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1940s Romantic Comedy Movies

Public list by WPS with 291 movies or TV shows/series

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The Shop Around the Corner(1940)

4.2/5 (with 299 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.

Fun and Fancy Free(1947)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 13min | Animation, Kids & Family, Music
3.2/5 (with 192 votes)

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.

The Philadelphia Story(1940)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Ball of Fire(1941)

3.7/5 (with 79 votes)

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

The Lady Eve(1941)

3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

The Bishop's Wife(1947)

3.5/5 (with 94 votes)

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

Cover Girl(1944)

3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Caesar and Cleopatra(1945)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 18min | Drama, History, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

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.

You Were Never Lovelier(1942)

3.7/5 (with 20 votes)

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

It Happened on Fifth Avenue(1947)

3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith(1941)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 80 votes)

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.

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I Married a Witch(1942)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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.

Christmas in Connecticut(1945)

3.6/5 (with 56 votes)

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A Foreign Affair(1948)

3.5/5 (with 58 votes)

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

Woman of the Year(1942)

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.

That Uncertain Feeling(1941)

3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

The Harvey Girls(1946)

1h 42min | Comedy, Music, Western
3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.

The More the Merrier(1943)

3.4/5 (with 32 votes)

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer(1947)

3.5/5 (with 51 votes)

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

My Dear Secretary(1948)

3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.

Christmas in July(1940)

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.

Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941)

3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?

The Devil and Miss Jones(1941)

3.9/5 (with 20 votes)

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.

Road to Morocco(1942)

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.

Cluny Brown(1946)

3.5/5 (with 33 votes)

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

The Palm Beach Story(1942)

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.

Without Love(1945)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 51min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.

Every Girl Should Be Married(1948)

3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage.

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