So You Want to Play the Horses 1946
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes, dissatisfied, attempts to save his five-years marriage to Alice.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the accompanying free lessons, and sets out to impress Alice. Alice is vastly unimpressed.
"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing back to bachelor days and his courtship with Alice.
When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.