Jimmy Durante
That's Entertainment, Part II
Med den første talefilmen begynte filmstjernene å snakke, synge... og danse. I 30 år, fra 1930-, 1940- og 1950-tallet, begynte en helt egen amerikansk kunstform å spre seg i Technicolor fra Hollywood og til hele verden. Nå er de beste scenene fra kinoens gullalder samlet i en uavbrutt og genial hyllest til disse filmene - That's Entertainment, Part II! Med Fred Astaire og Gene Kelly som fortellere, fortsetter denne filmen der That's Entertainment! slapp, men i tillegg til å vise flotte musikalnumre, har denne filmen komedie og drama fra stjerner som Greta Garbo, Clark Gable og Marx Brothers, og vertene Astaire og Kelly synger og danser i nye musikalnumre regissert av Kelly!
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, and Martha Raye star in this big-screen portrayal of Rodgers and Hart's Broadway musical about an all-out effort to save a struggling circus—Billy Rose's Jumbo. Pop Wonder's (Durante) gambling debts have put his circus in danger of default—an event completely unforeseen by Lulu (Martha Raye) the fortuneteller—and the circus has to sell its beloved elephant, Jumbo. Suddenly, the Wonder circus' luck seems to turn with the arrival of jack-of-all trades Sam Rawlins (Stephen Boyd), who helps save the big top as he steals the heart of Wonder's daughter, Kitty (Day). But is Rawlins the circus' romantic savior that he seems to be, or does he have another motive? And can the growing love between Kitty and Rawlins be enough to win his loyalty?
The Great Rupert
When bookings dry up for his act, Joe Mahoney has to give up his accommodation and free his trained squirrel, Rupert. Vaudeville friends, equally down on their luck, take over Mahoney's rooms. Love is on the cards when the squirrel provides some valuable assistance.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a mad, mad, mad mad farcical return to the days of the Keystone Cop comedies, on an Ultra Panavision scale, in this star-studded extravaganza. A multitude of people have been given a clue by a dying man (Jimmy Durante) as to the location of $350,000 in stolen bank money that he has buried. They cannot come to an agreement to seek out the loot as a cooperative unit, so they set out separately in a mad race to get to it first. They do not know that the state police are on to them and are simply allowing the loot-seekers to lead them to the stolen bucks. The loot-chasers are ruthless, devious, crackpot and very often dimwitted in their frantic, hilarious race. Stanley Kramer took an intermission from socially conscious subjects to direct this riotous comedy. Photography by Ernest Laszlo.
Billy Rose's Jumbo
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves in this Oscar-nominated musical. Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Doris Day ("Pillow Talk"), Oscar- winner and Emmy-nominee Martha Raye (TV's "Alice in Wonderland") and Jimmy Durante ("It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World") star in this fun and lively production.
It Happened In Brooklyn
Frank Sinatra og Peter Lawford spiller to kamerater som kjemper om den samme kvinnen i den romantiske komedien It Happened in Brooklyn fylt med sang og dans. Når ekssoldaten Webson Miller (Sinatra) reiser tilbake til sitt gamle nabolag i Brooklyn, møter han den sjenerte Jamie Shelgrove fra byens beste strøk og bestemmer seg for å gjøre ham til en "Sønn av Flatbush." Men det oppstår problemer når begge karene forelsker seg i lærerinnen Anne Fielding (Kathryn Grayson).
It Happened In Brooklyn
A returning GI and his friends try to make it in the music business.