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1952 comedy films
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The list 1952 comedy films includes
Singin' in the Rain, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rich, Young and Pretty, We're Not Married! and The Crimson Pirate.
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Singin' in the Rain
1952 American musical-romantic comedy film
Overview: Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, and featuring Jean Hagen ...
Release date: 27 March 1952Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Stanley Donen, Gene KellyProducer: Roger Edens, Arthur FreedWriter: Betty Comden, Adolph GreenA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking ...
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We're Not Married!
1952 film by Edmund Goulding
Overview: We're Not Married! is a 1952 American anthology romantic comedy film directed by Edmund Goulding. It was released by 20th Century Fox.
Release date: 11 July 1952Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Edmund GouldingProducer: Nunnally JohnsonWriter: Nunnally Johnson, Dwight TaylorIn separate stories, five wedded couples learn that they are not legally married. 0
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Jack and the Beanstalk
1952 film by Jean Yarbrough
Overview: Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1952 American family comedy film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and featuring Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford and Barbara Brown. It is a comic retelling of the "Jack ...
Release date: 4 April 1952Genre: Musical, Fantasy, Family, ComedyDirector: Jean YarbroughProducer: Lou Costello, Pat CostelloWriter: Nathaniel Curtis, Pat CostelloAbbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans. 0
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Rich, Young and Pretty
1951 film by Norman Taurog
Overview: Rich, Young and Pretty is a 1951 American musical comedy film produced by Joe Pasternak for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Norman Taurog. Written by Dorothy Cooper and adapted as a screenplay by Cooper ...Release date: 9 July 1951Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Norman TaurogProducer: Joe PasternakWriter: Dorothy Cooper, Sidney Sheldon 0
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The Crimson Pirate
1952 film by Robert Siodmak
Overview: The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 British-American Technicolor comedy-adventure film from Warner Bros. produced by Norman Deming and Harold Hecht, directed by Robert Siodmak, and starring Burt Lancaster, who ...
Release date: 27 September 1952Genre: Action, Adventure, ComedyDirector: Robert SiodmakProducer: Norman Deming, Harold HechtWriter: Roland KibbeeDuring the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El ... 0
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The Belle of New York
1952 American film by Charles Walters
Overview: The Belle of New York is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Hollywood musical comedy film set in New York City circa 1900 and stars Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Alice Pearce, Marjorie Main, Gale Robbins, and Keenan ...Release date: 22 February 1952Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Charles WaltersProducer: Arthur Freed, Roger EdensWriter: C.M.S. McLellan, Chester ErskineIn squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air... 0
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She's Working Her Way Through College
1952 film by H. Bruce Humberstone
Overview: She's Working Her Way Through College is a 1952 American comedy film produced by Warner Bros. A musical comedy in Technicolor, it is directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, and stars Virginia Mayo and Ronald ...Release date: 9 July 1952Genre: Comedy, MusicalDirector: H. Bruce HumberstoneProducer: William Jacobs, Herman ShumlinWriter: James Thurber, Elliott NugentShapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her former teacher John Palmer, now a professor at Midwest State... 0
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Sailor Beware
1952 film by Hal Walker
Overview: Sailor Beware is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. It is an adaption of a 1933 Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson play of the same ...Release date: 24 January 1952Genre: Comedy, Romance, MusicalDirector: Hal WalkerProducer: Hal B. WallisWriter: Kenyon Nicholson, Charles Robinson 0
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Road to Bali
1952 film by Hal Walker
Overview: Road to Bali is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 19, 1952, the film is the sixth of ...
Release date: 19 November 1952Genre: Musical, ComedyDirector: Hal WalkerProducer: Daniel Dare, Harry TugendWriter: Frank Butler, Hal KanterTwo unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble. 0
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Pat and Mike
1953 film by George Cukor
Overview: Pat and Mike is a 1952 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The movie was written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and directed by George Cukor. Cukor directed The ...
Release date: 13 June 1952Genre: Comedy, Sport, RomanceDirector: George CukorProducer: Lawrence WeingartenWriter: Ruth Gordon, Garson KaninPat is a women's sports sensation unless her fiancé is around. Her new shady manager Mike keeps them apart and develops feelings for her. 0
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Monkey Business
1952 film by Howard Hawks
Overview: Monkey Business is a 1952 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, and Marilyn Monroe. To avoid confusion with the unrelated 1931 ...
Release date: 2 September 1952Genre: Comedy, Sci-FiDirector: Howard HawksProducer: Sol C. SiegelWriter: Ben Hecht, Charles LedererA chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth. 0
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Lovely to Look at
1952 MGM musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Overview: Lovely to Look At is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, based on the 1933 Broadway musical Roberta.Release date: 29 May 1952Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Mervyn LeRoy, Vincente MinnelliProducer: Jack CummingsWriter: Alice Duer Miller, Dorothy FieldsAl Marsh, Tony Naylor and Jerry Ralby, Broadway producers, are desperately looking for backers. Al is one of the heirs of a dress salon in Paris... 0
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
1952 film
Overview: Fanfan la Tulipe is a 1952 French comedy adventure film directed by Christian-Jaque. It has also been categorized under swashbuckler films. The film starred Gérard Philipe and Gina Lollobrigida.Release date: 20 March 1952Genre: War, Romance, Comedy, AdventureDirector: Christian-JaqueCast: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Olivier Hussenot, Henri Rollan, Nerio BernardiProducer: Francis Cosne, Georges DancigersWriter: René Wheeler, René FalletFanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted... 0
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Belles on Their Toes
1952 film by Henry Levin
Overview: Belles on Their Toes is a 1952 American family comedy film based on the autobiographical book Belles on Their Toes (1950) by siblings Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The film, which ...
Release date: 2 May 1952Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Henry LevinProducer: Samuel G. EngelWriter: Phoebe Ephron, Henry EphronThe "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, ... 0
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April in Paris
1952 American film by David Butler
Overview: April in Paris is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger, and directed by David Butler.
Release date: 24 December 1952Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: David ButlerProducer: William JacobsWriter: Jack Rose, Melville ShavelsonA series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat ... 0
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Androcles and the Lion
1952 film by Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray
Overview: Androcles and the Lion is a 1952 RKO film produced by Gabriel Pascal from the 1912 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name. It was Pascal's last film, made two years after the death of Shaw, his lon ...Release date: 1 December 1952Genre: ComedyDirector: Chester Erskine, Nicholas RayProducer: Gabriel Pascal, Lewis J. RachmilWriter: Chester Erskine, Ken EnglundStory of a Christian in ancient Rome who befriends a lion. 0
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Stop, You're Killing Me
1952 film by Roy Del Ruth
Overview: Stop, You're Killing Me is a 1952 American black comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor and Virginia Gibson.Release date: 10 December 1952Genre: Comedy, CrimeDirector: Roy Del RuthCast: Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson, Bill Hayes, Margaret Dumont, Howard St. JohnProducer: Howard Lindsay, James O'Hanlon 0
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My Wife's Best Friend
1952 film by Richard Sale
Overview: My Wife's Best Friend is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Richard Sale, starring Anne Baxter and Macdonald Carey, with Catherine McLeod in the titular role. It was produced and distributed by 20th ...Release date: 10 October 1952Genre: Comedy, Romance, FantasyDirector: Richard SaleProducer: Robert BasslerWriter: John Briard Harding, Isobel LennartAfter a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all kinds of ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan of Arc ... 0
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Fearless Fagan
1952 film by Stanley Donen
Overview: Fearless Fagan is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and stars Janet Leigh and Carleton Carpenter. It is about a clown who is drafted into the military and tries to sneak his pet lion ...Release date: 15 August 1952Genre: ComedyDirector: Stanley DonenProducer: Sidney Franklin, Edwin H. KnopfWriter: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Sidney FranklinA man brings his devoted pet with him when he is drafted into the army. The pet happens to be an adult lion, named Fearless Fagan. Based on a true story ... 0
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El enamorado
1952 Mexican film
Overview: The Lover (Spanish: El enamorado, alternately known as Vuelve Martin Corona) is a 1952 Mexican comedy western film directed by Miguel Zacarías and starring Pedro Infante, Sara Montiel and Eulalio González ... 0
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