This documentary examines the career of the pianist and showman Liberace who became one of the most popular performers of...
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2013
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1992
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Here's a look back at a bunch of the funniest scenes that appeared in the long-running Red Skelton Hour series. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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1990
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Entertainment history. Uses film clips and contemporary interviews to show what Hollywood did during World War II in raising...
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1989
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Milton Berle hosts this 1974 program, a look back at comedy appearances on his variety show plus material from contemporary...
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1974
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Rod Serling, a master of speculative scriptwriting, penned the screenplay of The Man. Set a few days into the future, the...
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1972
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Dean Martin hosts this 1968 television special filled with performances of numerous yuletide classics sung by him and by...
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1968
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Anticipating a huge bonus, Lucy (Lucille Ball) tries to convince comedian Jack Benny to open an account at the bank....
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Himself
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1967
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Season Five of The Lucy Show begins, typically enough, with a guest star--in this instance the ageless George Burns. While...
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Offstage Voice
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1966
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1964
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Jack Benny guests on this episode as plumber Harry Tuttle, who charges exorbitant fees because he can't get much work--all...
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Harry Tuttle
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1964
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1964
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1962
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1962
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1961
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Chicken Finsterwald
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1960
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This video contains a star-studded broadcast of the 1959 Emmy Awards Ceremony. It also contains a lively comedy short from...
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1959
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Produced for the Armed Forces overseas, this is a holiday spectacular created for Christmas. Fifty of the top stars of...
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1958
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New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking,...
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1957
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1956
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1954
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Susan Slept Here is the only feature film in Hollywood history ever to be narrated by an Academy Award. After introducing...
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1954
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Included are Christmas specials from 1953-54: Your Hit Parade live from Rockefeller Center and an episode of The Jack Benny...
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1953
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1952
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A video of two dramas from the early television series: "The House Always Wins" and "The Left Fist of David." ~ Rovi...
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1952
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1950
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At the last possible moment, convicted murderess Anne Marie St. Claire (Dorothy Lamour) is saved from execution. However, the...
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Producer
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1949
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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Himself
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1945
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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Athanael
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1945
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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Guest
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1944
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1943
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The old George M. Cohan theatrical chestnut The Meanest Man in the World was retailored for the screen to accommodate the...
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Richard Clark
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1943
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Bill Fuller
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1942
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Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of...
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Joseph Tura
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1942
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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Babbs Babberley, Lord Fancourt
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1941
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Himself
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1940
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To fully appreciate Buck Benny Rides Again, one must have some familiarity with Jack Benny's radio programs of the 1939-40...
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Buck Benny
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1940
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Jack Benny goes to London in this frothy musical. He plays a Broadway producer and while in London begins pining for the...
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Bob Temple
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1939
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Buck Boswell
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1938
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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Mac Brewster
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1937
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The third film of Paramount's "Big Broadcast" series follows the pattern of the first two titles: negligible plot with plenty...
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Jack Carson
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1936
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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J. Davis Bowster
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1936
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The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to "MGM"'s early-talkie triumph...
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Bert Keeler
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1935
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Jack Benny is cast against type as a small-time con man in this lightweight MGM programmer. Whenever he manages to outsmart...
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Calvin Churchill
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1935
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While crossing the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, a radio troupe (led by Jack Benny) becomes involved in a murder mystery...
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Chad Denby
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1934
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1933
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Dr. John Harvey
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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Intended as a follow-up to the fabulously successful Broadway Melody, Chasing Rainbows reunites several of the leading...
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Eddie
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1929
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A Lenten period television variety special. ~ Rovi...
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Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired...
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