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1953 comedy films
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The list 1953 comedy films includes
Roman Holiday, Kiss Me Kate, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Band Wagon.
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Roman Holiday
1953 American romantic comedy by William Wyler
Overview: Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a princess out to see Rome on her own and Gregory Peck as a reporter. Hepburn won ...
Release date: 27 August 1953Genre: Drama, Romance, ComedyDirector: William WylerCast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams, Margaret RawlingsProducer: Lester Koenig, Robert WylerWriter: Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan HunterA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
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Kiss Me Kate
1953 film directed by George Sidney
Overview: Kiss Me Kate is a 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of the 1948 Broadway musical of the same name.
Release date: 5 November 1953Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: George SidneyProducer: Jack CummingsWriter: Dorothy Kingsley, Sam SpewackAn ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and ... 0
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How to Marry a Millionaire
1953 film by Jean Negulesco
Overview: How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and written and produced by Nunnally Johnson. The screenplay was based on the plays The Greeks Had a Word for ...
Release date: 4 November 1953Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Jean NegulescoProducer: Nunnally JohnsonWriter: Nunnally Johnson, Zoe AkinsThree women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. 0
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953 musical comedy film by Howard Hawks
Overview: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Charles Lederer. The film is based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based ...
Release date: 1 July 1953Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, RomanceDirector: Howard HawksProducer: Sol C. SiegelWriter: Charles Lederer, Joseph FieldsShowgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a ... 0
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The Band Wagon
1953 film by Vincente Minnelli
Overview: The Band Wagon is a 1953 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway show ...
Release date: 9 July 1953Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, RomanceDirector: Vincente MinnelliProducer: Roger Edens, Arthur FreedWriter: Betty Comden, Adolph GreenA pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition. 0
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Trouble Along the Way
1953 film by Michael Curtiz
Overview: Trouble Along the Way is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring John Wayne and Donna Reed, with a supporting cast including Charles Coburn and Marie Windsor. The black-and-white ...Release date: 4 April 1953Genre: Drama, Comedy, SportDirector: Michael CurtizProducer: Robert Hardy Andrews, James Edward GrantStruggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds... 0
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
1953 film
Overview: The Titfield Thunderbolt is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Stanley Holloway, Naunton Wayne, George Relph and John Gregson. The screenplay concerns a group of villagers ...
Release date: 30 March 1953Genre: ComedyDirector: Charles CrichtonProducer: Michael Balcon, Michael TrumanWriter: T.E.B. ClarkeVolunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure. 0
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The Moon Is Blue
1953 film by Otto Preminger
Overview: The Moon Is Blue is a 1953 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie McNamara. Written by F. Hugh Herbert and based on his ...Release date: 3 June 1953Genre: ComedyDirector: Otto PremingerProducer: Sylvia Fine, F. Hugh Herbert 0
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1953 film by Henry Levin
Overview: The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1953 Technicolor musical comedy film starring Betty Grable and Dale Robertson. The picture is a remake of the 1935 film of the same name which starred Janet Gaynor and Henry ...
Release date: 12 June 1953Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Henry LevinProducer: Frank P. RosenbergWriter: Walter Bullock, Sally BensonA romantic triangle develops on Erie Canal boats in 1850. 0
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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
1953 film by Don Weis
Overview: The Affairs of Dobie Gillis is a 1953 American comedy musical film directed by Don Weis. The film is based on the short stories by Max Shulman collected as The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (also the title ...Release date: 14 August 1953Genre: Comedy, MusicalDirector: Don WeisProducer: Max Shulman, Arthur M. Loew Jr.Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father... 0
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Striporama
1953 film starring pin-up model Bettie Page
Overview: Striporama is a 1953 comedy film directed by Jerald Intrator. The film starred a number of burlesque comedy, dance and striptease acts that were popular during the early 1950s. Today, it is best known ...Release date: 2 October 1953Genre: Comedy, MusicalDirector: Jerald IntratorProducer: Jerald Intrator, Martin J. LewisWriter: Alan Bodian 0
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Latin Lovers
1953 film by Mervyn LeRoy
Overview: Latin Lovers is a Technicolor 1953 romantic musical comedy film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and written by Isobel Lennart. The music score is by Nicholas Brodszky, and the cinematographer ...Release date: 12 August 1953Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Mervyn LeRoyProducer: Isobel Lennart, Joe PasternakNora Taylor has $37,000,00 but thinks every man she meets prefers her bankbook figure to her own, and that include her current fiancé... 0
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I Love Melvin
1953 film
Overview: I Love Melvin is a 1953 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Don Weis, starring Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds.Release date: 20 March 1953Genre: Romance, Musical, ComedyDirector: Don WeisProducer: George WellsWriter: László Vadnay, George Wells 0
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I Love Lucy
1953 American unreleased film spin-off from sitcom I Love Lucy
Overview: I Love Lucy (also known as I Love Lucy: The Movie) is a 1953 American comedy film that is a spin-off of the sitcom I Love Lucy. Except for one test screening in Bakersfield, California, the film was never ... 0
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Give a Girl a Break
1953 film by Stanley Donen
Overview: Give a Girl a Break is a 1953 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen, starring Debbie Reynolds and the dance team of Marge and Gower Champion. A young Bob Fosse has a featured ...
Release date: 3 December 1953Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, DramaDirector: Stanley DonenProducer: Jack CummingsWriter: Vera Caspary, Frances GoodrichThe star of an upcoming Broadway production, Janet Hallson, walks out during rehersals. The producers of the show... 0
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Easy to Love
1953 film by Charles Walters
Overview: Easy to Love is a 1953 Technicolor musical film directed by Charles Walters with choreography by Busby Berkeley. It stars Esther Williams, Van Johnson and Tony Martin. It was Williams' final aquatic film ...Release date: 26 November 1953Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Charles WaltersProducer: William Roberts, László VadnayAn Aquatic performer tries to attract the man she loves. 0
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Dream Wife
1953 film by Sidney Sheldon
Overview: Dream Wife is a 1953 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Release date: 19 June 1953Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Sidney SheldonProducer: Dore ScharyWriter: Sidney Sheldon, Herbert BakerClemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple... 0
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Dangerous When Wet
1953 film by Charles Walters
Overview: Dangerous When Wet is a 1953 American live-action/animated musical comedy film starring Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas and Jack Carson, directed by Charles Walters and featuring an animated swimming ...Release date: 18 June 1953Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Charles WaltersCast: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood, Denise Darcel, William DemarestProducer: Dorothy Kingsley, George WellsA young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel. 0
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Beat the Devil
1953 film by John Huston
Overview: Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida, in her American debut, and featuring Robert Morley, Peter Lorre ...
Release date: 24 November 1953Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Crime, Adventure, ActionDirector: John HustonCast: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Edward UnderdownProducer: Humphrey Bogart, Jack ClaytonWriter: James Helvick, Truman CapoteOn their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen... 0
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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953 American science fiction comedy film directed by Charles Lamont
Overview: Abbott and Costello Go to Mars is a 1953 American science fiction comedy film starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and directed by Charles Lamont. It was produced by Howard Christie ...Release date: 6 April 1953Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, FantasyDirector: Charles LamontProducer: D.D. Beauchamp, Howard Christie 0
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