The best Walter Byron’s comedy movies

Walter Byron

Walter Byron

11/06/1899- 03/03/1972
We present our ranking of the best Walter Byron’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Walter Byron.

Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/11/1942
  • Character: Ringside Telegrapher (uncredited)
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

If You Could Only Cook

If You Could Only Cook
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/12/1935
  • Character: Roy - Pianist at Wedding Rehearsal (uncredited)
An auto engineer (Herbert Marshall) and a professor's daughter (Jean Arthur) pose as married servants in a mobster's (Leo Carrillo) mansion.

Back in Circulation

Back in Circulation
6.3/10
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.

Folies Bergère de Paris

Folies Bergère de Paris
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 22/02/1935
  • Character: Marquis René de Lac
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.

Top of the Town

Top of the Town
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 17/04/1937
  • Character: Nightclub Patron
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"

Three Wise Girls

Three Wise Girls
6.5/10
Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.

Don't Bet on Blondes

Don't Bet on Blondes
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/07/1935
  • Character: Dwight Boardman
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.

Slightly Married

Slightly Married
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/10/1932
  • Character: James R. "Jimmie" Martin
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for vagrancy. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.

Mr. Boggs Steps Out

Mr. Boggs Steps Out
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/02/1938
  • Character: Dennis Andrews
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.

Grand Slam

Grand Slam
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/02/1933
  • Character: Barney Starr
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

Trade Winds

Trade Winds
6.3/10
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.

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