Movies Like Smartest Girl in Town

If you liked Smartest Girl in Town (1936), a comedy movie directed by Joseph Santley, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
2
Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
3
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp…
4
The Twelve Chairs (1970)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
5
Taking Care of Business (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
6
Big Business (1988)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The…
7
Beau Hunks (1931)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
8
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and…
9
Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
It’s summer again, and everyone’s favorite Junior Rescuers, The Flounders, are back at Tower 2. With the International Junior Rescue Championships headed to Southern California, the eyes of the entire planet are on…
10
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
11
Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral…
12
Hello Ladies: The Movie (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
When Stuart learns that his British ex-girlfriend is planning to visit Los Angeles with her husband, he sets out to impress them with his glamorous lifestyle, enlisting a flaky Russian model he’s just met to play the…
13
Room Service (1938)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.
14
The Patsy (1964)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer. Stanley struggles to become a song-and-dance man as the team grooms him to become a star. But as the date…
15
The Air Up There (1994)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home…
16
Sneakerella (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
When El, an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens, meets Kira King, the fiercely independent daughter of legendary basketball star and sneaker tycoon Darius King, sparks fly as the two bond over their mutual affinity…
17
The Geisha Boy (1958)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
18
The Fixer Uppers (1935)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.
19
Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.
20
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly…