Joan Davis Movies

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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....

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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