The best Una O'Connor’s comedy movies

Una O'Connor

Una O'Connor

23/10/1880- 05/02/1959
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Christmas in Connecticut

Christmas in Connecticut
7.3/10
Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children, and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality, she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on *her* farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?

Cluny Brown

Cluny Brown
7.4/10
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

The Strawberry Blonde

The Strawberry Blonde
7.2/10
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

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.

Lost Honeymoon

Lost Honeymoon
5.5/10
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.

My Favorite Spy

My Favorite Spy
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/06/1942
  • Character: Cora
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

Government Girl

Government Girl
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 05/11/1943
  • Character: Mrs. Harris
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

It All Came True

It All Came True
6.6/10
After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.

Three Girls About Town

Three Girls About Town
6.4/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 23/10/1941
  • Character: Maggie O'Callahan, scrubwoman
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.

Pleasure Cruise

Pleasure Cruise
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1933
  • Character: Mrs. Signus
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.

All Women Have Secrets

All Women Have Secrets
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/1939
  • Character: Mary
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.

Stingaree

Stingaree
5.8/10
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/08/1943
  • Character: Sarah Leek
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

Horse Play

Horse Play
6.7/10
Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for one million dollars because the land contains valuable minerals. Slim and his partner, Andy Jones, are overwhelmed by their new found wealth, but it does not help to soothe Slim's hurt feelings when he finds out that Angelica has gone to England to stay with her other aunt. He decides to bring her his horse, "Cynthia Ann," as a gift, and with Andy and the horse, he sets sail.

He Stayed for Breakfast

He Stayed for Breakfast
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/08/1940
  • Character: Doreta
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.

The Corpse Came C.O.D.

The Corpse Came C.O.D.
6/10
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.

The Perfect Gentleman

The Perfect Gentleman
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/11/1935
  • Character: Harriet Chatteris
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.

Call It a Day

Call It a Day
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/04/1937
  • Character: Mrs. Elkins
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.

Personal Property

Personal Property
6.5/10
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.

Her First Beau

Her First Beau
5.7/10
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.

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