Joan Davis
Birthday: 1907-06-29
Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Biography: 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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Hold That Ghost
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. The...
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Just Around the Corner
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little mi...
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Around the World
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on...
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Sun Valley Serenade
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwe...
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Thin Ice
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning....
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Tail Spin
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, ...
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Day-time Wife
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she a...
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Angel's Holiday
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes invo...
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The Groom Wore Spurs
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Cast...
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Beautiful But Broke
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to h...
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On the Avenue
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her ow...
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Love That Brute
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee....
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If You Knew Susie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, e...
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual c...
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Way Up Thar
This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and co...
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George White's Scandals
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical....
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She Gets Her Man
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer....
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Wake Up and Live
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter ...
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Life Begins in College
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it th...
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Hold That Co-ed
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football sq...
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Let's Join Joanie
Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club....
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Hollywood Hobbies
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood star...
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry ...
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My Lucky Star
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports ...
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You Can't Have Everything
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of st...
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Josette
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the ...
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Too Busy to Work
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run...
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Love and Hisses
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winch...
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The Great Hospital Mystery
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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Sailor's Lady
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose...
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Kansas City Kitty
A piano teacher and her roommate decide to invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comed...
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The Traveling Saleswoman
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product....
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Yokel Boy
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and make...
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Time Out for Romance
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his l...
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Free, Blonde and 21
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; an...
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Sing and Be Happy
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account....
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He's My Guy
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II....
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Manhattan Heartbeat
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When...
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Make Mine Laughs
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new....
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Two Señoritas from Chicago
The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a d...
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She Wrote the Book
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to ...
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Two Latins from Manhattan
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and ...
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, ...
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Bunker Bean
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon....
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For Beauty's Sake
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang o...
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The Holy Terror
Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for...
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Millions in the Air
The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it...
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