Sid Caesar
The Emperor's New Clothes (1987)
Cannon Movie Tales is the collective name for a series of live-action films created in the late 1980s by Cannon Group producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, associate producer Patricia Ruben, and executive producer Itzik Kol. Filmed principally on location in Israel, these stories are generally fairy tales based on material by either the Brother...
Starring: Olivia Newton-John•Myrna Loy
Stoogemania (1986)
Stoogemania is a 1986 comedy film, directed by Chuck Workman and starring Josh Mostel as a huge fan of The Three Stooges for whom the line between reality and fiction begins to blur. Stoogemania was made in an attempt to cash in on the Three Stooges' resurgence in popularity during the 1980s, thanks to syndication and the hit novelty song "The Curl...
Starring: Olivia Newton-John•Spencer Tracy•Mickey Rooney
Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)
Over the Brooklyn Bridge is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Menahem Golan, written by Arnold Somkin, and starring Elliott Gould. It has the working title of My Darling Shiksa, referring to a Shiksa, a woman outside of the Jewish faith. The film depicts a Jewish man being forced to break up with his gentile girlfriend.
Starring: Milton Berle•Olivia Newton-John•Orson Welles•Phil Silvers•Robert Ryan•Shelley Winters
Grease 2 (1982)
Grease 2 is a 1982 American musical romantic comedy film and the sequel to the 1978 film Grease, adapted from the 1971 musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Originally titled More Grease, the film was produced by Allan Carr and Robert Stigwood, and directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch, who choreographed the original stage...
Starring: Carol Kane•Charlton Heston•Olivia Newton-John•Stockard Channing•Cloris Leachman•Frankie Avalon•Edd Byrnes•Connie Stevens•Peter Falk•Ann-Margret
History of the World: Part I (1981)
History of the World, Part I is a 1981 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Mel Brooks. Brooks also stars in the film, playing five roles: Moses, Comicus the stand-up philosopher, Tomás de Torquemada, King Louis XVI, and Jacques, le garçon de pisse. The large ensemble cast also features Sid Caesar, Shecky Greene, Gregory Hines, C...
Starring: Peter Sellers•George Kennedy•Olivia Newton-John•Robert Morse•Michelle Pfeiffer•Arlene Golonka•Adrian Zmed•Barry Gordon•Marsha Mason•Richard Pryor
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1980 comedy film. It was the final film featuring star Peter Sellers and David Tomlinson. Based on characters created by Sax Rohmer, the film stars Sellers in the dual role of Fu Manchu, a megalomaniacal Chinese evil genius, and English country gentleman detective Nayland Smith.
Starring: Shecky Greene•Olivia Newton-John•Susan Clark
The Cheap Detective (1978)
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American mystery comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.
Starring: Elliott Gould•Dom DeLuise•Olivia Newton-John•Karen Black•Michelle Pfeiffer•Bernadette Peters•Louise Fletcher
Grease (1978)
Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser from a screenplay by Bronté Woodard and an adaptation by Allan Carr, based on the stage musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The film depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko and Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson, who develop an attraction fo...
Starring: Carol Kane•Mel Brooks•Harvey Korman•Olivia Newton-John•Louise Fletcher•Marty Feldman•Stockard Channing•John Travolta•Margaux Hemingway•Ron Carey
Silent Movie (1976)
Silent Movie is a 1976 American satirical comedy film co-written, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in the summer of 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, and Sid Caesar, with cameos by Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau, and Paul Newman a...
Starring: Didi Conn•Olivia Newton-John•Jeff Conaway•Barry Pearl•Helen Mirren•Michelle Pfeiffer•Gregory Hines•Maxwell Caulfield•Adrian Zmed•Dody Goodman
Airport 1975 (1974)
Airport 1975 is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film Airport. It was directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye, executive produced by Jennings Lang, and written by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy and Gloria Swanson – as a fictionalized version of herself ...
Starring: Eddie Deezen•Lorna Luft•Josh Mostel•Melanie Chartoff•Ethel Merman•Olivia Newton-John•Spencer Tracy•Mickey Rooney•Milton Berle
The Busy Body (1967)
The Busy Body is a 1967 American comedy film directed and produced by William Castle and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel of the same name. It was Richard Pryor's film debut.
Starring: Phil Silvers•Olivia Newton-John•Robert Ryan•Vera Miles
The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
The Spirit Is Willing is a 1967 American horror/comedy film directed by William Castle, written by Ben Starr, and starring Sid Caesar, Vera Miles, Barry Gordon, John McGiver, Cass Daley, Ricky Cordell and Mary Wickes. Based on The Visitors by Nathaniel Benchley, it was released in July 1967, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: George Kennedy•Olivia Newton-John•Arlene Golonka
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and screenplay by William Rose and Tania Rose. The film, starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast of comedians, is about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. It premiered on N...
Starring: Barry Gordon•Richard Pryor•Susan Clark•Karen Black•Linda Blair•Olivia Newton-John