The best Melville Cooper’s comedy movies

Melville Cooper

Melville Cooper

15/10/1896- 31/03/1973
Today we present the best Melville Cooper’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 Melville Cooper’s movies.
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The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve
7.7/10
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.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride
7.1/10
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

It Should Happen to You

It Should Happen to You
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/01/1954
  • Character: Guest Panelist
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/08/1943
  • Character: Dr. Caswell
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

The Private Life of Don Juan

The Private Life of Don Juan
6.3/10
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.

Murder Over New York

Murder Over New York
6.9/10
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/02/1937
  • Character: William
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.

Love Happy

Love Happy
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/10/1949
  • Character: Lefty Throckmorton
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/07/1941
  • Character: Brother-in-Law
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

You Belong to Me

You Belong to Me
5.9/10
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.

Heartbeat

Heartbeat
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/05/1946
  • Character: Roland Latour
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

The Affairs of Martha

The Affairs of Martha
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/06/1942
  • Character: Dr. Clarence Sommerfield
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

Tovarich

Tovarich
7.1/10
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.

Hard to Get

Hard to Get
6.7/10
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

Thin Ice

Thin Ice
6.3/10
Swiss hotel ski instructor (Henie) falls in love with a man (Power) who goes skiing every morning.

Too Many Husbands

Too Many Husbands
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/04/1940
  • Character: Peter
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Bundle of Joy

Bundle of Joy
6/10
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...

Four's a Crowd

Four's a Crowd
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/08/1938
  • Character: Bingham, Dillingwell's Butler
Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Jean needs someone to save the paper and she wants Robert. When he finds out that Pat is dating Lorri, John Dillingwell's granddaughter, he gets involved. Robert begins to make John the most hated man and Lorri blames Pat, the publisher. He then goes to John for a job to erase all the bad publicity that he has gotten from the paper. This works until Pat tells John that Robert was behind the smear campaign. But John decides that he does need some good publicity and hires Robert to provide it...

The Petty Girl

The Petty Girl
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 17/08/1950
  • Character: Beardsley (Petty's butler, aka Uncle Ben)
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. She declines his offer, but he's determined not to take no for an answer.

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