The best Willard Parker’s comedy movies

Willard Parker

Willard Parker

06/02/1912- 04/12/1996
Today we present the best Willard Parker’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 Willard Parker’s movies.
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Kiss Me Kate

Kiss Me Kate
7/10
Fred and Lilli are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.

You Gotta Stay Happy

You Gotta Stay Happy
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/10/1948
  • Character: Henry Benson
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.

A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/02/1938
  • Character: State Trooper Dick Whitewood
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

The Mating of Millie

The Mating of Millie
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1948
  • Character: Phil Gowan
Self-sufficient in life and successful in business, prim and proper Millie McGonigle (Evelyn Keyes) wants just one more thing, a child. When she asks to adopt orphan Tommy Bassett (Jimmy Hunt), but learns that she will first have to have a husband, Millie turns to her neighbor, Doug Andrews (Glenn Ford). Though he has no interest in marriage, Doug offers to help Millie find a husband by transforming her into a beautiful and exciting woman, one who catches the eye of two eligible bachelors, including the orphanage's president.

Emergency Wedding

Emergency Wedding
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/11/1950
  • Character: Vandemer
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt.

What a Woman

What a Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/12/1943
  • Character: Prof. Michael 'Mike' Cobb
An author (Willard Parker) and a literary agent (Rosalind Russell) become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.

The Adventurous Blonde

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.

One Way to Love

One Way to Love
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/01/1946
  • Character: Mitchell Raymond
A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.

Slightly French

Slightly French
6.3/10
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery

Over the Goal

Over the Goal
4.8/10
The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.

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