The best Maxine Jennings’s comedy movies

Maxine Jennings

Maxine Jennings

08/03/1909- 11/01/1991
We present our ranking of the best Maxine Jennings’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 Maxine Jennings.
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Walking on Air

Walking on Air
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/09/1936
  • Character: Flo Quinlan
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.

Bunker Bean

Bunker Bean
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/06/1936
  • Character: Jones & Co. Receptionist
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Maybe It's Love

Maybe It's Love
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/01/1935
  • Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Breakfast for Two

Breakfast for Two
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/10/1937
  • Character: Wedding Guest
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.

Love on a Bet

Love on a Bet
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 06/03/1936
  • Character: Telephone Operator
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.

We're on the Jury

We're on the Jury
5.9/10
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

Old Man Rhythm

Old Man Rhythm
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 02/08/1935
  • Character: College Girl
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

Chatterbox

Chatterbox
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/01/1936
  • Character: Herself
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.

Make Way for a Lady

Make Way for a Lady
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/11/1936
  • Character: Miss Marian Moore
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.

On Again-Off Again

On Again-Off Again
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/07/1937
  • Character: Miss Meeker
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs (Wheeler) and Claude Augustus Horton (Woolsey), who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!

There Goes My Girl

There Goes My Girl
5.8/10
Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.

The Big Shot

The Big Shot
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 23/07/1937
  • Character: Gloria
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.

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