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Make Mine Laughs is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Richard Fleischer released in USA on 3 august 1949 with Joan Davis

Make Mine Laughs (1949)

Make Mine Laughs
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Released in USA 3 august 1949
Length 1h3
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Musical
Rating50% 2.5460052.5460052.5460052.5460052.546005

Make Mine Laughs is a 1949 film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film was a compilation of comic scenes and musical numbers from older and newer RKO films.

Make Mine Laughs was the second of three RKO Radio "pastiche" films, composed largely of musical and comedy highlights from previous RKO productions. Comedian Gil Lamb hosts the proceedings, finding time to make satirical comments about the opening credits and to perform his "swallowing the harmonica" specialty. The filmclips include two short subjects, Leon Errol's Beware of Redheads and one of RKO's Flicker Flashbacks entries, both presented in their entirety. Also featured are Frances Langford singing "Moonlight Over the Islands" (from Bamboo Blonde), Anne Shirley and Dennis Day duetting on "If You Happen to Find a Heart" (from Music in Manhattan), and specialties performed by the likes of orchestra leaders Frankie Carle and Freddie "Schnickelfritz" Fisher, ventriloquist Robert Lamouret, and dance teams Manuel & Marita Viera and Rosario & Antonio. Make Mine Laughs was withdrawn from distribution after Ray Bolger and Jack Haley brought suit against RKO for unauthorized use of clips from Bolger's boxing pantomime in Four Jacks and Jill (1944) and Haley's "Who Killed Vaudeville?" number from George White's Scandals (1945).

After problems with the copyright of some of the material used in the movie, RKO removed the movie from general release and shelved it.



^ "Make Mine Laughs: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 13, 2014.

Actors

Joan Davis

((archive footage))Gil Lamb

(Master of Ceremonies)Dennis Day
Ray Bolger

((archive footage))Anne Shirley

((archive footage))
And :
Leon Errol
Frances Langford
Jack Haley
Dorothy Granger
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