Connection
The Meanest Man in the World is a film of genre Comedy directed by Sidney Lanfield released in USA on 12 february 1943 with Jack Benny
The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listThe Meanest Man in the World is a 1943 film directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring Jack Benny and Priscilla Lane, and based upon a play by George M. Cohan. The supporting cast features Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Edmund Gwenn and Anne Revere. The picture's screenplay was written by George Seaton and Allan House. The plotline involves a kind lawyer (Benny) who pretends to be mean in order to further his career, which has the unforeseen repercussion of placing his romance with Lane's character in serious jeopardy.
The story was filmed before in the silent era in 1923 by First National with Bert Lytell and Blanche Sweet. Only a fragment survives of the silent.
Synopsis
Richard Clarke is a lawyer with his own legal practice in Pottsville, New York. His black paralegal assistant continuously claims that Clarke is far too nice a man to be a profitable businessman, since he always fails to demand payment from his poor clients and never take on those he doesn't believe are innocent. But Clarke's main problem is that he is hopelessly in love with the lovely Janie Brown. Janie's wealthy father has decided that Janie will marry the even wealthier bachelor Bill Potts. Clarke remains completely oblivious of this fact.Actors
Jack Benny
(Richard Clarke)
Priscilla Lane
(Janie Brown)
Eddie Anderson
(Shufro)
Edmund Gwenn
(Frederick P. Leggitt)
Anne Revere
(Kitty Crockett)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to The Meanest Man in the World
There are 147 films with the same actors, 39 films with the same director, 36568 with the same cinematographic genres, 9309 films with the same themes (including 81 films with the same 3 themes than The Meanest Man in the World), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked The Meanest Man in the World, you will probably like those similar films :
Second Fiddle (1939)
, 1h25Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallée, Edna May Oliver, Mary Healy, Lyle Talbot, Alan Dinehart, Sr.
Rating63%
Jimmy Sutton, the publicity agent of a major Hollywood studios, is taking part in the endless search to find an actress to star in the adaptation of a best-selling novel Girl of the North. In Minnesota he discovers Trudi Hovland a schoolteacher who is perfect for the part. After he tacking her back to Los Angeles she manages to secure the role. In an effort to boost their popularity, Jimmy organises a fake romance between Trudi and another Hollywood star, Roger Maxwell. He neglects to tell Trudi that Roger is already romantically involved with another actress and is only interested in publicity.
Always Goodbye (1938)
, 1h15Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero, Mary Forbes, Lynn Bari
Rating67%
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston (Barbara Stanwyck) is left pregnant and unmarried. A former doctor Jim Howard (Herbert Marshall) helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall (Ian Hunter) and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
One in a Million (1937)
, 1h35Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Jean Hersholt, Ned Sparks, Don Ameche, Arline Judge, Bess Flowers
Rating60%
American showman Thadeus Spencer (Adolphe Menjou) is stuck without money in the Swiss Alps with his wife (Arline Judge), a girls' band, a comedy trio (The Ritz Brothers) and a recent harmonica-playing discovery (Borrah Minevitch) when the group learns that the Grand Palace Hotel in Ardetz, where they were to perform, has burned down. Upon seeing Greta Muller (Sonja Henie), an innkeeper's daughter, ice-skate, Spencer has a vision of her performing with a skating ballet that will make him millions. Spencer arranges for her to skate in a tryout performance at a St. Moritz casino for which he will get paid 950 francs.
Moulin Rouge (1934)
, 1h32Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Constance Bennett, Franchot Tone, Tullio Carminati, Helen Westley, Andrew Tombes, Russ Brown
Rating63%
Thin Ice (1937)
, 1h19Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Walburn, Joan Davis, Sig Ruman, Alan Hale
Rating62%
The plot follows ski instructor Lili Heiser (Henie), who works at a local luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. She falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning (Power). She thinks he's an everyday tourist, not knowing that he's actually a prince trying to escape the pressures of royal life.
The House of Rothschild (1934)
, 1h27Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors George Arliss, Loretta Young, Boris Karloff, Robert Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen
Rating64%
En 1780 à Frankfort, en Prusse, le jeune Nathan Rothschild prévient ses parents, Amschel et Guttle, que le fisc viendra. Ils se dépêchent et cachent leurs richesses, y compris la monnaie, l'argent, etc. Le fisc exige 20.000 gulden , une somme exorbitante, mais accepte un pot-de-vin de 5000 en échange de l'évaluation de 2000 en taxes. La satisfaction de Nathan est de courte durée, cependant; un courrier lui apportant 10.000 gulden est intercepté et l'argent confisqué par les impôts. Nathan dit à ses fils qu'il essaie d'être aussi honnête que possible, mais les autorités antisémites ne le laisseront pas faire ; il exhorte ses enfants à acquérir de l'argent, car «l'argent c'est le pouvoir» et une défense pour leur peuple.
, 1h20Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine
Rating73%
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. John Watson (Nigel Bruce) receive a visit from Dr. James Mortimer (Lionel Atwill), who wishes to consult them before the arrival of Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene), the last of the Baskervilles, heir to the Baskerville estate in Devonshire.
King of Burlesque (1936)
, 1h30Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Mona Barrie, Arline Judge, Dixie Dunbar
Rating61%
Three Girls Lost (1931)
, 1h20Directed by Lew Cody, John Wayne, Loretta Young, Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Loretta Young, Lew Cody, John Wayne, Joan Marsh, Joyce Compton, George Beranger
Rating57%
Architect Gordon Wales (Wayne) finds fellow apartment building resident Marcia Tallant (Marsh) locked out and flirts with her.
Broadway Bad (1933)
, 1h1Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Children's films
Actors Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Adrienne Ames, Allen Vincent, Francis McDonald
Rating59%