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IT'S IN THE AIR (1935)

Film Pick of the Day
Friday, August 28, 2026

Two con men (Jack Benny and Ted Healy) specialize in fixing horse races and boxing matches. Calvin Churchill (Benny) is conscious stricken with patriotism when he hears that the IRS is after back taxes on gambling winnings. Hoping to make amends, and with an IRS investigator (Nat Pendleton) hot on the trail, he and Clip (Healy) head for Desert Springs, CA where Calvin's estranged wife is a tennis instructor at a resort spa. Posing as an entrepreneur and hot air ballooning adventurer, Churchill is dumbfounded to meet an aeronautic industrialist who wants Cal and Clip to pilot his new stratosphere orbiter... and other guests offering thousands in corporate sponsorships for the test flight. The duo find themselves faced with the dilemma of risking their lives for a fortune, or giving themselves up for prosecution.

Although Jack Benny headlines the cast, he plays it straight as the good-hearted and love-sick conman, while Healy and Pendleton provide the laughs.

Details

Average Rating:

[ 7.00/10 ]   1 votes
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
Release Date Friday, October 11, 1935
Studio MGM
Production Type Feature Film
Duration 80.33 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - August 28th


Births

Andre Barlatier
(Photography)
b. 1882

France

Sam Ash
(Actor)
b. 1884

Campbell County, KY

Bobby Dunn
(Actor)
b. 1887

Milwaukee, WI

Larry McGrath
(Actor)
b. 1888

New York, NY

Lee 'Lasses' White
(Actor)
b. 1888

Wills Point, TX

Stanley Andrews
(Actor)
b. 1891

Chicago, IL

Anita Sharp-Bolster
(Actress)
b. 1895

Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland

Al Ray
(Screenplay)
b. 1897

New Rochelle, NY

Charles Boyer
(Actor)
b. 1899

Figeac, France

James Wong Howe
(Director of Photography)
b. 1899

Guangzhou, China

Rudy Schrager
(Musical Score)
b. 1900

Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary

Gracie Worth
(Actress)
b. 1906

Rome, NY

Charles S. Thompson
(Set Decoration)
b. 1908

Canada

Joe Yrigoyen
(Actor)
b. 1910

Ventura, CA

Tol Avery
(Actor)
b. 1915

Fort Worth, TX

Bill Coontz
(Actor)
b. 1917

Johnson, IA

Peggy Ryan
(Actress)
b. 1924

Long Beach, CA

Donald O'Connor
(Actor)
b. 1925

Chicago, IL

Sandy Dvore
(Actor)
b. 1934

Chicago, IL

Kaye Elhardt
(Actress)
b. 1935

Los Angeles, CA

John Findlater
(Actor)
b. 1943

Los Angeles, CA


Deaths

Gladden James
(Actor)
d. 1948   (60)

Los Angeles, CA

Robert Walker
(Actor)
d. 1951   (32)

Los Angeles, CA

Thomas Kemp
(Construction Supervisor)
d. 1963   (68)

Los Angeles, CA

Dan Riss
(Actor)
d. 1970   (60)

Los Angeles, CA

Matthew Jones
(Actor)
d. 1999

Los Angeles, CA

Matty Jordan
(Actor)
d. 1999   (74)

Los Angeles, CA

Lucille Miller
(Actress)
d. 2002   (92)

Camarillo, CA


Events

Moe, Larry & Shemp begin a 2-year solo run as “Howard, Fine & Howard,” splitting from Healy the week earlier

1930-08-28

HERE COMES FLOSSIE! (Shemp Howard) in production

1933-08-28 to 1933-09-01

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1939-08-28

ALL THE WORLD'S A STOOGE in production

1940-08-24 to 1940-08-28

MOONLIGHT AND CACTUS (Shemp Howard) in production

1943-08-16 to 1943-08-31

UNCIVIL WAR BIRDS in production

1945-08-24 to 1945-08-28

THE GHOST TALKS in production

1947-08-26 to 1947-08-29

THREE DARK HORSES in production

1952-08-26 to 1952-08-28

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