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1938 Romantic Comedy Movies

Public list by WPS with 52 movies or TV shows/series

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Bringing Up Baby(1938)

3.8/5 (with 442 votes)

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

You Can't Take It with You(1938)

3.8/5 (with 163 votes)

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Holiday(1938)

3.7/5 (with 97 votes)

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife(1938)

3.6/5 (with 36 votes)

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.

The Mad Miss Manton(1938)

3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Vivacious Lady(1938)

3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

The Divorce of Lady X(1938)

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

Love Finds Andy Hardy(1938)

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

Too Hot to Handle(1938)

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.

Man-Proof(1938)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.

The Cowboy and the Lady(1938)

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.

The Rage of Paris(1938)

1h 18min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.

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Having Wonderful Time(1938)

2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.

Josette(1938)

1h 13min | Comedy, Crime, Music
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.

Four's a Crowd(1938)

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A publicist falls for his most difficult client's daughter.

Mr. Boggs Steps Out(1938)

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.

Directed by Gordon Wiles

Everybody Sing(1938)

2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

When boisterous Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland) encourages her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat, her scandalized teacher uses the musical mutiny as an excuse to expel her from the Colvin School for Girls. With the encouragement of Ricky Saboni (Allan Jones), her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a stage musical. Meanwhile, Ricky struggles to gain the affection of Judy's sister, the lovely Sylvia (Lynne Carver).

Maid's Night Out(1938)

1h 4min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.

Directed by Ben Holmes - With Joan Fontaine, Allan Lane

Men Are Such Fools(1938)

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.

Directed by Busby Berkeley - With Wayne Morris

Topper Takes a Trip(1938)

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Mrs Topper's friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs Parkhurst takes Mrs Topper on a trip to France, where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce, with help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel, to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.

The Baroness and the Butler(1938)

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

Listen, Darling(1938)

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.

Paradise for Three(1938)

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

The Girl Downstairs(1938)

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.

College Swing(1938)

1h 26min | Comedy, Music
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.

Give Me a Sailor(1938)

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim is also in love with Nancy so he begs Nancy's ugly duckling sister, Letty to help break Walter and Nancy up. Letty agrees only under one condition, he help her to win Walter!

Three Blind Mice(1938)

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.

Alexander's Ragtime Band(1938)

3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.

Swing Your Lady(1938)

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.

Hard to Get(1938)

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

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