The First Traveling Saleslady 1956  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing, David Brian, Clint Eastwood, James Arness, Robert F. Simon, Frank Wilcox, Dan White, Harry Cheshire
In this weak comedy, Rose Gillray (Ginger Rogers) finds love when she sets off to deal with rough cattlemen. Keep on the lookout for a very young Clint Eastwood.
|  | |
Happily Ever After 1990  G, 74 min.
Genre: Family
Director: John Howley
Cast: Edward Asner, Carol Channing, Irene Cara, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Michael Horton, Sally Kellerman, Malcolm McDowell, Tracey Ullman
Did you ever wonder what happened to Snow White and her Prince? Well, this follow-up tells of their trials and tribulations when the Wicked Queen's brother, Lord Malis, captures the prince, and Snow White is left to use her own wits in the forest. The film is saved only by the good voices.
| | |
Shinbone Alley 1971  G, 83 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical
Director: John D. Wilson
Cast: Carol Channing, Eddie Bracken, Alan Reed, John Carradine, Hal Smith, Ken Sansom, Joan Gerber, Sal Delano
This animated musical was adapted by Mel Brooks from Don Marquis' stories about a very literate writer, Archy (voice of Eddie Bracken), who happens to be a cockroach and Mehitabel (voice of Carol Channing) the not-so-good cat who is prone to trouble and claims to have been Cleopatra in an earlier life.
| | |
Skidoo 1968  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Otto Preminger, John Uris
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin, John Phillip Law, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Groucho Marx, Austin Pendleton, Alexandra Hay
Former racketeer and hit man Tony Banks (Jackie Gleason) is now the owner of a car wash with a zany wife, Flo (Carol Channing), and daughter Darlene (Alexandra Hay) who has gotten into the hippie scene–much to the dismay of Tony. But his problems really begin when gang boss "God" (Groucho Marx) orders Tony to do one more "job." He must get into the prison where his target, "Blue Chips" (Mickey Rooney), "resides." Tony ends up high on LSD, realizes he must get out of the prison, and with help from new-found prisoner friends gets the prison guards high on LSD and takes off in a balloon. Menawhile, Darlene has been taken hostage on "God's" yacht. And the wacky, weak film continues.
| | |
Thoroughly Modern Millie 1967 N/R, 138 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, James Fox, John Gavin, Beatrice Lillie, Jack Soo, Pat Morita, Philip Ahn, Anthony Dexter
Millie Dillmount (Julie Andrews) arrives in New York City in search of a job and husband but is threatened with being sold into a white slavery ring. Although this 1920's farce is too long, it won an Academy Award for Best Musical Score and received six other nominations, including Best Supporting Actress (Carol Channing).
| | |
Thumbelina 1994 G, 86 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Cast: Jodi Benson, Carol Channing, Gary Imhoff, Charo, Gino Conforti, John Hurt, Kenneth Mars, Gilbert Gottfried, Will Ryan, June Foray, Barbara Cook, Joe Lynch, Danny Mann, Loren Lester, Tawny Sunshine Glover
This version of Hans Christian Anderson's tale of the tiny Tumbelina (voice of Jodi Benson) is cleverly put together as our little heroine avoids many dangers. The voices of the cartoon characters are good, and Barry Manilow's music is a strength.
| | |
Wisecracks 1992 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Gail Singer
Cast: Phyllis Diller, Whoopi Goldberg, Sandra Shamas, Jenny LeCoat, Mae West, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Fanny Brice, Carol Burnett, Carol Channing
This film uses the documentary style to present short clips from comediennes' routines. Such diverse personalities as Phyllis Diller, Whoopi Goldberg, Mae West, and Lucille Ball are highlighted. The underlying theme is sexism in comedy–both on stage and behind the scenes.
| | |
| 1. The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
2. Happily Ever After (1990)
3. Shinbone Alley (1971)
4. Skidoo (1968)
5. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
6. Thumbelina (1994)
7. Wisecracks (1992)
In The News
|
