The Alphabet Murders 1966  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The ABC Murders
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Maurice Denham, Guy Rolfe, Sheila Allen, James Villiers, Julian Glover, Grazina Frame, Clive Morton, Richard Wattis, David Lodge, Cyril Luckham, Austin Trevor
There's a murderer on the loose, and he's killing his victims in alphabetical order. Agatha Christie's famed detective, Hercule Poirot (Tony Randall), is on the trail in this comedic take on the Christie story.
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Artists and Models 1955  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone, Eddie Mayehoff, Eva Gabor, Anita Ekberg, Jack Elam, Herbert Rudley, Richard Shannon
Romance blooms among cartoonists in this delightful Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis film about Rick Todd (Martin) who gets ideas for his cartoons from Eugene Fullstack's (Lewis) dreams.
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Bachelor Flat 1961 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Terry-Thomas, Celeste Holm, Francesca Bellini, Howard McNear, Ann Del Guercio, Roxanne Arlen, Alice Reinheart, Stephen Bekassy
Archeology professor Bruce's (Terry-Thomas) female students are continually after him, but he is engaged to Helen (Celeste Holm), who is away in Paris. He is staying at Helen's apartment, and when Helen's teenage daughter, Libby (Tuesday Weld), arrives to stay at her mother's place, Bruce thinks she is just another student chasing him (he doesn't know that Helen has a daughter). A so-so comedy.
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Caprice 1967  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Doris Day, Richard Harris, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Michael J. Pollard, Edward Mulhare, Lilia Skala, Irene Tsu
Cosmetics executive Patricia Fowler (Doris Day) vies with Christopher White (Richard Harris) for the formula behind a new make-up. Oh, Doris, why would you make such a bad movie?
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Cinderfella 1960   N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Henry Silva, Robert Hutton, Count Basie, Joe Williams, Shari Lee Bernath, Del Moore, Stephen Hammer, Richard Klein, Barry Gordon, Milton Frome, Anne Dore
In this take-off on "Cinderella," Fella (Jerry Lewis) is aided by his fairy godfather (Ed Wynn) in his quest for the love of Princess Charmein (Anna Maria Alberghetti). 1 User Review
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| | cinderfella | bobodooba 01/27/2007 | | i like the part when jerry lewis came down those stairs and started dancing jerry lewis could really dance and sing hes a great comedian and producer and anna marie alberghetti was a cutie pie i loved her as the prencess well see yaw later |
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The Disorderly Orderly 1964 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Everett Sloane, Karen Sharpe, Kathleen Freeman, Susan Oliver, Del Moore, Jack E. Leonard, Milton Frome, William Wellman Jr.
Jerome Littlefield (Jerry Lewis) works at a nursing home after failing as a medical student. The problem standing in the way of Jerome's medical career is that he takes on his patients' symptoms.
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The First Time 1952  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Robert Cummings, Barbara Hale, Bill Goodwin, Jeff Donnell, Carl Benton Reid, Paul Harvey, Cora Witherspoon, Bea Benaderet, Mona Barrie, Kathleen Comegys
Joe and Betsy (Robert Cummings and Barbara Hale) await the arrival of their baby with high anticipation. But after the baby arrives, they find that parenting is not as easy nor always as pleasant as they anticipated. Not great, but some laughs.
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The Geisha Boy 1958 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa, Barton MacLane, Suzanne Pleshette, Nobu McCarthy, Robert Hirano, Ryuzo Demura, Los Angeles Dodgers, Carl Erskine
Magician Gilbert Wooley (Jerry Lewis) heads for Japan where he aspires to work in a USO show and, in the process, creates mayhem in the Orient.
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The Girl Can't Help It 1956 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Henry Jones, John Emery, Juanita Moore, Fats Domino, Little Richard, The Platters
Press agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) promotes singer Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield) who happens to be the dumb-blonde girlfriend of gangster Marty Murdock (Edmond O'Brien). Fats Domino, The Platters, and Little Richard provide memorable moments.
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The Glass Bottom Boat 1966 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, Eric Fleming, Dom DeLuise, Dick Martin, George Tobias
Jennifer Nelson (Doris Day) is a widow who is suspected of espionage when an aerospace engineer (Rod Taylor) tries to woo her.
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Hollywood or Bust 1956 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Pat Crowley, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Willard Waterman, Anita Ekberg, Ben Welden, Frank Wilcox, Michael Ross, Kathryn Card
This is Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' last film together. The story involves Steve and Malcolm (Martin and Lewis) fulfilling their dream of meeting Anita Ekberg and the misadventures they encounter in the process.
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It's Only Money 1962 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Zachary Scott, Joan O'Brien, Mae Questel, Jesse White, Jack Weston, Ted de Corsia, Barbara Pepper, Milton Frome, Michael Ross
Bumbling Lester March (Jerry Lewis) is an amateur detective who comes close to losing his own life while searching for a lost heir.
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Rock-A-Bye Baby 1958 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Salvatore Baccaloni, Reginald Gardiner, Hans Conried, Ida Moore, Isobel Elsom, James Gleason, George Sanders
When film star Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell) has triplets, she hires Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) to care for the babies and keep them out of the public eye. And the fun begins.
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Say One for Me 1959 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, Ray Walston, Les Tremayne, Connie Gilchrist, Stella Stevens, Frank McHugh, Sebastian Cabot, Joe Besser
Chorus girl, Holly (Debbie Reynolds), and Father Conroy (Bing Crosby) team up for a great charity event in a not-so-great movie.
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Son of Paleface 1952  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western / Action / Romance
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Douglass Dumbrille, Bill Williams, Harry von Zell, Iron Eyes Cody, Cecil B. DeMille, Bing Crosby, Lloyd Corrigan, Paul E. Burns, William "Wee Willie" Davis, Charles Cooley
This sequel to "Paleface" adds Roy Rogers to the cast and is even funnier than the original. Bob Hope plays Peter "Junior" Potter who is the son of his original character. He heads West to claim his inheritance, but it appears that all he has been left with are debts. When he tells the creditors that his father's gold is hidden, he gains the attention of saloon owner Mike (Jane Russell) and federal agent Roy Barton (Roy Rogers) who is on Mike's trail believing that she is the leader of a gang of bandits. A highlight: Bob Hope and Trigger share the same bed!
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Susan Slept Here 1954 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Ellen Corby, Glenda Farrell, Alvy Moore, Mara Lane, Herb Vigran, Les Tremayne, Rita Johnson
A screenwriter (Dick Powell) takes in a juvenile (Debbie Reynolds) as part of his research for his next project on juvenile delinquency. Plans go awry when he begins to fall in love with his young houseguest.
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Who's Minding the Store? 1963 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead, John McGiver, Ray Walston, Francesca Bellini, Nancy Kulp, Mary Treen, Fritz Feld
Raymond Phiffier (Jerry Lewis) is a department store clerk who just cannot seem to get the hang of the retail business, but he does manage a romance with the store's owner.
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 1957 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Mickey Hargitay, Groucho Marx, Ann McCrea
The TV advertising world is satirized in this story about Rockwell Hunter's (Tony Randall) promotion for "Stay-Put" lipstick. The sexy model, Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield), is the spokesperson, but Rockwell's fiancee Jenny (Betsy Drake) has major problems accepting this.
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| 1. The Alphabet Murders (1966)
aka: The ABC Murders
2. Artists and Models (1955)
3. Bachelor Flat (1961)
4. Caprice (1967)
5. Cinderfella (1960)
6. The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
7. The First Time (1952)
8. The Geisha Boy (1958)
9. The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
10. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
11. Hollywood or Bust (1956)
12. It's Only Money (1962)
13. The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
14. Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)
15. Say One for Me (1959)
16. Son of Paleface (1952)
17. Susan Slept Here (1954)
18. Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
19. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
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