Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released May 24, 1935
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
MGM
69.4 min. (Feature Film)
69.4 min. (Feature Film)
The SS Carolina is installing a new, top-secret gunnery system, which will be unveiled and tested for visiting foreign dignitaries. Navy Lt. Randolph (Robert Taylor) is in charge of the new system, and romancing his rich girl friend (Jean Parker). Ted Healy comes on board as a civilian electrical engineer who has an eye on the same "goil" as the ship's CPO, played by Nat Pendleton. Enemy activity leads to murder, with Ward Bond in an early role as the murder victim. Lt. Randolph is ordered to solve the killings and maintain national security by keeping the gunnery test on schedule.
Once again, MGM paired Healy and Pendleton as friendly adversaries, with good comic results. An MGM mystery feature is turned into a fun comic diversion due to their interplay.
Avg. Rating: 
[6.50/10]
[6.50/10]
Robert Taylor
Lt. Tom Randolph
Jean Parker
Betty Lansing
Ted Healy
Gabby Mac O'Neill
Nat Pendleton
CPO Spud Burke
Una Merkel
Toots Timmon
Arthur Byron
Capt. John Winslow
Charles C. Wilson
Cmdr. Brown
Donald Cook
Lt. Cmdr. David Tucker
John Hyams
Ambrose Justin
Leila McIntyre
Mrs. Justin
J. Anthony Hughes
Walter Drake
Raymond Hatton
Al Duval
Jean Hersholt
Victor Hanson
Sam Labrador
Oriental crewman
Mischa Auer
Foreign Consul
Keye Luke
Consul Secretary
Ward Bond
Johnson
William Tannen
Pee Wee Adams
Frank Shields
Lt. Arnold
James P. Burtis
Winch operator
Robert Livingston
Dr. Spencer
Tom Dugan
Greasy
Edward Norris
Sleepy
Richard Tucker
Harry Jeffries
Carlyle Moore Jr.
Orderly
Mary Doran
Jenny Lane
Wally Maher
Bill Williams
Phyllis Crane
Visitor
Charles Sherlock
Sailor taking messages
Charles Sullivan
Sailor with fingerprint report
Lee Phelps
Officer disciplining guard
George Magrill
2nd guard on watch
Syd Saylor
CPO reporting to Winslow
Joseph Young
Officer
Bernard Carr
Officer
Charles Dunbar
Crewman
Julie Bescos
Crewman
Fred Graham
Crewman
Al Williams
Crewman
Unidentified MURDER IN THE FLEET 2
Boatswain
Unidentified MURDER IN THE FLEET 3
Betty's chauffeur
Unidentified MURDER IN THE FLEET 4
Slovinsky
Unidentified MURDER IN THE FLEET 5
Officer of the Deck
Unidentified MURDER IN THE FLEET 7
Guard on watch
Unidentified MURDER IN THE FLEET 9
Orderlies
Eddie Sedgwick
Director
Lucien Hubbard
Producer
Eddie Sedgwick
Story
Frank Wead
Screenplay
James Gleason
Screenplay
Joseph Sherman
Screenplay
Conrad A. Nervig
Film Editor
Milton R. Krasner
Photography
Douglas Shearer
Recording Director
Cedric Gibbons
Art Director
David Townsend
Associate Art Director
Edwin B. Willis
Associate Art Director
Fred Gabourie
Set Decoration
Edward Ward
Original Music
Al Shenberg
Assistant Director
George B. Seitz
Assistant Director
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