The best Patricia Ellis’s comedy movies

Patricia Ellis

Patricia Ellis

20/05/1918- 26/03/1970
We present our ranking of the best Patricia Ellis’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 Patricia Ellis.
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Central Park

Central Park
6.2/10
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

Block-Heads

Block-Heads
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 19/08/1938
  • Character: Mrs. 'Toots' Gilbert
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.

Freshman Love

Freshman Love
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/01/1936
  • Character: Joan Simpkins
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Convention City

Convention City
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/12/1933
  • Character: Claire Honeywell
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.

Hold 'Em Yale

Hold 'Em Yale
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/04/1935
  • Character: Clarice Van Cleve
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.

Elmer, the Great

Elmer, the Great
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/04/1933
  • Character: Nellie Poole
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.

Step Lively, Jeeves!

Step Lively, Jeeves!
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 30/06/1937
  • Character: Patricia Westley
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

Snowed Under

Snowed Under
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/03/1936
  • Character: Pat Quinn
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!

Bright Lights

Bright Lights
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/07/1935
  • Character: Claire Whitmore
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

Easy to Love

Easy to Love
6.6/10
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.

Harold Teen

Harold Teen
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/04/1934
  • Character: Mimi Snatcher
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.

Rhythm in the Clouds

Rhythm in the Clouds
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 21/06/1937
  • Character: Judy Walker
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.

The Case of the Lucky Legs

The Case of the Lucky Legs
6.5/10
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

Love Begins at Twenty

Love Begins at Twenty
6.2/10
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.

Big Hearted Herbert

Big Hearted Herbert
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/10/1934
  • Character: Alice Kalness
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.

Paradise for Two

Paradise for Two
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1937
  • Character: Jeannette DuPont
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

The King's Vacation

The King's Vacation
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/02/1933
  • Character: Millicent
The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.

Venus Makes Trouble

Venus Makes Trouble
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/05/1937
  • Character: Kay Horner
A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.

A Night at the Ritz

A Night at the Ritz
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/03/1935
  • Character: Marcia Jaynos
A PR man (William Gargan) talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's (Patricia Ellis) brother as chef.

The Circus Clown

The Circus Clown
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/06/1934
  • Character: Alice Madison
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.

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