The best Peter Lind Hayes’s comedy movies

Peter Lind Hayes

Peter Lind Hayes

25/06/1915- 21/04/1998
We present our ranking of the best Peter Lind Hayes’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 Peter Lind Hayes.

Naughty But Nice

Naughty But Nice
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/06/1939
  • Character: Bandleader in Nightclub (uncredited)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.

The CooCoo Nut Grove

The CooCoo Nut Grove
6.1/10
A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, George Arliss, Mae West, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Gable, Edna May Oliver, Gary Cooper, The Dionne Quintuplets, Groucho Marx, Helen Morgan, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.

All Women Have Secrets

All Women Have Secrets
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/1939
  • Character: Slats Warwick
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.

The Senator Was Indiscreet

The Senator Was Indiscreet
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/12/1947
  • Character: Lew Gibson
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.

These Glamour Girls

These Glamour Girls
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/08/1939
  • Character: Skel (as Peter Hayes)
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.

Penrod's Double Trouble

Penrod's Double Trouble
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/07/1938
  • Character: Weight Guesser at Carnival
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

Zis Boom Bah

Zis Boom Bah
4.7/10
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.

Seven Days' Leave

Seven Days' Leave
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/11/1942
  • Character: Pvt. Pete Jackson
Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen. Not wanting to disrupt his planned marriage to Mapy, Johnny must figure out how to concoct a temporary marriage-of-convenience with the descendant -- who turns out to be the beautiful Terry Havelock-Allen.

Dancing on a Dime

Dancing on a Dime
6.2/10
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.

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