Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released December 28, 1945
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
MGM
91 min. (Feature Film)
91 min. (Feature Film)
At a New York Canteen, sailor John Hill (Robert Walker) meets USO hostess Mary (June Allyson) and they elope the same night before he ships out to Europe. But John is unexpectedly classified 4F and discharged, leaving him and Mary to set up house sooner than expected, and realizing that they know very little about each other. A series of circumstances leave the newlyweds unable to spend their first honeymoon night together. Mary's ex-fiancee and boss Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn) is anxious to split the newlyweds up. Beautiful, European downstairs neighbor Lisa Borescue helps out by introducing John to prospective employer Mr. Amboy (Reginald Owen), and she's also anxious to seduce John. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson rounds out the main cast as the building superintendent.
Joe DeRita has a brief walk-on as an inept waiter in the first reel of the film.
Avg. Rating: 
[5.00/10]
[5.00/10]
Robert Walker
John Hill
June Allyson
Mary Hill
Hume Cronyn
Freddie Potts
Audrey Totter
Lisa Borescue
Reginald Owen
Mr. Amboy
Henry Hall
J. Brown, Justice of the Peace
Jane Green
Mrs. Brown
Mary Lord
Office worker
Chester Clute
Lone diner
Marek Windheim
Headwaiter
Shimen Ruskin
Busboy
Joe DeRita
Waiter
Moyna MacGill
Irritated woman in restaurant
Betsy Stoddard
Mrs. Schlesinger, voice
Harry Hayden
Merchant
Eileen Morris
Model in window
Mary Jane French
Carla
Mary Bovard
WAC
Marie Harmon
WAC
Johnny Lane
Dancing sailor
John Carlyle
Soldier in canteen
Fred Aldrich
Soldier in canteen
Sam Harris
Canteen worker
Jack Luden
Naval officer
Eugene Sigaloff
Mr. Kabochnick
Gerald Oliver Smith
Gerald
Lillian Yarbo
Mary, Freddie's cook
Franklin Pangborn
Salesman, scene deleted
Fortunio Bonanova
Telephone man, scene deleted
Sara Berner
Elevator lady, scene deleted
Nelson Leigh
Canadian officer, scene deleted
Martin Garralaga
Brazilian officer, scene deleted
George Sorel
French officer, scene deleted
Phillip Pine
Aide, scene deleted
Harry Tyler
Painter, scene deleted
Anna Q. Nilsson
Switchboard operator, scene deleted
Roland Dupree
Delivery boy, scene deleted
Karin Booth
Woman, scene deleted
Thomas Martin
Nightclub bartender, scene deleted
Unidentified THE SAILOR TAKES A WIFE 2
Canteen workers
Unidentified THE SAILOR TAKES A WIFE 3
Restaurant patrons
Unidentified THE SAILOR TAKES A WIFE 4
Pedestrians
Richard Whorf
Director
Edwin H. Knopf
Producer
Chester Erskine
Original Play
Anne Morrison Chapin
Screenplay
Whitfield Cook
Screenplay
Chester Erskine
Screenplay
Sidney Wagner
Director of Photography
Irvine Warburton
Film Editor
Cedric Gibbons
Art Director
Edward C. Carfagno
Art Director
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Douglas Shearer
Recording Director
William Steinkamp
Sound Mixer
Charles J. Burbridge
Sound Technician
Johnny Green
Musical Score
Irene
Costume Supervision
Kay Carter
Costume Associate
Jack Greenwood
Assistant Director
Warren Newcombe
Special Effects
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