‘Gents Without Cents’ (1944) is the 81st short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Wednesday, June 14 through Friday, June 16, 1944 and was released on Friday, September 22nd of that year (the 266th day in the Gregorian calendar). The abbreviated shooting schedule
The Marx Brothers were of German Jewish orgin and thus grew up steeped in German culture and language. One of Groucho’s true delights in life (and I don’t think there were many of them) was performing a German novelty song called ‘Schnitzel Bank’ and above we see him do so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7YIC8F2Ec Yes I know, Labor Day is over so let’s be done with Jerry Lewis. Not so fast–because I’ve found a clip that I never knew existed, a rare Jerry Telethon clip in which he’s the least offensive person on stage. It’s 1968 and Joan Crawford makes an appearance, reading
One of the great pleasures of watching the Labor Day weekend MDA telethon was waiting for the inevitable mistakes,. bloopers, screw-ups etc. that were par for the course during a forty-eight hour marathon broadcast. Indeed, as the years went on and the featured acts got worse (Joey Heatherton began to
From Liberace (see yesterday’s post) to Jerry Lewis, this blog continues to circle the drain of mid-century entertainment. But with good reason; not a Labor Day weekend of my youth passed without hours spent staring glassily at the MDA Telethon, starring Jerry Lewis. So we will eschew The Three Stooges
There’s nothing really to say about the 20th Century show-biz phenomenon known as Liberace (birth name: ‘Wladziu Valentina Liberace’). Perhaps best to quote the opening of ‘The Song Of Bernadette’: “To those who believe, no explanation is necessary; to those who don’t believe, no explanation is possible.” Below are three
‘Slaphappy Sleuths’ (1950) is the 127th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, April 11 through Thursday, April 14, 1949 and was released on Thursday, November 9, 1950 (the 313th day in the Gregorian Calendar). It is a mostly laugh-free Shemp outing,
Yesterday I posted about Burton Holmes, travel guru and the inventor of the ‘travelogue’–movies showing the public exotic lands that they could never hope to travel too. The post shows views of Hollywood in the early 1930s, by then Holmes adopted home base. Above is another reel of Hollywood-based Holmes
‘False Alarms’ (1936) is the 17th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Tuesday, May 19th through Friday, May 22, 1936 and released on Sunday, August 16th of the same year (the 229th day in the Gregorian calendar). This is one of the
As a long-time SCTV fan (that word barely scratches the surface of my love for and veneration of that long-gone show) I thought I’d seen every last drop of every last SCTV sketch. Somehow though I seem to have missed the above clip, which is quite simply the greatest Martin