Irene Ryan

Joan Bennett is "The Woman on the Beach", caught between her blinded husband Charles Bickford and their Lieutenant friend Robert Ryan.

A bestselling novelist recruits aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord as his latest of many secretaries. The stars in her eyes fade when she finds she is to work in his apartment, with a constant parade of eccentric visitors and slapstick provided by klutzy roommate Ronnie. Moreover. She leaves; to get her back, he swallows his playboy principles and marries her. Can the leopard change his spots? Can Stephanie turn the tables?

Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris. (imdb)

Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard. (imdb)

The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springfield with her two teen-age children Jimmy and Cathy. Eleanor makes friends with the town's social leader, Mrs. Wellington, who supports her idea for a town youth center, and she is aided by Tom Griffith, the high school principal. At the town's annual picnic, to which Eleanor has bought a band (Les Brown and His Band of Reknown), the town busy-body, Eunice, reveals what she had learned from Eleanor's past. (imdb)

The educated chimp moves in with a college football coach's family. (imdb)

Stuart Erwin plays a small-town real estate agent who owns much property which, for several generations, has failed to sell even while the town has grown. It becomes know, except to Erwin, that the property is being considered for the new airport and the owner will make a small fortune. He is swarmed upon by an unscrupulous swami (Russ Vincent)and his equally-crooked business partner, and Erwin is soon convinced that he hasn't long to live. With his life a mess, he leaves home and family. (imdb)

Tone is suave, Foster appealing and Bruce just right as the romantic diner owner whose vision of getting married and having six kids flies in the face of Foster's dreams of stardom.

Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's music career--he believes it would be best for the boy to have his parents back together, and sets out to do just that. (imdb)

A busboy at a nightclub sets out to make sure that the pretty blonde hatcheck girl gets the singing career she's always wanted. (imdb)

A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways. (imdb)

When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums. (imdb)

A would-be playwright and a young woman escaping from a job at a gas station meet cute and fall in love. (imdb)

A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.

A crusading D.A. orders the police to shut down a South Seas themed girly show and arrest its participants. The lead dancer eludes jail time when her attorney persuades the judge that she has a elderly mother to take care of. The attorney then scours the local senior homes for a suitably sweet maternal type to fit the bill. At the same time, the dancer seeks her revenge by seducing the D.A.'s ambitious but naive son. But her newly acquired mama eventually exerts some influence on the girl.

Story of ranch owner's escape from marriage to extravagant actress. (BFI)

Dr. Alexander Haven, a Nobel Prize-winning professor of sociology, is asked by his publisher to write a book about juvenile delinquency. Having been the model child, Alex argues that he has no expertise in the subject, so the publisher suggests that he have an underprivileged child live in his household as a test subject. Intrigued, Alex agrees, much to the consternation of his friend and colleague, Dr. Horace Pennypacker, a psychologist with whom he had agreed to go on a fishing trip.

"Dapper Dan" Franklin (Frank Albertson)and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws imposed upon it by a City Council under the influence of their domineering wives. Harry Cheshire)is under the thumb of his sister Abigail Uppington (Isabel Randolph). One look at "Pappy's" daughter Clementine (Lorna Gray), and Dan decides to stay in Harmony...Blue Laws or no.

A young woman leaves home to earn money for the family, which is not the norm for her sex and social standing.

When Tim Ryan's leading lady walks out in a small hillbilly town, the leading lady he selects -- at gunpoint -- is dumb bell Irene Ryan.

Tim has just been promoted to sales manager and his boss says he will be out to visit Tim and Irene in their new country home to see how his employees live. But Irene's wacky family----Ma, Pa and Brother---have moved in with them and converted the home into a hotel.

In a burlesque of the radio program "One Man's Family", Tim (Tim Ryan)pays a visit to his fiancée, Irene Carr ('Irene Ryan'), to meet her family. He is ignored, insulted and relieved of his cash for a raffle in which he is not allowed to participate, and is finally deserted when Irene and all of her family walk out of the house and leave him all alone. This happens after two of her cousins stage a wrestling match, and a food-fight at the dinner table.

Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case.

Irene Ryan is suing Tim Ryan for divorce. After Tim gives his testimony, and Irene's family are thrown off the witness stand by the judge, Irene gives testimony that keeps changing as the audience sees it in flashback.

Tim Ryan hopes to get a peaceful weekend away from the hub-bub by going camping with Irene Ryan. Unfortunately for him, her destructive, nit-witted relatives insist on coming along.

An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.