Benny Rubin

Benny Rubin

출생 : 1899-02-02, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

사망 : 1986-07-15

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Benny Rubin

참여 작품

바람의 저편
Abe Vogel
야심 찬 복귀작을 준비하는 거장 감독 해너퍼드. 그의 생애 마지막 날, 그가 끝까지 분투한 작품의 편린이 공개된다. 오슨 웰스가 마지막으로 남긴, 영화에 관한 영화.
죽음의 가스
Mr. Schwartz
외과 레지던트인 수잔은 절친한 친구 낸시가 소파 수술을 받은 후 마취에서 깨어나지 못하고 식물 인간이 되자 무엇인가 의문을 가진다. 그리고 이 날 연속해서 코마 환자가 발생하자 수잔은 두 죽음 사이에 어떤 이유가 있을 것이라는 생각에 조사를 시작한다. 그러나 주위에서는 이러한 수잔을 정신병자 취급하고, 게다가 병원의 윗선에서는 조사를 그만두라는 압력이 들어온다. 이러한 주변의 압력에도 불구하고 조사를 계속하던 수잔을 정체 불명의 남자가 미행하는데...
섀기 D.A.
Waiter
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog catcher.
나우 유 시 힘, 나우 유 돈트
Golfer (uncredited)
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the invisibility spray to rob a bank.
How to Frame a Figg
Max
Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after things, knowing he'll never catch on. Their plan backfires when Figg becomes self-important and accidentally discovers their plot.
Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special
Information Clerk #1
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Man at Bar (uncredited)
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
모던 밀리
Waiter
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Chicken Feather
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
댓 퍼니 필링
Taxi Driver
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she shares with her roommate Audrey, Joan brings Tom over to a fancy apartment that she cleans on a daily basis not knowing that it's his place. Tom plays along with the charade despite not knowing who Joan really is, while she tries to tidy up Tom's place not knowing who he really is. Written by Matthew Patay
The Family Jewels
Sign Painter
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
The Disorderly Orderly
Waiter
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
Your Cheatin' Heart
Songwriter at Rose's Office (uncredited)
The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
A House Is Not a Home
Happy Charlie
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Looking for Love
Bartender (uncredited)
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Science Friction
(voice)
A mad scientist introduces himself to us ("Come! I show you around!") and explains his specialty is crossing things ("I cross a pine mit a apple and I get a pineapple!"). His biggest ambition is cross his pet ape with something but doesn't know what. Enter Woody who comes to his door selling magazines. The scientist decides to cross the ape with a woodpecker and create a flying ape. Woody naturally doesn't want the experiment to take place and tries to flee the scientist's house after being captured. In the end, though, it's the ape who gets the last laugh...
포켓에 가득찬 행복
Flyaway
금주법 시대의 뉴요크. 몰래 술을 빚어 치부한 캬바레 주인 유드는 길거리 사과장수 노파 애니의 사과가 행운을 가져다 준다고 믿고 무슨 일이 있을 때마다 그 사과를 산다. 애니는 스페인에 살고 있는 딸 루이즈에게 생활비를 보내느라 고통을 받고 있었는데...딸에게 자신이 귀부인이라고 거짓말을 한 뒷골목의 여장부를 위해서 모든 뒷골목 사람들이 힘을 합쳐서 그녀를 잠시 귀부인으로 변모시켜주는 이 인정이 넘치는 스토리에는, 비록 밑바닥 인생이지만 의리 하나만은 한결같은 서민들의 끈끈한 정이 전편을 흐르고 있다. 뉴욕의 멋쟁이 데이브는 사과 행상 애니의 사과가 늘 자신에게 행운을 가져다 준다고 믿는다. 여느 때와 마찬가지로 데이브는 애니를 찾아가는데, 그녀는 무척이나 불안정한 모습이다. 사실 애니에게는 어릴 때 유럽으로 보낸 딸 루이즈가 있는데, 루이즈는 어느새 장성해 명문가 자제와의 결혼을 앞두고 있다. 그런데 루이즈의 뉴욕 방문을 앞두고, 애니는 자신을 부유한 귀부인으로 알고 있는 딸과 예비 사위에게 정체가 탄로날까 봐 걱정이 태산이다. 카프라는 오랫동안 자신의 작품 (1933)를 다시 만들고 싶어했는데, 약 20년 후에 결국 리메이크작 을 내놓았으며, 이는 카프라의 마지막 장편영화가 된다. 이후 이 작품을 토대로 성룡은 자신이 연출은 물론, 매염방과 함께 주연을 맡은 작품 (1989)을 만든다.
심부름꾼
Mr. Wabenlotnee
할리우드의 메이저 스튜디오인 파라뮤추얼 영화사는 경영이 여의치않게 됨에 따라 제작 비용이 제대로 쓰여지고 있는지 확인할 필요를 느낀다. 영화사 사장은 현장의 사정을 제대로 파악해서 알려줄 스파이를 필요하다고 보고 모티(제리 루이스)를 사환으로 고용한다. 회사의 통신실에 배치된 모티는 각 부서를 매일 돌아다니게 되지만 정보를 수집하려 하면서 오히려 자신이 사고를 일으키고 만다.
The Right Approach
Bert Klaster
An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
애정의 고빗길
Pete (uncredited)
드라마 비평가 래리 맥케이 와 그의 아내 케이트, 그리고 그들의 네 아들은 붐비는 맨해튼 아파트에서 시골의 오래된 집으로 이사한다. 주부 케이트가 교외 생활에 정착하는 동안, 남편인 래리는 뉴욕의 극장 및 파티를 계속 즐기고 있는데, 케이트는 브로드웨이 스타 데보라본과의 만남을 언급하면서 래리의 행실에 의문을 갖기 시작 하면서 부부의 갈등은 시작이 되는데…
머리 속의 구멍
Abe Diamond
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
General Electric Theater: The Incredible Jewel Robbery
Jewelry Store Manager
Jewel thieves Chico and Harpo Marx disguised as Groucho plan the perfect crime. Groucho appears as himself at the end in a police line up.
파티 걸
Mr. Field (uncredited)
30년대 시카고를 주름잡던 깡패 두목 리코 안젤로는 자기가 좋아하는 여배우 진 할로가 결혼했다는 소식에 화가 나 호화판 파티를 연다. 한편 이 파티에는 시카고 시내의 유명한 나이트클럽 무용수(파티걸)들도 동원을 했는데, 여기서 안젤로의 고문변호사 토미 패럴은 파티걸중의 한 명인 비키 케이시와 알게되어 급속도로 사랑에 빠진다.
Up In Smoke
Bernie (uncredited)
The Bowery Boys: In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
아름다운 질투
Chris Matthews (uncredited)
스포츠 저널리스트인 마이크와 디자이너인 마릴라는 휴양지에서 만나 순식간에 사랑에 빠져 그곳에서 곧바로 결혼식을 치룬다. 집으로 돌아온 두 사람을 기다리는 현실은, 그들의 생활이 그동안 얼마나 달랐으며 서로에 대해 아는 것이 거의 없다는 것. 게다가 마이크는 아내 마릴라가 자신의 분야에서 굉장히 성공한 여성이라는 것을 알게 되면서 심한 스트레스를 받게 된다. 결국 그는 자신의 가치를 증명하기 위해 위험한 모험을 시도하는데... 에서 낭만적인 연기를 보여줬던 그레고리 펙과, 험프리 보가트의 아내이자 수차례 토니상을 수상한 바 있는 매력적인 여배우 로렌 바콜 주연의 상큼한 로맨틱 코미디. , 등으로 유명한 빈센트 미넬리가 메가폰을 잡은 이 작품은, 그해 아카데미 각본상을 수상하기도 했다. (DVD) 1950~60년대 할리우드의 유명 여배우라면 입어보지 않은 이가 없을 만큼 유명했던 의상 디자이너 헬렌 로즈의 개인적 체험에서 영감을 얻었다고 한다. 두말할 필요 없는 두 배우, 그레고리 펙과 로렌 바콜 주연의 고전적이면서도 상큼한 로맨틱 코미디. (시네마테크부산)
Space Ship Sappy
Prof. A.K. Rimple
An eccentric scientist tricks the stooges into joining himself and his daughter on an expedition to Venus. On Venus, the boys go exploring and encounter some cannibalistic amazons who plan to devour them. The stooges escape and take off in the spaceship which goes wildly out of control. As the ship is about to crash, the scene changes to the annual meeting of the Liars Club, where the stooges win the prize as the biggest liars in the world.
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
The Waiter (uncredited)
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
Hoofs and Goofs
Mr. Dinklespiel
Joe dreams that the stooge's sister Birdie has died and been reincarnated as a horse. The stooges take Birdie home but must conceal her from the snoopy landlord. They succeed, but more complications ensue when Birdie gives birth to a colt. Joe wakes up to suffer some abuse from the real Birdie (Moe in drag), when he tells her he dreamed she was a horse.
상처 뿐인 영광
Fight Promoter (uncredited)
주인공 폴 뉴먼은 뒷골목 건달에서 권투를 배워 세계 챔피언까지 올라가는 사나이이다. 그는 밝고 낙천적인 성격이어서, 항상 모든 일에 잘 될 것이라는 자신감을 가지고 적극적으로 노력한다. 그 이유는 그가 영화의 제목과 같이 생각하기 때문이다. "저 위에 있는 어떤 분이 나를 좋아한다" 여기서 "저 위에 있는 어떤 분"이란 바로 하나님을 말한다.
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Roulette Croupier
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...
Blunder Boys
The Eel
The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers. This was Shemp's last completed film.
Masterson of Kansas
Coroner
Western lawman Bat Masterson sets out to prove a man standing trial for murder is innocent.
The Law vs. Billy the Kid
Arnold Dodge
Billy the Kid is forced to kill for the woman he loves, and is ultimately brought to justice by his old friend Pat Garrett.
수잔은 여기 자고 있다
Sylvester (uncredited)
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.
Yankee Pasha
Zamil
Director Joseph Pevney's 1954 swashbuckling adventure saga stars Jeff Chandler as an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates. The cast also includes Rhonda Fleming, Mamie Van Doren, Rex Reason, Lee J. Cobb, Hal March, Arthur Space, Benny Rubin, Harry Lauter and, as a promotional gimmick, Miss Universe 1953 (Christiane Martel of France) and a slew of other pageant contestants (Miss USA, Miss Japan, Miss Panama, Miss Norway, Miss Uruguay, Miss South Africa and Miss Australia).
Income Tax Sappy
Mr. Cash
Tax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at cheating the government, that they start a business as crooked tax advisors. They become rich, but an undercover agent from the IRS gets the goods on them, and its off to jail for the stooges.
El Alaméin
Egyptian Driver
A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.
The Glass Web
Tramp Comic
The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry, who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show "Crime of the Week", which Don writes for. When Henry fails to help her to a role, she insults him deadly... and ends up dead herself. Now Don desperately tries to hide his traces, but Henry sabotages his efforts and suggests he write the unsolved murder case for next week's show...
토치 송
Charles Maylor
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.
Pardon My Backfire
Escaped Convict
The stooges are auto mechanics who need money so they can marry their girls. When some escaped convicts pull into their garage, the boys manage to capture them and use the reward money to marry their sweethearts. It appears to be an early attempt at 3D with the closeups and effects used.
Tricky Dicks
Antonio Zucchini Salami Gorgonzola dePizza
The stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gun fight that nearly destroys the police station.
Tangier Incident
Blalu
Steve Gordon, an American agent posing as a black market operator, is in Tangier on a mission to stop the plans of three atomic-scientists who are there to pool their secrets and sell them in a package to the Communists.
The Scar
Cabbie (uncredited)
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
The Noose Hangs High
Chinaman (uncredited)
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
Obliging Young Lady
First Bird Lover with Eyeglasses (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
The Bashful Bachelor
Pitch Man
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.
Mr. Wise Guy
Second Waiter
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.
Zis Boom Bah
Nick
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
Double Trouble
Cafe cook
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
천국의 사도 조단
Bugs
조 펜들톤(Joe Pendleton / Bruce Farnsworth / Ralph Murdoch: 로버트 몽고메리 분)은 비행기 조종과 색소폰 연주를 즐기는 낭만적인 프로권투 선수다. 어느날 그는 뉴욕에서의 훈련을 마치고 비행을 하던 중 뜻하지 않은 사고를 당해 하늘나라로 가게 된다. 하지만 신참 천국의 사도의 실수로 예정된 시간보다 50년 일찍 불려온 것임이 밝혀지면서 다시 땅으로 보내진다. 천사장 조단(Mr. Jordan: 클로드 레인스 분)과 천국의 사도는 함께 조의 시체를 찾지만 시체는 이미 화장된 뒤였다. 다시 하늘나라로 돌아온 조는 조단과 함께 자신에게 맞는 육체를 찾아 나선다. 조단은 조에게 부인과 비서에게 살해당한 백만장자 판스워스의 몸에 들어 갈 것을 제의하고 때마침 찾아온 베티(Bette Logan: 에벨리 키스 분)라는 여인을 보고 반한 조는 곤경에 처한 그녀를 돕기 위해 판스워스의 몸으로 들어간다. 판스워스가 된 조는 베티의 아버지를 구하고 선행을 베푸는가 하면 예전의 매니저였던 맥스(Max 'Pop' Corkle: 제임스 글리슨 분)를 불러 세계 챔피언전을 주선해 달라고 부탁한다. 맥스는 처음엔 조의 말을 안 믿었지만 조가 불어주는 색소폰 연주를 듣고 그의 말을 믿게 된다. 그러나 판스워스의 몸을 사용할 수 있는 시간도 잠시 뿐, 판스워스는 결국 부인과 비서의 손에 다시 살해되고 만다. 판스워스가 실종되자 수사가 벌어지고, 조는 다시 조단과 함께 육체를 찾아 떠돌아다닌다. 그러는 가운데 머독과 길버트의 세계 챔피언전이 벌어지고 라디오를 통해 중계를 듣고 있던 조는 머독이 도박꾼들의 사기 시합의 희생양이 되어 시합 도중 총에 맞아 죽는 것을 보게 된다. 조단은 조에게 머독이 되어 시합을 끝낼 것을 제의하고 조는 쓰러져있는 머독의 몸에 들어가 시합을 승리로 이끈다.
시민 케인
Smather (uncredited)
1940년 뉴욕 인콰이어러지를 비롯, 수 많은 신문들의 발행인이었던 찰스 포스터 케인이 죽는다. 그는 당시 70세로 세계에서 손꼽히는 부자였으며, 죽음 직전에는 플로리다의 대저택에서 은둔 생활을 하고 있었다. 생전에 많은 정치인과도 친분을 맺고 있었고, 미국 정책에 막강한 영향력을 발휘하기도 했던 그는 자신에 대한 여러 얘기들에 대해 "나는 현재 미국인이고 과거에도 미국인이었으며 앞으로도 항상 미국인일 것이다"라고 일축하곤 했다. 잡지 편집장 록스톤은 그의 죽음을 취재하고자 기자 톰슨에게 케인이 죽기 전에 말했다는 장미꽃 봉오리가 무슨 뜻인지 알아오라고 한다. 톰슨은 케인의 주변 인물을 샅샅이 취재하기 시작하는데...
Let's Make Music
Music Publisher
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
No, No, Nanette
Max
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Fighting Mad
Benny
Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger (Warner Richmond) and Leon (Ted Adams) capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issued for her arrest as a material witness. The bank robbers flee across the border into Canda where they steal a trailer in which they lock Ann and the loot. The hitch breaks and the trailer plunges into a lake. Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien), of the Canadian Mounties,rescue Ann and she tells them she is a hitch-hiking tourist and gives a false name. Renfrew sends Kelly for aid, Ann escapes and Kelly returns with the news that she is wanted. The leader of the gang, Cardigan (Milburn Stone), sends the gang back for Ann and the loot, which Ann has hidden in a trappers cabin, just before Trigger recaptures her. Renfrew goes to her rescue, but is also captured. But reliable Constable Kelly is somewhere in the woods.
Happily Buried
Prince Chris Manusha
For some unexplained reason, sales of waffle irons have plummeted. Evelyn Foster, president of the Magic Circle Waffle Iron Company, and Richard Wright, president of the Four Square Waffle Iron Company, decide to merge their companies and get married as well. When Richard insists that the new company make square waffle irons rather than round ones, Evelyn calls off the marriage and the company merger. Richard meets a Hindu yogi, who helps him win Evelyn back.
Somewhat Secret
Swingopater Trombonist
At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when she finds out that her boyfriend, a chemistry professor at the school, is also a well-known swing bandleader.
The Adventures of Jane Arden
Marvin Piermont
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
The Headleys at Home
Dr. McLevy
In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a renowned financier, who is new in town, to their house for dinner. Her husband doesn't know the man, and is too intimidated to ask him; instead, he hires an actor to play him.
High Flyers
Screenplay
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
On Again-Off Again
Screenplay
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs (Wheeler) and Claude Augustus Horton (Woolsey), who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
The Untrained Seal
Voices
A newborn seal pup has to learn how to fish on his own, without help from any of his family or friends.
Yoo Yoo Hollywood
Director
Determined to break into Hollywood and become movie stars, three young men crash a movie set and proceed to disrupt a temperamental director's big production.
The Girl Friend
Screenplay
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
Star Gazing
Director
As co-owners of a hotel, three young men decide upon a gimmick to drum up business--they do impressions of movie stars.
Bright Lights
Adaptation
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Traveling Saleslady
Screenplay
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Self
Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator Florence Desmond, Ben Turpin, Rudy Vallee and many others.
The Promoter
Benny
Benny Rubin promotes a wrestling show but ends up wrestling Constantine "Strangler" Romanoff himself.
Dumb Dicks
Detective Benny Rubin
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
Running Hollywood
Scratchface
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Guests Wanted
Benny
Benny Rubin is a New York City vaudeville performer who inherits a hotel in California, and takes all of his ham-actor friends there, as chefs, bellhops, maids and waiters, to help him run it. BUsiness is bad so Benny plants a story that his late uncle hid his fortune in the hotel. The place is soon filled with guests who tear down the hotel looking for the non-existent fortune.
Julius Sizzer
Julius and Sizzer
After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war. He's aided by his innocent twin brother, Julius, a greenhorn from the Old Country. Both are played by Benny Rubin.
The Messenger Boy
Benny
Benny Rubin is a Messenger Boy who gets into trouble with everyone.
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
Crazy House
Benny
Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.
Love in the Rough
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
Hot Curves
Benny Goldberg
The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
Gems of M-G-M
Self
Benny Rubin performs vaudeville routines between singing and dancing acts.
Sunny Skies
Benny Krantz
Story of a football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic life. His naive comical roommate remains his steadfast supporter.
Children of Pleasure
Andy Little
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
Montana Moon
The Doctor
A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.
Lord Byron of Broadway
Phil
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
They Learned About Women
Sam
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
It's a Great Life
Benny Friedman
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final act, Casey again comes out and this time the president sees her act and fires both her and Babe on the spot. Benny is able to book Casey, Babe and Dean into Vaudeville and their act is popular. But before they have their shot at stardom, Dean and Babe leave Casey and the act.
Marianne
Sam
At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.
Naughty Baby
Benny Cohen
A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.