The best Robert Cummings’s comedy movies

Robert Cummings

Robert Cummings

10/06/1910- 02/12/1990
Today we present the best Robert Cummings’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 Robert Cummings’s movies.
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What a Way to Go!

What a Way to Go!
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/10/1964
  • Character: Victor Stephanson
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Sons of the Desert

Sons of the Desert
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/12/1933
  • Character: Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/04/1941
  • Character: Joe O'Brien
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerkin the shoe department.

Beach Party

Beach Party
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 07/08/1963
  • Character: Prof. Robert 'Bob' Orwell Sutwell
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.

Princess O'Rourke

Princess O'Rourke
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/10/1943
  • Character: Eddie O'Rourke
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

Breakdowns of 1942

Breakdowns of 1942
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Self
This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers.

It Started with Eve

It Started with Eve
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/09/1941
  • Character: Johnny Reynolds Jr.
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.

Hideaway Girl

Hideaway Girl
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/11/1936
  • Character: Mike Winslow
An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.

My Geisha

My Geisha
6.5/10
A director's (Yves Montand) wife (Shirley MacLaine) poses as a geisha to win the lead in his Japanese production of "Madame Butterfly."

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Charlie McCarthy, Detective
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Scotty Hamilton
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.

Gidget Grows Up

Gidget Grows Up
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyTV Movie
  • Release: 30/12/1969
  • Character: Russell Lawrence
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian Sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.

For Heaven's Sake

For Heaven's Sake
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 15/12/1950
  • Character: Jeff Bolton
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
6.9/10
A businessman's (Charles Winninger) youngest daughter (Deanna Durbin) helps her innocent sisters in love.

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
7.2/10
Celebration of Disneyland's 35th Anniversary

College Swing

College Swing
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/04/1938
  • Character: Radio Announcer
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.

Spring Parade

Spring Parade
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/09/1940
  • Character: Corporal Harry Marten
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.

Heaven Only Knows

Heaven Only Knows
6.6/10
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot. The angel has been sent from Above to save Donlevy's soul, and to that end encourages the one-time villain to squire a minister's daughter (Jorja Curtwright) rather than his usual dance-hall girls. Donlevy is also given tips on winning against his enemies without resorting to gunplay. The gambler finally redeems himself with Heaven by rescuing the angel from a lynch mob (how can you lynch an angel?) Heaven Only Knows deserves an "E" for Effort for bringing a fresh twist to the venerable western genre.

Everything Happens at Night

Everything Happens at Night
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Ken Morgan
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

Lucky Me

Lucky Me
6/10
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.

One Night in the Tropics

One Night in the Tropics
6.3/10
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.

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