Joan Davis

Joan Davis

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.

  • Title: Joan Davis
  • Popularity: 1.628
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1907-06-29
  • Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Josephine "Joan" Davis, Josephine Davis
img

Joan Davis Movies

  • 1963
    imgMovies

    The Sound of Laughter

    The Sound of Laughter

    2 1963 HD

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

    img
  • 1941
    imgMovies

    Hold That Ghost

    Hold That Ghost

    6.7 1941 HD

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

    img
  • 1938
    imgMovies

    Just Around the Corner

    Just Around the Corner

    5.5 1938 HD

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

    img
  • 1943
    imgMovies

    Around the World

    Around the World

    5 1943 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1941
    imgMovies

    Sun Valley Serenade

    Sun Valley Serenade

    6.9 1941 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    Thin Ice

    Thin Ice

    6.7 1937 HD

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

    img
  • 1939
    imgMovies

    Tail Spin

    Tail Spin

    5.8 1939 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1939
    imgMovies

    Day-time Wife

    Day-time Wife

    6.3 1939 HD

    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.

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    Angel's Holiday

    Angel's Holiday

    5.5 1937 HD

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

    img
  • 1951
    imgMovies

    The Groom Wore Spurs

    The Groom Wore Spurs

    4.778 1951 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1944
    imgMovies

    Beautiful But Broke

    Beautiful But Broke

    5 1944 HD

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

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    On the Avenue

    On the Avenue

    6.7 1937 HD

    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,...

    img
  • 1950
    imgMovies

    Love That Brute

    Love That Brute

    5.3 1950 HD

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

    img
  • 1948
    imgMovies

    If You Knew Susie

    If You Knew Susie

    7.5 1948 HD

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

    img
  • 1941
    imgMovies

    Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1

    Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1

    1 1941 HD

    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....

    img
  • 1935
    imgMovies

    Way Up Thar

    Way Up Thar

    1 1935 HD

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

    img
  • 1944
    imgMovies

    Show Business

    Show Business

    5 1944 HD

    Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

    img
  • 1952
    imgMovies

    Harem Girl

    Harem Girl

    5 1952 HD

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

    img
  • 1945
    imgMovies

    George White's Scandals

    George White's Scandals

    5.3 1945 HD

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

    img
  • 1945
    imgMovies

    She Gets Her Man

    She Gets Her Man

    3.7 1945 HD

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

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    Wake Up and Live

    Wake Up and Live

    5.3 1937 HD

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

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    Life Begins in College

    Life Begins in College

    1 1937 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1938
    imgMovies

    Hold That Co-ed

    Hold That Co-ed

    6.6 1938 HD

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

    img
  • 1950
    imgMovies

    Let's Join Joanie

    Let's Join Joanie

    1 1950 HD

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

    img
  • 1939
    imgMovies

    Hollywood Hobbies

    Hollywood Hobbies

    5.6 1939 HD

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

    img
  • 1938
    imgMovies

    Sally, Irene and Mary

    Sally, Irene and Mary

    6 1938 HD

    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.

    img
  • 1938
    imgMovies

    My Lucky Star

    My Lucky Star

    5.3 1938 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    You Can't Have Everything

    You Can't Have Everything

    5.7 1937 HD

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

    img
  • 1938
    imgMovies

    Josette

    Josette

    6.7 1938 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1939
    imgMovies

    Too Busy to Work

    Too Busy to Work

    1 1939 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    Love and Hisses

    Love and Hisses

    1 1937 HD

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

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    The Great Hospital Mystery

    The Great Hospital Mystery

    4 1937 HD

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

    img
  • 1940
    imgMovies

    Sailor's Lady

    Sailor's Lady

    4 1940 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1944
    imgMovies

    Kansas City Kitty

    Kansas City Kitty

    3 1944 HD

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

    img
  • 1950
    imgMovies

    The Traveling Saleswoman

    The Traveling Saleswoman

    4.5 1950 HD

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

    img
  • 1942
    imgMovies

    Yokel Boy

    Yokel Boy

    4.7 1942 HD

    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.

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    Time Out for Romance

    Time Out for Romance

    5.6 1937 HD

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

    img
  • 1940
    imgMovies

    Free, Blonde and 21

    Free, Blonde and 21

    8 1940 HD

    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.

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    Sing and Be Happy

    Sing and Be Happy

    1 1937 HD

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

    img
  • 1943
    imgMovies

    He's My Guy

    He's My Guy

    6 1943 HD

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

    img
  • 1940
    imgMovies

    Manhattan Heartbeat

    Manhattan Heartbeat

    1 1940 HD

    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.

    img
  • 1949
    imgMovies

    Make Mine Laughs

    Make Mine Laughs

    5 1949 HD

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

    img
  • 1943
    imgMovies

    Two Señoritas from Chicago

    Two Señoritas from Chicago

    6 1943 HD

    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,...

    img
  • 1946
    imgMovies

    She Wrote the Book

    She Wrote the Book

    6 1946 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1941
    imgMovies

    Two Latins from Manhattan

    Two Latins from Manhattan

    5 1941 HD

    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...

    img
  • 1942
    imgMovies

    Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    6 1942 HD

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

    img
  • 1936
    imgMovies

    Bunker Bean

    Bunker Bean

    4.6 1936 HD

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

    img
  • 1941
    imgMovies

    For Beauty's Sake

    For Beauty's Sake

    1 1941 HD

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

    img
  • 1937
    imgMovies

    The Holy Terror

    The Holy Terror

    1 1937 HD

    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.

    img
  • 1950
    imgMovies

    The Traveling Saleswoman

    The Traveling Saleswoman

    4.5 1950 HD

    img
  • 1952
    imgS3 E26

    I Married Joan

    I Married Joan

    6 1952 HD

    I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne-comedy actress...

    img
  • 1956
    imgS5 E31

    The Steve Allen Show

    The Steve Allen Show

    5 1956 HD

    img
  • 1956
    imgS7 E9

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    5.3 1956 HD

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...

    img