Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp
15.9 min. (Short Subject)
The Stooges have been taking care of Mary, their downstairs neighbor who is confined to a wheelchair. The boys have jobs hanging posters at a theatre featuring The Great Svengarlic, a famous hypnotist. Svengarlic is also the leader of a gang of jewel thieves, who plan to rob an office building next door to the theatre. When Svengarlic needs some dupes who will help him put on a public exhibition, distracting everyone from his gang's next robbery, the Stooges are hypnotized to walk out on a flagpole and dance many stories above the street. Svengarlic is knocked unconcious in an accident, and the Stooges awake to find themselves clinging to the flagpole for dear life.
A remake, with stock footage, of HOKUS POKUS (1949).
The new footage for FLAGPOLE JITTERS was filmed July 1, 1955; the new footage to FOR CRIMIN' OUT LOUD (1956) was filmed on June 30, 1955. Contrary to what the release dates lead some to think, Shemp's final work before the camera was done for FLAGPOLE JITTERS.
Shemp Howard
Shemp
Moe Howard
Moe
Larry Fine
Larry
Mary Ainslee
Mary
Vernon Dent
Insurance adjuster
Barbara Bartay
Chorus girl with ice cream
Beverly Thomas
Mary, blonde chorus girl
Bonnie Henjum
Chorus girl
David Bond
Svengarlic
Ned Glass
Svengarlic's manager
Edwin Rochelle
Svengarlic's mgr., new footage
Don C. Harvey
Jack
Frank Sully
Jim
Johnny Kascier
Man on bicycle
Edwin Rochelle
Larry's stand-in
Harold Breen
Moe's stand-in
Charles Cross
Shemp's stand-in
Jules White
Producer
Jules White
Director
Felix Adler
Story
Jack White
Screenplay
Felix Adler
Screenplay, stock footage
Irving Lippman
Director of Photography
Vincent Farrar
Photography, stock footage
Harold White
Film Editor
Edwin Bryant
Film Editor, stock footage
Cary Odell
Art Director
Robert Peterson
Art Director, stock footage
Willard Sheldon
Assistant Director
Gil Grau
Music
Nico Grigor
Music
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