Joan Davis (June 29, 1907 – May 22, 1961) was an American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. Remembered best for the 1950s television comedy, I Married Joan, Davis had a successful earlier career as a B-movie actress and a leading star of 1940s radio comedy.
Born as Madonna Josephine Davis in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Davis was a performer since childhood. She appeared with her husband Si Wills in vaudeville.
Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute collection proves that laughter is the universal language with a sidesplitting salute to slapstick, satire, sk ...
Watch Now
The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil. ...
Watch Now
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous h ...
Watch Now
Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club. ...
Watch Now
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee. ...
Watch Now
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product. ...
Watch Now
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new. ...
Watch Now
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Pa ...
Watch Now
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a ...
Watch Now
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical. ...
Watch Now
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer. ...
Watch Now
A piano teacher and her roommate decide to invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music. ...
Watch Now
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service du ...
Watch Now
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II. ...
Watch Now
The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria preten ...
Watch Now
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II. ...
Watch Now
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood. ...
Watch Now
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well. ...
Watch Now
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arriv ...
Watch Now
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute. ...
Watch Now
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" a ...
Watch Now
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers. ...
Watch Now
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves. ...
Watch Now
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better. ...
Watch Now
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship. ...
Watch Now
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail. ...
Watch Now
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival. ...
Watch Now
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores. ...
Watch Now
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars. ...
Watch Now
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot ...
Watch Now
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones. ...
Watch Now
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team. ...
Watch Now
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled. ...
Watch Now
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love. ...
Watch Now
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club. ...
Watch Now
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column. ...
Watch Now
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team. ...
Watch Now
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning. ...
Watch Now
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell. ...
Watch Now
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to si ...
Watch Now
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account. ...
Watch Now
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden di ...
Watch Now
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient. ...
Watch Now
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick. ...
Watch Now
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot. ...
Watch Now
Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies. ...
Watch Now
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon. ...
Watch NowThe daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name. ...
Watch Now
This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features Buster Keaton's Mother and Sister, Myra and Louise, respectively. A very young Roy Rogers (billed as Leonard Sl ...
Watch NowThe daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product. ...
Watch Now© 2026 Imperial Flixano Broadcasting
