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Movies Like Three for the Show

If you liked Three for the Show (1955), a music and comedy movie directed by H. C. Potter, 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. 1High Society

    High Society (1956)

    ★ 6.8/10Also music and comedy

    With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.

  2. 2Phffft

    Phffft (1954)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance

    Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of…

  3. 3The Grass Is Greener

    The Grass Is Greener (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house…

  4. 4Move Over, Darling

    Move Over, Darling (1963)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romance

    Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to…

  5. 5Let's Make Love

    Let's Make Love (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

  6. 6Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

    Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy…

  7. 7About Last Night

    About Last Night (2014)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and romance

    Bernie and Joan are two fiery flirters who are passionate about everything from hookups to breakups and each other. When he sets up his best friend, Danny, with her roommate, Debbie, the sparks soon fly as they try to…

  8. 8My Favorite Wife

    My Favorite Wife (1940)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

  9. 9Music and Lyrics

    Music and Lyrics (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and music

    A washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written…

  10. 10That Uncertain Feeling

    That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romance

    A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

  11. 11The Wrong Paris

    The Wrong Paris (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also romance and comedy

    Dawn thinks she's joining a dating show in Paris, France, only to land in Paris, Texas. She has an exit plan — until sparks fly with the cowboy bachelor.

  12. 12Yoh! Bestie

    Yoh! Bestie (2026)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    Thando is perpetually unlucky in love, but when her bestie returns from his travels with a fiancée in tow, she's forced to face a new emotion — jealousy.

  13. 13Victor/Victoria

    Victor/Victoria (1982)

    ★ 7.3/10Also music and comedy

    A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

  14. 14The Boy Friend

    The Boy Friend (1971)

    ★ 6.4/10Also music and comedy

    When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.

  15. 15His Girl Friday

    His Girl Friday (1940)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and romance

    Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but…

  16. 16How to Marry a Millionaire

    How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance

    Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

  17. 17The Palm Beach Story

    The Palm Beach Story (1942)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

  18. 18Starting Over

    Starting Over (1979)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

  19. 19Barefoot in the Park

    Barefoot in the Park (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and romance

    In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a…

  20. 20It's Love I'm After

    It's Love I'm After (1937)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and romance

    An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.

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