Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
This website is made possible, in part, by displaying a few online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker for this site.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker for this site.
Released September 08, 1949
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Columbia
15.75 min. (Short Subject)
15.75 min. (Short Subject)
Eric Loudermilk Potts is a bridegroom who misses his own wedding because he can't stop chasing fire trucks. Fiancee Mae breaks up with him to marry milksop Wilber at her father's insistence. But Eric's butler Simmons is determined to help true love, and arranges for Eric to crash the wedding and win Mae back.
Remade with stock footage as THE FIRE CHASER (1954).
Avg. Rating: 
[6.17/10]
[6.17/10]
Joe Besser
Eric Loudermilk Potts
Christine McIntyre
Mae Knott
Vernon Dent
J. Peabody Knott
Rodney Bell
Wilber Slemons
Kenner G. Kemp
Church wedding guest
Judy Malcolm
Church wedding guest
Stanley Blystone
Fire Chief
James Logan
Simmons
Andre Pola
Dr. Emil Gseundheit
Joe Palma
Detective
Charles Hamilton
Detective
Symona Boniface
Wedding guest
Johnny Kascier
Joe's stunt double
Unidentified WAITING IN THE LURCH 1
Wedding guests
Hugh McCollum
Producer
Edward Bernds
Director
Elwood Ullman
Screenplay
Vincent Farrar
Director of Photography
Henry DeMond
Film Editor
Charles Clague
Art Director
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We make such material available in an effort to advance awareness and understanding of the issues involved. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information please visit: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission directly from the copyright owner.
