Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released April 23, 1937
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
MGM
73.6 min. (Feature Film)
73.6 min. (Feature Film)
Clem Hawley (Wallace Beery) is a good-hearted family man, but he's also perpetually unemployed and spends his free time with local bootlegger Al Simmons (Ted Healy), reminiscing on the days before Prohibition. Son Clemmie Jr. steals some stock certificates of his mother's, and sells them to greedy Cousin Webster for quick cash to cover his embezzlement debt and support his girlfriend, a city showgirl. Long-suffering Matilda assumes her husband took the stock to buy bootleg liquor, and wonders if her 30-year marriage is worth saving. Clem must summon up the initiative to try and save his family, and keep his son from jail.
Avg. Rating: 
[6.00/10]
[6.00/10]
Wallace Beery
Clem Hawley
Janet Beecher
Matilda Hawley
Una Merkel
Nellie
Ted Healy
Al Simmons
Robert McWade
Webster Parsons
Eric Linden
Clemmie Hawley
Betty Furness
Lucy Hawley
James Bush
Tom Ogden
Margaret Hamilton
Minnie
George Sidney
Kennedy
Judith Barrett
Ina Heath
Guy Rennie
Master of Ceremonies
Torben Meyer
Headwaiter
Libby Taylor
Clare, maid
Oscar O'Shea
Jake
Donald Briggs
Fred
Louis Mason
Johnny, watchman
Frank Darien
Jasper
Bert Roach
Mike
Almeda Fowler
Clemmie's secretary
Heinie Conklin
Man at slot machine
Harry Rapf
Producer
J. Walter Ruben
Director
A. E. Thomas
Screenplay
Don Marquis
Original Play
Arthur Hopkins
Stage Play Producer
Clyde De Vinna
Photography
Frank Sullivan
Film Editor
Chet Forrest
Lyrics
Bob Wright
Lyrics
Walter Donaldson
Music
Edward Ward
Musical Score
Douglas Shearer
Recording Director
Cedric Gibbons
Art Director
Edwin B. Willis
Associate Art Director
Eddie Imazu
Associate Art Director
Dolly Tree
Wardrobe
Val Raset
Dance Ensembles
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