Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges
81.9 min. (Feature Film)
Letty Morris is a New York dancer who escapes the advances of gangster 'Legs' Caffey by jumping a cross-country bus to Hollywood. Legs learns of her plans and boards the same bus. Along the way, they pass a penitentiary where fugitive Paul Porter makes his escape. During a stop-over, Porter takes a seat on the bus and immediately falls for Letty. Legs soon figures out who Porter really is and threatens to turn him in, but after realizing Letty is in love, relents and allows Porter to escape. Detective Daly catches up with Letty and travels with her, waiting for Porter to rejoin her. Porter steals the bus during an overnight stop and Letty joins him. When Porter happens upon a busload of school children caught in a dangerous snow storm, he risks all to save them.
Healy costars as an overbearing passenger, while the Stooges ride along as vaudeville performers The Three Julians.
Healy stooge Red Pearson can be spotted in the bus scenes as a sailor passenger.
Robert Montgomery is the father of Elizabeth Montgomery (BEWITCHED).
Robert Montgomery
Paul Porter
Madge Evans
Letty Morris
Ted Healy
Hector Withington, Jr.
Nat Pendleton
Legs Caffey
C. Henry Gordon
Detective Daly
Ruth Selwyn
Babe Callahan
Imogene Coca
Peanuts
Larry Fine
One of The Three Julians
Jerry Howard
One of The Three Julians
Moe Howard
One of The Three Julians
Lester Allen
Parker
Wade Boteler
Policeman arresting Parker
James Burke
Joe Cobb, 1st bus driver
Walter Brennan
2nd bus driver
Syd Saylor
3rd bus driver
Don Brodie
Lefty, Leg's henchman
Al Hill
Joe, Leg's henchman
Heinie Conklin
Man at bus with Hector
Milton Kibbee
Drunken friend of Hector
Harrison Greene
Drunken friend of Hector
Ray Cooke
Bellboy
Nell Craig
Cashier
Richard Cramer
Police Lieutenant
Frank Sheridan
Police Chief
Edward Hearn
Detective
Harry Tenbrook
Policeman
Edward Gargan
Policeman
Ben Hendricks, Jr.
Steve, motorcycle policeman
Louise Emmons
Newspaper hawker
Sherry Hall
Bus station clerk
Virginia Hammond
Straight-laced bus passenger
Carl Stockdale
Straight-laced woman's husband
Wilbur Mack
Theatre manager
Akim Tamiroff
Deaf mute bus passenger
Red Pearson
Sailor bus passenger
Leo White
Bus passenger
DeWitt Jennings
Prison warden
Budd Fine
Prison guard
Walter Long
Prison guard
Bobby Watson
Eddie, stage manager
Dad Mills
Blind man
Margaret Mann
Old lady
Sam McDaniel
Station attendant washing floor
Charles R. Moore
Porter
Inez Palange
Maria
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Man driving car during escape
Maidel Turner
Little boy's mother
Delmar Watson
Tommy
Lucien Hubbard
Associate Producer
Richard Boleslavsky
Director
Ferdinand Reyher
Story
Frank Wead
Story
George B. Seitz
Screenplay
Frances Goodrich
Screenplay
Albert Hackett
Screenplay
Ted Tetzlaff
Photography
William S. Gray
Film Editor
Arnold Gillespie
Art Director
Douglas Shearer
Recording Director
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Harry Sharrock
Assistant Director
William N. Sparks
Sound Mixer
W. Donn Hayes
Music Editor
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