Comedies

King Kaiser's Comedy Cavalcade goes on in minutes. But guest star Alan Swann is exiting the building. Fast. "I'm not an actor. I'm a movie star!" he bellows in stark fear. He just found out the show is LIVE! Directed by Richard Benjamin and inspired by...

They thought it would be a simple fling. Instead, they got flung. Being free and easy proves neither free nor easy for already-married Steve and divorced Vickie when they fall in love. George Segal and Glenda Jackson bring the right touch to A Touch of...

HBO Films½ presents Hugh Jackman in Bad Education, a critically acclaimed dark comedy based on the unbelievable true story of a scandal that rocked a Long Island school district in the mid-2000s. Jackman delivers a grade-A performance as smooth-talking,...

Raccoon coats, "Oh, you kid, " ukuleles, "Varsity Drag"... it's college life in the '20s as seen in this adaptation of the Laurence Schwab-Buddy DeSylva stage hit by Betty Comden and Adolph Green ("Singin' in the Rain"). June Allyson and Joan McCracken...

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 as three sailors (Tony...

The stars come out to play in the joyous World War ll-era Thank Your Lucky Stars. A breezy, behind-the-Hollywood-scenes story about young talents hoping for a big break glitters with specialty numbers featuring Golden Era greats. Highlights include...

In early-20th-century Chicago, music store salesman Andrew Larkin (Van Johnson) got off on the wrong foot with new hire Veronica Fisher (Judy Garland)... and proceeded to remain there. The frosty co-workers, however, also have no idea that they're one...

Teens Jimmy Connors (Mickey Rooney) and Mary Holden (Judy Garland) lift their school's spirits when they update it's stodgy orchestra into a swing band, but can they raise enough cash for the kids to hit the road and compete in front of Paul Whiteman (as...

A showbiz partner often thinks his sidekick is a pain in the neck. Lewis and Clark have lower anatomical opinions of each other. In writer Neil Simon's warm stage-to-screen adaptation, Walter Matthau and George Burns play feuding vaudevillians reteaming...

Unemployed magicians Willie (Bert Wheeler) and Elmer (Robert Woolsey) act as guardian to mischievous orphan Spanky Milford (Spanky McFarland) and head south when the kid inherits a homestead in Kentucky. Little do they know that their journey will take...

Forty-eight-year-old Manhattanite Mel Edison just lost his job. Soon he'll lose his wardrobe, temper, self-respect and maybe his mind. In urban life's grueling guerrilla war, Mel just became The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Adapting his 1971 stage hit,...

After covering a golf tournament in Los Angeles, sportswriter Mike Hagen returns to his New York home with a tan. And with a fashion-designer wife he scarcely knows. Romantic pitfalls surface gleefully in this Vincente Minnelli-directed comedy featuring...