Movies by Joan Davis

Life Begins in College

Life Begins in College

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.

Manhattan Heartbeat

Manhattan Heartbeat

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.

Sally, Irene and Mary

Sally, Irene and Mary

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.

Hold That Co-ed

Hold That Co-ed

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

Show Business

Show Business

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

Josette

Josette

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.

Sing and Be Happy

Sing and Be Happy

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

Beautiful But Broke

Beautiful But Broke

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.

She Gets Her Man

She Gets Her Man

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

Kansas City Kitty

Kansas City Kitty

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

Love and Hisses

Love and Hisses

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

George White's Scandals

George White's Scandals

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

She Wrote the Book

She Wrote the Book

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.

The Holy Terror

The Holy Terror

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.

Time Out for Romance

Time Out for Romance

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

Let's Join Joanie

Let's Join Joanie

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

Two SeƱoritas from Chicago

Two SeƱoritas from Chicago

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.

He's My Guy

He's My Guy

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

Yokel Boy

Yokel Boy

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.