Joan Davis Movies

The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to...

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to...

The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio...

Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is...

A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written...

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings....

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an...

When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be...

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

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...

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake,...