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1940s Musical Comedy Movies

Public list by WPS with 294 movies or TV shows/series

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Fun and Fancy Free(1947)

G
| 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.

Bathing Beauty(1944)

NR
| 1h 41min | Comedy, Music
2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

Anchors Aweigh(1945)

NR
| 2h 23min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance / Love, War
3.4/5 (with 69 votes)

Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.

Cover Girl(1944)

NR
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

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

One Touch of Venus(1948)

NR
| 1h 22min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.

The Cat Concerto(1947)

3.8/5 (with 66 votes)

Tom enters from stage left in white tie and tails, sits at the piano, gets his focus as the orchestra in the pit beneath him warms up, and begins to play Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody". Unbeknownst to Tom and the audience, Jerry is asleep across several of the high-note keys inside the instrument, so Tom's playing eventually wakes him. Jerry is pummeled by hammers, bounced by wires, and squeezed by Tom as the cat tries to play the concerto while dispensing with Jerry. Jerry's defensive antics add to the brio of the program and answer Tom with Jerry's own skillful musical attack. By the concerto's end, the duet leaves only one animal standing for the audience's applause.

Pot o' Gold(1941)

NR
| 1h 26min | Music, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.

Buck Privates(1941)

NR
| 1h 24min | Comedy, Music
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, The Andrews Sisters, Nat Pendleton, ...

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.

Ziegfeld Follies(1945)

1h 50min | Comedy, Music
3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

Second Chorus(1941)

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

This Is the Army(1943)

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

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Down to Earth(1947)

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show's producer and he incorporates her changes into the show. Unfortunately, her changes also produce a major flop.

Lady of Burlesque(1943)

NR
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Music, Mystery, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 15 votes)

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

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.

Road to Rio(1947)

NR
| 1h 40min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.

Hold That Ghost(1941)

1h 26min | Comedy, Horror
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Thank Your Lucky Stars(1943)

NR
| 2h 7min | Comedy, Music
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

The Harvey Girls(1946)

NR
| 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.

A Corny Concerto(1943)

NR
| 8min | Animation, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

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Directed by Bob Clampett

The Strawberry Blonde(1941)

3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

Romance on the High Seas(1948)

NR
| 1h 39min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Road to Utopia(1945)

NR
| 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Music
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.

Living in a Big Way(1947)

1h 44min | Comedy, Music
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.

You'll Never Get Rich(1941)

PG
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

Roxie Hart(1942)

NR
| 1h 12min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.

Hollywood Canteen(1944)

NR
| 2h 4min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

Solid Serenade(1946)

NR
| 7min | Animation, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Tom ties up Spike and sneaks into the courtyard of the glamorous Toodles Galore with his bass, hoping to woo her with his song, much to the annoyance of a sleeping Jerry.

Directed by Joseph Barbera

Good News(1947)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.

Road to Zanzibar(1941)

NR
| 1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.

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