Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released November 20, 1942
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
60 min. (Feature Film)
60 min. (Feature Film)
Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra, and pianist Bob Saunders, are on the 7-year college plan and happy to flunk out again if they can make it to 8. They'd rather spend their evenings jamming at Pops' (Shemp Howard) soda shop. Bob's father has had enough, and sends his son out west to the family's Circle S Health Ranch to learn business management from the resort's officious and prissy manager Mr. Cathcart (Franklin Pangborn). Bob decides that Ozzie, the band and Pops, should go with him and turn the Circle S into a jumping success. The neighboring Arizona Ranch, run by Sally Monroe, is going out of business. Bob falls in love with Sally, and when he learns that he can't change his father's ideas, the orchestra and Pops head for the Arizona with plans to turn it into a country swing nightclub. Pops takes on the job of convincing (or, conning) a cantankerous rancher (Leon Errol) to sponsor a radio broadcast for the Nelson band.
Shemp Howard costars as Pops, and steals every scene he's in (which is most of them), even upstaging Leon Errol.
Avg. Rating: 
[8.33/10]
[8.33/10]
Ozzie Nelson
Ozzie Nelson
Richard Davies
Bob Saunders
Mary Healy
Sally Monroe
Shemp Howard
Pops
Leon Errol
Carter Durham
Grace McDonald
Dixie
Eddie Johnson
Skat Foster
Martha Tilton
Herself
Russell Hicks
R. C. Saunders
Franklin Pangborn
Mr. Cathcart
Tim Ryan
Professor Blake
Charles Lang
Russ Monroe
Jimmy Wakely
Jimmy Wakely and His Cowboy Band
Dick Reinhart
Jimmy Wakely and His Cowboy Band
Johnny Bond
Jimmy Wakely and His Cowboy Band
Oscar Loraine
Chef
Joey Ray
Waiter
Jimmie Lucas
Waiter
Ralph Dunn
Big Boy
Helen Deverell
Pearl
Caroline Cooke
Dowager
Neely Edwards
Angry man
Charles R. Moore
Cactus
Frances Morris
Switchboard operator
Drew Demorest
Circle S desk clerk
Jack Gardner
Arizona desk clerk
The Dinning Sisters
Themselves
Leo Diamond and the Diamond Solidaires
Themselves
Jimmie Davis
Himself
Kenny Stevens
Himself
Holmes Herbert
Commissioner
Lloyd Ingraham
McClelland
Gerald Pierce
Bellhop
Francis Sayles
Hotel guest
Grace Lenard
Woman
Vernon Keays
Director
Joseph Gershenson
Assoc. Producer
Warren Wilson
Original Screenplay
Kenneth Higgins
Original Screenplay
John Boyle
Director of Photography
Edward Curtiss
Film Editor
Jack Otterson
Art Director
Ralph M. DeLacy
Associate Art Director
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Bernard B. Brown
Sound Director
Joe Lapis
Sound Technician
Charles Previn
Musical Director
Harold Adamson
Music and Lyrics
Jimmie Davis
Music and Lyrics
Gene Autry
Music
Bob Nolan
Music
Lou Wayne
Music
Fred Rose
Lyrics
Floyd Tillman
Lyrics
Charles Mitchell
Lyrics
John Mattison
Dance Director
Vera West
Gowns
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