List of comedy films of the 1940s

American films

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• The Princess and the Pirate

• Along Came Jones
• The Bullfighters
• Eadie Was a Lady
• The Horn Blows at Midnight
• Lady on a Train

• 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

• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
• 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

• 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

• 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
• The Black Sheep of Whitehall
• Blithe Spirit
• Caesar and Cleopatra
• Crook's Tour
• The Frozen Limits
• Gasbags
• The Ghost of St Michaels
• The Goose Steps Out
• He Snoops to Conquer
• Hoots Mon!
• Hue and Cry
• I Didn't Do It
• It's Not Cricket
• It's That Man Again
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Let George Do It!
• Major Barbara
• My Learned Friend
• On Approval
• Passport to Pimlico
• Somewhere in England
• ''Whisky Galore!''

Comedy horror

• The Ghost Breakers

• The Smiling Ghost

• Zombies on Broadway

• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

• ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff''

Comedy drama

• Seven Gibbers
• That Gang of Mine
• Tugboat Annie Sails Again
• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
• Salute to the Marines
• Three Wise Fools
• ''To Live in Peace''