Buddy Messinger Movies

Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss club for women. The Sunkist Bathing Beauties are...

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack climbs, arriving at a castle that is his. Jack...

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.

A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of...

An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each...

Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)

A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.

A Sunkist Comedy

On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-school lesson on David and Goliath so intrigues Edgar...

Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.

Buddy, an office-boy in a newspaper plant, puts on long trousers to get a man's-size job on the paper, and impress his girl. His brother, a reporter,...

Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has...

While sheik Fred Malatesta is in town shopping for a new wife, sailor-suited Victor Potel is seducing his current harem with with freshly popped corn...

A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.

Ali Baba, a poor Turkish wood chopper, discovers that a robbers' cave, concealed in the mountains that surround his house, opens to the magical...