The best Rose Hobart’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Rose Hobart’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 Rose Hobart.
The Farmer's Daughter
7.2/10
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
Nothing But the Truth
7.1/10
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle T.T. Ralston will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.
Swing Shift Maisie
6.2/10
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
6.1/10
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
Salute to the Marines
6.4/10
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
A Gentleman at Heart
6.6/10
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
Lady Be Good
6.4/10
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
Mickey
6.3/10
A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.
Claudia and David
6.3/10
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.
The Trouble with Women
6.2/10
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
Susan and God
5.9/10
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
Mr. and Mrs. North
6/10
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
5.5/10
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
The Shadow Laughs
4.2/10
The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.
