Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Featuring Miscellaneous Appearances
54 min. (TV Special)
Direct-to-video production inspired by The Stoogephile Trivia Book. This actually deals little with trivia, and primarily presents a showcase of film, trailer and TV footage, mostly public domain, from The Three Stooges' performing career. Interviews with actors and crew who worked with the Stooges are also shown. From many of the people who gave us 50 YEARS WITH THE THREE STOOGES: THE FUNNIEST GUYS IN THE WORLD (1983), this 1-hour tribute hosted by Jeff Forrester is, in format and content, essentially a sequel to that earlier production.
Film clips are taken from A PEACH OF A PAIR (1934), DISORDER IN THE COURT (1936), SWING PARADE OF 1946 (1946), BRIDELESS GROOM (1947), SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS (1947), MALICE IN THE PALACE (1949), AFRICA SCREAMS (1949), the television pilot JERKS OF ALL TRADES (1949), CAMEL COMEDY CARAVAN (1950), THE FRANK SINATRA SHOW (1952), STAR SPANGLED SALESMAN (1968), and trailers from HAVE ROCKET WILL TRAVEL (1959), 4 FOR TEXAS (1963) and THE OUTLAWS IS COMING! (1965). In addition, there's Moe's solo turn on the TV pilot STRICTLY FOR LAFFS (1962), Healy replacement stooges "The Gentlemaniacs" in SWING IT PROFESSOR (1937), and video footage taken at the dedication of The Stooges' star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame (Aug. 30, 1983).
Closing credits list "A. L. Stewer" as the Sound Mixer, and "Wm. Bill Wick" as the Boom Operator... two characters from THREE DARK HORSES (1952).
Received a VHS reissue in 1995, retitled as "The Three Stooges Comedy Adventure."
Jeff Forrester
Host
Moe Howard
archive footage
Larry Fine
archive footage
Shemp Howard
archive footage
Jerry Howard
archive footage
Joe Besser
Himself / archive footage
Joe DeRita
archive footage
Ted Healy
archive footage
Bonnie Bonnell
archive footage
Henry Freulich
Himself
Al Keller
Himself
Phyllis Fine Lamond
Herself
Paul Howard
Himself
Marilyn Howard Ellman
Herself
Jean DeRita
Herself
Jennifer Howard
Herself
Joan Howard Maurer
Herself
Julie Gibson
Herself
Jock Mahoney
Himself
Edward Bernds
Himself
Jules White
Himself
Elwood Ullman
Himself
Emil Sitka
Himself / archive footage
Frank Mitchell
Himself
Leonard Maltin
Himself
Paul 'Mousie' Garner
Himself / archive footage
Dick Hakins
Himself / archive footage
Sammy Wolfe
Himself / archive footage
Adam West
Himself / archive footage
Milton Berle
Himself
Gary Owens
Himself
Roscoe Ates
archive footage
Emmett Vogan
archive footage
Johnny Kascier
archive footage
Everett Brown
archive footage
Johnny Berkes
archive footage
Billy Gilbert
archive footage
Max 'Slapsie' Rosenbloom
archive footage
Dee Green
archive footage
Edward Brophy
archive footage
Phil Regan
archive footage
Gale Storm
archive footage
Bud Jamison
archive footage
Edward LeSaint
archive footage
Tiny Jones
archive footage
Alice Belcher
archive footage
William J. O'Brien
archive footage
Hank Bell
archive footage
Dan Brady
archive footage
Jack Duffy
archive footage
George Gray
archive footage
Ruth Lee
archive footage
Suzanne Kaaren
archive footage
James C. Morton
archive footage
Eddie Laughton
archive footage
Sam Lufkin
archive footage
Harry Seiden
archive footage
Harry Keatan
archive footage
Solomon Horwitz
archive footage
Bobby Barber
archive footage
Russell Hicks
archive footage
Harold Brauer
archive footage
Phil Arnold
archive footage
Vernon Dent
archive footage
Virginia Hunter
archive footage
Al Thompson
archive footage
Joan Crawford
archive footage
Frank Sinatra
archive footage
Ed Wynn
archive footage
Symona Boniface
archive footage
Dave Barry
archive footage
Lou Costello
archive footage
Jerome Cowan
archive footage
Robert Colbert
archive footage
Anna-Lisa Ruud
archive footage
Ursula Andress
archive footage
Anita Ekberg
archive footage
Dean Martin
archive footage
Charles Bronson
archive footage
Howard Morris
archive footage
Alexandra Hay
archive footage
Nancy Kovack
archive footage
Joe Bolton
archive footage
Bill Camfield
archive footage
Hal Fryar
archive footage
Sally Starr
archive footage
Johnny Ginger
archive footage
Wayne Mack
archive footage
Ed T. McDonnell
archive footage
Bruce Sedley
archive footage
Paul Shannon
archive footage
Murray Alper
archive footage
Henry Gibson
archive footage
Rex Holman
archive footage
Mort Mills
archive footage
Don Lamond
archive footage
Jeff Forrester
Producer
Mark S. Gilman
Producer
Dave Stuckey
Producer
Dave Stuckey
Writer
Jeff Forrester
Writer
Mark S. Gilman
Writer
Bob Fisher
Director of Photography
Pat Flannery
Videotape
Steve Williams
Videotape
Steve Blumenfeld
Videotape
Bruce Ochmanek
On-Line Editor
Marc Boeddeker
On-Line Editor
A. L. Stewer
Sound Mixer
George Verschoor
Assistant Cameraman
Mark Lyons
Ceremony Photography
Wm. 'Bill' Wick
Boom
Tom Forrester
Graphics
Steve Cox
Stills
Nancy Roberts Gilman
Production Assistant
Ray Atherton
Special Thanks
Bobby Pinkus
Special Thanks
Dick Hakins
Special Thanks
Kenneth Lackey
Special Thanks
Sam Braun
Special Thanks
Eddie Brandt
Special Thanks
Lou Warren
Special Thanks
Paul Addis
Special Thanks
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