Comedy

<p>Laughter comes in waves in You Said a Mouthful, a wet and wild comedy starring Joe E. Brown and Ginger Rogers. The inventor of an unsinkable swimsuit, shipping clerk Joe Holt (Brown) quits his job at the Armstrong Rubber Goods Corp. and moves to...

<p>Every citizen on Broadway knows "Feet" Samuels (Joe E. Brown) as an honest-but-unlucky gambler. So when he winds up owing $500 to a gangster known as the Brain (Alan Dinehart), it never crosses his mind to welch. Dumped by Hortense (Alice White), his gold-digging...

<p>Joe E. Brown goes from bashful botanist to the fastest man on campus in the collegiate Pre-Code comedy Local Boy Makes Good, costarring Dorothy Lee. The shyest student at Ohio University, botany major john Miller (Brown) spends his time drafting love letters to beauty...

<p>Joe E. Brown and William Collier, Jr. stir up trouble from coast to coast in Broad Minded, a madcap Pre-Code comedy written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby (Duck Soup). Ordered by his father to stop carousing with women, playboy jack Hackett (Collier) dumps...

<p>Glenn Ford averts a general disaster in the World War II action-comedy Imitation General, costarring Red Buttons and Taina Elg. Surrounded by the Germans and with commanding officer General Lane dead, Sgt. Savage (Ford) and Corp. Derby (Buttons) wonder what to do next. So...

<p>"Glenn Ford's first try at light domestic comedy demonstrates that he has the touch" (The Motion Picture Guide) in the brisk and breezy Young Man with Ideas, costarring Ruth Roman. A shy Montana attorney who's never argued in court, Maxwell Webster (Ford) finally gets...

<p>"It's a brand new story about The Castaways! Leaving their tiny island after years and months and days, they built a little spaceship, crude but it could fly. They left their home and lost their way, between the stars and sky, they went from...

<p>TV's first real foray into the realm of high fantasy was a truly ahead of its time combination of awesome adventure and witty self-awareness. Prolific sitcom writer Don Reo (The John Larroquette Show, Two and a Half Men) had a different vision in mind...

<p>A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that holy matrimony brings in Marriage Is Alive and Well. Starring as the photographer, football great Joe Namath narrates the unconventional...

<p>The most medically accurate hospital drama in the history of recorded media (not really), Emmy -winning CHILDRENS HOSPITAL returns for another season to find the doctors relocated to a pediatric clinic on a U.S. Army base in Osaka, Japan. With the loss of recently...

<p>With Alexander Borodin's soaring music fashioned by Robert Wright and George Forrest into "Stranger in Paradise," "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" and even more evergreens, Kismet turned the Broadway stage into a glittering, gleaming Arabian Nights' dream. Ideal material, in fact, for the dream factory....

<p>One year after his 1934 Academy Award-winning Best Actor performance in It Happened One Night, Clark Gable again portrays a wisecracking newspaperman, this time in After Office Hours. Gable plays jim Branch, managing editor of the New York News-Record, hot on the trail of...

<p>Why should the rich have all the wealth? From London to Monte Carlo to San Remo to Shanghai, lady's maid Jane Hoskins (Greer Garson) is out to grab her share of the good life. Passing herself off as noblewoman Lady Loverly and teaming with...

<p>It's World War II, and Andy Griffith ("Matlock") is a college student who isn't doing well with his classes or his girlfriend, so he joins the Coast Guard. He is assigned kitchen duty on the USS Periwinkle where crotchety Walter Matthau ("Grumpy Old Men,"...

<p>Clutching her corsage of violets in a dress she hopes no one will notice she wore to last year's dance, Alice Adams is ready for South Renford's biggest evening of the year — and to pose as something she longs to be:one of the...

<p>George Burns ("Oh, God!") won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as one of two feuding vaudevillian actors who are reunited for a television comeback. Co-starring Oscar-winner Walter Matthau ("Grumpy Old Men") and Richard Benjamin ("Goodbye Columbus"). Based on award-winning playwright Neil Simon's play....

<p>Comedy about an elegant, elderly lady who recalls the past loves and lusty adventures she's lived through.</p>

<p>The Jetsons are back in this 10-Episode, Complete Collection of their third and final season. George, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane his wife, as well as Astro, Rosie, Mr. Spacely (all voiced by the original cast) are all back for a final go-round...

<p>Anchors Aweigh. On the Town. Hit the Deck. Hollywood has always known what to do with sailors on leave: Give 'em some pretty girls and some great songs and watch the fans line up to enlist! Hit the Deck hits all the right notes...

<p>After a food spill ruins the haute couture fashion she's supposed to model at an elegant charity soiree, ex-shopgirl Irene O'Dare (Anna Neagle) puts on a vintage blue gown that belonged to her late mother. The dress - showcased in a rich Technicolor sequence...

<p>Two army buddies down on their luck open up a gas station and get involved in a price war - in a somewhat underhanded way.</p>

<p>Concert pianist Cynthia Potter (June Allyson) has impeccable musicianship, yet the chance of her gaining the attention of busy impresario Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson) hovers somewhere between none and never. But circumstances change - and comedy complications follow - when she adds bobby-sox and...

<p>Toiling in the netherworld of the L.A. comedy scene, Barry Singer's universe turns upside down when he meets Thea Douglas, a young political activist. As Thea gets swept in the '92 political season, Barry decides he must cross the country in pursuit of his...

<p>Ann Sothern goes husband hunting in a double feature of wisecracking romantic comedies that feature stellar supporting casts. In Smartest Girl in Town, Ann is a gold digger who thinks she has a heart of brass. When she falls for a wealthy playboy (Gene...

<p>An inept criminal gang plans a daring train robbery in this hilarious Euro-comic caper starring Raquel Welch, Robert Wagner and Edward G. Robinson. When deported Chicago mobster Cesare Celli (Vittorio De Sica) is kidnapped by five amateur thieves (including Welch, Wagner and Godfrey Cambridge),...

<p>At an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins (the favor of all) with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be. She's part of a cadre of con artists who intend to steal...

<p>"You must stay between him and me always. Always!" Love-struck Consuelo Croyden (Norma Shearer) can't trust herself around dashing Tony Barling (George Sanders). So she hires songwriter Terry Trindale (Robert Taylor), who's just as nuts about her as she is about Tony, to pose...

<p>In this series from comedy kings David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik, an overeager romantic hosts the ultimate surprise party for his fiancee: a reunion of their third-grade classmates to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the day they met. Although the party turns out to...

<p>Victor/Victoria 's Julie Andrews and James Garner headline this earlier milestone comedy from screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (Network ) and director Arthur Hiller (also teamed later on The Hospital). Garner plays Charlie Madison, an officer who cares nothing about glory. That attracts war widow Emily...

<p>Eight is no longer enough in the show's fifth and final season. First up, Susan's (Susan Richardson) and Merle's (Brian Patrick Clarke) baby girl raises the stakes in And Baby Makes Nine, then a young Ralph Macchio takes it all the way to ten,...

<p>Wealthy New York party girl Joan Prescott (Joan Crawford) has lassoed herself a cowboy! Not that she plans to when she heads west to her family's Montana ranch. But she steps off the train at a nowhere town to elude an on-board lothario, meets...

<p>James Cagney and Pat O'Brien hit the deck as well as each other in this rousing Oscar nominee for Best Picture (1934). When cocky naval yard worker Chesty O'Connor (Cagney) battles Chief Petty Officer Biff Martin (O'Brien) over a dame, he not only loses...

Bankrolled by a count with a taste for practical jokes, streetwise bargirl Anni (Joan Crawford) passes herself off as an aristocrat at a posh Alpine resort. There she plans to land a wealthy husband (Robert Young) pronto, even though she's drawn to the town...

<p>Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat has received many dramatic treatments since its birth over eighty years ago. But none is more satisfying than this 1936 production, widely accepted as the best and most...

<p>He penned the lines. Walter Donaldson, George Gershwin and others provided the music. Yet there was a more vital partner in lyricist Gus Kahn's life: Grace LeBoy Kahn, who put the love into his love songs. Doris Day and Danny Thomas are the Kahns...

<p>Samuel "Shemp Howard" Horowitz wrote his own rules for comedy from the very beginning. Heckling his way into brother Moe's "rough house" act with Ted Healy, Shemp was an original Stooge. After Larry Fine filled out the team, fame beckoned, but Shemp balked at...

<p>It's Buster's talkie debut with a special "as you've never heard it before" bonus! Keaton's first sound foray sees Buster skewering Hollywood itself with the tale of a wannabe starlet (Anita Page) that arrives in Tinseltown with some extra baggage -- an overprotective mother...

<p>It's her life -- she'll live it the way she wants! And since she's played by Joan Crawford at the peak of her MGM allure, she'll live that life in a captivating array of fashions by Adrian. Crawford plays New York socialite Kay Bentley,...

<p>Like a sailor with a girl in every port, Harry Mork has his own list of people, pulchritude and places. But that's changing for this roving salesman with a roving eye. He's found his match: a haughty, worldly-wise widow he plans to marry. But...

<p>The screwball follow-up to Brother Rat finds "Bing" Edwards (Eddie Albert) two years after graduating from Virginia Military Institute and up for a head coach position at his old alma mater against a fellow alum. On his way to New York to interview for...

<p>Meet three cadets with major troubles! They must keep a secret for 10 calamity-filled weeks or risk not graduating. Two-time Oscar nominee Eddie Albert teams up with Ronald Reagan and Wayne Morris for a spirited, behind-the-scenes look at love, laughter and life's hard-fought lessons...

<p>James Stewart made a rare sojourn into the world of Situation Comedy on NBC at the dawn of the Seventies. His gift for comedy, on grand cinema display since the dawn of his career, made him a congenial fit for the familial world of...

<p>The third and final season of the beloved TV classic brings with it some new faces (comedy greats Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller in a series of roles), new fears (Summer camp! Karate! Fetching Soviets!) and new foes (Eight is Enough's Willie Aames taking...

<p>One of the longest-running comedy series in radio history, Fibber McGee and Molly starred Jim and Marian Jordan as a blowhard husband and his patient, long-suffering wife. Airing from 1935 to 1959, the series introduced a host of memorable supporting characters (Gildersleeve, Beulah, Wallace...

<p>Charlotte Bain (Christine Lahti, The Doctor, Swing Shift) is the perfect high school principal for small-town Texas: quiet, strict, strait-laced. Single, but secretly dating the coach (William Russ, Pastime), she is as shocked as anyone when she agrees to go on a date with...

<p>After conquering the Borscht Belt and Broadway, David Daniel Kaminksi (Danny Kaye) got the nod from maverick impresario Samuel Goldwyn and under his tutelage soon mastered the movies as well. Kaye makes his feature film debut alongside Dinah Shore in Up in Arms (1944)...

<p>Dinner at Eight, a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multistarred, multistoried...

<p>Polly Holliday gives an Emmy-nominated performance as TV's sassiest barkeep in this laugh-out-loud funny spinoff of Alice. On the way to a new job in Houston, Flo Castleberry (Holliday) stops in her hometown of Cowtown, Texas, and buys an old roadhouse instead. Renaming it...

<p>Following the success of Classic Musical Shorts from the Dream Factory, comes this rollicking volume of mostly musical shorts produced by MGM. Two-reel Technicolor extravaganzas, one-reel earthy "tabloid musicals," showstopping MGM revues and more are waiting in the wings in this 3-Disc Collection of...