This is a list of comedy films released in the 1940s. American films 1940 The Bank Dick The Ghost Breakers The Great Dictator The Great McGinty His Girl Friday My Favorite Wife My Little Chickadee One Night in the Tropics 1941 Andy Hardy's Private Secretary Ball of Fire The Big Store The Bride Came C.O.D. Buck Privates The Devil and Miss Jones The Flame of New Orleans Great Guns Here Comes Mr. Jordan The Lady Eve Mr. & Mrs. Smith Never Give a Sucker an Even Break Nine Lives Are Not Enough That Night in Rio Topper Returns 1942 The Man Who Came to Dinner The Major and the Minor My Sister Eileen The Palm Beach Story Rio Rita Road to Morocco Ship Ahoy Tales of Manhattan The Talk of the Town There's One Born Every Minute To Be or Not to Be Woman of the Year You Were Never Lovelier 1943 Crazy House Du Barry Was a Lady Government Girl Heaven Can Wait Hello Frisco, Hello Hit the Ice I Dood It Jitterbugs A Lady Takes a Chance Mr. Lucky The More the Merrier A Night to Remember Slightly Dangerous They Got Me Covered Thousands Cheer Two Weeks to Live Whistling in Brooklyn 1944 Arsenic and Old Lace Hail the Conquering Hero Lady in the Dark The Miracle of Morgan's Creek See Here, Private Hargrove Sensations of 1945 Standing Room Only 1945 Along Came Jones The Bullfighters Eadie Was a Lady The Horn Blows at Midnight Lady on a Train 1946 Angel on My Shoulder The Great Morgan Little Giant Lover Come Back Monsieur Beaucaire A Night in Casablanca The Time of Their Lives Vacation in Reno Without Reservations 1947 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (aka Bachelor Knight) Buck Privates Come Home Christmas Eve The Egg and I The Farmer's Daughter Miracle on 34th Street Monsieur Verdoux Road to Rio The Sin of Harold Diddlebock Suddenly, It's Spring The Voice of the Turtle Where There's Life 1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein The Emperor Waltz A Foreign Affair June Bride Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House The Noose Hangs High One Touch of Venus The Paleface Sitting Pretty Variety Time 1949 Adam's Rib Africa Screams Holiday Affair John Loves Mary I Was a Male War Bride It's a Great Feeling My Friend Irma British films Back-Room Boy (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1941) Blithe Spirit (1945) Caesar and