Joan Davis
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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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.673 |
| Birthday | 1907-06-29 |
| Place of Birth | Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA |
| Also Known As | Josephine "Joan" Davis, Josephine Davis, |
1963
The Sound of Laughter
2/1
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
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The Sound of Laughter
1941
Hold That Ghost
6.742/66
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...
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Hold That Ghost
1938
Just Around the Corner
5.5/10
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
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Just Around the Corner
1943
Around the World
5/2
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 d...
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Around the World
1941
Sun Valley Serenade
6.9/24
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...
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Sun Valley Serenade
1937
Thin Ice
6.8/5
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
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Thin Ice
1939
Tail Spin
5.8/5
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 r...
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Tail Spin
1939
Day-time Wife
6.3/15
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.
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Day-time Wife
1937
Angel's Holiday
5.5/2
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline K...
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Angel's Holiday
1951
The Groom Wore Spurs
4.9/8
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 f...
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The Groom Wore Spurs
1944
Beautiful But Broke
5/1
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to orga...
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Beautiful But Broke
1937
On the Avenue
6.7/3
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, b...
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On the Avenue
1950
Love That Brute
5.3/3
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
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Love That Brute
1948
If You Knew Susie
7.5/2
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they...
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If You Knew Susie
1941
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
0/0
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. Ken...
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1935
Way Up Thar
0/0
This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features Buste...
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Way Up Thar
1944
Show Business
5/4
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
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Show Business
1952
Harem Girl
5/1
The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
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Harem Girl
1945
George White's Scandals
5.3/3
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
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George White's Scandals
1945
She Gets Her Man
3.7/3
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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She Gets Her Man
1937
Wake Up and Live
5.3/3
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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Wake Up and Live
1937
Life Begins in College
0/0
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...
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Life Begins in College
1938
Hold That Co-ed
6.6/5
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
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Hold That Co-ed
1950
Let's Join Joanie
0/0
Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.
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Let's Join Joanie
1939
Hollywood Hobbies
5.6/5
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
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Hollywood Hobbies
1938
Sally, Irene and Mary
6/3
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.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
1938
My Lucky Star
5.3/6
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 advertise...
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My Lucky Star
1937
You Can't Have Everything
5.7/3
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon t...
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You Can't Have Everything
1938
Josette
6.7/3
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 b...
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Josette
1939
Too Busy to Work
0/0
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 househ...
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Too Busy to Work
1937
Love and Hisses
0/0
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Love and Hisses
1937
The Great Hospital Mystery
4/3
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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The Great Hospital Mystery
1940
Sailor's Lady
4/1
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 acci...
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Sailor's Lady
1944
Kansas City Kitty
3/1
A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.
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Kansas City Kitty
1950
The Traveling Saleswoman
4.5/2
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
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The Traveling Saleswoman
1942
Yokel Boy
4.7/3
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.
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Yokel Boy
1937
Time Out for Romance
5.6/5
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Time Out for Romance
1940
Free, Blonde and 21
8/1
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.
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Free, Blonde and 21
1937
Sing and Be Happy
0/0
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
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Sing and Be Happy
1943
He's My Guy
6/1
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
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He's My Guy
1940
Manhattan Heartbeat
0/0
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.
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Manhattan Heartbeat
1949
Make Mine Laughs
5/5
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.
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Make Mine Laughs
1943
Two Señoritas from Chicago
6/2
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, pr...
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Two Señoritas from Chicago
1946
She Wrote the Book
6/1
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...
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She Wrote the Book
1941
Two Latins from Manhattan
5/1
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...
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Two Latins from Manhattan
1942
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
6/1
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1936
Bunker Bean
4.6/7
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
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Bunker Bean
1941
For Beauty's Sake
0/0
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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For Beauty's Sake
1937
The Holy Terror
1/1
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.
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