1947 Comedy Movies

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(1947)

| 1h 50min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 50 votes)

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod - With Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Fay Bainter, Thurston Hall, Ann Rutherford, Florence Bates, ...

Magic Town(1947)

| 1h 43min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.

Directed by William A. Wellman - With James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith, Ned Sparks, Wallace Ford, Ann Doran, ...

¡A volar, joven!(1947)

1h 53min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 47 votes)

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Ángel Garasa, Andrés Soler, Miroslava Stern, Roberto Cañedo, Joaquín Cordero, ...

Life with Father(1947)

| 1h 58min | Comedy, Kids & Family

3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon, ...

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It's a Joke, Son!(1947)

| 1h 3min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.

Directed by Benjamin Stoloff

The Three Garcia(1947)

1h 48min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 30 votes)

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.

Directed by Ismael Rodríguez - With Pedro Infante, Sara García, Marga López, Abel Salazar

The Chinese Ring(1947)

| 1h 8min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery

2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.

Directed by William Beaudine - With Roland Winters

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Song of the Thin Man(1947)

1h 26min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

3.4/5 (with 39 votes)

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Directed by Edward Buzzell - With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed, Leon Ames, ...

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Undercover Maisie(1947)

| 1h 30min | Crime, Mystery

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.

Directed by Harry Beaumont - With Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson

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Hue and Cry(1947)

1h 22min | Crime, Comedy, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

Directed by Charles Crichton - With Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Jack Lambert, Frederick Piper, Vida Hope, Joan Dowling, ...

The Perfect Marriage(1947)

1h 28min | Comedy

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.

Directed by Lewis Allen - With Loretta Young, David Niven, Eddie Albert, Charles Ruggles, Virginia Field, Rita Johnson, ...

Out of the Blue(1947)

1h 24min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.

Directed by Leigh Jason - With George Brent, Ann Dvorak, Turhan Bey, Virginia Mayo, Carole Landis, Elizabeth Patterson, ...

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School for Postmen(1946)

16min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 29 votes)

Jacques Tati plays a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.

Directed by Jacques Tati - With Jacques Tati, Paul Demange

Christmas Eve(1947)

| 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama

2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell, Virginia Field, Reginald Denny, ...

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock(1947)

| 1h 29min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?

Directed by Preston Sturges - With Harold Lloyd, Rudy Vallée, Jimmy Conlin, Edgar Kennedy, Lionel Stander, Margaret Hamilton, ...

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Angelina(1947)

1h 30min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.

Directed by Luigi Zampa - With Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante, Armando Migliari, Maria Grazia Francia, ...

Sweet Genevieve(1947)

1h 8min | Comedy

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The biggest town problem is worrying whether the high school basketball team will win the championship...until racketeers move into town and the kids begin to bet on horses, become overly fond of stripped-down racing cars, and Genevieve Rogers (Jean Porter) suspects her father of being too fond of the school principal's secretary. Town nerd Bill Kennedy (Jimmy Lydon) invents a new fuel amidst rumors that - horrors - the basketball game might be fixed. River City is not the only town that has trouble starting with a "T" and there's not a pool hall in sight.

Directed by Arthur Dreifuss

Antoine and Antoinette(1947)

1h 28min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

She's working in a big store, he's a typographer and they lost their winning lottery ticket.

Directed by Jacques Becker - With Roger Pigaut, Gaston Modot, Annette Poivre, Bob Ingarao, Brigitte Auber, Charles Camus, ...

An Ideal Husband(1947)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.

Directed by Alexander Korda - With Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Diana Wynyard, Hugh Williams, C. Aubrey Smith, Glynis Johns, ...

The Senator Was Indiscreet(1947)

| 1h 28min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.

Directed by George S. Kaufman - With William Powell, Ella Raines

Buck Privates Come Home(1947)

| 1h 17min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Action

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Directed by Charles Barton - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Tom Brown, Nat Pendleton, Russell Hicks, Charles Trowbridge, ...

Sing a Song of Six Pants(1947)

17min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

The three stooges pursue a notorious burglar in order to pay past due notes to the Skin & Flint company and save their tailor shop.

Directed by Jules White - With Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Tiny Brauer, Virginia Hunter, ...

The Good Bad Egg(1947)

17min | Comedy

In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.

Directed by Jules White - With Joe DeRita

Fright Night(1947)

18min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

The stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bank roll on his next fight. When a gangster tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys decide to play along. They try to soften Chopper up by feeding him rich food and having him spend time with their friend Kitty. The fight gets canceled when Kitty dumps Chopper for his opponent and the two boxers engage in some pre-match fisticuffs that result in a broken hand for the opponent. The stooges think they've put one over on the gangsters, only to have the bad guys corner them in a deserted warehouse. Instead of being rubbed out, the boys capture the crooks and get a reward.

Directed by Edward Bernds - With Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Dick Wessel, Tiny Brauer, Cy Schindell, ...

Curley(1947)

53min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The students of Lakeview Elementary devise ways to torment their new teacher. Comedy.

Directed by Bernard Carr - With Frances Rafferty, Billy Gray

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That's My Gal(1947)

1h 6min | Comedy, Music

Two sharpie promoters (Don Barry and Frank Jenks) put on a show they believe is so bad it will not play more than one day and they therefore will not have to pay the long list of investors,i.e, suckers and buyers. But one of the investors dies intestate and his interests pass to the state. The governor's secretary (Lynne Roberts) engages new talent (the Four Step Brothers, Guadalajara Trio, St. Clair & Vilvoa, Dolores and Don Graham, et al) and a new orchestra (Jan Savitt), in order to make the show successful and a profitable investment for the state. Barry (in another of the vast majority of his films in which he was not billed as Don "Red" Barry), who has fallen in love with the first-billed Roberts, reforms and buys up the surplus stock.

Directed by George Blair - With Lynne Roberts

Bury Me Dead(1947)

| 1h 8min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

2.3/5 (with 8 votes)

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

Directed by Bernard Vorhaus - With Cathy O'Donnell, June Lockhart, Hugh Beaumont

The Perils of Pauline(1947)

1h 36min | Comedy, Music

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take.

Directed by George Marshall - With Betty Hutton, John Lund, William Demarest, Constance Collier, Frank Faylen, Chester Conklin, ...

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Wedlock Deadlock(1947)

17min | Comedy

Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.

Directed by Edward Bernds - With Joe DeRita

Kilroy Was Here(1947)

1h 10min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.

Directed by Phil Karlson

1947 Comedy Movies

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(1947)

Magic Town(1947)

¡A volar, joven!(1947)

Life with Father(1947)

It's a Joke, Son!(1947)

The Three Garcia(1947)

The Chinese Ring(1947)

Song of the Thin Man(1947)

Undercover Maisie(1947)

Hue and Cry(1947)

The Perfect Marriage(1947)

Out of the Blue(1947)

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School for Postmen(1946)

Christmas Eve(1947)

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock(1947)

Angelina(1947)

Sweet Genevieve(1947)

Antoine and Antoinette(1947)

An Ideal Husband(1947)

The Senator Was Indiscreet(1947)

Buck Privates Come Home(1947)

Sing a Song of Six Pants(1947)

The Good Bad Egg(1947)

Fright Night(1947)

Curley(1947)

That's My Gal(1947)

Bury Me Dead(1947)

The Perils of Pauline(1947)

Wedlock Deadlock(1947)

Kilroy Was Here(1947)

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