Joan Davis
Also Known As: Josephine "Joan" Davis, Josephine Davis
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joan Davis (June 29, 1907 – May 22, 1961) was an American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. Remembered best for the 1950s television comedy, I Married Joan, Davis had a successful earlier career as a B-movie actress and a leading star of 1940s radio comedy. Born as Madonna Josephine Davis in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Davis was a performer since childhood. She appeared with her husband Si Wills in vaudeville. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 29, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 22, 1961
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The Sound of Laughter
Overview: A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-17
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Hold That Ghost
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Just Around the Corner
Overview: Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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Around the World
Overview: 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 during World War II.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-27
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Sun Valley Serenade
Overview: 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 soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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Thin Ice
Overview: A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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Tail Spin
Overview: 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 repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-19
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Day-time Wife
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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Angel's Holiday
Overview: Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-07
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The Groom Wore Spurs
Overview: 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 faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-13
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Beautiful But Broke
Overview: Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-28
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On the Avenue
Overview: 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, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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Love That Brute
Overview: The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-06
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If You Knew Susie
Overview: In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Overview: 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. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-"Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through. Production Number 3851.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-15
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Way Up Thar
Overview: This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features Buster Keaton's Mother and Sister, Myra and Louise, respectively. A very young Roy Rogers (billed as Leonard Slye) is featured as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and sings a few songs during the course of the movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-07
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Show Business
Overview: Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-10
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Harem Girl
Overview: The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-22
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George White's Scandals
Overview: Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-09
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She Gets Her Man
Overview: The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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Wake Up and Live
Overview: Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Life Begins in College
Overview: 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 on the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Hold That Co-ed
Overview: An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-16
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Let's Join Joanie
Overview: Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-14
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Hollywood Hobbies
Overview: In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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My Lucky Star
Overview: 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 advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-09
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You Can't Have Everything
Overview: Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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Josette
Overview: 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 both fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-03
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Too Busy to Work
Overview: 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 household chores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Love and Hisses
Overview: As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-21
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The Great Hospital Mystery
Overview: A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Sailor's Lady
Overview: 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 accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Kansas City Kitty
Overview: A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-24
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The Traveling Saleswoman
Overview: The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-15
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Yokel Boy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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Time Out for Romance
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
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Free, Blonde and 21
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-28
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Sing and Be Happy
Overview: Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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He's My Guy
Overview: The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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Manhattan Heartbeat
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-11
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Make Mine Laughs
Overview: A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-03
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Two Señoritas from Chicago
Overview: 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, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria pretend to be a pair of Portuguese musical comedy stars, thereby winning parts in the new production. The fun begins when the play's original authors sell the same manuscript to a rival producer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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She Wrote the Book
Overview: 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 a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-31
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Two Latins from Manhattan
Overview: 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 and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-02
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Overview: Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-05
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Bunker Bean
Overview: A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-26
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For Beauty's Sake
Overview: A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-06
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The Holy Terror
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Millions in the Air
Overview: 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 program under an assumed name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-12
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