List of the best Eddie Anderson movies: Cabin in the Sky(1943), I Love a Bandleader(1945), Brewster's Millions(1945), Buck Benny Rides Again(1940), Love Thy Neighbor(1940), The Show-Off(1946), What Price Hollywood?(1932), Broadway Rhythm(1944), Thanks for the Memory(1938), You Can't Cheat an Honest Man(1939), Man About Town(1939), Honolulu(1939) ... ...
Musical
USA
1943
98 Minutes
Joe Jackson
Ethel Waters Busby Berkeley Eddie Anderson Lena Horne Louis Armstrong Rex Ingram Kenneth Spencer John "Bubbles" Sublett Oscar Polk Mantan Moreland Willie Best
gambler wife sexy woman angel demon best friend amusing heartwarming playful bar church family home heaven purgatory gambling fidelity good deeds religion afterlife rivalry
A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1945
70 Minutes
As house painters Newton H. Newton and Phil Burton remodel the Club Monterey on Broadway, owner Gibley auditions acts for his club's reopening. Theatrical agent B. Templeton Jones brings ... See full synopsis »
Comedy
USA
1945
79 Minutes
Jackson
Dennis O'Keefe Helen Walker Eddie Anderson June Havoc Gail Patrick Mischa Auer Nana Bryant John Litel Joe Sawyer Neil Hamilton Herbert Rudley
veteran fiancée lawyer best friend heiress heir cheery unrestrained new york city office radio station theater bank ship inheritance investing engagement friendship broadway cruise
In order to inherit $7,000,000, an ex-soldier must spend $1,000,000 in two months' time.
Comedy, Western
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Rochester Van Jones
Jack Benny Ellen Drew Andy Devine Eddie Anderson Phil Harris Dennis Day Virginia Dale Lillian Cornell Theresa Harris Kay Linaker Ward Bond
Jack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Rochester Van Jones
Jack Benny Fred Allen Mary Martin Verree Teasdale Eddie Anderson Virginia Dale
jack benny fred allen niece valet sister rival amusing cheeky madcap coast united states docks miami apartment feud show business brawling love triangle imprisonment rivalry
Jack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister ... See full summary »
Comedy
1946
83 Minutes
Eddie
Red Skelton Marilyn Maxwell Marjorie Main Virginia O'Brien Eddie Anderson George Cleveland Leon Ames Marshall Thompson Jacqueline White Wilson Wood Lila Leeds
clerk love interest mother father sister braggart amusing playful madcap house family home united states ambition tall tales unlikely romance social climbing love relationships rise transformation
A windbag (Red Skelton) tries to impress his fiancee (Marilyn Maxwell) and her family with false accounts of his success.
Drama
USA
1932
88 Minutes
James, Max's Butler (uncredited)
Constance Bennett Lowell Sherman Neil Hamilton Gregory Ratoff Brooks Benedict Louise Beavers Eddie Anderson Bryant Washburn Florence Roberts Gordon De Main Heinie Conklin
actress movie star director producer husband engaging melodramatic hollywood, calif. restaurant movie set france fame movies marital problems alcoholism scandal rise transformation fall 1930s
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.
Musical
USA
1944
114 Minutes
Eddie
George Murphy Ginny Simms Charles Winninger Gloria DeHaven Nancy Walker Ben Blue Lena Horne Eddie Anderson
producer actress vaudevillian daughter dancer amusing spectacular spirited new york city theater theater production family feud broadway song and dance quest rivalry 1940s
A reluctantly retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son who thinks his father's entertainment is passe and audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show.
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Janitor
Bob Hope Shirley Ross Charles Butterworth Otto Kruger Hedda Hopper Laura Hope Crews Emma Dunn Roscoe Karns Eddie Anderson
Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Comedy
1939
76 Minutes
Rochester
W.C. Fields Edgar Bergen Constance Moore James Bush Mary Forbes Thurston Hall Edward Brophy Grady Sutton Eddie Anderson
con artist circus owner daughter suitor ventriloquist mother lighthearted amusing circus countryside mansion family home balloon love triangle marriage family con game debt marrying for money love
The owner (W.C. Fields) of a circus plays Cupid for his daughter (Constance Moore) and his ventriloquist (Edgar Bergen).
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
85 Minutes
Rochester
Jack Benny Dorothy Lamour Edward Arnold Binnie Barnes Monty Woolley Isabel Jeans Phil Harris Betty Grable E.E. Clive Eddie Anderson Leonard Mudie
broadway producer singer love interest wife husband jealous man madcap hysterical charming london stage country house show business jealousy unrequited love schemes misunderstanding relationships love pursuit
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
83 Minutes
Eleanor Powell Robert Young George Burns Gracie Allen Rita Johnson Clarence Kolb Jo Ann Sayers Ann Morriss Willie Fung Cliff Clark Ed Gargan
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Comedy
USA
1938
127 Minutes
Jean Arthur Lionel Barrymore James Stewart Edward Arnold Mischa Auer Ann Miller Spring Byington Samuel S. Hinds Donald Meek H.B. Warner Halliwell Hobbes
ingénue boyfriend father mother sister grandfather amusing cheery madcap family home family love meaning of life marriage money love transformation 1930s
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
84 Minutes
Dick Powell Anita Louise Allen Jenkins Ronald Reagan Walter Catlett Harold Huber Larry Williams Thurston Hall Minna Gombell Joyce Compton Robert Warwick
salesman boss beautiful woman aunt fan jockey lighthearted mellow store hotel party racetrack parade maryland horse racing impersonation wager advertising sabotage quest
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Romance, History, Drama
USA
1939
222 Minutes
Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard Olivia de Havilland Thomas Mitchell Barbara O'Neil Victor Jory Laura Hope Crews Hattie McDaniel Ona Munson Harry Davenport
ingénue soldier husband cousin slave emotional touching family home atlanta park household saloon georgia american civil war romance jealousy marriage friendship love triangle forbidden love
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.