Red Skelton

Bathing Beauty

by tfraymond
February 17, 2012March 28, 2024

Movie review of Bathing Beauty (1944) starring Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone

Synopsis of Bathing Beauty

In Bathing Beauty, Swim instructor Caroline Brooks (Esther Williams) angrily returns to her teaching job at a New Jersey girls school when her brand new marriage to songwriter Steve Elliott (Red Skelton) is disrupted by scheming show producer George Adams (Basil Rathbone). In order to speak with his estranged bride, Steve forces admission to the college, which has never been legally declared “all female”. To rid the campus of him, Dean Clinton places Steve on two weeks’ probation, during which time she plans to hit him with 100 demerits and mandatory expulsion. Steve also encounters heavy resistance from faculty, students and a distant Caroline, who wants their marriage annulled.

Red Skelton's recipe for the perfect marriage

Red Skelton recipe for the perfect marriage

by tfraymond
February 17, 2012April 21, 2022

Red Skelton recipe for the perfect marriage As part of his weekly monologue on his TV show, Red once shared Red Skelton‘s recipe for the perfect marriage – enjoy! Two times a week, we go…

Red Skelton film list

by tfraymond
February 17, 2012May 12, 2021

A listing of Red Skelton’s known movie, video & TV appearances listed by the name of the movie, the year, and the character Red played.

Christmas with Red Skelton, featuring The Cop and the Anthem and Freddie and the Yuletide Doll featuring Freddie the Freeloader

Red Skelton Christmas DVD | Freddie the Freeloader

by tfraymond
February 17, 2012May 1, 2022

Red Skelton’s Christmas, featuring “The Plight Before Christmas,” starring Red Skelton and Greer Garson

The title, “Red Skelton Christmas,” is both accurate and slightly misleading. Although it actually contains several Christmas episodes (and highlights from another), it also contains other Holiday segments. These include Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance and a very nice Thanksgiving segment titled “The Thanksgiving Turkey”. Also, this 130-minute DVD is authorized by the Red Skelton estate.

Freddie the Freeloader – Red Skelton’s famous Hobo clown

by tfraymond
February 13, 2012June 28, 2021

Red Skelton’s most famous character, Freddie the Freeloader, is a happy hobo clown. Unlike Emmett Kelly‘s Weary Willy tramp clown, Freddie the Freeloader had a perpetually upbeat personality, sure that good fortune awaited him just around the corner. He typically (depending on the need of the skit) lived in a ramshackle shack in the garbage dump, where he slept in a bathtub. Although it was a running joke that he didn’t bathe regularly. For instance, in several episodes of the Red Skelton Show, someone asked Freddie the Freeloader if he was alone. Freddie the Freeloader would scratch himself, pantomiming that he had fleas, and reply that he wasn’t totally alone.

There’s Nothing Worse than Loneliness at Christmastime

by tfraymond
February 12, 2012April 27, 2021

There’s Nothing Worse than Loneliness at Christmastime – [written and sung by Red Skelton, as Freddy the Freeloader, in Red Skelton’s Christmas Dinner]

There is nothing worse than loneliness at Christmastime,
When old friends forget where you are,
While your memory still lingers,
You can count upon your fingers,
Those that know the meaning of the Star.

Frogs, a poem by Red Skelton, read by Clem Kadiddlehopper

Frogs – a comedy poem by Red Skelton

by tfraymond
February 12, 2012December 4, 2021

Frogs, a poem by Red Skelton, read by Clem Kadiddlehopper

[Editor’s note: Frogs is recited to the cadence of Boots, a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling]

Frogs. Frogs. Frogs, they are everywhere.
Frogs. Frogs. Frogs croaking fill the air.
Louder. Louder. Louder is their blasting blare
and there’s no silence in the night.

Red Skelton quotes

by tfraymond
February 12, 2012April 21, 2022

Quotes from Red Skelton on clowns, laughter, children, and other topics. Some quotes from Red Skelton’s TV show, others from interviews with Red

Red Skelton’s Thanksgiving

by tfraymond
February 12, 2012August 12, 2021

This is taken from The Thanksgiving Turkey, an episode of The Red Skelton Show where Red Skelton plays his Clem Kadiddlehopper at the first Thanksgiving. At the very end of the episode, Red Skelton addresses the audience and says:

Red Skelton’s Christmas Wish

by tfraymond
February 12, 2012August 12, 2021

Red Skelton’s Christmas wish

This is taken from “Christmas with the Skeltons,” an episode of “The Red Skelton Show” where various characters played by Red Skelton drop in at the Skelton residence to wish them a Merry Christmas. At the very end of the episode, Red Skelton addresses the audience and says:

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