Ship Ahoy
In Ship Ahoy, Eleanor Powell is a dancer, duped by spies using Red Skelton’s pulp novel – will love blossom? Bert Lahr, Virginia O’Brien
The Fuller Brush Man
The Fuller Brush Man (1948), starring Red Skelton, Janet Blair
In a nutshell, The Fuller Brush Man is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. Red Skelton is at his finest, both in verbal comedy as well as in physical slapstick galore. The basic plot has Red Skelton playing the part of Red Jones, a well-meaning young man … Who keeps getting fired from every job he’s ever held within three weeks. The girl he loves, Ann Elliot (played by Janet Blair) refuses his marriage proposal. Until he matures enough to be able to provide for a family. Red decides to emulate his rival for Ann’s love by becoming a door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush company. Unfortunately, this leads him to be the witness to a murder, with the police and gangsters following
Frogs – a comedy poem by Red Skelton
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’s Farewell
The time has come to say good night,
My how time does fly.
We ve had a laugh, perhaps a tear,
and now we hear good-bye.
I really hate to say good night,
for times like these are few.
I wish
Red Skelton Christmas Show
Red Skelton Christmas Show, featuring “Freddie and the Yuletide Doll”, as well as guest-starring Harpo Marx
Red Skelton Christmas Show is a wonderful collection from Red Skelton’s long-running television series. It consists of three routines:
- Freddie and the Yuletide Doll
- Willie Lump-Lump’s sideways room
- The Silent Spot, co-starring Harpo Marx.
Leave Arm in Arm
Leave Arm in Arm – Red Skelton, ex-Wife, Still Together After Court Gives Divorce (originally printed in the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, February 12, 1943) LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 – Edna Marie Skelton on Thursday divorced Richard…
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