comedy movies

Mary Doran

Mary Doran

08/09/1910- 06/09/1995
We present our ranking of the best Mary Doran’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 Mary Doran.
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Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/08/1932
  • Character: Madame Dupont (uncredited)
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.

Sunset Range

Sunset Range
6.4/10
Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars.

Hard to Handle

Hard to Handle
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/01/1933
  • Character: Dance Contestant (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Movie Crazy

Movie Crazy
7.1/10
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

Remote Control

Remote Control
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/11/1930
  • Character: Marion Ferguson
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

Union Depot

Union Depot
7/10
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.

Miss Pinkerton

Miss Pinkerton
6/10
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.

Miss Pacific Fleet

Miss Pacific Fleet
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/12/1935
  • Character: Miss LeMay - Freytag's Secretary (uncredited)
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.

Grand Slam

Grand Slam
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/02/1933
  • Character: Dot (uncredited)
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

Beauty and the Boss

Beauty and the Boss
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/04/1932
  • Character: Olive 'Ollie' Frey
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

Ex-Bad Boy

Ex-Bad Boy
4.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/07/1931
  • Character: Sadie Bloom
A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.

Murder in the Fleet

Murder in the Fleet
5.6/10
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.

Party Husband

Party Husband
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1931
  • Character: Bee Canfield
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.

A Girl's Best Years

A Girl's Best Years
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1936
  • Character: Judy Nash
A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise suits.

Merry Wives of Reno

Merry Wives of Reno
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/04/1934
  • Character: Lady with Tennis Player (uncredited)
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.

The Girl in the Show

The Girl in the Show
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/08/1929
  • Character: Connie Bard
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.

Their Mad Moment

Their Mad Moment
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/07/1931
  • Character: Stancia
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers (Lawrence Grant), but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera (Warner Baxter). Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother (Nance O'Neil) and former girlfriend,Stancia (Mary Doran), and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.

Corn on the Cop

Corn on the Cop
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/04/1934
  • Character: Alice, Policeman's Wife
A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cob." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.

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