So You Want to Enjoy Life 1952
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.
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 and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
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.
Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. How will this work out?
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
"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.
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
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.
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 imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes, dissatisfied, attempts to save his five-years marriage to Alice.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
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.
Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
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.
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.
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
Joe thinks he's back in the gladiator days, and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum lions after breaking a string while playing the lyre for King Nero.