The best Polly Moran’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Polly Moran’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Polly Moran.
Adam's Rib
7.4/10
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels.
Show People
7.6/10
Peggy Pepper arrives in Hollywood, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things do not go entirely according to plan.
Hollywood Party
6/10
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the lions in his next movie. His film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
Reducing
6.4/10
A woman and her family leave their hick-town to help her sister out in the big-city beauty parlour. There is a bit of a culture shock.
The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
5.7/10
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
The Passionate Plumber
5.9/10
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
The Stolen Jools
5.7/10
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Remote Control
5.6/10
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
So This Is College
5.4/10
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
Cactus Nell
Cactus Nell
Meet the Missus
8/10
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
The Girl Said No
5.2/10
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
Prosperity
6.3/10
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
The Yellow Cab Man
6.4/10
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
Honeymoon
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present. It turns out, however, that he had an ulterior motive--he had trained the pooch to allow absolutely no one to get near the young woman. Complications ensue.
Way Out West
5.8/10
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner of the ranch, but runs afoul of foreman Steve, who also loves Molly.
Madcap Ambrose
5.6/10
Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.
Down to Their Last Yacht
4.7/10
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
Politics
6.3/10
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
