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1943 romantic comedy films
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The list 1943 romantic comedy films includes
Thousands Cheer, Girl Crazy, The Crystal Ball, Swing Shift Maisie and The More the Merrier.
The list consists of 27 members.
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Thousands Cheer
1943 film by George Sidney
Overview: Thousands Cheer is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by George Sidney and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Produced during the Second World War, the film was intended as a morale booster for ...
Release date: 13 September 1943Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, RomanceDirector: George SidneyProducer: Joe PasternakWriter: Paul Jarrico, Richard CollinsAcrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter...
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Girl Crazy
1943 film by Norman Taurog and Busby Berkeley
Overview: Girl Crazy is a 1943 American musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Produced by the Freed Unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the stage musical Girl Crazy – which was written ...Release date: 26 November 1943Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Norman Taurog, Busby BerkeleyProducer: Arthur FreedWriter: Guy Bolton, Jack McGowanRich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education... 0
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Cover Girl
1944 film by Charles Vidor
Overview: Cover Girl is a 1944 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Charles Vidor, and starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The film tells the story of a chorus girl given a chance at stardom when ...
Release date: 30 March 1944Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Charles VidorProducer: Arthur SchwartzWriter: Virginia Van Upp, Marion ParsonnetRusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny. 0
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Swing Shift Maisie
1943 film by Norman Z. McLeod
Overview: Swing Shift Maisie (also known as Swing It, Maisie) is a 1943 romantic comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod. It is the seventh in a series of 10 films starring Ann Sothern as Maisie, preceded by Maisie ...
Release date: 9 September 1943Genre: ComedyDirector: Norman Z. McLeodProducer: George HaightWriter: Mary C. McCall Jr., Robert HalffStreet-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin ... 0
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Young Ideas
1943 film
Overview: Young Ideas is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by Jules Dassin and starring Susan Peters, Herbert Marshall and Mary Astor.
Release date: 2 August 1943Genre: ComedyDirector: Jules DassinProducer: Robert SiskWriter: Ian McLellan Hunter, Bill NobleAcademy Award-winner* Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon) stars as a widow whose grown children try to break... 0
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The Crystal Ball
1943 film by Elliott Nugent
Overview: The Crystal Ball is a 1943 film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard.Release date: 22 January 1943Genre: ComedyDirector: Elliott NugentProducer: Virginia Van Upp, Steven VasGirl loses beauty contest, becomes a fortune teller. 0
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The More the Merrier
1943 film by George Stevens
Overview: The More the Merrier is a 1943 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by George Stevens, and starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and Charles Coburn. The film's script—from Two's a Crowd, an ...Release date: 26 March 1943Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: George StevensProducer: Fred Guiol, George StevensWriter: Robert Russell, Frank RossDuring the WW2 housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two. 0
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943 film by Irving Cummings
Overview: Sweet Rosie O'Grady is a 1943 Technicolor musical film about an American singer who attempts to better herself by marrying an English duke, but is harassed by a reporter. Directed by Irving Cummings, it ...Release date: 1 October 1943Genre: Musical, Romance, ComedyDirector: Irving CummingsProducer: William PerlbergWriter: Ken Englund, William R. LipmanMusic-hall star Madeleine Marlowe leaves London engaged to the Duke of Trippingham only to find back home that Police Gazette hack Samuel A... 0
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Slightly Dangerous
1943 film by Wesley Ruggles
Overview: Slightly Dangerous is a 1943 American romantic comedy film starring Lana Turner and Robert Young. The screenplay concerns a bored young woman in a dead-end job who runs away to New York City and ends up ...Release date: 1 April 1943Genre: Comedy, Romance, CrimeDirector: Wesley RugglesProducer: Pandro S. BermanWriter: Ian McLellan Hunter, Aileen HamiltonPeggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days... 0
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Princess O'Rourke
1943 film by Norman Krasna
Overview: Princess O'Rourke is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed and written by Norman Krasna (in Krasna's directorial debut), and starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn. Krasna ...
Release date: 23 October 1943Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Norman KrasnaCast: Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Harry DavenportProducer: Hal B. WallisWriter: Norman KrasnaA pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess. 0
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No Time for Love
1943 film by Mitchell Leisen
Overview: No Time for Love is a 1943 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. Written by Claude Binyon, Robert Lees, and Frederic ...
Release date: 1 January 1943Genre: Romance, ComedyDirector: Mitchell LeisenProducer: Fred Kohlmar, Mitchell LeisenWriter: Robert Lees, Frederic I. RinaldoAn upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River. 0
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I Dood It
1943 musical-comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli
Overview: I Dood It (UK title By Hook or by Crook) is a 1943 American musical comedy film starring Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay ...
Release date: 1 September 1943Genre: Romance, Comedy, Musical, Thriller, ActionDirector: Vincente MinnelliProducer: Jack CummingsWriter: S.M. Herzig, Fred SaidyA bumbling pants presser at an upscale hotel's valet service nurses an unrequited crush on a Broadway star. He gets more than he bargained for when she ... 0
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His Butler's Sister
1943 film
Overview: His Butler's Sister is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Deanna Durbin. The supporting cast includes Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff, Evelyn Ankers and ...Release date: 26 November 1943Genre: Comedy, Romance, MusicalDirector: Frank BorzageProducer: Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth ReinhardtA young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career. 0
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A Lady Takes a Chance
1943 film
Overview: A Lady Takes a Chance is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Jean Arthur and John Wayne. Written by Robert Ardrey and based on a story by Jo Swerling, the film ...Release date: 19 August 1943Genre: Comedy, Romance, WesternDirector: William A. Seiter, Henry HathawayProducer: Robert Ardrey, Garson KaninA city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her simpy city suitors. 0
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Government Girl
1943 film by Dudley Nichols
Overview: Government Girl is a 1943 American romantic-comedy film, produced and directed by Dudley Nichols and starring Olivia de Havilland and Sonny Tufts. Based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and written ...
Release date: 5 November 1943Genre: Romance, ComedyDirector: Dudley NicholsProducer: Eddie Donahoe, Dudley NicholsWriter: Dudley Nichols, Budd SchulbergThe secretary of a newly appointed government official strives to make him a success in spite of his shortcomings. 0
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Ídolos
1943 Spanish film
Overview: Idols (Spanish: Ídolos) is a 1943 Spanish romantic comedy film directed by Florián Rey and starring Conchita Montenegro and Ismael Merlo. A French actress meets a Spanish bullfighter. It was made by CIFESA ...Genre: Romance, ComedyDirector: Florián Rey 0
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What a Woman!
1943 film by Irving Cummings
Overview: What a Woman! is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne.Release date: 28 December 1943Genre: Romance, ComedyDirector: Irving CummingsProducer: Irving CummingsWriter: Therese Lewis, Barry TriversA literary agent is pursued by the charming writer of a popular magazine while she attempts to sway one of her clients, a handsome but innocent college ... 0
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Three Hearts for Julia
1943 film by Richard Thorpe
Overview: Three Hearts for Julia is a 1943 American romantic comedy film starring Ann Sothern and Melvyn Douglas. Directed by Richard Thorpe, the picture was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Release date: 21 May 1943Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Richard ThorpeProducer: John W. Considine Jr.Writer: Lionel HouserWorld War II home front romantic comedy in which a war correspondent's wife wants a divorce along with his help in choosing her next husband. 0
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Adventure for Two
1943 British film
Overview: The Demi-Paradise (also known as Adventure for Two) is a 1943 British comedy film made by Two Cities Films. It stars Laurence Olivier as a Soviet Russian inventor who travels to England to have his re ...Release date: 18 November 1943Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, WarDirector: Anthony AsquithCast: Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford, Felix Aylmer, George ThorpeProducer: Anatole de Grunwald, Filippo Del GiudiceIvan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the... 0
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Adventures in Bokhara
1943 film
Overview: Nasreddin in Bukhara (Russian: Насреддин в Бухаре, Nasreddin v Bukhare) is a 1943 Soviet comedy film directed by Yakov Protazanov, based on the novel by Leonid Solovyov Disturber of the Peace about Nasreddin ...Release date: 2 August 1943Genre: History, Comedy, RomanceDirector: Yakov ProtazanovCast: Lev Sverdlin, M. Mirzakarimova, K. Mikhajlov, Emmanuil Geller, Vasili Zajchikov, Stepan KayukovProducer: Yakov ProtazanovWriter: Yakov Protazanov, Leonid Solovyov 0
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