Elmer the Great
Elmer the Great (1933) starring Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis
Synopsis of Elmer the Great
In Elmer the Great, a country bumpkin with an incredible batting average becomes an unlikely baseball star.
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Forever Darling
Forever Darling (1956) starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason
Forever, Darling a very sweet movie, and very funny as well. I enjoyed it, and hope that you do as well.Frankly, Forever Darling is one of my favorite Lucille Ball movies. The basic premise is that biologist Lorenzo Xavier Vega (played by Desi Arnaz) has grown apart from his wife Susan (played by Lucille Ball). He has thrown himself into his work. She has thrown herself into the social scene. Nobody says the words “thinking of divorce” — but then, nobody really needs to, either. By this point it should be obvious that this is not an offshoot of I Love Lucy. Although there are, indeed some similarities later on. But first, this marriage needs God’s help to avoid divorce. And He provides it, in the form of an angel that only Lucille Ball can see, played by James Mason.
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Her Husband’s Affairs
Her Husband’s Affairs (1947), starring Lucille Ball, Franchot Tone
Her Husband’s Affairs is a comedy starring Lucille Ball as Margaret Weldon, a wife who is constantly trying to help her husband, ad man William Weldon (played by Franchot Tone) — who doesn’t want the help. This leads to significant friction between the couple nearly leading to divorce.
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Fancy Pants
Fancy Pants – Bob Hope plays an American actor, playing an English butler, brought to America to be butler to an American Wild West tomboy – Lucille Ball
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Critic’s Choice
Critic’s Choice – 1963 comedy pairing Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. Ball is a young playwright while Hope is her husband – and a drama critic.
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Hollywood or Bust [Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin]
Hollywood or Bust (1956), starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Pat Crowley, Anita Ekberg
Synopsis of Hollywood or Bust
In Hollywood or Bust, Malcolm Smith is a star-struck movie fan. With his “lucky feeling” he wins a new convertible in a theater raffle. But his ownership is challenged by compulsive gambler Steve Wiley, whose forged winning ticket will help him pay off his bookie. Steve regales a lovesick Malcolm with concocted stories about his supposed next-door neighbor, sultry actress Anita Ekberg. They agree to share the car on a cross-country trip to Tinseltown. Steve is prevented from abandoning his traveling companion on several occasions by Malcolm’s pet dog, a Great Dane named Mr. Bascomb.
They bond over various adventures in New Jersey, Chicago, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. By the time they get to Las Vegas, where they meet the real Anita Ekberg and test Malcolm’s luck with craps, they have acquired a third member of their group, Terry Roberts, an aspiring dancer, who becomes romantically involved with Steve.
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Pardners
Pardners (1956) starring Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
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The Comedy of Terrors
The Comedy of Terrors (1963), starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Joyce Jameson
Synopsis of The Comedy of Terrors
The Comedy of Terrors is a hilarious horror spoof. A funeral director, who is in arrears on his rent, aggressively pursues customers to bolster his business … And the fact that they haven’t died yet doesn’t bother him at all!
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple
Synopsis of The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
In The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a classic screwball comedy. Through no fault of his own, artist and lady’s man Richard Nugent finds a teenage girl curled on his sofa. The teen’s sister is a judge who “sentences” thunderstruck Richard to date the girl until her schoolgirl crush wanes. Circumstances aren’t kind to Richard. But they certainly are hilarious!
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I Love You Again
I Love You Again (1940) starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
Synopsis of I Love You Again
In I Love You Again, William Powell and Myrna Loy star in this comedy about a seemingly staid married businessman whose recovery from amnesia exposes his past existence as a con artist.
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