The best Stuart Holmes’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Stuart Holmes’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 Stuart Holmes.
Singin' in the Rain
8.3/10
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Father of the Bride
7.1/10
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Romance on the High Seas
7/10
Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
People Will Talk
7.3/10
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
Public Wedding
5.8/10
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Rhubarb
6.8/10
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.
Too Young to Kiss
6.1/10
Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
An Angel from Texas
5.7/10
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Little Big Shot
6.2/10
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
The Case of the Velvet Claws
6/10
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Kid Nightingale
5.7/10
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
The Adventurous Blonde
6.4/10
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
He Couldn't Say No
5.7/10
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Darling, How Could You!
6.2/10
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
On Your Toes
5.6/10
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Earthworm Tractors
6.3/10
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
Belle of the Nineties
6.3/10
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
War Mamas
6.1/10
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
Swingtime in the Movies
5.7/10
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
