Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges
88.9 min. (Feature Film)
Compilation of scenes from MGM comedies of the 1920s to early 1950s. Ted Healy & His Stooges appear in a scene from HOLLYWOOD PARTY (1934). Additional scenes from HOLLYWOOD PARTY appear here, with footage of Laurel & Hardy, Lupe Velez, and Jimmy Durante.
Les Tremayne
Narrator
Ted Healy
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Larry Fine
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Jerry Howard
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Moe Howard
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Douglas Fairbanks
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John Gilbert
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Joan Crawford
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Lew Cody
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Josephine Crowell
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Tod Browning
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Monta Bell
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Marion Davies
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Owen Moore
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Karl Dane
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Polly Moran
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George K. Arthur
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Marceline Day
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Buster Keaton
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Harry Gribbon
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William Haines
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Charlie Chaplin
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Richard Carle
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Jed Prouty
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Jimmy Durante
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Lupe Velez
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Marie Dressler
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Anita Page
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Wallace Beery
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Tammany Young
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Jean Harlow
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Clark Gable
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Garry Owen
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Dorothy Burgess
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Franchot Tone
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Lee Tracy
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Jack Norton
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Fuzzy Knight
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Lionel Barrymore
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Cary Grant
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Lewis Stone
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Frank Dawson
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Robert Taylor
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Barnett Parker
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Spencer Tracy
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Charley Grapewin
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Karen Morley
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Billie Burke
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Edmund Lowe
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Grant Mitchell
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Phillips Holmes
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Louise Closser Hale
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Carole Lombard
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Zasu Pitts
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Chester Morris
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Nat Pendleton
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Ferdinand Gottschalk
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Clarence H. Wilson
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Nora Cecil
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W. C. Fields
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Jean Cadell
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Freddie Bartholemew
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Stan Laurel
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Oliver Hardy
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Lionel Belmore
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Dick Wessel
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Tom Herbert
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James Finlayson
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Leo Carrillo
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Willie Fung
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Katharine Hepburn
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Robert Benchley
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Ruth Lee
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John Butler
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Betty Ross Clarke
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Ricardo Lord Cezon
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Jack Baxley
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Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
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William Powell
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Myrna Loy
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Bert Roach
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Tom Ricketts
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Charles Williams
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Gail Patrick
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Elisha Cook Jr.
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Bud Abbott
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Lou Costello
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Peter Whitney
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Dick Rich
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Norman Abbott
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Lucille Ball
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Bert Lahr
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Dick Powell
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Red Skelton
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Brian Donlevy
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John Ireland
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Robert J. Wilke
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Jeff Corey
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Louise Beavers
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Greta Garbo
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Melvyn Douglas
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George Tobias
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Winifred Harris
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Groucho Marx
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Chico Marx
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Harpo Marx
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John Carroll
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Diana Lewis
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Billy Wayne
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Edgar Dearing
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Walter Woolf King
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Robert Barrat
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Dave O'Brien
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Pete Smith
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Celia Travers
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Maxine Gates
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Snub Pollard
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Don Brodie
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Robert Youngson
Director
Robert Youngson
Producer
Alfred Dahlem
Associate Producer
Robert Youngson
Screenplay
Jack Shaindlin
Conductor
Bernard Green
Music
Robert Youngson
Lyrics
Robert Youngson
Titles and Effects
I. Hill Youngson
Production Manager
Jeanne Keyes Youngson
Research Supervisor
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