Milton Berle

Neste documentário, nomes influentes da arte e do pensamento transgêneros analisam o impacto de Hollywood na comunidade trans.

His career started in the glory days of vaudeville. More than 70 years later, he is revered as the most popular and influential entertainer of the century, the show-biz giant all others are measured against. On stage and screen, on TV and radio, on Broadway and USO stages worldwide, Bob Hope has enjoyed a career of unmatched popularity. In this special, feature-length presentation, BIOGRAPHY traces his remarkable life, from his vaudeville debut he had third billing, behind a trained seal to entertaining the troops of Desert Storm. Extensive clips capture his greatest performances, while family photos and the recollections of friends, colleagues and family provide an intimate portrait of the private man.

"The Television Years" examines the events that took place in the years between 1956 and 1960, in which Elvis Presley excited a whole nation as the "King of Rock and Roll" in the big television shows of the time. One highlight of this time periode was Elvis' 1960 combeback hosted by Frank Sinatra, which marked his first appearance on televison after his two-year stay in the army.

Two Heads Are Better Than None também conhecido como Kenan & Kel: O Filme é um filme americano de 2000 que estrela o elenco da sitcom Kenan & Kel da Nickelodeon. É o último longa-metragem da lenda dos quadrinhos Milton Berle.

Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the fifth of the six films, "Funny Is Money," filmmaker Norman Jewison delves into the topic of comedy, using the hype surrounding the finale of the wildly successful NBC series "Seinfeld" as his launchpad to explore how the artform has evolved over the past 100 years.

Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" were periodic specials aired in the 1970s and 1980s, which roasted (or honored) such stars as Lucille Ball, Muhammad Ali and Johnny Carson; guests then recalled comedic moments they shared. Comedian Rich Little (a regular on the "Roast" specials) served as pitchman for the videos in a series of TV infomercials

A young boy and his dog discover a magical story book and enter the enchanted Storyland, ruled by wicked Queen Evilia. They'll need a little help from his literary friends to get back to the real world.

In this animated Christmas special, loosely based on the origin of the Bobby Helms Christmas song, when Santa closes his workshop due to lack of finances, it is up to a music loving elf named Buddy, to travel to Hollywood, enter a TV talent contest, and hopefully win the prize money to save Christmas.

A look back at the first 100 years of the movies.

US-American comedy from the year 1991 with Thomas Gottschalk in the lead role. The German TV host plays an East German who can get his Trabi reach speeds of up to 250 and uses environmentally friendly turnip juice as fuel. In the USA, he wants to make it big with his invention. There, he gets caught up in a series of screw-ups.

A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

A 50th anniversary tribute to Bugs Bunny

Um jovem e sonhador comediante aceita um emprego como subalterno em um cruzeiro onde ele espera ter a chance de se tornar um grande comediante à bordo de navios.

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

Três homens que acabam de se aposentar, ao invés de levarem uma vida tranqüila, fazem um financiamento num banco para realizar um sonho. Eles querem abrir uma loja de roupas esportivas, uma decisão bastante arriscada, já que seu concorrente fará o impossível para tirá-los do mercado.

This program presents a combination of entertainer Spike Jones' personal and professional history, featuring Milton Berle and Danny Thomas, plus numerous family members and collaborators.

From an uproarious news spoof to a luncheonette that specializes in some sandwiches, Jonathan Winters and his wild bunch wreak comedy havoc in this wacky walk on the wild side.

A compilation film of stand up performances and comedy routines featuring some of the biggest stars in the early years of television. This film was directed by Sandy Olivieri. Here is a partial list of the performers who appeared in the film Bob Newhart, Mort Sahl, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Johnny Carson, George Carlin, et al.

O excêntrico Pee-wee, uma criança dentro de um homem, embarca na maior aventura de sua vida pelos Estados Unidos para achar sua amada bicicleta, que fora roubada em plena luz do dia. No caminho, encontra com motoqueiros, um caminhão fantasma, cowboy, uma garçonete sonhadora e o seu namorado invejoso e violento, até descobrir que sua bicicleta estava no estúdio da Warner Brothers.

Danny Rose (Woody Allen) é um agente fracassado que vê uma ótima oportunidade de crescer profissionalmente através do cantor Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte). Lou tem muitos conflitos amorosos e Danny acaba por se envolver demais com o cliente, chegando até a ter envolvimentos nada agradáveis com a máfia.

Warren Nefron (Jerry Lewis) é um desastrado com a pior sorte do mundo. Quando ele tenta acabar com tudo em um plano de suicídio infalível, ele acaba conseguindo fazer as coisas darem errado. Desesperado, Warren vai a um psiquiatra para tentar solucionar os seus problemas e revela os acontecimentos ao longo da sua vida.

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is comprised mostly of actual performance footage and interviews with Elvis, his fans and those close to him. This biographical docu-drama features rare footage of Elvis and dramatically recreated scenes from Elvis' life.

Saiba como foi a ascensão dos Muppets à fama e à fortuna e como tudo pode ir por água abaixo quando Caco cai nas garras do Doutor Hopper, um vilão que quer promover sua rede de fast-food.

1979 comedy special starring Chevy Chase in the vein of Saturday Night Live.

Steve Martin's first network special for NBC offers part concert footage (shot at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles) and part sketch comedy.

Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas. The good folk humorously attempt jobs they have never done before.

CBS honors Lucille Ball with this celebration of her three CBS series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.

A celebration of 50 years of NBC broadcasting in radio and television, since first going on the airwaves on 15 November 1926.

Peter Gabriel is among the rockstars performing the music of Lennon and McCartney against a montage of World War II newsreel footage.

Em 1924, Estie Del Ruth vem para Hollywood para se tornar uma atriz, mas o cão, que acompanha, se torna a estrela. Mas Hollywood tem suas próprias regras de sucesso.

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."

An embellished dramatization of the career and personal life of actor Rudolph Valentino, widely regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol.

Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of jail, Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers, and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks.

Levada por um ciclone de volta a OZ, Dorothy reencontra seus velhos amigos e vive novas e emocionantes aventuras. Para evitar que a bruxa malvada destrua a Cidade das Esmeraldas e se torne rainha, Dorothy conta com a ajuda da fada Glinda e dos ratinhos mágicos.

Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.

A plane carrying seven blind people to a convention for the blind in Seattle crashes in the mountains due to severe weather. Only the blind survive the crash and they must make their way back through the wilderness to civilization.

Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth and moral decay.

Anne and Helen move into a California apartment complex for single only where all the occupants are looking to hook up with Milton Berle as the building manager.

Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country.

A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.

A bumbling government employee accidentally destroys a small fortune and decides to break into the US Mint to replace it, but before long everyone wants a slice of the action - and the money.

A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money.

A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.

An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.

A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

Após um longo tempo na prisão, homem cai de carro num precipício. Antes de morrer, ele conta às pessoas que tentam socorrê-lo onde escondera uma grande fortuna. Inicia-se então uma louca corrida ao tesouro. Oscar de Efeitos Sonoros.

Ao descobrir que será alvo de uma peça teatral satírica, o bilionário Jean-Marc Clement resolve ir ao teatro para ver os ensaios. É lá que ele conhece a bela Amanda (Marilyn Monroe) e decide fazer parte da equipe para ficar perto dela.

O filme começa com um executivo cinematográfico apresentando-o. Ele explica que o filme em si não tem uma história centrada, mas que simplesmente mostra Jerry Lewis como Stanley, um mensageiro, que se mete em absurdas situações, se safando delas de uma cena para outra. Stanley não fala, exceto por alguns segundos antes do desfecho do filme.

O filme começa com um executivo cinematográfico apresentando-o. Ele explica que o filme em si não tem uma história centrada, mas que simplesmente mostra Jerry Lewis como Stanley, um mensageiro, que se mete em absurdas situações, se safando delas de uma cena para outra. Stanley não fala, exceto por alguns segundos antes do desfecho do filme.

A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.

The Warner Bros. annual blooper reel for 1949.

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.

A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.

After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.

The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game

Quando a banda de Phil Corey chega à estância de esqui Sun Valley em Idaho seu pianista Ted Scott se apaixona pela refugiada norueguesa Karen Benson. Quando a solista Vivian Dawn sai, Karen assume o show no gelo.

Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.

A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.

During the movement to repeal Prohibition, Oxidontal University student editor Elmer Brown is strongly in favor. He loves the daughter of an ardent prohibitionist; by chicanery, he tries to win Gloria and sell his bottle stopper invention.

Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young Tess, and one of them, Ben Letts, frames Tess's father for murder. While maintaining her father's innocence, Tess must keep her love for Graves' son a secret, while caring for Elias' daughter's illegitamate child.

An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Na Califórnia espanhola, o opressor governo colonial é confrontado por uma herói mascarado chamado Zorro - que ninguém sabe se tratar de Don Diego Vega (Douglas Fairbanks). Visto pela população como o único capaz de salvá-los, Zorro deverá lutar contra a tirania do Capitão Ramon. Sem a máscara, a capa e a espada, Don Diego ainda disputa com Ramon o amor da donzela Lolita.

Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education. When spoiled girls at school mock the spirited Rebecca as "missy poor-house," she soon makes them come to eat their words. Despite many difficulties, Rebecca manages to help the less fortunate and spread joy in Riverboro, dreaming that her reward will come when she is "all growed up." This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.