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Bert Kalmar is a Book and Sound American born on 10 february 1884 at New York City (USA)
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Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
, 1h46Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical theatre, Romance
Actors June Haver, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Charles Ruggles, Rosemary DeCamp, Bess Flowers
Rating62%
Everybody Sing (1938)
, 1h20Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Allan Jones, Judy Garland, Fanny Brice, Reginald Owen, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner
Rating61%
Young Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland) has trouble fitting in at school, causing trouble by introducing her jazzy style into music class and being expelled as a result. Returning home to her dysfunctional and financially challenged family, where her playwright father, actress mother, and beautiful elder sister, Sylvia (Lynne Carver) compete for attention along with the funny Russian maid, Olga (Fanny Brice) and the hunky cook, Ricky (Allan Jones), who is not-so-secretly in love with Sylvia. Judy foils her father's attempt to ship her off to Europe by escaping from the ship and then trying out for a musical show as a blackface singer, taking advantage of her love of jazz to enchant the show's producer, who hires her and makes her a star of his new show. Meanwhile, Ricky cuts a personal album musically expressing his love for Sylvia. Nevertheless, Sylvia is forced into engagement with another man.
The Life of the Party (1937)
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Gene Raymond, Ann Shoemaker, Victor Moore, Harriet Nelson, Helen Broderick, Billy Gilbert
Rating56%
Walking on Air (1936)
, 1h10Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Jessie Ralph, Henry Stephenson, George Meeker, Gordon Jones
Roles Lyricist
Rating64%
Bright Lights (1935)
, 1h23Directed by Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Joe E. Brown, Ann Dvorak, Patricia Ellis, William Gargan, Joseph Cawthorn, Henry O'Neill
Rating61%
Joe's (Joe E. Brown) happy marriage is threatened when an heiress falls in love with him.
The Circus Clown (1934)
, 1h3Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films
Actors Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Dorothy Burgess, Don Dillaway, Gordon Westcott, Charles C. Wilson
Rating60%
The Circus Clown is about a man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)
, 1h8Directed by Mark Sandrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Lee, True Eames Boardman
Roles Lyricist
Rating63%
Todd stars as Amelia Frisby, the owner of a beauty supply business. Andy Williams (Wheeler) and Dr. Bob Dudley (Woolsey) convince her to hire them as salesman to promote her new flavored lipstick, and hilarity ensues. The film features Etting singing "Keep Romance Alive" and Bert Wheeler and Dorothy Lee singing "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.
Kentucky Kernels (1934)
, 1h15Directed by George Stevens, Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Willie Best, Mary Carlisle, Margaret Dumont, George McFarland
Roles Lyricist
Rating59%
Duck Soup (1933)
, 1h10Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Musical
Themes Monde imaginaire, Musical films, Political films
Actors Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern
Roles Writer
Rating76%
The wealthy Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) insists that Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) be appointed leader of the small, bankrupt country of Freedonia before she will continue to provide much-needed financial aid. Meanwhile, neighboring Sylvania is attempting to annex the country. Sylvanian ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) tries to foment a revolution and to woo Mrs. Teasdale, and he tries to dig up dirt on Firefly by sending in spies Chicolini (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo).
So This Is Africa (1933)
, 1h4Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Raquel Torres, Esther Muir, Berton Churchill, Henry Armetta
Roles Lyricist
Rating64%
Film studio "Ultimate Pictures" plans on producing an animal picture in Africa. The studio gets the help of animal specialist Mrs. Johnson Martini. There's just one problem: she's afraid of animals. Martini and the studio soon learn of Wilbur and Alexander, a couple of down on their luck vaudevillians with a trained lion act. The duo agree to join Martini on an expedition to Africa. While there, the trio finds themselves captured by a tribe of violent Amazons.
The Kid from Spain (1932)
, 1h36Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Bullfighting films
Actors Eddie Cantor, Lyda Roberti, Noah Beery, Jr, Robert Young, Ruth Hall, John Miljan
Roles Writer
Rating64%
Le réveil des jeunes filles, dans le dortoir de l'université, est un ballet de fraîcheur et de bonne humeur. Mais lorsque la surveillante entre dans la pièce, elle trouve un jeune homme dans l'un des lits : Eddie Williams, un étudiant victime d'une farce de son ami Ricardo. Tous deux sont renvoyés.
Horse Feathers (1932)
, 1h8Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, Reginald Barlow
Roles Lyricist
Rating74%
The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Many of the jokes about the amateur status of collegiate football players and how eligibility rules are stretched by collegiate athletic departments remain remarkably current. Groucho plays Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, and Zeppo is his son Frank, who convinces his father to recruit professional football players to help Huxley's team. There are also many references to Prohibition. Baravelli (Chico) is an "iceman", who delivers ice and bootleg liquor from a local speakeasy. Pinky (Harpo) is also an "iceman", and a part-time dogcatcher. Through a series of misunderstandings, Baravelli and Pinky are recruited to play on Huxley's football team; this requires them to enroll as students at Huxley, which creates chaos throughout the school.
Broadminded (1931)
, 1h5Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe E. Brown, Ona Munson, Bela Lugosi, William Collier Jr., Thelma Todd, Marjorie White
Rating56%
Brown plays Ossie, a New York City playboy sent to California to straighten himself out. He and his cousin, while driving west, pay too much attention to a sedan full of college girls and rear end a car driven by Pancho Arango (Bela Lugosi). The cousins make it to Hollywood where Brown falls in love with Lugosi's daughter.
The Cuckoos (1930)
, 1h37Directed by Paul Sloane
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, June Clyde, Hugh Trevor, Ivan Lebedeff
Roles Book
Rating60%
Professor Bird (Woolsey) and his partner, Sparrow (Wheeler), are a pair of charlatan fortune tellers who are bankrupt and stranded at a Mexican resort just south of the border. An heiress, Ruth Chester (June Clyde), appears, who is running away from her aunt, Fanny Furst (Jobyna Howland). She is in love with an American pilot, Billy Shannon (Hugh Trevor), but her aunt wishes her to marry the European nobleman, The Baron (Ivan Lebedeff), whom the aunt believes is the "right" type of person for her niece.
Animal Crackers (1930)
, 1h37Directed by Victor Heerman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont
Roles Theatre Play
Rating73%
The basic plot concerns Groucho, as explorer Captain Geoffrey (or Jeffrey) T. ("The 'T.' stands for Edgar.") Spaulding, attending a party in his honor at the estate of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse, and investigating the theft of a valuable painting during the party.