Red Skelton’s memorial for Lou Jacobs
[Editor’s note: this is Red Skelton‘s entry for the Lou Jacobs Memorial Book, created for the funeral mass of legendary clown Lou Jacobs] Dear Jean,… Read More »Red Skelton’s memorial for Lou Jacobs
Red Skelton on Oh Canada
Red Skelton on Oh Canada – similar to his explanation of the Pledge of Allegiance, Red expounds on the Canadian national anthem, Oh Canada “O… Read More »Red Skelton on Oh Canada
Photo gallery for Ship Ahoy
Photo gallery for Ship Ahoy – a very enjoyable musical comedy with Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Eleanor Powell, Virginia O’Brien
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Red Skelton blog for February 2017 For people interested in collecting Red’s paintings, there’s a Red Skelton Limited Edition Giclée “The Philosopher” available at Barneby’s
Red Skelton’s letter on his induction
Red Skelton’s letter on his induction to the International Clown Hall of Fame
Red Skelton was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1990. Here is his letter in response to them:
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The Show-Off [romantic comedy]
The Show-Off (1946) starring Red Skelton, Marilyn Maxwell
Synopsis of The Show-Off
Amy Fisher falls in love with Aubrey Piper, a loudmouth and braggart who pretends to be more than the lowly clerk he is. Then she marries him, over her family’s objections. Aubrey can’t seem to stop insulting others or interfering with their lives. He accidentally sets her inventor brother Joe’s laboratory on fire, wrecks a car, driving it without a license, gets kicked off a radio show for offending the sponsor and blows Joe’s deal with a paint company.
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Everything’s Funny but Love
Everything’s Funny but Love, by John R. Franchey
Originally published in Radio and Television Mirror, June 1942
Their romance was touched with amiable lunacy, and the groom borrowed the license-money from the bride — but Edna knew that Red Skelton was the man for her
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The Red Skelton Show – the early years
The Red Skelton Show – the early years (1951-1955)
In short, a DVD collection of the very early years of The Red Skelton Show – with a lot of episodes for the money. 10 disks of the show itself, with one additional bonus DVD. The contents are:
If it weren’t for his wife, Edna …
If it weren’t for his wife, Edna, he would be a bum – says Red Skelton Originally published August 17, 1941, in The Telegraph-Herald – by… Read More »If it weren’t for his wife, Edna …
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.
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