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Hollywood's Classic Comedies: Slapstick, Romance, Music, Glamour, Screwball
By John Howard Reid   

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Category: Arts/Entertainment
Publisher: Lulu
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 240
ISBN: 1430314877
Copyright: June 22, 2007

200 classic movie comedies are discussed and reviewed (with full cast and credit details) in this must-have book that will delight every vintage film fan.

Rather than write a description myself, I'll leave it to Ross Adams, the editor of "Dress Circle: the Movie Enthusiasts' Magazine."

I fully endorse everything the reviewer says in his professional comments below. I particularly like his comment that my book "provides the movie enthusiast with a wealth of information that cannot be found in any other publication."

This was my aim!


A Few of This Book's Comedians & Their  Fully Detailed Films

Bud Abbott & Lou Costello: Abbott & Costello Lost in Alaska, Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd, Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy, Africa Screams, Buck Privates, Hold That Ghost, Time of Their Lives

Eddie Albert: Dude Goes West

Gracie Allen: Gracie Allen Murder Case

Arthur Askey: Bees in Paradise, I Thank You

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: Flying Down to Rio, Follow the Fleet

Fred Astaire: Funny Face

Florence Bates: Calling All Husbands

Robert Benchley: Why Daddy

Milton Berle: Whispering Ghosts

Joe E. Brown: Bright Lights, Earthworm Tractors, Fit for a King

Virginia Bruce: Careful Soft Shoulder

George Burns & Gracie Allen: Here Comes Cookie

Eddie Cantor: Getting a Ticket, Insurance, Special Delivery

Jack Carson: Always Together, Princess O’Rourke, Romance on the High Seas, So You Want To Be in Pictures

Charles Chaplin: Carmen

Charles Coburn: Captain Is a Lady

Claudette Colbert: The Egg and I, It Happened One Night, Without Reservations

Clyde Cook: Should Sailors Marry, So You Want To Be in Pictures

Bing Crosby: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Emperor Waltz

Joan Davis: Hold That Ghost

Leon Errol: Lord Epping Returns

Stuart Erwin: Make Me a Star

Sid Field: Cardboard Cavalier

W.C. Fields: International House, It’s a Gift, You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man

Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen: O-Kay for Sound

Will Fyffe: Said O’Reilly to McNab 

Jean Gillie: Sweet Devil

Joel Grey: Yeomen of the Guard

Jack Haley: Scared Stiff

Gordon Harker: Lucky Number

Will Hay: Good Morning Boys

Audrey Hepburn: Funny Face

Katharine Hepburn: Adam’s Rib, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story

Stanley Holloway: Another Shore, Jumping for Joy, Meet Mr Lucifer, One Night with You, Titfield Thunderbolt

Sterling Holloway: Girl o’ My Dreams, Lottery Lover

Bob Hope: My Favorite Brunette, The Paleface, Princess and the Pirate

Shemp Howard: Africa Screams, Butch Minds the Baby

Frankie Howerd: Jumping for Joy, Runaway Bus, Trial by Jury

Bobby Howes: Sweet Devil

Claude Hulbert: Bulldog Jack, Cardboard Cavalier,

Jack Hulbert: Bulldog Jack, Camels Are Coming

Jack Hulbert & Cicely Courtneidge: Falling for You, Jack’s the Boy

Roscoe Karns: One Sunday Afternoon

Buster Keaton: The Blacksmith

Cecil Kellaway: Always Together, Mr Chedworth Steps Out

Edgar Kennedy: Bride Wore Crutches, Help Wanted Female, Will Power, Wrong Direction

Kay Kyser: That’s Right You’re Wrong 

Rosemary Lane: Always a Bride

Harry Langdon: Dummy Trouble

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy: Bullfighters, Flying Deuces, Wrong Again

Harold Lloyd: Bumping into Broadway, Doctor Jack, An Eastern Westerner, Feet First, For Heaven’s Sake, The Freshman, Grandma’s Boy, Haunted Spooks, Hot Water, Kid Brother, Movie Crazy, Never Weaken, Now or Never, Safety Last, Speedy, Why Worry

Will Mahoney: Said O’Reilly to McNab

Marjorie Main: Kettles in the Ozarks

Marjorie Main & Percy Kilbride: The Egg and I

Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis: Scared Stiff

Jessie Matthews: Sailing Along

Adolphe Menjou: Café Metropole

Carmen Miranda: Week-End in Havana 

David Niven: Raffles

Jack Oakie: Looking for Trouble

George O’Hanlon: So You Want To Be a Detective, So You Want To Be in Pictures

Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson: All Over the Town, Hellzapoppin’ 

Dick Powell: Dames

William Powell: High Pressure

Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne: Stop Press Girl

Ginger Rogers: Roxie Hart

Will Rogers: In Old Kentucky

Rosalind Russell: Hired Wife

Margaret Rutherford: Runaway Bus

Ronald Shiner: Keep It Clean, Top of the Form

Alastair Sim: Belles of St Trinian’s

Penny Singleton & Arthur Lake: Blondie Goes Latin, Blondie Has Servant Trouble, Blondie on a Budget, Blondie Plays Cupid

Red Skelton: Yellow Cab Man

Three Stooges: Back to the Woods, Calling All Curs, False Alarms, From Nurse to Worse, Gents Without Cents, Half Shot Shooters, Men in Black, Restless Knights, Sitter Downers, So Long Mr Chumps 

Jacques Tati: Jour de Fete

David Tomlinson: All for Mary, Love in Waiting

Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn: Adam’s Rib, Woman of the Year

Toto: Guardie e Ladri

Tom Walls: Strange Boarders

Tom Walls & Ralph Lynn: Stormy Weather

Clifton Webb: Sitting Pretty

Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey: Cockeyed Cavaliers, Half Shot at Sunrise, Hook Line and Sinker

Shelley Winters: Behave Yourself

Norman Wisdom: Just My Luck, Square Peg

Robert Young: And Baby Makes Three

 


 

 



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