The best Ralph Sanford’s comedy movies

Ralph Sanford

Ralph Sanford

21/05/1899- 20/06/1963
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Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance
6.8/10
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Lost in a Harem

Lost in a Harem
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/1944
  • Character: Mr. Ormulu
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

Blondie Goes Latin

Blondie Goes Latin
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/02/1941
  • Character: Sailor Chasing Dagwood (uncredited)
The 8th film in the Blondie series - Blondie Goes Latin. Mr. Dithers invites the Bumstead's on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.

Rhubarb

Rhubarb
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 29/08/1951
  • Character: Eddie - Brooklyn Police Chief (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiacee Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.

Kid Nightingale

Kid Nightingale
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 03/11/1939
  • Character: First Drunk at Soxey's (uncredited)
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

Blonde Inspiration

Blonde Inspiration
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/02/1941
  • Character: Turkish Bath Attendant (uncredited)
A writer (John Shelton) of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher (Albert Dekker) want to pay for.

Obliging Young Lady

Obliging Young Lady
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1942
  • Character: Pudgy - Court Policeman (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/11/1946
  • Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 8-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.

Let's Make It Legal

Let's Make It Legal
6.1/10
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.

Gaucho Serenade

Gaucho Serenade
6.3/10
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

Copacabana

Copacabana
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/05/1947
  • Character: Liggett
A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub -- as two separate acts. The deception and constant costume changes are too much for his girl.

Maisie Goes to Reno

Maisie Goes to Reno
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/08/1944
  • Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/02/1939
  • Character: Truck Driver
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/09/1948
  • Character: Police Lt. Steve Mulford
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.

A Night for Crime

A Night for Crime
5.2/10
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/08/1939
  • Character: Arresting Officer #1 (uncredited)
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

Quiet, Please

Quiet, Please
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/07/1939
  • Character: Tony (uncredited)
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.

Two Sisters from Boston

Two Sisters from Boston
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 06/06/1946
  • Character: Recording Studio Doorman (uncredited)
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.

Cross-Country Romance

Cross-Country Romance
5.8/10
Chase across the country romance.

Adventures of Kitty O'Day

Adventures of Kitty O'Day
5.3/10
A telephone operator (Jean Parker) plays homicide detective with her boyfriend (Peter Cookson), making it harder for the police.

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