Joan Davis Movies

Hold That Ghost

76/100

After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.

Just Around the Corner

66/100

Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with bill "Bojangles" robinson. Based on paul gerard smith's book, "Lucky penny".

Show Business

67/100

A song-and-dance man and his comic partner undergo romantic ups and downs when they team up with a female duo and transition from burlesque to vaudeville.

The Groom Wore Spurs

55/100

Lawyer Ginger Rogers is hired to keep dumb cowboy Jack Carson out of trouble.

Hold That Co-ed

62/100

While running for governor a politician aids a needy college by plotting to assure victory for their football team. Though to be a parody of Huey Long and his machine.

If You Knew Susie

63/100

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George ... See full summary »

My Lucky Star

61/100

The son (Romero) of a department store owner enrolls the store's sports clerk (Henie) at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for a teacher (... See full summary »

George White's Scandals

59/100

This Broadway revue is about two love affairs. The romance between the comedienne Joan Mason and Jack Evans of Boston is easily disturbed by Jack's cynical sister, Clara Belle Evans, who is... See full summary »

Around the World

58/100

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

Life Begins in College

54/100

When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.

Josette

66/100

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.

Make Mine Laughs

53/100

A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.

Kansas City Kitty

65/100

Polly, an amiable wisecracking piano teacher, becomes involved with some shady music publishers. She also happens to be infatuated with her music loving dentist Henry--who is not quite as ... See full summary »

Beautiful But Broke

64/100

Theatrical agent Waldo Main (John Eldredge) is inducted into the army, and turns his (now clientless) agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan (Joan Davis). Dottie decides to organize an ... See full summary »

The Traveling Saleswoman

62/100

In this western comedy, the King Soap Company is doing poorly and to receive a bank loan the Banker says they must have orders. So daughter Mabel heads west as a traveling saleswoman. Just ... See full summary »

She Gets Her Man

63/100

Two people have been murdered in Clayton by a mysterious killer using a blow-gun. Socialite club-leader Phoebe Witherspoon comments that "the town needs another Ma Pilkington, the best ... See full summary »

Time Out for Romance

67/100

A girl (Trevor) escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man (Whalen) in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Two Señoritas from Chicago

75/100

Daisy Baker, a Chicago "refuse collector" who fancies herself as a theatrical agent, finds a play which had been thrown away by two Portuguese playwrights. Without bothering to get ... See full summary »

Angel's Holiday

73/100

With the help of a young newspaperman Jane rescues a movie star who is caught held for ransom when she visits her hometown.

Two Latins from Manhattan

67/100

Joan Daley (Joan Davis), a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry (Jinx Falkenburg) and Lois Morgan (Joan Woodbury), when the Cuban sister-act, ... See full summary »

He's My Guy

62/100

The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.

Sing and Be Happy

74/100

Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.

Sweetheart of the Fleet

Secretary Phoebe Weyms is in love with her ad-agency boss, Gordon Crouse, but he doesn't give her the time of day. In order to attract his attention, Phoebe contacts the Navy Recruiting ... See full summary »

Harem Girl

65/100

A wise-cracking, uninhibited American girl, Susie Perkins (Joan Davis), is hired as a secretary/companion to Princess Shareen (Peggie Castle)...

Sailor's Lady

60/100

Sailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed...