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, …

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Show Business

Show Business · 1944

MovieRomanceComedy

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sing and Be Happy

Sing and Be Happy · 1937

Sing and Be Happy

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

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.

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.

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Show Business

Show Business · 1944

MovieRomanceComedy

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

Joan Mason

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

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

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

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

Sing and Be Happy

Sing and Be Happy · 1937

Sing and Be Happy

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

Myrtle

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

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

Love and Hisses

Love and Hisses · 1937

Love and Hisses

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Joan Dolan

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)

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

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

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

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

On the Avenue

On the Avenue · 1937

MovieMusicComedy

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.

Miss Katz

The Traveling Saleswoman

The Traveling Saleswoman · 1950

The Traveling Saleswoman

MovieWesternComedy

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

Producer

Sailor's Lady

Sailor's Lady · 1940

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

Myrtle

Angel's Holiday

Angel's Holiday · 1937

Angel's Holiday

MovieComedyRomance

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.

Strivers

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

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

Life Begins in College

Life Begins in College · 1937

Life Begins in College

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.

Inez

Millions in the Air

Millions in the Air · 1935

Millions in the Air

The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.

Singer

The Groom Wore Spurs

The Groom Wore Spurs · 1951

The Groom Wore Spurs

Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.

Alice Dean

The Sound of Laughter

The Sound of Laughter · 1963

The Sound of Laughter

MovieComedyDocumentary

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

Jennie Kurtz (Hillbilly Singer)

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