Vintage Movie Resources
We Asked Them — Should Comedy Shows Use Phony Laughter? (1954) 🇺🇸
‘Canned’ laughter — yes or no?
Gertrude Hoffman — The Thin Woman (1954) 🇺🇸
Gertrude Hoffman (1871–1968) had a pretty miserable first year in Hollywood in 1933
Do Comics Hate Each Other? (1954) 🇺🇸
One of the favorite occupational pastimes of the inveterate theater-goer is turning to the person in the next seat and remarking of two performers on stage: “Actually, you know, they hate each other like poison.”
James Daly — Location: Europe (1954) 🇺🇸
James Daly (1918–1978) has bowed off a filmed-abroad adventure series for juicier acting plums nearer home
The Three Stooges — Give’em a Bop on the Casaba (1965) 🇺🇸
“Give’em a Bop on the Casaba” has been The Three Stooges’ philosophy of comedy for 40 years
David Janssen — David’s Drooping… (1965) 🇺🇸
Success has left Fugitive David Janssen tired, tense and physically ailing
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy — No Laughing Matter (1955) 🇺🇸
Laurel and Hardy find themselves on TV… for free: “It's a little disturbing to see ourselves on TV now. We’re being used to sell products we never even heard of, and someone else is making all the money.”
Dan Duryea — Look Who's a Hero! (1955)
As TV’s China Smith, Dan Duryea enjoys his vacation from villainy.
Alan Mowbray — Con Man with a Conscience (1954) 🇺🇸
For me, Alan Mowbray will always be Tommy Gray, the friend of Old Bostonian Godfrey Park (aka Godfrey, The Forgotten Man) in Gregory La Cava's timeless comedy “My Man Godfrey”. Mowbray did, however, star in several hundred more movies and TV shows.
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