Jerry Colonna
Nacimiento : 1904-09-17, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Muerte : 1986-11-21
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Gerardo Luigi "Jerry" Colonna (September 17, 1904 – November 22, 1986) was an American musician, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter and trombonist best remembered as the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks in Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s.
With his pop-eyed facial expressions and walrus-sized handlebar moustache, Colonna was known for singing loudly "in a comic caterwaul," according to Raised on Radio author Gerald Nachman, and for his catchphrase, "Who's Yehudi?", uttered after many an old joke, although it usually had nothing to do with the joke. The line was believed to be named for violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, and the search for Yehudi became a running gag on the Hope show.
Colonna featured in three of the popular Hope-Crosby Road films: Road to Singapore (1940) as Achilles Bombassa, Road to Rio (1947) as a Cavalry captain and The Road to Hong Kong (1962) in a cameo role. He can also be seen in the Fred Allen vehicle, It's in the Bag! (1945), as psychiatrist Dr. Greenglass, and he made a brief appearance with Hope in the "Wife, Husband and Wolf" sketch in Star Spangled Rhythm. In 1956 he performed the featured song "My Lucky Charm" in the film Meet Me in Las Vegas, starring Dan Dailey and Cyd Charisse.
He provided the voice of the March Hare in the Walt Disney animated film version of Alice in Wonderland (1951) (another radio legend, Ed Wynn, voiced the Mad Hatter) and also lent his zany narration style to several Disney shorts, including Casey at the Bat (1946) and The Brave Engineer (1950).
Self (archive footage)
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
Self (archive footage)
When the United States entered World War II, President Roosevelt exempted Bob Hope from military service because of the need for entertainers. So began Bob's lifelong career entertaining U.S. troops at home and abroad. When the USO (United Service Organizations) was formed, Bob Hope was the perfect person to be its headliner, bringing "a bit of home" to front lines and military hospitals around the world.
Self (archive footage)
For 11 Presidents, Bob Hope was a golfing buddy, national jester and constant guest at the White House. This special includes personal recollections about Bob from the Clintons, the Bushs, the Fords, and David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower. Guests Tony Danza, Don Johnson, Naomi Judd, Ann-Margret and Tom Selleck also appear on what was to become Bob Hope's final television special.
Self (archive footage)
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Self
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies thrown in Hope's pool!). Hope and the rapidly shrinking cast try to discover who is the mysterious killer known only as "Joys."
Man Looking For a Match (uncredited)
Harry (Crosby) y Chester (Hope) son dos actores de vodevil que viajan al Tíbet en busca de una cura que devuelva la memoria a Chester. Cuando por fin dan con ella, su memoria mejora tanto que se aprende sin querer una fórmula secreta que hace posibles los viajes espaciales. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Andy Hardy, convertido ya en un hombre adulto, regresa a su ciudad natal en viaje de negocios y se ve mezclado en la política local.
Jerry Colonna
Dan Dailey, un ranchero que ha ido a jugar a un casino de Las Vegas (Nevada), acaba descubriendo que lo único que tiene que hacer para ganar a la ruleta es coger la mano a Cyd Charisse, una guapa bailarina del local.
Narrator (archive footage)
Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music' and 'Melody Time'"; featuring cartoons from the 1946 musical, "Make Mine Music," and the 1948 musical "Melody Time") featuring Donald Duck, Joe Carioca, and other Disney cartoon characters, and also songs by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Frances Langford, Roy Rogers and Trigger, The Andrews Sisters (Laverne, Maxene, and Patty Andrews), Freddy Martin and his orchestra, Sons of the Pioneers, Jerry Colonna, and Ethel Smith
The Waste-away (voice)
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
March Hare (voice)
Historia de magia y fantasía en el que la joven Alicia se sumerge en el sorprendente país de las maravillas y conoce a extraordinarios personajes como Tweedledee y Tweedledum, el Sombrerero Loco, La Reina de Corazones y el frenético Conejo Blanco.
Self
1951 behind the scenes featurette of the Walt Disney animated classic.
Jerry Harris
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
Narrator
El legendario ingeniero Casey Jones está decidido a mantener su horario de trenes y nada va a detenerlo.
Narrator
The over-confident Casey comes to the plate for Mudville in this animated version of the classic 1888 baseball poem by Ernest Thayer
Narrator (segment "Casey at the Bat") (voice)
Antología musical animada compuesta por 10 fragmentos: "Los Guerrero y los de León", "Tarde Azul", "Cuando los gatos se juntan", "Tres palabras", "El gran valente", "Un sueño en silueta", "Pedro y el lobo", "Después que te fuiste", "Historia de un idilio" y "El ballenato que quiso cantar en la ópera".
Man on boat to Alaska (uncredited)
Duke y Chester son dos actores de tercera fila que huyendo de un apuro se embarcan rumbo a Alaska. En el mismo barco viajan dos asesinos, Sperry y McGurk, que tienen en su poder un mapa con la ubicación concreta de una mina que esconde gran cantidad de oro. La casualidad hace que el mapa vaya a parar a manos de los dos actores que aprovechan la ocasión para abandonar el barco adoptando la identidad de los asesinos.
Dr. Greengrass
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
The Professor
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
The Texas Tornado
A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they appear to watch the filming of several productions in progress. Musical numbers from several previous Warner Bros. Technicolor shorts are edited into this short to create the illusion.
A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.
Theophilus J. Twitchell
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
Jeep Jackson
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.
Pvt. 'Pinky' Fothergill
A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base.
Jerry Colonna
Pop, un guardia de seguridad de Paramount le dijo a su hijo que él es el jefe del estudio. Las cosas se vuelven más complicadas cuando Pop acepta organizar un espectáculo para la Marina protagonizado por las principales estrellas de la Paramount.
Himself
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.
Colonna
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Professor
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Abner Kellogg
Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of bellboy Danny O'Brien (Johnny Downs). With the help of a wealthy chiropodist (Jerry Colonna), O'Brien not only gets to star on a big-time radio show, but also sprinkles stardust upon his sweetheart Kay Barnett (Jane Frazee)-who, unbeknownst to everyone but the audience, is the daughter of the show's sponsor.
A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.
Achilles Bombanassa
Josh Mallon (Crosby) es un millonario que, harto de esa vida, escapa de su dominante padre (Charles Coburn) y, junto a un vagabundo (Bob Hope), viaja hasta Singapur donde encontrará a una atractiva nativa (Dorothy Lamour) que trabaja en un cabaret para un individuo con pocos escrúpulos (Anthony Quinn).
Allie Gray
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Nick, the Chef
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
The Texas Tornado
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
Musician
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Saloon Singer
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Band Member
Un huérfano es adoptado provisionalmente por el gerente de un hotel poblado por gente de negocios. Al dueño del hotel no le gustan los artistas y quiere que la niña regrese al orfanato.
Arab Rug Dealer
En el puerto de Marsella, Honoré Panisse está enamorado de la preciosa Madelon. Panisse suele jugar a las cartas con César, padre de Marius, el muchacho de quien Madelon está enamorada. Un día, Marius le envía a Madelon una nota diciéndole que se embarca durante tres años. Panisse pide la mano de Madelon una vez más. Ella descubre que está embarazada y va a explicarle por qué no se puede casar con él, pero finalmente Madelon accede al matrimonio por el bien del niño. Un año después, Marius regresa inesperadamente.
Singer-Freddie Rich Orchestra
An entry in Paramount's "Star Reporter" series starring Ted Husing. As usual, Ted is seated at a desk introducing various acts and peoplle, and the camera cuts to these acts playing at various clubs and cabarets in NYC.
Joseph
El cadete de West Point, Dick Thorpe, se enamora de una chica, que resulta ser una princesa de un reino europeo.
Freddie Rich and his band perform a selection of musical numbers.
