Joe Penner

Movies13

• Movie7.5

  Comedy

  A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.

  The Day the Bookies Wept

  1939 · 2 votes

• Movie4.5

  Comedy

  A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.

  Millionaire Playboy

  1940 · 4 votes

• Movie5.3

  ComedyMusic

  A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.

  New Faces of 1937

  1937 · 3 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyMusic

  A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.

  Collegiate

  1935 · 1 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyRomance

  A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

  The Life of the Party

  1937 · 5 votes

• Movie6.4

  ComedyMusic

  The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love

  The Boys from Syracuse

  1940 · 7 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.

  Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

  1938 · 2 votes

• Movie5.7

  ComedyCrime

  When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.

  Go Chase Yourself

  1938 · 6 votes

• Movie5.6

  Romance

  The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.

  College Rhythm

  1934 · 5 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyRomance

  Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.

  I'm from the City

  1938 · 2 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  Joe Penner as a incompetent crown prince in the middle of a revolution.

  Here, Prince

  1932 · 1 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  A group of Joe Penner's relatives get together to fix up a house for a pair of newlyweds. Coordination and planning is not the order of the day, so they eventually end up completely wrecking the house.

  Moving In

  1931

• Movie

  MusicComedy

  Joe Penner, in this Vitaphone short (Vitaphon production number 1124)features his stock speech impediment acts sprinkled with some left-over "doughboy" comedy from World War One. He also gets some flirting bits with dancer Joan Carter Waddell.

  Service Stripes

  1930