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Ziegfeld Follies (1945) starring Red Skelton, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly,  Lucille Ball,  Lena Horne, Kathryn Grayson, William Powell and many more

Ziegfeld Follies

Ziegfeld Follies (1945) starring Red Skelton, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly,  Lucille Ball,  Lena Horne, Kathryn Grayson, William Powell and many more

Ziegfeld Follies is an attempt at recreating the spectacle of Flo Ziegfeld’s famous Broadway shows. And so the film is a series of unrelated musical and comedy routines. They’re unconnected except by the narration of the ghostly Flo Ziegfeld. The part is played by William Powell. He sits back in Heaven, thinking of the spectacles that he could create with then-current stars.  

The Red Skelton Hour: In Color: Unreleased Seasons

Red Skelton – Unreleased

Red Skelton – Unreleased – Collector’s Edition – Select Shows from 1959-1962

Buy from Amazon.com Red Skelton Unreleased  is a fairly different DVD collection of  The Red Skelton Show  in several respects.   It is digitally remastered, unlike most of the  Red Skelton  DVD collections out there.   It is also authorized by the Red Skelton estate.   It also contains a  lot  of episodes of The Red Skelton Show  – sixteen episodes in all, as well three full-length color episodes from Red’s final year on broadcast TV, as well as a taping of one of Red’s live shows.

Red Skelton: America's Favorite Funnyman (DVD)

Red Skelton: America’s Favorite Funnyman

Buy from Amazon.com Red Skelton – America’s Favorite Funnyman  is a DVD collection of 10 episodes of  The Red Skelton Show.   Not a bad collection by any means, and inexpensive as well. $9.95 U.S. dollars at the time of this writing. And it has a collection of some of my favorite episodes as well.   They are:

Red Skelton in Excuse My Dust

Photos of Red Skelton

A collection of photos of Red Skelton, America’s clown prince.  Photos from his days in radio, movies, television show, and publicity photos.

Half a Hero, starring Red Skelton, Jean Hagen

Half a Hero (1953)

Synopsis of Half a Hero, starring Red Skelton, Jean Hagen

Red Skelton stars as Ben Dobson, a freelance writer who no sooner starts working full-time as a rewrite man at a magazine than his wife (Jean Hagen) decides that they should have their first child. Afterward, she pushes him into moving from New York City to the suburbs.  Here he is nickel and dimed to the verge of bankruptcy.  Until his boss gives him his first chance at writing his own article for this national magazine.  An article talking about the “slums of tomorrow” — the suburbs

Brian Hoffman’s Remembering

Brian Hoffman’s Remembering Red – A Tribute to Red Skelton: Traveler Reviews (Editor’s note: I’ve never met Brian, although he’s a Facebook friend who I’ve interacted with – he clearly has a great love for… 

Movie review of A Southern Yankee (1948) starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Brian Donlevy

A Southern Yankee

Movie review of A Southern Yankee (1948) starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Brian Donlevy  A Southern Yankee is a very funny movie, set at the tail end of the American Civil War. Red Skelton plays…