Joan Davis

Born: 1907-06-29

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.


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My Lucky Star

as Mary Dwight
Released: 1938-09-09

George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's...

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Harem Girl

as Susie Perkins
Released: 1952-01-22

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

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Hold That Ghost

as Camille Brewster
Released: 1941-08-08

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will....

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Tail Spin

as Babe Dugan
Released: 1939-02-19

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race,...

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Hollywood Hobbies

as Herself (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-03

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

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Around the World

as Joan Davis
Released: 1943-11-27

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl...

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Time Out for Romance

as Midge Dooley
Released: 1937-02-10

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

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The Groom Wore Spurs

as Alice Dean
Released: 1951-03-13

Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben...

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Just Around the Corner

as Kitty
Released: 1938-11-11

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The...

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She Wrote the Book

as Jane Featherstone
Released: 1946-05-31

A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying...

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Wake Up and Live

as Comic Spanish Dancer
Released: 1937-08-23

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

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The Sound of Laughter

as Jennie Kurtz (Hillbilly Singer)
Released: 1963-12-17

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

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Thin Ice

as Orchestra Leader
Released: 1937-09-03

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

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Bunker Bean

as Mabel - Bunker's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-26

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

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Beautiful But Broke

as Dottie Duncan
Released: 1944-01-28

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over...

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On the Avenue

as Miss Katz
Released: 1937-02-12

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get...

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You Can't Have Everything

as Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
Released: 1937-08-02

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate...

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Two Latins from Manhattan

as Joan Daley
Released: 1941-10-02

Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry...

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Sun Valley Serenade

as Miss Carstairs
Released: 1941-08-29

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a...

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Too Busy to Work

as Lolly
Released: 1939-11-17

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to...

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Yokel Boy

as Molly Malone
Released: 1942-03-13

A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and...

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The Holy Terror

as Lili
Released: 1937-02-05

Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows...

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Sally, Irene and Mary

as Irene Keene
Released: 1938-03-04

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old...

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Show Business

as Joan Mason
Released: 1944-05-10

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

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Two Señoritas from Chicago

as Daisy Baker
Released: 1943-06-10

The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off...

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Love and Hisses

as Joan Dolan
Released: 1937-12-21

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist...

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If You Knew Susie

as Susie Parker
Released: 1948-02-07

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary...

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Love That Brute

as Mamie Sage
Released: 1950-06-06

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

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Manhattan Heartbeat

as Edna Higgins
Released: 1940-07-11

A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes....

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For Beauty's Sake

as Dottie Nickerson
Released: 1941-06-06

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

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He's My Guy

as Madge Donovan
Released: 1943-03-26

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

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Sailor's Lady

as Myrtle
Released: 1940-07-05

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby...

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George White's Scandals

as Joan Mason
Released: 1945-10-09

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

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Sing and Be Happy

as Myrtle
Released: 1937-06-25

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

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Hold That Co-ed

as Lizzie Olsen
Released: 1938-09-16

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless...

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The Great Hospital Mystery

as Flossie Duff
Released: 1937-05-14

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

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Day-time Wife

as Miss Applegate
Released: 1939-11-24

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary,...

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She Gets Her Man

as Jane 'Pilky' Pilkington
Released: 1945-01-12

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

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Angel's Holiday

as Strivers
Released: 1937-06-07

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes...

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Free, Blonde and 21

as Nellie
Released: 1940-03-28

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a...

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Josette

as May Morris
Released: 1938-06-03

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think...

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Life Begins in College

as Inez
Released: 1937-10-01

When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has...

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Way Up Thar

as Jennie Kurtz
Released: 1935-11-07

This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures,...

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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

as uncredited
Released: 1942-10-05

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at...

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Make Mine Laughs

as (archive footage)
Released: 1949-08-03

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

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Kansas City Kitty

as Polly Jasper
Released: 1944-08-24

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

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The Traveling Saleswoman

as Mabel King
Released: 1950-02-15

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

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The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1956-06-24

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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

as Self
First aired: 1956-10-05

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on...

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I Married Joan

as Joan Stevens
First aired: 1952-10-15

I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran...

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