Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released March 20, 1942
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
76 min. (Feature Film)
76 min. (Feature Film)
Reformed safecracker Aloyisius "Butch" Grogan (Broderick Crawford) regularly babysits the infant son of widow Susie O'Neill (Virginia Bruce). When his former cronies come to him with a payroll job, Butch signs on because he is the only one experienced to handle the nitroglycerin needed to blow the safe... and then realizes that it's on the same night that he babysits. He can't find a substitute sitter, and decides that the only thing he can do is take the baby with him. Complicating matters are Susie's suspicious policeman boyfriend (Dick Foran), and a curious baby with an attraction to nitroglycerin.
Shemp costars as one of the safecrackers, a myopic gangster, similar to his Gunner character in AFRICA SCREAMS (1949).
Avg. Rating: 
[9.00/10]
[9.00/10]
Virginia Bruce
Susie O'Neill
Broderick Crawford
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan
Dick Foran
Officer Dennis Devlin
H. Michael Barnitz
Michael O'Neill, the baby
Shemp Howard
Blinky Sweeny
Richard Lane
Harry the Horse
Tim Ryan
Mr. Dugan
Connie Leon
Neighbor
Ted Lorch
Neighbor
Porter Hall
Brandy Smith
Eddie Kane
Louie
Tom Kennedy
Philly the Weeper
Eddie Foster
Hot Horse Herbie
Billy Wayne
Bookie Bob
Russell Hicks
Carrington
Charles Sullivan
Big Nig
Joe King
Police Lieutenant
Frank Moran
Jack the Beefer
Joey Ray
Bookie
Charles Sherlock
Bookie
Jack Gardner
Bookie
Jimmy O'Gatty
Spanish John
Rosina Galli
Mrs. Talucci
Janet Ann Gallow
Girl
Albert Ray
Boy
Henry Hall
Farmer
Pat McKee
Nathan Detroit
Grant Withers
Cactus Pete
Lou Lubin
Acey Deucey
Fuzzy Knight
Wyoming
Cliff Clark
Police Captain
Gino Corrado
Waiter
Paul McVey
U. S. Attorney Johnson
Wade Boteler
Policeman
James C. Morton
Policeman
Spider McCoy
Henchman
Al Bain
Henchman
George Magrill
Henchman
Albert S. Rogell
Director
Jules Levey
Producer
Damon Runyon
Original Story
Leonard Spigelgass
Screenplay
Elwood Bredell
Director of Photography
Milton Carruth
Film Editor
Jack Otterson
Art Director
Ralph M. DeLacy
Associate Art Director
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Bernard B. Brown
Sound Director
Jess Moulin
Sound Technician
Charles Previn
Musical Director
Frank Skinner
Original Music
Howard Christie
Assistant Director
Vera West
Gowns
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