Comedienne Joan Davis was the daughter of a Minnesota-based train dispatcher. A performer in local amateur... (Learn more)
Top Projects: Sun Valley Serenade, She Gets Her Man, Sailor's Lady (View All)
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as Herself
Canadian filmmaker Gail Singer profiles Phyllis Diller, Whoopi Goldberg, Paula Poundstone and other women comedians.
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An Australian pastor (Sam Neill) and his wife (Meryl Streep) become media prey in 1980 after a wild dog carries off...
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The "Carry On" gang take on law enforcement in this rude and crude slapstick comedy. When a flu epidemic leaves a...
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as Susie Perkins
The palace secretary (Joan Davis) to a princess (Peggie Castle) foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
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as Alice Dean
A lawyer (Ginger Rogers) bails out and then marries a Hollywood tough guy (Jack Carson) who's a milquetoast in real...
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as Mamie
A 1928 Chicago gangster (Paul Douglas) poses as a widower with children to attract a live-in governess (Jean Peters).
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as Mabel King
In the late 1940s - early 1950s, Columbia Pictures enjoyed a great deal of success with a series of slapsticky feature...
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Make Mine Laughs was the second of three RKO Radio "pastiche" films, largely comprised of musical and comedy highlights...
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as Susie Parker
Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own...
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as Jane Featherstone
In this comedy, a puritanical math teacher at a midwestern university is forced by the dean's wife to go to New York to...
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as Jane "Pilky"Pilkington
Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless,...
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George White's Scandals (1945)
Backstage lovers (Joan Davis, Jack Haley) and a dancer's (Martha Holliday) absence threaten a vaudeville show.
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as Dottie
Female musicians Sally Richards (Jane Frazee) and Sue Ford (Judy Clark) are Beautiful but Broke in this frantic Columbia...
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as Polly Jasper
In this drama, a piano teacher buys a song-publishing business only to discover that it is on the brink of bankruptcy...
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as Joan Mason
Two guys (Eddie Cantor, George Murphy) and two girls work their way up in vaudeville to the Ziegfeld Follies.
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as Madge Donovan
Dick Foran is back for another seven-reel melange of music and comedy in Universal's He's My Guy. Foran is cast as...
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as Daisy Baker
The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria (Jinx Falkenburg) and Maria (Ann Savage). When their goofy pal Daisy Baker...
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as Joan
The bandleader (Kay Kyser) and his entourage entertain troops in Australia, India, China and Egypt.
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as Phoebe Weyms
In this musical comedy, an agent for an advertising agency begins trying to push a new "Blind Date" service and so...
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as Molly Malone
In this musical comedy, a country bumpkin spends most of his free time watching movies and becomes such an expert that...
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as Miss Carstairs
A band member sponsors a European war refugee who turns out to be a Nordic skater with eyes for her new guardian.
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as Dottie Nickerson
A Clarence Buddington Kelland story was the source for the mildly farcical For Beauty's Sake. If he wants to inherit a...
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as Joan Daley
Two Latins From Manhattan was Columbia's 1941 contribution to the "Good Neighbor Policy" towards South America. Joan...
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as Camille Brewster
Two nightclub waiters (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) inherit a haunted roadhouse from a bumped-off gangster.
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as Nellie
Free, Blonde and 21 was one of a handful of films directed by former leading man Ricardo Cortez. Two of 20th...
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as Edna
Manhattan Heartbeat is a somewhat toned-down remake of the pre-Production Code melodrama Bad Girl (1931). Newlyweds...
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as Myrtle
The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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as Miss Applegate
The extramarital shenanigans of a young married couple provide the basis of this surprisingly racy (for 1939 Hollywood)...
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as Babe Dugan
An heiress (Constance Bennett) rivals a down-to-earth flier (Alice Faye) for a man and the lead in an air derby for...
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