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1940 Romantic Comedy Movies

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

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The Shop Around the Corner(1940)

NR
| 1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
4.1/5 (with 368 votes)

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

The Philadelphia Story(1940)

NR
| 1h 53min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 360 votes)

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Remember the Night(1940)

NR
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 38 votes)

When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.

My Favorite Wife(1940)

3.5/5 (with 62 votes)

Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed Nick struggles to break the news to his new bride. But he gets a shock when he hears the whole story: Ellen spent those seven years alone on a desert island with another man.

Irene(1940)

NR
| 1h 41min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Music
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.

Road to Singapore(1940)

NR
| 1h 25min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...

Christmas in July(1940)

NR
| 1h 7min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.

Comrade X(1940)

NR
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

Seven Sinners(1940)

NR
| 1h 27min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

I Love You Again(1940)

NR
| 1h 39min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 26 votes)

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Arise, My Love(1940)

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante(1940)

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.

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Hired Wife(1940)

NR
| 1h 35min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.

Hullabaloo(1940)

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With Charles Holland, Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey, Billie Burke, Nydia Westman, ...

Too Many Husbands(1940)

1h 21min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Spring Parade(1940)

NR
| 1h 29min | Comedy, Music
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.

Third Finger, Left Hand(1940)

NR
| 1h 36min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!

Misbehaving Husbands(1940)

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".

Curtain Call(1940)

NR
| 1h 3min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.

Directed by Frank Woodruff - With Barbara Read

He Stayed for Breakfast(1940)

1h 29min | Comedy

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.

Directed by Alexander Hall - With Loretta Young

Three Cheers for the Irish(1940)

NR
| 1h 39min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He's even more unprepared for the romance that develops between his favorite daughter, Maureen, and the Scottish cop who takes over his beat.

Tugboat Annie Sails Again(1940)

NR
| 1h 17min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.

The Doctor Takes a Wife(1940)

NR
| 1h 28min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

It's a Date(1940)

NR
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.

This Thing Called Love(1940)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

Little Nellie Kelly(1940)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.

Those Were the Days!(1940)

NR
| 1h 14min | Comedy, Romance / Love

At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.

Directed by Theodore Reed - With William Holden

Amor(1940)

1h 46min | Comedy

A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.

Directed by Luis Bayón Herrera - With Severo Fernández, Aída Luz, Pepita Muñoz, Ernesto Raquén, Pepita Serrador, Adolfo Stray, ...

Cross-Country Romance(1940)

NR
| 1h 8min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

Father Is A Prince(1940)

58min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.

Directed by Noel M. Smith - With Grant Mitchell
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