comedy 1940s

 

🎬 100 Comedy Films of the 1940s

#	Film	Year	Notes
1		1940	Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart screwball classic
2		1940	Howard Hawks’ rapid-fire newspaper satire
3	The Great Dictator	1940	Chaplin’s anti-fascist satire
4	The Bank Dick	1940	W.C. Fields absurdist comedy
5	My Favorite Wife	1940	Irene Dunne & Cary Grant screwball
6	Ball of Fire	1941	Barbara Stanwyck & Gary Cooper
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8	Sullivan’s Travels	1941	Sturges satire on Hollywood
9	Never Give a Sucker an Even Break	1941	W.C. Fields surreal comedy
10	Buck Privates	1941	Abbott & Costello army comedy
11	The Palm Beach Story	1942	Sturges screwball
12	To Be or Not to Be	1942	Lubitsch satire on Nazis
13	Woman of the Year	1942	Hepburn & Tracy romantic comedy
14	Road to Morocco	1942	Bing Crosby & Bob Hope
15	The Major and the Minor	1942	Billy Wilder comedy
16	Arsenic and Old Lace	1944	Cary Grant dark comedy
17	Hail the Conquering Hero	1944	Sturges satire
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19	It’s a Wonderful Life	1946	Capra’s blend of comedy & drama
20	The Big Sleep	1946	Noir with comedic touches
21	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer	1947	Cary Grant romantic comedy
22	The Egg and I	1947	Claudette Colbert farm comedy
23	Monsieur Verdoux	1947	Chaplin’s dark satire
24	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	1947	Danny Kaye fantasy comedy
25	A Song Is Born	1948	Musical comedy
26	Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein	1948	Horror-comedy crossover
27	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House	1948	Cary Grant domestic comedy
28	Adam’s Rib	1949	Hepburn & Tracy courtroom comedy
29	Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	British black comedy
30	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court	1949	Bing Crosby fantasy comedy