The best Wayne Morris’s comedy movies

Wayne Morris

Wayne Morris

17/02/1914- 14/09/1959
Today we present the best Wayne Morris’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 Wayne Morris’s movies.

The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/09/1948
  • Character: Tom
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.

Brother Rat and a Baby

Brother Rat and a Baby
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/01/1940
  • Character: Billy Randolph
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

Brother Rat

Brother Rat
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1938
  • Character: Billy Randolph
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.

John Loves Mary

John Loves Mary
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/02/1949
  • Character: Lt. Victor O'Leary
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.

The Voice of the Turtle

The Voice of the Turtle
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1947
  • Character: Comm. Ned Burling
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.

Men Are Such Fools

Men Are Such Fools
5.3/10
The romantic hills and valleys of advertising agency secretary Linda Lawrence (Priscilla Lane) provide the basis of this comedy drama. Unlike her soon-to-be-married roommate Nancy (Penny Singleton), Linda is determined to remain single and forge a strong career. She does have a suitor, Jimmy Hall (Wayne Morris), but he is not ambitious enough for her and she keeps her distance. The girl gets her chance to climb the corporate ladder after she invents a sure-fire cure for hangovers. Sure enough she begins her ascent. Meanwhile, her suitor continues to plead with her to leave her job and become his bride. But the secretary has fallen for ambitious adman Harry Galleon (Humphrey Bogart) who is already engaged. At this point, the stage is set for considerable romantic confusion .

A Kiss in the Dark

A Kiss in the Dark
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/03/1949
  • Character: Bruce Arnold
Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.

Love, Honor and Behave

Love, Honor and Behave
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/03/1938
  • Character: Ted Painter
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.

An Angel from Texas

An Angel from Texas
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/04/1940
  • Character: Mac McClure
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

The Smiling Ghost

The Smiling Ghost
6.4/10
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.

Three Sons o' Guns

Three Sons o' Guns
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/08/1941
  • Character: Charley Patterson
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.

The Kid Comes Back

The Kid Comes Back
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/02/1938
  • Character: Rush Conway
A ring veteran turns a Texas tenderfoot into a winning fighter.

Here Comes Carter

Here Comes Carter
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/10/1936
  • Character: Bill
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals

The Kid from Kokomo

The Kid from Kokomo
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/05/1939
  • Character: Homer Baston
Fast-talking promoter Pat O'Brien and his loyal sidekick Edward Brophy, aided by bubble-dancer Joan Blondell and elderly shoplifter May Robson, attempt to turn strapping but naive hayseed Wayne Morris into a championship prizefighter. Director Lewis Seiler's 1939 comedy also features Jane Wyman, Stanley Fields, Maxie Rosenbloom, Sidney Toler and Ward Bond.

Related actors