Comedy

Blithe Spirit

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March 19, 2017April 8, 2021

Blithe Spirit, starring Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis of Blithe Spirit

David Lean’s delightful film version of Noël Coward’s theater sensation stars Rex Harrison as a novelist who cheekily invites a medium to his house to conduct a séance. He hopes that the experience will inspire a book he’s working on. Things go wrong when she summons the spirit of his dead first wife, a severe inconvenience for his current one.
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Born Yesterday

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March 18, 2017January 10, 2022

Born Yesterday (1950) starring Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis of Born Yesterday

Broderick Crawford wants his girlfriend Judy Holliday to be cultured. He hires William Holden to teach her in a hilarious Garson Kanin comedy set in Washington, D.C. Priceless Judy repeated Broadway triumph and won an Oscar(r) for playing the quintessential dumb blonde.

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March 17, 2017December 25, 2021

Never A Dull Moment (1968), starring Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine

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There’s magic in the memories as great Disney moments are captured right here for you and your family to enjoy. Welcome to the world of Jack Albany — New Yorker, struggling actor — and art thief? He isn’t really, but when a mobster kingpin with his eye on a priceless painting mistakes Albany for a famous West Coast gangster, Jack’s earnest attempts to set the record straight only escalate his involvement in a daring museum robbery. Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, and Dorothy Provine head a cast of crooks, molls, heroes, and half-wits in this fast-paced, laugh-packed comedy thriller!

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March 11, 2017May 11, 2022

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942) starring Ann Sothern, Red Skelton

In Maisie Gets Her Man, Ann Sothern stars as Maisie Ravier in this seventh entry in the “Maisie” series — here, vaudeville performer Maisie has to leave the knife-throwing act when her partner, “Professor Orco” is jilted by his girlfriend, and decides to take his revenge out on all women … starting with Maisie, the target of his knives! Orco throwing knives at her is a very funny scene, that ends Maisie running away from the mad Orco, only end up to knocking him silly … and leaving herself unemployed once again.

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March 11, 2017March 6, 2024

Maisie (1939) starring Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Ian Hunter, Ruth Hussey

Synopsis of Maisie

Down-on-her-luck showgirl Maisie Ravier takes a job at a dude ranch, falls in love with the foreman, meddles in a couple’s unhappy marriage, and rescues the foreman from a wrongful murder charge.

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March 9, 2017May 26, 2022

Week-end in Havana (1941), starring Alice Faye, John Payne, Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda – directed by Walter Lang

Synopsis of Week-end in Havana

In Weekend in Havana, a salesgirl (Alice Faye) threatens to cause trouble when cruise ship runs aground and vacation is ruined. As compensation, she gets a first class Havana holiday with the ship owner’s future son-in-law (John Payne). As well as some unexpected attention from a conniving gambler (Cesar Romero) and his girlfriend (Carmen Miranda).

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March 5, 2017November 20, 2024

A Shot in the Dark (1964), starring Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, directed by Blake Edwards

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March 5, 2017April 19, 2024

Wake Me When It’s Over (1960) starring Dick Shawn, Ernie Kovacs, Jack Warden, Margo Moore, directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Synopsis of Wake Me When It’s Over

Wake Me When It’s Over – World War II vet Gus Brubaker, redrafted through a clerical error, arrives on a dead-end Japanese island and decides to liven things up by building a hotel and using the island girls as the staff. Until his court-martial …

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January 18, 2017February 14, 2022

The Show-Off (1946) starring Red Skelton, Marilyn Maxwell

Synopsis of The Show-Off

Amy Fisher falls in love with Aubrey Piper, a loudmouth and braggart who pretends to be more than the lowly clerk he is. She marries him, over her family’s objections. Aubrey can’t seem to stop insulting others or interfering with their lives. He accidentally sets her inventor brother Joe’s laboratory on fire, wrecks a car, drives it without a license, gets kicked off a radio show for offending the sponsor and blows Joe’s deal with a paint company.

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January 4, 2017December 19, 2021

Gilligan’s Island season 3

Gilligan’s Island season 3. Their three-hour tour is now a three-season television classic as the Skipper, Gilligan (Bob Denver), the Howells, Ginger, Mary Anne and the Professor settle into life on the island. The seven castaways struggle to survive the great outdoors …. And the mindless meddling of hapless Gilligan, who always seems to ruin their chances of getting back to civilization!

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