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1997
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This documentary, narrated by respected film critic Leonard Maltin, focuses on the year or so that The Three Stooges spent at...
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1990
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1990
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A documentary video that looks at the many hilarious comedians in history. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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1989
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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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This video contains some of the most memorable moments from Steve Allen's long-running talk show. Featured guests include...
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1986
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This nostalgic video uses five short films to look back at Hollywood's efforts to bolster both overseas G.I.s and the folks...
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1980
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Frosty the Snowman is an animated television special based on the classic song about a magic snowman who comes to life and...
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Narrator
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1969
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No TV or movie producer has yet to resist the temptation of turning Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the...
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Humpty-Dumpty
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1966
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Once again, Lucy (Lucille Ball) has a hankering to see some movie stars close-up. Her first step in this direction is to take...
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1966
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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Smiler Grogan
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1963
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Pop Wonder
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1962
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1962
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An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when...
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1961
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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1960
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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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The Milkman is a low-key variation of a theme explored in such slapstick festivals as The Fuller Brush Man and...
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Breezy Albright
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1950
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Jimmy Durante plays the patriarch of a down-on-their-luck family of acrobats, who suddenly finds a great deal of money hidden...
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Mr. Amendola
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1950
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The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a...
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Buckley
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1948
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In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with...
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Ferdi Farro
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1947
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It Happened in Brooklyn was released at a time when the mere mention of the eponymous New York borough elicited loud laughter...
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Nick Lombardi
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1947
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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"Spike"
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1946
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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Two Girls and a Sailor is another of those all-star, no-plot wartime musicals turned out by the bushel basket in the 1940s....
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Billy Kipp
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1944
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Musical producer Joe Pasternak moved from Universal to MGM in the early 1940s, taking his pet director Henry Koster (the two...
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Andrews
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1944
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1942
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Banjo
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1941
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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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Jeeper Smith
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1941
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Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright,...
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Cornelius J. Courtney
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1940
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Three manicurists hope to become entertainers through the auspices of their wisecracking agent (Fred Allen). Sally...
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Jefferson Twitchell
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1938
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Start Cheering is Columbia Pictures' idea of a college musical: Practically everyone in the cast is past the age of 30....
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Willie Gumbatz
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1938
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Jimmy Clayton
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1938
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Jonah J. Whistler
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1936
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Imagine a whole country where music is outlawed! Director Walter Forde and writer Marian Dix dreamed up such a horrendous...
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1936
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In this melodramatic comedy a carnival puppeteer must cope with the death of his wife who expired while birthing his...
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Fingers
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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Schnarzan the Shouting Conqueror
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1934
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Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
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Happy Donnelly
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1934
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Based on the popular comic strip by Ham Fisher, this fast-paced and funny boxing outing follows the exploits of a boxing...
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Knobby Walsh
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1934
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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Hank
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1934
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Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian...
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Moxie Slaight
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1934
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In this comedy, a man masquerading as the notorious Baron Munchausen and his partner arrive from the African jungles and...
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Joe McGoo
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1933
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In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer...
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Jimmy Potts
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1933
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Hell Below transcends its hackneyed World War I plot to emerge as a drama of rare originality and gutsiness. Walter Huston...
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Ptomaine
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1933
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Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville...
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1933
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Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly...
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James
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1932
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McCracken
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1932
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Legendary songwriter and vaudevillian George M. Cohan made his first appearance in a sound film with this satiric musical...
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Curly Cooney
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1932
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Jimmy
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1932
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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Officially released as The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, this William Haines vehicle was snappily adapted by...
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Clarence "Schnozzle"
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1931
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MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this...
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1931
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Jimmy Durante made his movie debut in Roadhouse Nights, a strange amalgam of musical comedy and gangster melodrama. In truth,...
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Daffy
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1930
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This historic presentation features an episode from each of these vintage comedy series with Jimmy Durante. ~ Rovi...
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