The best Ruth McDevitt’s comedy movies

Ruth McDevitt

Ruth McDevitt

13/09/1895- 27/05/1976
Today we present the best Ruth McDevitt’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 Ruth McDevitt’s movies.
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The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 13/05/1961
  • Character: Miss Inch
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.

Homebodies

Homebodies
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/09/1974
  • Character: Mrs. Loomis
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.

The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Shakiest Gun in the West
6.3/10
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

Dear Heart

Dear Heart
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 02/12/1964
  • Character: Miss Tait
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.

Mame

Mame
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 07/03/1974
  • Character: Cousin Fan
The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care.

The Love God?

The Love God?
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1969
  • Character: Miss Keezy
Abner Peacock's (Knotts) beloved bird-watcher's magazine, "The Peacock," is in financial crisis. Desperate to stay afloat, Abner takes on new partners who have an agenda of the own: to publish a sexy gentleman's magazine. Before he can stop them, the first issue sells over 40 million copies, and Abner becomes the unwilling spokesman for First Amendment rights. Swept up in adulation, the unwitting playboy quickly begins settling into the swinging bachelor lifestyle in this quirky comedy featuring the loveable actor at his best.

The Girl Most Likely to...

The Girl Most Likely to...
7.3/10
An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.

The War Between Men and Women

The War Between Men and Women
6.1/10
A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions.

Love Is a Ball

Love Is a Ball
6/10
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?

Boys' Night Out

Boys' Night Out
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/06/1962
  • Character: Beulah Partridge
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.

Angel in My Pocket

Angel in My Pocket
7/10
The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.

The Couple Takes a Wife

The Couple Takes a Wife
6.7/10
A couple decides to hire a second "wife"--somebody who looks good and works hard around the house--but complications ensue.

Mixed Company

Mixed Company
5.7/10
Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddie's arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrison's neighborhood, their school, and family. Kathy's answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe. The new extended family must now learn to live together.

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