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Public Pigeon No. 1 (1957)
Public Pigeon No. 1 is a 1957 comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod. It stars Red Skelton and Vivian Blaine. It is the theatrical feature-length remake of the Climax! television episode "Public Pigeon #1" that also starred Red Skelton, but was directed by Seymour Berns, which aired in the second season of that show on September 8, 1955.
Starring: Howard Keel•Sally Forrest•Robert Young
The Great Diamond Robbery (1954)
The Great Diamond Robbery is a 1954 American comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Red Skelton, James Whitmore, Cara Williams and Reginald Owen. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Howard Keel•Fred Astaire•Ann Sothern
The Clown (1953)
The Clown is a 1953 American drama film starring Red Skelton with Jane Greer and Tim Considine, and directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The story is derived from The Champ (1931).
Starring: Howard Keel•Lucille Ball•Ann Rutherford
Half a Hero (1953)
Half a Hero is a 1953 American comedy film starring Red Skelton and Jean Hagen. Directed by Don Weis, the film was written by Max Shulman and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Howard Keel•Jean Rogers
Lovely to Look At (1952)
Lovely to Look At is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, based on the 1933 Broadway musical Roberta.
Starring: Ann Miller•Howard Keel•Janet Blair
Excuse My Dust (1951)
Excuse My Dust is a 1951 musical comedy film starring Red Skelton. It was directed by Roy Rowland and an uncredited Edward Sedgwick.
Starring: Howard Keel•Red Skelton
Texas Carnival (1951)
Texas Carnival is a 1951 American Technicolor musical film directed by Charles Walters and starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton and Howard Keel.
Starring: Marilyn Maxwell•Howard Keel•Jane Greer•Janet Blair
Three Little Words (1950)
Three Little Words is a 1950 American musical film biography of the Tin Pan Alley songwriting partnership of Kalmar and Ruby. It stars Fred Astaire as lyricist Bert Kalmar and Red Skelton as composer Harry Ruby, along with Vera-Ellen and Arlene Dahl as their wives, with Debbie Reynolds in a small but notable role as singer Helen Kane and Gloria DeH...
Starring: Gene Kelly•Howard Keel•Gloria DeHaven
Watch the Birdie (1950)
Watch the Birdie is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Jack Donohue and starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl and Ann Miller.
Starring: Marilyn Maxwell•Howard Keel•Tim Considine
The Yellow Cab Man (1950)
The Yellow Cab Man is a 1950 comedy film directed by Jack Donohue and starring Red Skelton, Gloria DeHaven and Edward Arnold. The inventor of unbreakable glass ("Elastiglass") tries to sell it to a taxicab company, hoping that they will make unbreakable windshields.
Starring: Howard Keel•Cara Williams
Neptune's Daughter (1949)
Neptune's Daughter is a 1949 Technicolor musical romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalbán, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Xavier Cugat and Mel Blanc. It was directed by Edward Buzzell, and features the debut of the Academy Award–winning song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser...
Starring: Howard Keel•Jane Greer•Ricardo Montalbán
The Fuller Brush Man (1948)
The Fuller Brush Man is a 1948 American comedy film starring Red Skelton as a door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush Company who becomes a murder suspect.
Starring: Howard Keel•Jean Hagen•Sally Forrest•James Whitmore
A Southern Yankee (1948)
A Southern Yankee is a 1948 American comedy western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy and Arlene Dahl.
Starring: Howard Keel•Tim Considine
Merton of the Movies (1947)
Merton of the Movies is a 1947 American comedy film, based on the 1922 novel of the same name written by Harry Leon Wilson, and the play of the same name written by George S. Kaufmann and Marc Connelly, which opened on Broadway in 1922. It was previously adapted as a 1924 silent film and as the 1932 film Make Me a Star. The 1947 version stars Red S...
Starring: Howard Keel•Gene Kelly•Lew Ayres
The Show-Off (1946)
The Show-Off is a 1946 film directed by Harry Beaumont based on the play of the same name by George Kelly. It stars Red Skelton and Marilyn Maxwell. It was previously filmed in 1926 as The Show-Off starring Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson and Louise Brooks and in 1934 as The Show-Off with Spencer Tracy and Madge Evans. Lois Wilson also appeared in the 1...
Starring: Howard Keel•Gene Kelly•Allen Jenkins
Bathing Beauty (1944)
Bathing Beauty is a 1944 musical film starring Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone, and Esther Williams, and directed by George Sidney.
Starring: Howard Keel•Jane Greer
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Du Barry Was a Lady is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. It is based on the 1939 stage musical of the same name. Shot in Technicolor, the film was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Ann Sothern•Howard Keel•Eleanor Powell
I Dood It (1943)
I Dood It is a 1943 American musical-comedy film starring Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay is by Fred Saidy and Sig Herzig and the film features Richard Ainley, Patricia Dane, Lena Horne, and Hazel Scott. John Hodiak plays a villain in this production, just his third ...
Starring: Virginia O'Brien•Howard Keel
Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
Whistling in Brooklyn is a 1943 film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, and Jean Rogers. It is the third and last film starring Skelton as radio personality and amateur detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, following Whistling in the Dark and Whistling in Dixie. Leo Durocher, then-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, made...
Starring: Marilyn Maxwell•Marsha Hunt•Howard Keel
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
Maisie Gets Her Man is a 1942 American romance film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Ann Sothern and Red Skelton. It is the sixth of the ten-film Maisie series.
Starring: Jean Rogers•Diana Lewis•Howard Keel
Panama Hattie (1942)
Panama Hattie is a 1942 American film based upon the Broadway musical of the same name. It was produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Norman Z. McLeod.
Starring: Diana Lewis•Phil Silvers•Howard Keel
Ship Ahoy (1942)
Ship Ahoy is a 1942 American musical-comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton. It was produced by MGM.
Starring: Virginia O'Brien•Howard Keel•Gene Kelly
Whistling in Dixie (1942)
Whistling in Dixie is a 1942 American crime comedy film, the second of three starring Red Skelton as radio detective and amateur crime solver Wally Benton and Ann Rutherford as his fiancée. The pair are called upon to solve a crime in the Southern United States. The film also re-introduces Rags Ragland, playing dual roles as twins, the mostly-refor...
Starring: Marilyn Maxwell•Gloria Grahame•Howard Keel
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day is a 1941 American drama film directed by Harold S. Bucquet, starring Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, and Laraine Day. It is the eighth of a total of nine Dr. Kildare pictures made by the MGM studios. When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly dr...
Starring: Conrad Veidt•Lew Ayres•Howard Keel
Lady Be Good (1941)
Lady Be Good is an MGM musical film released in 1941. The film stars dancer Eleanor Powell, along with Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, and Red Skelton. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod and produced by Arthur Freed. This was the first of several films Powell made with Skelton. Powell received top billing, but Sothern and Young are t...
Starring: Robert Young•Diana Lewis•Virginia O'Brien•Howard Keel•Laraine Day•Gene Kelly
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Whistling in the Dark is a 1941 comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon. It is the first of three films starring Red Skelton as Wally "the Fox" Benton, who writes and acts in radio murder mysteries. Wally is kidnapped by a greedy cult leader, who threatens to kill Wally's girlfriend and another young woman unless he concocts a perfect murder. The f...
Starring: Phil Silvers•Marilyn Maxwell•Howard Keel