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1942 Romantic Comedy Movies

Public list by WPS with 38 movies or TV shows/series

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I Married a Witch(1942)

NR
| 1h 14min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 79 votes)

Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.

Woman of the Year(1942)

NR
| 1h 54min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 65 votes)

Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

Rio Rita(1942)

NR
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Music
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

The Palm Beach Story(1942)

NR
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 76 votes)

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

Cairo(1942)

1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Music
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

Ship Ahoy(1942)

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.

You Were Never Lovelier(1942)

NR
| 1h 37min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 20 votes)

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Road to Morocco(1942)

NR
| 1h 22min | Comedy, Music, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

Tortilla Flat(1942)

NR
| 1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.

Sunday Punch(1942)

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.

The Male Animal(1942)

NR
| 1h 41min | Comedy, Romance / Love
1.9/5 (with 4 votes)

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.

Hay Foot(1942)

NR
| 48min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gun shy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb.

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Footlight Serenade(1942)

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.

Meet the Stewarts(1942)

1h 13min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other as possible.

A Night to Remember(1942)

NR
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.

Whims(1942)

1h 20min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make close relations in a series of adventures.

The Affairs of Martha(1942)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

The Wife Takes a Flyer(1942)

NR
| 1h 26min | War, Comedy, Romance / Love
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.

Take a Letter, Darling(1942)

NR
| 1h 32min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.

Obliging Young Lady(1942)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Directed by Richard Wallace - With Joan Carroll

Lady in a Jam(1942)

NR
| 1h 18min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.

A Gentleman at Heart(1942)

1h 6min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.

Her Cardboard Lover(1942)

3.9/5 (with 1 vote)

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

Moonlight in Havana(1942)

NR
| 1h 3min | Comedy, Music

Allan Jones stars as hotshot baseball player Johnny Norton, in Havana for spring training. It turns out that Johnny has a beautiful singing voice, but only when he's suffering from a cold. Enterprising nightclub manager Barney Crane (William Frawley) attempts to inflict poor Johnny with cold germs, resulting in unchecked zaniness whenever our hero recovers sufficiently to lose his voice. The film's 63-minute running time manages to accommodate the drunken comedy relief of Hugh O'Connell and Jack Norton, and an abundance of musical numbers, courtesy of Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, the Horton Dancing Group, the Jivin' Jacks and Jills and Grace & Nicco.

Almost Married(1942)

NR
| 1h 5min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Music

To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.

Directed by Charles Lamont - With Jane Frazee

Rings on Her Fingers(1942)

NR
| 1h 26min | Comedy, Crime, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...

We Were Dancing(1942)

NR
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.

My Heart Belongs to Daddy(1942)

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.

Andy Hardy's Double Life(1942)

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Andy is about to head off to college but he's got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car for $20 to pay for a bill and he must convince his father not to go with him to college. Worst of all is that Polly wants to make up but her best friend decides to give Andy a test.

The Courtship of Andy Hardy(1942)

1h 35min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.

Directed by George B. Seitz - With Lewis Stone
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