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FUNNY SCREEN TEST A SCREAM, MAY BE FEATURE

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(Editor’s note: originally published in The Ogden Standard-Examiner, October 27, 1940)

Red Skelton’ Trial Film May Make Money for Hís Studio

By Paul Harrison
NEA Service Staff

HOLLYWOOD – the busiest strip of film in the whole film capital is a Metro screen test of Comedian Red Skelton.  It won him a job weeks ago and he has already finished his role as a fellow aviator with Bob Taylor in “Flight Command“.  But that initial test keeps reeling along.

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Merton of the Movies, starring Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien

Laugh, Clown, Laugh!

I Dare Say — Laugh, Clown, Laugh!

(originally published in The Pittsburgh Press, September 14, 1946)

By Florence Fisher Parry

Hollywood — I tell you you have to go out and get your story out here; it’s never in the mail or on the telephone.

I know, I know: millions are spent on Publicity in every studio, and the Important columnists have their “leg-women” to tour the studios for them, interview the stars second-hand, and telephone them the gossip items you read in all the syndicated columns.

But I, being nobody, prefer to find my own – they are under my feet wherever I go, stories I can never use, stories that I’ll hoard for a while until something happens that makes their telling just pat. And some, of course, I’m sending on to you right now.

But they’re never the stories you go out for; they’re never what you think they’ll be. How was I to know what I was going to find when they told me at MGM that Red Skelton was over on Stage 10 working on “Merton of the Movies,” and did I want to see him? Matter of fact, I didn’t. It was hot, I was tired, and I’m not a Red Skelton fan.

Or wasn’t. Count me in now, though.Read More »Laugh, Clown, Laugh!