Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released June 13, 1941
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
68 min. (Feature Film)
68 min. (Feature Film)
Local racketeer Speedy Miller (Broderick Crawford) takes over Mr. Amalfi's (Leo Carrillo) shoe store and turns it into a backroom gambling parlor, and buys himself a pair of too-small shoes... tight shoes, that set off a chain reaction of misfortune. Miller loses a gambling bet for his boss "The Brain," the secret identity of newspaper publisher Horace Grover, and then loses his girlfriend actress Sybil Ash. Jimmy Rupert, the clerk who sold Miller the tight shoes, exposes the shoe store's gambling operation and winds up running against Grover's city councilman stooge Honest John Beebe. Miller is held accountable and loses his position in "The Brain's" operation, and Grover begins setting up a new stooge with Rupert. When Rupert winds up engaged to Sybil, Miller arranges a little revenge... with his own gift of "tight shoes" for the prospective groom.
Avg. Rating: 
[7.67/10]
[7.67/10]
Broderick Crawford
Speedy Miller
John Howard
Jimmy Rupert
Binnie Barnes
Sybil Ash
Anne Gwynne
Ruth
Samuel S. Hinds
Horace Grover
Shemp Howard
Okay
Richard Lane
Allan McGrath
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Honest John Beebe
Leo Carrillo
Mr. Almalfi
Sarah Padden
Mrs. Rupert
M. J. Frankovich
Harry Vale
Emmett Vogan
Jackson Carter
Edward Gargan
Blooch
Don Terry
Haystack
Tom Dugan
Professor D
Charles Arnt
Fewick
Eddie Foster
Charlie the Gyp
Selmer Jackson
District Attorney
Kathryn Sheldon
Rupert's aunt
Louise Carver
Sybil's maid
Bernice Pilot
Maid
Hal Price
Policeman
George Guhl
Policeman
Mickey Simpson
Guard
Billy Bletcher
Little man
Eddie Hall
Race track ticket taker
Johnny Arthur
Chapel manager
Stanley Mann
Stanley, chapel organist
Joe Devlin
Truck driver
Chuck Morrison
Truck driver
Vinton Hayworth
Reporter
Billy Wayne
Reporter
Beatrice Roberts
Waitress
Charles Sherlock
Cab driver
David Oliver
Customer
Ralph Peters
Passerby
Betty Jane Graham
Blonde schoolgirl
Roberta Smith
Mary, schoolgirl
Mary Kelley
Portly woman
Lester Dorr
Man at McGrath's table
Edmund Mortimer
Man at McGrath's table
Larry McGrath
Fight manager at McGrath's table
Albert S. Rogell
Director
Jules Levey
Producer
Damon Runyon
Original Story
Leonard Spigelgass
Screenplay
Art Arthur
Screenplay
Elwood Bredell
Director of Photography
Otto Ludwig
Film Editor
Jack Otterson
Art Director
Ralph M. DeLacy
Associate Art Director
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor
Robert Pritchard
Sound Technician
Hans J. Salter
Musical Director
Frank Skinner
Original Music
Vera West
Gowns
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