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Fibber McGee and Molly played by Marian and Jim Jordan, portrayed their characters in four movies. In the early years of the radio show, they were supporting characters in the 1937 Paramount film This Way, Please, starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Betty Grable. Once the show hit its stride, they had leading roles in the RKO Radio Pictures films Look Who's Laughing (1941), Here We Go Again (1942), and Heavenly Days (1944).
The first two films co-starred fellow radio stars Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Harold Peary also appears in both as Gildersleeve, with Arthur Q. Bryan, Bill Thompson, Harlow Wilcox, Gale Gordon, and Isabel Randolph appearing in both their show roles and as other characters. Bill Thompson in Look Who's Laughing played two parts: The pushy sales-man, and the man who shouted "It's Hillary Horton". Gale Gordon played Otis Cadwalader, Molly's ex-boyfriend in Here We Go Again. Arthur Q. Bryan played the Mayor's aid in Look Who's Laughing".

This Way Please

This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The plot is set in a first-run movie theatre that offers stage presentations along with the main feature. Brad Morgan (Rogers) is the theater's master of ceremonies, while Jane Morrow (Grable) is chief usherette. She'd rather be on stage dancing with Brad, and by film's end she gets her wish -- but not before a riotous slapstick wedding sequence. Jim and Marian Jordan, radio's Fibber McGee and Molly, make their film debut, as does Jack Benny's radio foil (and real-life wife) Mary Livingstone, here appearing on-screen without her husband for the first and last time in her career. The film is stolen by Rufe Davis, the "human sound effects machine," doing a medley of his specialty.

Starring: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Betty Grable, Ned Sparks, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan
1937 • BW • 75 Minutes (Packaging may vary)

$8.95

Look Who's Laughing

Lots of famous radio characters in this one. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy go on vacation and are forced to land their palne in Wistful Vista, home of Fibber McGee & Molly. As chairman of the local chamber of commerce, Fibber is schemeing to get an airplane factory built in Wistful Vista and convinces Edgar to join him. It's fun, laughs, hijinks and wise cracks with all your favorite radio characters.

1941 • B&W • 79 Minutes.

$12.95

Here We Go Again

A mountain top lodge is a vacation land for a collection of radio stars. Edgar Bergen is looking for a rare butterfly. Gale Gordon plays the bad guy as he conives to get Fibber McGee to convince Edgar Bergen to invest $25,000 in a synthetic fuel mixture that turns out to be fake. Oh, and it's Fibber and Molly's anniversary too. Watch the movie, you'll love it. Its full of girls, girls, girls, The Great Gildersleeve, Ray Noble and his orchestra, Edgar Bergen and Mortimer Snerd.

Starring: Marian and JIm Jordan, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Harold Peary
1942 • BW •72 Minutes.

$12.95

Heavenly Days

In this joke-filled spinoff of the Fibber McGee and Molly radio show, the couple leave Wistful Vista for Washington D.C. to visit cousin Alvin; neighborhood gossip magnifies the trip into a mission to advise the government. Once there, Fibber innocently starts things, including a big ruckus in the Senate. Will he be famous or infamous? Starring: Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Eugene Pallette, Gordon Oliver, Raymond Walburn, Barbara Hale, Donald Douglas, Frieda Inescort, Irving Bacon, The Kingsmen.

1944 • B&W • 71 minutes

$12.95