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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.
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09 October 1945
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
24 November 1939
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.
12 January 1945
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
27 November 1943
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.
08 August 1941
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.
22 January 1952
The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
29 August 1941
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.
12 February 1937
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.
19 February 1939
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.
26 June 1936
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
28 January 1944
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan.
02 August 1937
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti.
13 March 1942
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money.
10 May 1944
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
03 June 1938
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.
25 June 1937
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
03 August 1949
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.
16 September 1938
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
23 August 1937
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
07 February 1948
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker.
02 October 1941
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.
17 December 1963
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
17 November 1939
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.
07 November 1935
This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut.
15 August 1941
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.
28 March 1940
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.
03 September 1937
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
21 December 1937
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
07 June 1937
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.
05 July 1940
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed.
06 June 1950
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
11 July 1940
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.
09 September 1938
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.
31 May 1946
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.
05 October 1942
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood.
12 December 1935
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.
06 June 1941
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
13 March 1951
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas.
26 March 1943
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
01 October 1937
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.
14 May 1937
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
10 June 1943
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.
11 November 1938
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
05 February 1937
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.
15 February 1950
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
14 June 1950
Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.
03 May 1939
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
10 February 1937
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
04 March 1938
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.
24 August 1944
A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.
