The best Robert Young’s comedy movies

Robert Young

Robert Young

22/02/1907- 21/07/1998
Today we present the best Robert Young’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 Young’s movies.
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The Bride Wore Red

The Bride Wore Red
6.3/10
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

Paradise for Three

Paradise for Three
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/06/1938
  • Character: Fritz Hagedorn
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost
6.9/10
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous
6.7/10
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 24/05/1934
  • Character: Himself as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
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.

Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 10/03/1948
  • Character: Harry King
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.

Goodbye, My Fancy

Goodbye, My Fancy
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/05/1951
  • Character: Doctor James Merrill
Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Rich Man, Poor Girl
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/08/1938
  • Character: Bill Harrison
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

Tugboat Annie

Tugboat Annie
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/08/1933
  • Character: Alec (Son)
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.

Married Before Breakfast

Married Before Breakfast
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/06/1937
  • Character: Tom Wakefield
A madcap inventor tries to market a razor-less shaving cream.

Claudia and David

Claudia and David
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/02/1946
  • Character: David Naughton
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.

Honolulu

Honolulu
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/02/1939
  • Character: Brooks Mason / George Smith
Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason's fans for Mason and brought to Mason's home. They decide to change their identities for a few weeks. But George Smith is mobbed by Mason's fans again on a personal appearance tour in New York, Mason falls in love to dancer Dorothy March, who also is on her way to Hawaii. Problems for Mason arise due to the fact that Smith is engaged with Cecilia Grayson, and her wealthy father believes, that Smith has double-crossed him. Mason isn't able to establish a connection with Smith in New York due to his agent's orders.

Lady Be Good

Lady Be Good
6.4/10
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.

Carolina

Carolina
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/02/1934
  • Character: Will Connelly
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.

Adventure in Baltimore

Adventure in Baltimore
6.1/10
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/11/1973
  • Character: Judge Charles Raleigh
In this sequel, the daughters' anniversary present is the news that their widowed father is about to get remarried.

Claudia

Claudia
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/11/1943
  • Character: David Naughton
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.

Red Salute

Red Salute
5.9/10
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.

Maisie

Maisie
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1939
  • Character: Charles 'Slim' Martin
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.

Those Endearing Young Charms

Those Endearing Young Charms
5.8/10
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.

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