Month: August 2018

movie review of Cracking Up starring Jerry Lewis, with appearances by Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr.

Cracking Up

August 24, 2018 tom.raymond 0

Cracking Up (1983) starring Jerry Lewis

Sailor Beware (1952) starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Sailor Beware

August 23, 2018 tom.raymond 0

Sailor Beware (1952) starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis The description from Amazon.com reads: “Chasing pretty girls, blowing up a liferaft inside a submarine, virtually every […]

Scared Stiff (1953) starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizbeth Scott, Carmen Miranda

Scared Stiff

August 22, 2018 tom.raymond 0

Scared Stiff (1953) starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizbeth Scott, Carmen Miranda Scared Stiff is a remake of the Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard comedy, The […]

Funny Bones - Struggling in the shadow of his famous comedian father, a young comic retreats to his old hometown when his act bombs in Las Vegas - then ...

Funny Bones, starring Jerry Lewis

August 21, 2018 tom.raymond 0

Editorial review of Funny Bones, courtesy of Amazon.com Funny Bones, directed by Peter Chelsom (Hear My Song), is a weird but intriguing comedy with a […]

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Bring your pet to show and tell

August 15, 2018 tom.raymond 0

Bring your pet to show and tell – a skit for a speaking clown troupe [Editor’s note: my clown friend, Doc the Rube, told me […]

The Stooge, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen

The Stooge [Martin and Lewis]

August 14, 2018 tom.raymond 0

The Stooge (1951), starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis first became famous as a nightclub act, graduating to […]

Pardners (1956) starring Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin

Pardners

August 13, 2018 tom.raymond 0

Pardners (1956) starring Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin Synopsis of Pardners In Pardners, Rich momma’s boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his […]

Clowns and Elephants are the pegs upon which the circus is hung. - P. T. Barnum

World Elephant Day 2018

August 12, 2018 tom.raymond 0

Happy World Elephant Day! Most of us have heard the quote from P. T. Barnum, “Clowns and Elephants are the pegs upon which the circus […]

Harold Lloyd hanging on for life from a clock in the iconic scene in Safety Last!

Safety Last!

August 6, 2018 tom.raymond 0

Safety Last! (1923) starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis Synopsis of Safety Last! In Safety Last! Harold Lloyd plays a small-town fellow, trying to become a […]

Speedy (1928) starring Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth

Speedy

August 5, 2018 tom.raymond 0

Speedy (1928) starring Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Byron Douglas Synopsis of Speedy Harold “Speedy” Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and […]