Joan Davis

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

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked...

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops...

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When...

A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

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...

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.

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline...

Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many...

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

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,...

The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however,...

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....

This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features...

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.

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

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

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

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...

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

Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.

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

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

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...

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon...

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...

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their...

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.

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 piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.

The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.

A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.

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

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.

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

The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.

A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.

A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.

The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own,...

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...

Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela...

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

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.

Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.

The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.