Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released May 24, 1940
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Universal
64 min. (Feature Film)
64 min. (Feature Film)
Frank Stewart (Richard Arlen) arrives in the steel town of Arlington, PA, and takes a room at Mrs. Morrison's boarding house. His old friend Matt Morrison (Andy Devine) arranges him a job at the Farley Steelyards, where Frank puts his education as a metallurgist to work and develops a new steel alloy process to improve efficiency. Rita Martin, the ambitious wife of Farley's top steelworker Dave Martin, is having an affair with the factory's general manager George Barnes. Barnes wants the new alloy so he can sell it to a competitor, Mr. Carlton, and after accidentally murdering Dave, he and Rita steal the alloy sample and frame Frank for the murder.
Joe Besser costars as Siggie Landers, a steelyard employee and boarding house tenant.
Avg. Rating: 
[5.00/10]
[5.00/10]
Andy Devine
Matt Morrison
Richard Arlen
Frank Stewart
Peggy Moran
Bebe Morrison
Anne Nagel
Rita Martin
Donald Briggs
George Barnes
Wade Boteler
Joe Farley
William Gould
Distracted banker
Edwin Stanley
John, 2nd banker
Tom Chatterton
3rd banker
Dorothy Vaughan
Mrs. Morrison
Billy Wayne
Dave Martin
Joe Besser
Siggie Landers
Mira McKinney
Elvira Appleby
James Flavin
Storm Swenson
Charles Flynn
Steelworker
Victor Zimmerman
Steelworker
Thomas E. Jackson
Police Inspector
Emmett Vogan
Jacobs
Edward McWade
Mr. Carlton
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Police Detective
Sam Finn
Bartender
Christy Cabanne
Director
Ben Pivar
Producer
Maurice Tombragel
Original Story and Screenplay
Clarence Upson Young
Screenplay
William A. Sickner
Director of Photography
Edward Curtiss
Film Editor
Jack Otterson
Art Director
Richard H. Riedel
Associate Art Director
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor
William Hedgcock
Sound Technician
Hans J. Salter
Musical Director
Charles Previn
Musical Director
Charles Henderson
Music and Lyrics
Vera West
Gowns
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