01 The children of struggling vaudeville performers stage their own show to save their families from the poorhouse.
6 Best Guy Kibbee Movies
By Vlad Zakh · March 9, 2026
Guy Kibbee brought a genial, rotund warmth to dozens of 1930s Hollywood comedies, often playing bumbling businessmen and easily fooled authority figures. In Captains Courageous (1937): A spoiled rich boy swept overboard is rescued by a fishing crew and taught real hard-won values. Also notable is 42nd Street (1933): A struggling Broadway producer stakes everything on one final, ambitious musical production.
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02 A spoiled rich boy swept overboard is rescued by a fishing crew and taught real hard-won values.
03 A wrongly enslaved doctor leads a group of fellow prisoners in a daring escape to become pirates.
04 A conformist small-town businessman's midlife crisis leads him to briefly rebel against social expectations.
05 A group of struggling Broadway performers scheme to fund a new show during the Great Depression.
06 A struggling Broadway producer stakes everything on one final, ambitious musical production.
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