Movies: Leslie Goodwins

Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company....

Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series....

Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb....

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought...

A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air....

Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to kee...

American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls....

When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself....

Henry Morton just wants to go fishing. Little things thwart him: Maxine the maid makes noise, Sonny, a lad in the household, makes a mess, and Henry's wife wants the car for shopping. A newly arrived friend, Bert, suggests that Henry fake his own dea...

Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. At the train station Edgar intervenes, keeping another man from beating a young man named Frankie, a...

A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business....

Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks th...

The Go-Getter (1956)...

Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films....

In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz. A valet comes with the house and he spends a lot of time trying to soften Kennedy;s rou...

Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections....

Nick Stuart and his band masquerade as an all-girl band as part of their plan of getting to play at a dance at a swanky girl's-only school. They get away with the masquerade and their playing is successful but they are discovered and have to hitch-hi...

Leon tells his wife that he has to leave to meet a client--unaware that the client is a beautiful woman and that his wife is suspicious....

The story of a nightclub....