08 Apr 1979
Canned Laughter
Robert Box asks his colleague Lorraine out for a date. They go to a restaurant where Dave Perry tries to break it as a stand-up comedian.
Follow the Leader
TODAY'S RADIO SENSATION in His FIRST All-Talking Feature!
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role and become a star herself.
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Ed Wynn Cricket
Ginger Rogers Mary Brennan
Stanley Smith Jimmie Moore
Lou Holtz Sam Platz
Lida Kane Ma Brennan
Ethel Merman Helen King
Bobby Watson George White
Donald Kirke R.C. Black
William Halligan Bob Sterling
Holly Hall Fritzie Devere
Preston Foster Two-Gun Terry
James C. Morton Mickie
Tammany Young Bull (uncredited)
Jack La Rue Gangster (uncredited)
William Gargan Gangster (uncredited)
William Black (uncredited)
Dick Scott (uncredited)
Jules Epailly Gaston Duval (uncredited)
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