Joan Davis
Popularity:0.089
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1907-06-29
Place of Birth:Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Also Known As:Josephine "Joan" Davis, Josephine Davis

The Sound of Laughter (1963)
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

Hold That Ghost (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...

Just Around the Corner (1938)
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

Around the World (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...

Sun Valley Serenade (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. When...

Thin Ice (1937)
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

Tail Spin (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...

Day-time Wife (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.

Angel's Holiday (1937)
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline...

The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
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...

Beautiful But Broke (1944)
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to...

On the Avenue (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,...

Love That Brute (1950)
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.

If You Knew Susie (1948)
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however,...

Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 (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....

Way Up Thar (1935)
This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features...

Show Business (1944)
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

Harem Girl (1952)
The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.

George White's Scandals (1945)
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

She Gets Her Man (1945)
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

Wake Up and Live (1937)
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Life Begins in College (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...

Hold That Co-ed (1938)
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Let's Join Joanie (1950)
Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.

Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

Sally, Irene and Mary (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.

My Lucky Star (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...

You Can't Have Everything (1937)
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon...

Josette (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...

Too Busy to Work (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...

Love and Hisses (1937)
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

The Great Hospital Mystery (1937)
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.

Sailor's Lady (1940)
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...

Kansas City Kitty (1944)
A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.

The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.

Yokel Boy (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. But all ends well.

Time Out for Romance (1937)
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Free, Blonde and 21 (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.

Sing and Be Happy (1937)
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.

He's My Guy (1943)
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.

Manhattan Heartbeat (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.

Make Mine Laughs (1949)
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.

Two Señoritas from Chicago (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,...

She Wrote the Book (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...

Two Latins from Manhattan (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...

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

Bunker Bean (1936)
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

For Beauty's Sake (1941)
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.

The Holy Terror (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.

Millions in the Air (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...

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956)
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...

I Married Joan (1952)
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...