Acting

Joan Davis

Born June 29, 1907 · Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Died May 22, 1961 · aged 53

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joan Davis (June 29, 1907 – May 22, 1961) was an American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. Remembered best for the 1950s television comedy, I Married Joan, Davis had a successful earlier career as a B-movie actress and a leading star of 1940s radio comedy. Born as Madonna Josephine Davis in Saint Paul, Minnesota, …

Known For

Free, Blonde and 21

Free, Blonde and 21 · 1940

Free, Blonde and 21

MovieRomanceDrama

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.

Hold That Co-ed

Hold That Co-ed · 1938

Hold That Co-ed

MovieComedyMusic

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

Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost · 1941

Hold That Ghost

MovieComedyHorror

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Day-time Wife

Day-time Wife · 1939

MovieComedyRomance

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

Tail Spin

Tail Spin · 1939

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

Time Out for Romance

Time Out for Romance · 1937

Time Out for Romance

MovieAdventureComedy

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

If You Knew Susie

If You Knew Susie · 1948

If You Knew Susie

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 Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.

Show Business

Show Business · 1944

MovieRomanceComedy

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

Filmography

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Free, Blonde and 21

Free, Blonde and 21 · 1940

Free, Blonde and 21

MovieRomanceDrama

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.

Nellie

Hold That Co-ed

Hold That Co-ed · 1938

Hold That Co-ed

MovieComedyMusic

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

Lizzie Olsen

Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost · 1941

Hold That Ghost

MovieComedyHorror

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Camille Brewster

Day-time Wife

Day-time Wife · 1939

MovieComedyRomance

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

Miss Applegate

Tail Spin

Tail Spin · 1939

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

Babe Dugan

Time Out for Romance

Time Out for Romance · 1937

Time Out for Romance

MovieAdventureComedy

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

Midge Dooley

If You Knew Susie

If You Knew Susie · 1948

If You Knew Susie

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 Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.

Susie Parker

Show Business

Show Business · 1944

MovieRomanceComedy

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

Joan Mason

You Can't Have Everything

You Can't Have Everything · 1937

You Can't Have Everything

MovieComedyRomance

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

Girl in YWCA (uncredited)

Wake Up and Live

Wake Up and Live · 1937

Wake Up and Live

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Comic Spanish Dancer

Sun Valley Serenade

Sun Valley Serenade · 1941

Sun Valley Serenade

MovieComedyMusic

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.

Miss Carstairs

Yokel Boy

Yokel Boy · 1942

MovieComedyRomance

A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.

Molly Malone

He's My Guy

He's My Guy · 1943

MovieMusicComedy

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

Madge Donovan

For Beauty's Sake

For Beauty's Sake · 1941

For Beauty's Sake

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

Dottie Nickerson

Sally, Irene and Mary

Sally, Irene and Mary · 1938

Sally, Irene and Mary

MovieComedyRomance

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.

Irene Keene

She Wrote the Book

She Wrote the Book · 1946

She Wrote the Book

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 a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.

Jane Featherstone

Two Señoritas from Chicago

Two Señoritas from Chicago · 1943

Two Señoritas from Chicago

The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria pretend to be a pair of Portuguese musical comedy stars, thereby winning parts in the new production. The fun begins when the play's original authors sell the same manuscript to a rival producer.

Daisy Baker

Harem Girl

Harem Girl · 1952

MovieComedyRomance

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

Susie Perkins

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work · 1939

Too Busy to Work

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 household chores.

Lolly

The Great Hospital Mystery

The Great Hospital Mystery · 1937

The Great Hospital Mystery

A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.

Flossie Duff

Just Around the Corner

Just Around the Corner · 1938

Just Around the Corner

MovieComedyMusic

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

Kitty

George White's Scandals

George White's Scandals · 1945

George White's Scandals

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

Joan Mason

Two Latins from Manhattan

Two Latins from Manhattan · 1941

Two Latins from Manhattan

Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.

Joan Daley

Around the World

Around the World · 1943

Around the World

MovieComedyMusic

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.

Joan Davis

I Married Joan

I Married Joan · 1952

I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne-comedy actress Joan Davis as the manic, scatterbrained wife of a mild-mannered community judge, the Honorable Bradley Stevens.

Joan Stevens