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Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Post-1965 Movie Comedy Team?

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information To see a complete list of all movie polls, click here The post Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Post-1965 Movie Comedy Team? appeared first on Classic...

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W.C. Fields Shines in “The Bank Dick”

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Guest blogger Kim Wilson writes: W.C. Fields isn’t as timeless as one would like.  Overall, vaudeville humor hasn’t aged well, either.  Still, Fields...

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What’s Your Favorite Don Knotts Film Performance?

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Movie Fans, we would like to know what is your favorite Don Knotts Performance? Don Knotts is best known as Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show....

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Ernst Lubitsch Films Noel Coward: Design for Living

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Fredric March was already an Oscar winner and a newly minted Hollywood star when he co-starred with Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch’s...

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Quirky Comedies for Your Consideration

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Comedy is subjective. What’s funny to you may not be funny to me, and vice versa. People recommend comedies to you all the time; you watch them and you...

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A Salute to Actress Catherine Keener

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Catherine Keener is one of Hollywood's most versatile stars... and busy too. Did you know she is slated to appear in as many as five movies in 2013?...

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Kickstarting Edgar Kennedy

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Guest writer Rob Hall looks at a project to restore the over 100 two-reel films funnyman Edgar Kennedy made for RKO in the 1930s and '40s and bring the...

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It’s Really Not a Very Funny, Funny, Funny, Funny Movie

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information With a cast that reads like a Who's Who of movie comedy, Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World debuted 50 years ago this month. Does it,...

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Watch the Birdie: Red Skelton’s a Slapstick Shutterbug

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Lots of laughs develop when klutzy cameraman Red Skelton comes to the aid of heiress Arlene Dahl in Watch the Birdie. Guest writer Angela Petteys...

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What’s the Best Pre-1989 Horror/Comedy Film?

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information They make us laugh and shiver, often at the same time. This week's movie poll asks for your top pre-1989 horror/comedy film. Abbott and Costello Meet...

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Is Great Pot Comedy Up in Smoke?

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Marijuana's in the news again, so this might be a fine time to have a look at Cheech and Chong's first hit stoner comedy, "Up in Smoke." Do you love it?...

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The Bank Dick: Don’t Be a Jabbernowl, Watch This Comedy Classic!

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Henpecked family man Egbert Sousè (W.C. Fields) gets a new lease on life when he's hired as The Bank Dick. Guest writer Steve Bailey reviews the...

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Before Airplane!, There Was The Big Bus!

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Made during the '70s heyday of disaster films, The Big Bus spoofed its more serious colleagues with a tale of a New York-to-Denver trip on the...

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Suppose There Was a Best Comedy Academy Award…

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Would having a Best Comedy/Musical category enhance or dilute the Oscars? MovieFanFare looks at the idea of splitting the Best Picture Academy Award in...

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Curtis, Wood and Lemmon Hit the Road for The Great Race

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk are contestants in a 1908 trans-global road rally in The Great Race. Guest writer Kristen Lopez...

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Frat House Controversies? Rush Animal House Again

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Fraternity-related controversies exploded across the country in 2015. That makes it the perfect time for us to revisit John Landis' legendary "slob...

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Danny Kaye Gets Up in Arms (1944)

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information Funnyman Danny Kaye made his feature film debut as a hypochondriac who winds up a G.I. in Up in Arms. Guest writer Rick29 falls in for a closer look at...

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“Maha?”“Aha!”: The Three Stooges in Three Little Pirates (1946)

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information A classic Three Stooges routine, the "Maha" sketch, was featured in their 1946 short Three Little Pirates. For the "...And Scene!" Blogathon, we salute...

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Waking Up with The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information What's a film fan to do when you're up at 5 in the morning and the cable's not working? For MovieFanFare reader Bill Dunphy, it means popping in a...

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Is W.C. Fields Still Funny?

Classic movie articles and DVD movie information He may not have liked it, but W.C. Fields was born in suburban Philadelphia 136 years ago today. In this classic article, writer George Allen examines...

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