The documentary Bob Hope: The Road to Laughter contains numerous clips from the film and television work of the beloved...
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2003
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To many people around the world, the Hawaiian island of Waikiki has long symbolized an exotic paradise on Earth, and the...
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2001
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This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians,...
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1991
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1989
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1989
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Involved in a minor accident at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) ends up with a fractured leg. Over...
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1985
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All through his childhood, Mel (Vic Tayback) was led to believe that his pet dog was a war hero. The "leader" of this...
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1984
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Accompanying Carrie (Martha Raye) to the racetrack, Tommy (Philip McKeon) surprises everyone--including himself--by winning...
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1984
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It has taken nine seasons, but waitress Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin, widowed protagonist of the popular sitcom Alice, has...
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1984
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Alice returned from a two-month hiatus (and back to its original Sunday-night timeslot) with this episode, originally...
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1983
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Mel (Vic Tayback) has put up with a lot from his overbearing mother Carrie (Martha Raye). But when Carrie demands that Mel...
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1983
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Season Eight of Alice offers the series' one-and-only crossover episode, "Mel is Hogg-Tied, in which Mel's Diner is visited...
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1983
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This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as...
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1983
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Both Alice (Valerie Harper) and Mel's mom Carrie (Martha Raye) audition for a singing job at a fancy supper club. And both...
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1983
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This made-for-television movie is a filmed version of the Bob Fosse musical hit of the same name. William Katt stars in the...
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1982
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After scoring a best-seller with her recipe book, Mel's mom Carrie (Martha Raye) purchases the apartment building in which...
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1982
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Alice moved from its familiar Sunday night slot to a Wednesday night berth for its seventh season, then shifted to Mondays in...
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1982
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Mel's mom Carrie (Martha Raye) has had so much success with her special chicken pies that she plans to publish a cookbook....
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1982
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Just when he thought it was safe to go into his apartment again, Mel (Vic Tayback) is descended upon by his overbearing...
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1980
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The Gossip Columnist is a rare one-part offering from Operation Prime Time, the TV-syndication service responsible for such...
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1980
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Mel's contentious mom Carrie (Martha Raye) is back bearing happy news--happy to her, anyway. It seems that after decades of...
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1980
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The inimitable Martha Raye makes her first series appearance as Carrie Sharples, the overbearing mother of diner owner Mel...
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1979
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Martha Raye returns as Mel's overbearing mother Carrie Sharples. With Mel (Vic Tayback) laid up by another bad injury, Carrie...
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1979
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The fourth Airport film may be the silliest of them all, as George Kennedy returns, this time co-piloting with Alain Delon....
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1979
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Popular country music stars from the late 1970s populate this updated adaptation of Dickens', A Christmas Carol. ~ Sandra...
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1979
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Mildred
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1976
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This children's fantasy is based on Sid and Marty Krofft's popular 1960s kiddy show H.R. Pufnstuff, which combined giant...
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Boss Witch
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1970
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Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together?...
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1970
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Lulu
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1962
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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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1955
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1954
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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1947
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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Marian
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1944
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Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis,...
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Herself
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1944
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Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. The original...
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Betty Johnson
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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Lilibelle Bolton
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1941
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Lillibelle Bolton
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1941
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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Patience Bingham
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1940
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Luce
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1940
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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Martha Madison
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1939
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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Mickey Hawkins
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1939
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Letty Larkin
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1938
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Mable
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1938
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Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland, a popular Paramount screen team specializing in south-sea extravaganzas, don "civilized" garb...
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Midge Miller
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1938
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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Martha Bellows
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1937
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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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1937
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In this backwoods musical, two feudin' families provide the basis of the action. The tale begins as the head of one family...
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Mary Beamish
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1937
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This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple...
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Myrtle Finch
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1937
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Paramount's resident "big mouth" Martha Raye was afforded her first top-billed screen assignment in Hideaway Girl. The script...
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Helen Flint
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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Liza Lou Lane
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1937
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Emma
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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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Daisy Schloggenheimer
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1936
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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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Patsy
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1936
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