Joan Davis Movies

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their...

This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings....

The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however,...

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to...

A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written...

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon...

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features...

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

A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.