Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released June 02, 1945
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Monogram
62 min. (Feature Film)
62 min. (Feature Film)
Tommy Young has been released from a three-year stretch in prison, for a jewelry robbery he didn't commit. Reuniting with fiancee Nora Nolan, and his screwball friends boxer Maxie Rosenbloom, trainer Shemp Howard and manager Billy Gilbert, he sets out to prove his innocence. Billy is also an aspiring writer, and he used Tommy's story to sell a fictional version of the robbery to a pulp magazine. The jewels were never found, and since the real crooks were left with phony copies, they assume from the story that Tommy may actually have been involved in a double-cross, with Billy masterminding everything. Billy, Shemp and Max ineptly cook up a scheme to nail the real crooks and exonerate Tommy.
The final of three Gilbert-Howard-Rosenbloom comedies for Monogram, this is the first to actually use the actors as a full comedy trio.
Produced by Sam Katzman's Banner Productions for Monogram distribution.
The crooks' moll is played by onetime Ziegfeld chorus girl Barbara Pepper, a Hollywood character actress probably best-remembered for her final role... 'Doris Ziffel' on the CBS sitcom GREEN ACRES from 1965 - 1968.
Avg. Rating: 
[6.00/10]
[6.00/10]
Shemp Howard
Shemp Howard
Max 'Slapsie' Rosenbloom
Maxie Rosenbloom
Billy Gilbert
Billy Gilbert
Gloria Marlen
Nora Nolan
Carlyle Blackwell Jr.
Tommy Young
Budd Buster
Mr. X
Barbara Pepper
Goldie
Wheeler Oakman
Dek Sharp
I. Stanford Jolley
Lefty Reed
Milton Kibbee
H. G. Hogan
Patsy Moran
Mrs. Tubbs
Emmett Lynn
Mr. Fuddy
Meyer Grace
Henchman
Lew Landers
Director
Sam Katzman
Producer
Jack Dietz
Producer
Barney Sarecky
Associate Producer
George H. Plympton
Story and Screenplay
Ande Lamb
Story and Screenplay
Marcel LePicard
Director of Photography
Richard C. Currier
Film Editor
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