Joan Davis Movies

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...