Great Movie Comedians, The (From Charlie Chaplin to Woody Allen)
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Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
16.5 min. (Short Subject)
Joe is a wanderer who is mistaken for an American millionaire by the impoverished owner of a hacienda.
Filmed in New York.
Ned McGurn's Tapsters were 28 dancers who were then appearing on Broadway in the Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, and George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart, musical satire I'D RATHER BE RIGHT (1937 - 1938) at the Alvin Theatre, starring George M. Cohan as 'President Roosevelt.'
Joe Besser
Wanderer
Lee Royce
Pedro
Charles Master
Don Carlo
Lolita Cordoba
Rosita
Ned McGurn's Tapsters
Dancers
Ben K. Blake
Producer
Ben K. Blake
Director
I. A. Jacoby
Story
Lawrence A. Williams
Photography
William Saulter
Art Director
Paul Robillard
Sound Engineer
Joseph Gershenson
Music Arranger
Jack Shaindlin
Music Arranger
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