Joe E Brown
Author
Language
English
Description
How one man found a way of laughter and gave it to the world. Every American has at one time or another known the pleasure of watching Joe E. Brown. Mirth-maker Joe, clown-prince of movies, radio and TV, however, is more than just a dispenser of gaiety and laughter. Ralph Hancock, famed foreign correspondent, has drawn a most accurate picture of one of the country's outstanding citizens. You'll laugh with, and feel sympathy for comedian Joe-the grease-painted...
Author
Language
English
Description
Author William Hazlett Upson turned his work experience with the Holt Caterpillar Company into a second career when "The Saturday Evening Post" published his first story in 1927 in the saga of tractor salesman extraordinaire Alexander Botts and Earthworm crawlers. The series was so popular that it led to 112 Botts tales and a movie.
4) Show boat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Tonight will be a hit ... or tomorrow will be a bust! ... backstage musicals became one of the staples of the era and amid all the voh-de-oh-doing and tap-tapping came this movie that Time called 'the most interesting of its type to date.' Adding to the interest: a narrative structure that cuts between the onstage production of a make-or-braek show and the in-the-wings scrambling to mount it -- and to find out who heisted the night's gate receipts;...
Author
Series
Route 66 volume 2
Language
English
Description
Tod and Buz suffer a series of odd misfortunes after they give a ride to a local jinx.
