10 "Chicken Soup" Films That Will Last You Through the Winter

Chicken Soup Movie. "Films that make you feel better when you're sick, and others that you might discover when you're housebound." (48 Chicken Soup Movies)

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The Lady Killers (1955)

Old Mrs. Wilberforce finds her world completely upside-down when a new tenant (Alec Guinness) turns out to be plotting a heist with three other criminals.

The Grass is Greener (1960)

The wife of a British Earl (Deborah Kerr) finds herself attracted to a Texas Oilman (Robert Mitchum) who visits their estate with a tourist group, When she leaves her boring husband (Cary Grant) a friend and rather annoying old flame (Jean Simmons) comes back into his life then manners and hijinks ensue.

Miranda (1948)

A regular everyday Doctor (Griffith Jones) finds himself fishing bait while on a fishing trip by a beautiful blond mermaid (Glynis Johns, "Mary Poppins") who convinces him to take her home with him.

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Divorced actors Fred Graham (Howard Keel) and Lilli Vanessi (Kathryn Grayson) still harbor feelings for one another while starring in a musical production of "The Taming of the Shrew" even with mobsters and Graham's younger girlfriend and co-star running around both on stage and off.

My Man Godfrey (1936)

It all started with a scavenger hunt which brings a "forgotten man" Godfrey Park to the rich and elite Bullock family. The older daughter (Gail Patrick) despises him for his status, the mother too ditzy to notice anything, the father (Eugene Pallette) too befuddled by all that high powered estrogen, but  there is something about the younger daughter (Carole Lombard) he rather likes. 

Here Comes the Groom (1951)

Part comedy, part musical, and part pure Frank Capra wit, a hard-nosed reporter (Crosby) finds himself adopting two children while on location in an orphanage in France. Now the problem is Pete can't keep them unless he gets married so his sights land on his ex-love Emmadale (Jane Wyman) who will be getting married soon if he doesn't do something about it.

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

In order for his youngest two daughters to marry their respective beaus despite wanting all three to marry in succession, nightclub owner Eduardo Acuna (Adolphe Menjou) decides to melt his oldest daughter's heart to the idea of love. While the flowers and anonymous notes work, it is accidentally allowing an annoying out of work dancer (Fred Astaire) to play messenger which takes the situation to an even stranger place. 

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

In one of Jack Benny's rare opportunities to act, a subpar Shakespearean actor and troop-manager  in Nazi-occupied Poland discovers his actress wife (Carole Lombard) having an affair with a lieutenant. When a Polish Resistance leader comes to town with intentions of sweating out his wife in search for Lieutenant Sobinski and his men, Tura and his theater company is forced to leap into action to save Maria and getting the hell out of the country.

Summertime (1955)

A middle-aged woman (Hepburn) on her first vacation out of the United States discovers herself and her first love in Venice. 

Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964)

Poetically shot before and after the assassination of JFK, "Robin and the Seven Hoods" is a parody on the great English legend now based in 1930s Chicago full of guns, violence, and jazz as well as three out of the five members of the infamous Rat Pack.