Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5452 Films to Rent
As Young As You Feel (1951)
- Dir. Harmon Jones
Feat. Marilyn Monroe
- A young Marilyn Monroe has a support role in this affable corporate satire about a printing employee who won’t sit still for retirement. Based on a…
Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
- Dir. Derek Twist
Feat. Richard Burton, Honor Blackman, Roger Livesey…
- Minor comedy, of the English variety, set in a brandy–soaked Kent village.
Let's Make It Legal (1951)
- Dir. Richard Sale
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe has an ornamental role in this light ‘divorcee’ comedy.
Man in the White Suit (1951)
- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
- Lab–worker Alec Guinness invents a fabric that never wears out or gets dirty, only to have it suppressed by industry and unions alike. More…
On The Riviera (1951)
- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet…
- Talented Broadway veteran Danny Kaye stars in this musical comedy, playing an American entertainer who develops a skit impersonating a wealthy…
People Will Talk (1951)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn
- Enjoyable and sophisticated allegory, disguised as a standard Hollywood romantic comedy, in which a humanitarian doctor (Grant) must contend with the…
Stooge, The (1951)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen
- Comedy set in the world of 1930's vaudeville, where an egotistical but struggling Broadway performer (Dean Martin) finds success when he hires a…
At War with the Army (1950)
- Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
- The first of many films Martin and Lewis made together, here the duo go from one mishap to another in an army training camp in World War II.
At War With The Enemy (1950)
- Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
- After stealing the show in MY FRIEND IRMA, the duo of Martin and Lewis took centre stage here for the first time, enveloped in the potential madness…
Born Yesterday (1950)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
- Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her role as the 'dumb' blonde mistress of a ruthless tycoon who takes up English lessons, falls for her teacher, then…