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Al Ritz
Al Ritz (born Albert "Al" Joachim; August 27, 1901 – December 22, 1965), was an American comedian, actor and entertainer. Ritz was the oldest of the Ritz Brothers. Early life Ritz was born Albert Joachim on August 27, 1901, in Newark, New Jersey. His father, Max Joachim (December 1871–January 4, 1939) owned a haberdashery while his mother, Pauline Joachim (May 1874–November 26, 1935) was a housewife. Ritz's father was a native of Austria-Hungary and his mother was born in Russia. Ritz had three brothers, George, Samuel (later "Jimmy Ritz"), and Harry, and a sister, Gertrude Soll. Career Early career Ritz began his solo career shortly after he finished high school to join vaudeville. ''The Ritz Brothers'' After the three Joachim brothers graduated from high school, they decided to team up as a song-and-comedy act. The brothers began using the name "Ritz" for their nightclub act reportedly after seeing the name on the side of a laundry truck. With fourth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gorilla (1939 Film)
''The Gorilla'' is a 1939 American horror comedy film starring the Ritz Brothers, Anita Louise, Art Miles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, and Patsy Kelly. It was based on the 1925 play of the same name by Ralph Spence. The film is in the public domain. Plot When a wealthy man (Lionel Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive. Patsy Kelly portrays a newly hired maid who wants to quit because the butler, played by Bela Lugosi, scares her. Cast Production By October 1938, 20th Century Fox bought the rights to Ralph Spence's play '' The Gorilla''. Fox wanted production on the film to start in January, which would be when The Ritz Brothers finished their tour. The studio wanted Kane Richmond to play a part in the film, but Richmond was replaced by Edward Norris after Richmond signed on for the film ''Charlie Chan in Reno''. Fox signed on Bela Lugo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Fox
20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) distributes the films produced by 20th Century Studios in home media under the 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment banner. For over 80 years – beginning with its founding in 1935 and ending in 2019 (when it became part of Walt Disney Studios), 20th Century Fox was one of the then "Big Six" major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 from the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures and was originally known as the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (while owned by TCF Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Musketeers (1939 Film)
''The Three Musketeers'' is a 1939 musical comedy film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel ''The Three Musketeers'' directed by Alan Dwan and starring Don Ameche as d'Artagnan, with the Ritz Brothers as his cowardly helpers. Plot summary Cast * Don Ameche as d'Artagnan * Ritz Brothers as Three Lackeys * Binnie Barnes as Milady de Winter * Gloria Stuart as Queen Anne * Pauline Moore as Lady Constance * Joseph Schildkraut as King Louis XIII * John Carradine as Naveau * Lionel Atwill as De Rochefort * Miles Mander as Cardinal Richelieu * Douglass Dumbrille as Athos (as Douglas Dumbrille) * John 'Dusty' King as Aramis (as John King) * Russell Hicks as Porthos * Gregory Gaye as Vitray * Lester Matthews as Duke of Buckingham * Egon Brecher as Landlord * Moroni Olsen as Bailiff * Georges Renavent as Captain Fageon * C. Montague Shaw as Ship Captain (as Montague Shaw) Songs Music: Samuel Pokrass, lyrics: Walter Bullock. * d'Artagnan song (Vara-vara-vara), Don Ameche. * Chick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Place And Show
''Straight, Place and Show'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by David Butler and starring the Ritz Brothers, Richard Arlen, and Ethel Merman, and released by 20th Century Fox. It based on the unproduced play ''Saratoga Chips'' by Damon Runyon and Irving Caesar. It features a performance of the song "With You on My Mind" by Merman. Plot Al, Jimmy and Harry get into a jam at the racetrack and expose a gang of cheating Russian jockeys. Cast * The Ritz Brothers as Themselves * Ethel Merman as Linda Tyler * Richard Arlen as Denny Paine * Phyllis Brooks Phyllis Brooks (July 18, 1915 – August 1, 1995) was an American actress and model. She was born in Boise, Idaho. Some sources have also inaccurately cited 1914 as her year of birth, but 1915 is the correct year according to Social Security r ... as Barbara Drake * George Barbier as Mr. Drake References External links * 1938 films American black-and-white films 1938 comedy films Films directed by David Butle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentucky Moonshine
''Kentucky Moonshine'' is a 1938 American comedy musical film directed by David Butler and released by 20th Century Fox. Plot Radio star Jerry Wade's program ratings are falling and he suggests to his sponsors a show that is different and he goes to Kentucky to find an idea. Caroline, a Kentucky girl in New York trying to crash into radio, learns of Wade's quest and takes her three friends, Harry, Jimmy and Al Ritz, also aspiring to show-business fame, to Kentucky with her, where Wade discovers them in beards, guns, feuds, moonshine and every cliché that fits the hillbillies lifestyle. He stages a broadcast from the hills, which is not heard because of technical difficulties. He takes the whole troupe back to New York with him. Cast * Ritz Brothers as Themselves * Tony Martin as Jerry Wade * Marjorie Weaver as Caroline * Slim Summerville as Hank Hatfield * John Carradine as Reef Hatfield * Wally Vernon as Gus Bryce * Berton Churchill as J.B. * Eddie Collins as 'Spats' Swens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldwyn Follies
''The Goldwyn Follies'' is a 1938 Technicolor film written by Ben Hecht, Sid Kuller, Sam Perrin and Arthur Phillips, with music by George Gershwin, Vernon Duke, and Ray Golden, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Sid Kuller. Some sources credit Kurt Weill as one of the composers, but this is apparently incorrect. ''The Goldwyn Follies'' was the first Technicolor film produced by Samuel Goldwyn. The movie, which features Adolphe Menjou, Vera Zorina, Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy (ventriloquist), Charlie McCarthy), Andrea Leeds, Kenny Baker (American performer), Kenny Baker, Ella Logan, Helen Jepson, Bobby Clark (comedy actor), Bobby Clark and the Ritz Brothers, depicts a movie producer who chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evaluate his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. The style of the film is very similar to other musical film, musicals of its era, including the "Gold Diggers" series and others. The film is an effective satire on Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Baba Goes To Town
''Ali Baba Goes to Town'' is a 1937 musical film directed by David Butler and starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making the '' Arabian Nights''. He falls asleep and dreams he is in Baghdad as an advisor to the Sultan (Young). He organizes work programs, taxes the rich, and abolishes the army, in a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal. The cast also includes Gypsy Rose Lee, using the stage name of Louise Hovick, as the Sultana. The Raymond Scott Quintette also appears, performing "Twilight In Turkey." Two men were killed and two injured on August 27, 1937, when the flying carpet rig collapsed in the studio. The "carpet" was a platform suspended high above the floor by piano wires attached to the four corners. The platform fell while it was being tested; none of the actors were on set. Three workmen had been riding on the carpet, with one, camera grip Harry Harsha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Can't Have Everything
''You Can't Have Everything'' is a 1937 Fox musical film directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Alice Faye and Don Ameche, and was the film debut for Gypsy Rose Lee credited as Louise Hovick part of her birth name. Plot Judith Poe Wells (Alice Faye) is a would-be playwright who has almost no money. As a result of ordering a meal in a restaurant where she cannot afford to pay, she meets George Macrae (Don Ameche), a musical writer with a lot of power. He offers her play ''North Winds'' to producer Sam Woods. He knows it isn't any good, but he has fallen in love with her and does it to win her over. Cast * Alice Faye – ''Judith Poe Wells'' * Don Ameche – ''George Macrae'' * Al Ritz – ''Al Ritz'' * Jimmy Ritz – ''Jimmy Ritz'' * Harry Ritz – ''Harry Ritz'' * Charles Winninger – ''Sam Gordon'' * Gypsy Rose Lee – ''Lulu Riley'' * Arthur Treacher – ''Bevins'' * Tony Martin – ''Bobby Walker'' * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Avenue
''On the Avenue'' is a 1937 American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, George Barbier, and The Ritz Brothers. Many of the songs were composed by Irving Berlin. Many of the plot details (with a reversal of the male and female roles) were used in '' Let's Make Love''. Initially, the movie was called ''Out Front''. Plot Gary Blake stars in a new show, ''On the Avenue'', with Mona Merrick. The show contains a satire on the richest girl in the world, Mimi Carraway. Mimi and her father are in the audience on opening night and feel insulted. She goes backstage and tries to get Gary to take the skit out of the show. He refuses and calls her a "bad sport". Shocked by the remark, Mimi decides to make a date with Gary. They spend the entire evening together and, by morning, have fallen in love. He finally agrees to revise the skit so it can no longer hurt the Carraways. Mona is in love with Gary and is furious when she hears a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One In A Million (1936 Film)
''One in a Million'' is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou and Don Ameche. It marked the Hollywood debut of the ice skater Henie. It was the first of a series of Twentieth Century-Fox musicals made by Henie, although she had previously made a silent film in her native Norway. The film features footage from the 1936 Winter Olympic Games. Choreographer Jack Haskell received an Academy Award nomination in Best Dance Direction at the 9th Academy Awards. ''One in a Million'' proved to be one of the highest-grossing films of 1937. Plot American showman Thaddeus Spencer (Adolphe Menjou) is stuck without money in the Swiss Alps with his wife Billie (Arline Judge), a girls' band, a comedy trio (The Ritz Brothers) and a recent harmonica-playing discovery ( Borrah Minevitch) when the group learns that the Grand Palace Hotel in Ardetz, where they were to perform, has burned down. Upon seeing Greta Muller (Sonja Henie), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Anchovy
The Ritz Brothers were an American family comedy act who performed extensively on stage, in nightclubs and in films from 1925 to the late 1960s. A fourth brother, George, acted as their manager. Early life The four brothers were born to Austrian-born Jewish haberdasher Max Joachim and his wife Pauline, only three of them performed together. They also had a sister Gertrude. All three brothers were born in Newark, New Jersey. The family name was Joachim (pronounced "jo-ACK-him", Harry explained on a Joe Franklin TV interview), but the eldest brother Al, a vaudeville dancer, adopted a new professional name after he saw the name "Ritz" on the side of a laundry truck. Jimmy and Harry followed suit when the brothers formed a team. The Ritzes emphasized precision dancing in their act, and added comedy material as they went along. By the early 1930s they were stage headliners. Movie career In 1934 Educational Pictures, producers of short subjects, hired "The Three Ritz Brothers" to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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