Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Featuring Moe, Larry and Joe
90 min. (Feature Film)
Feature compilation of several 1957 - 1959 Three Stooges shorts starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe Besser.
Columbia offered ten of the sixteen shorts with Besser for this compilation program: TRIPLE CROSSED (1959), FIFI BLOWS HER TOP (1958), OILS WELL THAT ENDS WELL (1958), QUIZ WHIZZ (1958), FLYING SAUCER DAFFY (1958), HORSING AROUND (1957), SWEET AND HOT (1958), RUSTY ROMEOS (1957), PIES AND GUYS (1958) and OUTER SPACE JITTERS (1957).
Each theater created its own program, selecting four - six shorts. 90 minutes is a ballpark estimate of the longest running time created.
Why Columbia only offered these 10 shorts, and not the entire 16 films in the Besser group, is unknown.
The only FUN-O-RAMA footage created by Columbia was a special title leader, and a trailer.
Joe Besser
Joe
Moe Howard
Moe
Larry Fine
Larry
Angela Stevens
archive footage
Mary Ainslee
archive footage
Diana Darrin
archive footage
Connie Cezan
archive footage
Johnny Kascier
archive footage
Al Thompson
archive footage
Marie Monteil
archive footage
Christine McIntyre
archive footage
Harriette Tarler
archive footage
Heinie Conklin
archive footage
Vanda Dupre
archive footage
Joe Palma
archive footage
Phil Van Zandt
archive footage
Emil Sitka
archive footage
Milton Frome
archive footage
Harold Brauer
archive footage
Gene Roth
archive footage
Greta Thyssen
archive footage
Gail Bonney
archive footage
Arline Hunter
archive footage
Roy Jenson
archive footage
Billy Engle
archive footage
Bek Nelson
archive footage
Tony the Wonder Horse
archive footage
Jules White
archive footage
Muriel Landers
archive footage
Helen Dickson
archive footage
Victor Travers
archive footage
Mary Forbes
archive footage
Barbara Slater
archive footage
Symona Boniface
archive footage
Judy Malcolm
archive footage
Dan Blocker
archive footage
Wanda Perry
archive footage
Jules White
Director
Jules White
Producer
Felix Adler
Story, archive footage
Warren Wilson
Story, archive footage
Felix Adler
Screenplay, archive footage
Jack White
Screenplay, archive footage
Warren Wilson
Screenplay, archive footage
Jerome S. Gottler
Story and Screenplay, archive footage
Zion Myers
Story and Screenplay, archive footage
Searle Kramer
Story and Screenplay, archive foot
Irving Lippman
Photography, archive footage
Rex Wimpy
Photography, archive footage
Fayte M. Browne
Photography, archive footage
Henry Freulich
Photography, archive footage
Ray Cory
Photography, archive footage
William Bradford
Photography, archive footage
Fred Jackman Jr.
Photography, archive footage
George F. Kelley
Photography, archive footage
Aaron Stell
Film Editor, archive footage
William A. Lyon
Film Editor, archive footage
Harold White
Film Editor, archive footage
Edwin Bryant
Film Editor, archive footage
Saul A. Goodkind
Film Editor, archive footage
Cary Odell
Art Director, archive footage
Walter Holscher
Art Director, archive footage
Adam Gosse
Art Director, archive footage
Charles Clague
Art Director, archive footage
John McCormack
Art Director, archive footage
Milton Stumph
Set Decoration, archive footage
Sidney Clifford
Set Decoration, archive footage
Tom Oliphant
Set Decoration, archive footage
Fay Babcock
Set Decoration, archive footage
Sam Nelson
Asst. Director, archive footage
Herb Wallerstein
Asst. Director, archive footage
Jerrold Bernstein
Asst. Director, archive footage
Max Stein
Asst. Director, archive footage
Mitchell Gamson
Asst. Director, archive footage
Mischa K. Bakaleinikoff
Music, archive footage
Jules White
Music, archive footage
Ned Washington
Music and Lyrics, archive footage
Ted Koehler
Music and Lyrics, archive footage
Lester Lee
Music and Lyrics, archive footage
Harold Arlen
Music and Lyrics, archive footage
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