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Show Business

Not Rated

Comedy

6/10(3 ratings)

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.

08-20-1932

20 min

Show Business

Main Cast

Movie Details

Production Info

Director:: Jules White

Production:: Hal Roach Studios

Key Crew

Producer:: Hal Roach

Dialogue:: H.M. Walker

Locations and Languages

Country:: US

Filming:: US

Languages:: en

Main Cast

Zasu Pitts

Zasu Pitts

Zasu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent of sound films. She may be best known for her performance in Erich von Stroheim's epic silent film Greed. Based on her performance, von Stroheim labeled Pitts "the greatest dramatic actress". He also featured her in his films The Honeymoon (1928), The Wedding March (1928), War Nurse (1930) and Walking Down Broadway, released as Hello, Sister! (1933). However, for the most part, with the advent of sound Pitts was mostly relegated to comedy parts. A bitter disappointment was when she was replaced in the classic war drama All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) by Beryl Mercer after her initial appearance in previews drew unintentional laughs, despite her intense performance. She had viewers rolling in the aisles in Finn and Hattie (1931), The Guardsman (1931), Blondie of the Follies (1932), Sing and Like It (1934) and Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). In 1936 and 1937 she portrayed Hildegarde Withers in two movies, succeeding Edna May Oliver as the spinster sleuth, but they were not well received. In the 1950s she started focusing on television. This culminated in her best known series role, playing second banana to Gale Storm on CBS's The Gale Storm Show (1956) (also known as Oh, Susannah) in the role of Elvira Nugent ("Nugie"), the shipboard beautician. In 1961, Pitts was cast opposite Earle Hodgins in the episode "Lonesome's Gal" on the ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho!, set on a dude ranch in New Mexico. In 1962, Pitts appeared in an episode of CBS's Perry Mason, "The Case of the Absent Artist". Her final role was as Gertie, the switchboard operator in the Stanley Kramer comedy epic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).

Known For

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963

Life with Father

Life with Father

1947

Greed

Greed

1924

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Horse Feathers

Horse Feathers

1932

Connie Bailey

Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1931

Lucille Briggs

Chickens Come Home

Chickens Come Home

1931

Mrs. Hardy

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

The Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Century

1927

Slips on pie (uncredited)

A Chump at Oxford

A Chump at Oxford

1940

Mrs. Vandevere (uncredited)

Topper

Topper

1937

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Made for Each Other

Made for Each Other

1939

Juror (uncredited)

Shall We Dance

Shall We Dance

1937

Usher-Messenger (uncredited)

Campus Sleuth

Campus Sleuth

1948

Dean McKinley

Bobby Burns

Bobby Burns

Known For

Helpmates

Helpmates

1932

The Body Snatcher

The Body Snatcher

1945

This Land Is Mine

This Land Is Mine

1943

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Murder in the Fleet

Murder in the Fleet

1935

Winch Control Operator (Uncredited)

Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

1934

Train Conductor (uncredited)

Ghost Patrol

Ghost Patrol

1936

Henry Brownlee

Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque. Goddard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in So Proudly We Hail! (1943). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paulette Goddard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator

1940

Modern Times

Modern Times

1936

The Women

The Women

1939

Charlie Hall

Charlie Hall

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charlie Hall (19 August 1899 – 7 December 1959) was an English film actor. He is best known as the "Little Nemesis" of Laurel and Hardy and appeared in nearly 50 films with them, so that Hall was the most frequent supporting actor of their films. Hall was born in Ward End, Birmingham, Warwickshire, and learned carpentry as a trade, but as a teenager, he became a member of the Fred Karno troupe of stage comedians. In his late teens, he visited his sister in New York and stayed there, finding employment as a stagehand. While working behind the scenes, he met the comic actor Bobby Dunn and they became friends; Dunn convinced Hall to take a stab again at acting, which he did. By the mid-1920s, Hall was working for Hal Roach. Stan Laurel, one of Roach's comedy stars, was also a graduate of the Karno troupe. As an actor, Hall worked with such comedians as Buster Keaton and Charley Chase, but is best remembered as a comic foil for Laurel and Hardy. He appeared in nearly 50 of their films, sometimes in bit parts, but often as a mean landlord or opponent in many of their memorable tit-for-tat sequences. Unlike the usual villains in Laurel and Hardy films, who were big and burly, Charlie Hall (billed as "Charley" Hall in the Roach comedies) was of short stature, standing 5 ft 5 in tall. His height and slight English accent allowed him to be convincingly cast as a college student, despite being 40 years old, in Laurel and Hardy's A Chump at Oxford. Hall almost never played starring roles; the exception was in 1941, when he was teamed with character comedian Frank Faylen by Monogram Pictures. Hall continued to play bits and supporting roles in short subjects and features through the 1940s and 1950s, occasionally on TV, appearing very briefly in Charlie Chaplin's final American film, Limelight (1952). In 1956 he played a small but important part in the TV show Cheyenne, season 1, episode 11, "Quicksand", starring Clint Walker, with Dennis Hopper, John Alderson, Wright King and Peggy Webber. His last role was in a Joe McDoakes short film starring George O'Hanlon, So You Want to Play the Piano, in 1956. Hall died in North Hollywood, California, on 7 December 1959. A J D Wetherspoon's public house in Erdington, is named The Charlie Hall as a tribute to him.

Known For

King Kong

King Kong

1933

Hellzapoppin'

Hellzapoppin'

1941

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

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Double Agent

Double Agent

1987

Dowager

Umpa

Umpa

1933

Nurse

The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come

The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come

1961

Mrs. Dean