Jerry Lewis
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They were the unlikeliest of pairs--a handsome Italian crooner and a skinny Jewish monkey. The moment they got together, something clicked--and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis would be after them, grabbing an unprecedented hold over radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution--and then, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces,...
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"Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden's groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics...
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A newlywed naval officer, John Paul Steckler VII, is whisked away from his honeymoon to face a congressional investigation into what happened to the U.S.S. Kornblatt, the WWII battleship Steckler had commanded. The crew arrived home safely, but the ship, last seen sailing in circles, is missing. Steckler suffers from a mental block about the Kornblatt's last mission, so the investigative committee assigns a beautiful psychiatrist to probe his subconscious....
5) The bellboy
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An incompetent, mute bellhop is rather unaccountably hired at a posh hotel in Miami Beach. A good deal of luggage is dropped, often from upper stories.
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Join Curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat as they set out on a madcap cross-country adventure to reunite Kayla, a homesick elephant, with her family. This unlikely trio faces all types of comic calamities and colorful characters and in the end learn that with family, friends and determination you can achieve anything.
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Goofy TV repairman Clayton Poole becomes an unexpected father of three infant girls. The girls are children of his childhood sweetheart, now a famous actress, Carla Naples. She must temporarily give up the children to protect her career and star in a major Hollywood production. It's triple the hi-jinks, triple the fun and triple the laughs. Whether it's changing the diapers, warming the bottles or singing off-key lullabies, this in-over-his-head nanny...
8) The Patsy
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When a top comedian is killed in a plane crash, his sycophants try to groom a bellhop into taking his place.
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Dog walker Norman Phiffer is in love with Barbara Tuttle, an elevator operator in her parents' department store. Barbara's conniving mother, Phoebe disapproves of the young couple and is determined to break up her daughter's romance with the incompetent boob. With hidden ulterior motives, Phoebe hires Norman to work in her department store and despite the impossible requests of Mr. Quimby, the store manager; Norman manages to do an admirable job in...
11) Money from home
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Set in New York City, Herman owes a huge gambling debt, and in order to pay it off he tries to fix a horse race with the help of his cousin, a veterinarian's apprentice. Unfortunately for Herman, he falls in love with the horse's owner.
12) The trust
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Waters and Stone are two nobody police officers working dull administrative jobs and making extra money selling stolen Civil Service Exams to other officers. When Stone hears a story about a heroin dealer quickly beating his extremely high bail, the two friends set into motion a plan to find the origin of such a large amount of cash. Through diligent police work they follow a trail that leads directly to a custom bank-style vault.
13) Arizona dream
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Newly arrived in small-town Arizona from New York city, Axel plans to stay only long enough to be best man at his uncle's wedding, but he soon discovers that desert life has its charms - including an attractive older woman and her intriguing daughter.
14) Dying laughing
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It is a candid look inside the agony and ecstasy of making people laugh for a living. A stand-up comedian must be the writer, the director, and the star performer. There is no rehearsal, no practice, and no safety net when they are in front of a live audience. For most people, baring their soul on stage and having an audience "boo" at them would become a life-long trauma, but for stand-up comedians, it's a nightly challenge.
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Adapted from the stage to the screen, the film follows the lives of American journalist Bernard Lawrence and his friend and fellow journalist Robert Reed in Paris. Bernard, the ultimate bachelor, is juggling romances with three different stewardesses who just happen to have three different schedules and nationalities. Robert is scheming to take over for his buddy after Bernard's job relocates him to another country.