Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released March 20, 1947
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
Columbia
17.25 min. (Short Subject)
17.25 min. (Short Subject)
Joe Priggle (Joe DeRita) checks into the Shady Shelter Rest Home, and over a jug of applejack, tells the manager (Vernon Dent) his tale of woe and the reason he hates eggs... Answering a lonely hearts message written on an egg, home appliance inventor Joe marries Florobelle (Dorothy Granger) and then discovers that she has an adolescent brat for a son. Stepson Rudolph (Norman Ollestad) turns Joe's home life into a battleground, bringing home everything from a bow & arrow to a miniature cannon as toys. Joe's washing machine invention, which he hopes to sell to Mr. Collins' manufacturing company, becomes Rudolph's latest plaything, with Collins and his board members on the receiving end of the consequences.
A remake of Andy Clyde's Columbia short KNEE ACTION (1937).
Avg. Rating: 
[5.71/10]
[5.71/10]
Joe DeRita
Joe Priggle
Vernon Dent
Rest home manager
Emil Sitka
Joe's friend
Dorothy Granger
Florobelle Priggle
Norman Ollestad
Rudolph
Al Thompson
Florobelle's father
Bobby Burns
Minister
Judy Malcolm
Wedding guest
Frank Mills
Wedding guest
James C. Morton
Man hit by horseshoe
Jules White
Voice dub for James C. Morton
Victor Travers
Mr. Collins
Charlie Phillips
Board member
Lew Davis
Board member
Symona Boniface
Board member
Frank O'Connor
Board member
Unidentified THE GOOD BAD EGG
Wedding guests
Jules White
Director
Jules White
Producer
Al Giebler
Story
Elwood Ullman
Story
Jules White
Screenplay
Fred Mandl
Director of Photography
Edwin Bryant
Film Editor
Charles Clague
Art Director
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